(EnergyAsia, March 28) — After less than two years of construction, BASF has started up its new PolyTHF¨ (polytetrahydrofuran) plant at the integrated production site at the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP) in Caojing, Shanghai. By the middle of 2005, BASF said it will also start up its neighboring THF (tetrahydrofuran) plant.             With an…