据烃加工新闻5月12日消息称，巴斯夫宣布扩大其位于美国南卡罗莱纳州塞内卡的铂族金属(PGM)精炼设施。该公司将投资数千万美元进行资本改进，以提高从废催化剂(如汽车催化转换器)中回收贵金属的精炼能力。回收金属的二氧化碳排放量比原矿金属低90%。巴斯夫通过回收贵金属，在新的催化剂中重复使用，实现了循环经济解决方案。

　　巴斯夫贵金属精炼、化学品和电池回收副总裁Tim Ingle表示:“这项投资进一步加强了我们在废旧汽车催化剂回收市场的全球领导地位。我们很自豪能够实现循环经济，支持我们的客户和我们自己的可持续发展目标。”

　　巴斯夫在塞内卡的工厂生产贵金属催化剂和化学品，巴斯夫客户使用这些产品生产各种产品，包括除草剂、塑料、药品、汽车尾气催化剂、香料和化肥。

　　曹海斌 摘译自 烃加工新闻

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　　BASF expands global PGM refining capacity

　　BASF announced the expansion of its Seneca, South Carolina, USA, Platinum Group metals (PGM) refining facility. The company will invest double-digit millions in capital improvements to increase refining capacity to recycle precious metals from spent catalysts such as automotive catalytic converters. Recycled metal has as much as 90% lower CO2 emissions than metal from primary mines. By recovering the precious metals for reuse in fresh catalysts BASF closes the loop with circular economy solutions.

　　“This investment further strengthens our global leadership position in the spent automotive catalyst recycling market,” said Tim Ingle, Vice President, BASF Precious metals Refining, Chemicals & Battery Recycling. “We are proud to enable the circular economy and to support our customers’, and our own, sustainability goals.”

　　BASF’s Seneca site produces precious metal catalysts and chemicals that are used by BASF customers to produce a wide variety of products, including herbicides, plastics, pharmaceuticals, automotive emission catalysts, fragrances and fertilizers.

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