- BASF to focus competencies at BASF Fuel Cell Inc. in Somerset, New Jersey, USA
- BASF Fuel Cell GmbH site in Frankfurt, Germany to be closed
- 43 positions in Frankfurt to be eliminated
BASF is realigning its business for the fuel cell market. In the future, competencies for the production of high-temperature membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) will be concentrated in Somerset, New Jersey. Operational activities at the BASF Fuel Cell GmbH site in Frankfurt, Germany, will be discontinued effective December 31, 2009. BASF plans to close the Frankfurt site in the course of 2010.
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