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BASF at Ludwigshafen (1865–1913)
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1865–1913 — BASF grows from dyes into one of the world’s largest chemical firms: synthetic indigo from 1897, and in 1913 at nearby Oppau the first Haber–Bosch plant fixing nitrogen from the air.
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