An employee at BASF's headquarters has been diagnosed with neo-crown pneumonia, which the company says has not affected production at its Lugang site.

On March 8, local time, the official website of the global chemical giant BASF Group announced that an employee of the Ludwiggang plant, the company's headquarters, had confirmed infection with the new coronavirus and that the infected person and his close contacts had been quarantined at home.
SAID that the company's medical services department will continue to work closely with local health authorities, and in consultation with the above-mentioned staff departments to consider further measures.
's measures to prevent and control the new coronavirus, BASF responded on Twitter that the company currently prohibits employees from traveling to high-risk areas and must be quarantined at home for 14 days if employees return from business or personal reasons.
Due to the special position of BASF's Ludwiggang plant, the world's largest integrated chemical complex with 110 production facilities and approximately 200 production facilities, including lemon aldehyde (VA, VE core raw materials, BASF supplies about 80% of the world's lemon aldehyde), VA, VE, TDI and other production capacity can affect global supply, so the news also triggered some market doubts that this may affect the company's normal production operations and vitamin market supply.
, however, in a response to reporters on the 11th, BASF Group said that the company followed the recommendations of local health authorities, infected employees and their close contacts are now isolated at home.
operations at BASF's headquarters in Ludwigsh, Germany, as usual, and the confirmed case has not had a direct impact on the company's business.
In addition, BASF also told reporters that in recent years, BASF has prepared a "base epidemic preparedness plan", covering medical, health and prevention and control measures, "the main purpose of the plan is to minimize the (including influenza) epidemic outbreaks on BASF production operations may have an impact."
that the spread of the new coronavirus has also affected the chemical industry.
has warned that the outbreak could lead to global chemical production growth falling to its slowest pace since the financial crisis.
said that despite the current high level of uncertainty, the company "will continue to strive to increase sales to between 60 billion and 63 billion euros."
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