BASF Catalysts Receives Top Supplier Award from India's Tata Motors Ltd.
ISELIN, NJ, December 4, 2008 - BASF Catalysts has received Tata Motors'
"Overall Outstanding Vendor Performance" Award for 2008. BASF Catalysts manufacturing facility, near Chennai, India, was recognized for its "overall outstanding performance in the mechanical category" at Tata Motors' Vendor Meeting 2008, held in Mumbai in October.
BASF Catalysts was one of only two companies recognized this year for outstanding overall vendor performance (the other award was given to Sumi
Motherson in the electrical category). The award recognizes BASF's
contributions in developmental and applications engineering support for providing emission-control catalysts for Tata's new platforms, as well as its support of the automotive company's consistent quality and logistics
initiatives. BASF has supplied Tata Motors with emission-control
technologies for the past nine years.
"It is a true honor to be chosen by Tata Motors as an outstanding vendor,"
said Vaidy Balasubramanian, Site Manager for BASF Catalysts Chennai
operations. "We make substantial investments in R&D, applications
engineering and manufacturing to serve each of our customers in India's dynamic automotive market. We work closely with Tata Motors to provide them with the resources that help make them more successful." BASF Catalysts'
India facility opened in 1998 to provide India's growing automotive industry with emissions-control catalysts. Today, the facility, which expanded its operations last year, supplies catalysts for cars, motorcycles and other small vehicles to all of the countries major carmakers.
Tata Motors Limited is India's largest automobile company, with revenues of USD 8.8 billion for fiscal 2007-08. It is India's leader in commercial vehicles and among the top three manufacturers of passenger vehicles in the country. Tata Motors is the world's fourth largest truck manufacturer, and the world's second largest bus manufacturer.
About BASF's Catalyst division
BASF's Catalysts division is the world's leading supplier of environmental
and process catalysts. The group offers exceptional expertise in the
development of technologies that protect the air we breathe, produce the fuels that power our world and ensure efficient production of a wide variety of chemicals, plastics, adsorbents and other products.
About BASF
BASF is the world's leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from oil and gas to chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals. As a reliable partner, BASF helps its customers in virtually all industries to be more successful.
With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, BASF plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges, such as climate protection, energy efficiency, nutrition and mobility. BASF has more than 95,000 employees and posted sales of almost 58 billion in 2007. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (AN). Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com.
For more information contact:
Theodore Lowen
BASF Catalysts LLC
Tel: (732) 205-6360
E-mail: theodore.lowen@basf.com
