WSP Global Qualifications

WSP GLOBAL QUALIFICATIONS

Partnering with BASF to Deliver Solutions

Product Development WSP’s work with BASF is almost unique in our portfolio of industrial and chemical sector clients. Our two companies have jointly supported the same mining clients/customers for decades, with a large part of that relationship being BASF’s trust in our knowledge of its products and how to best apply them at industrial/ mining settings. In recent years, this arrangement expanded to where WSP evaluated new or expanded potential uses of BASF products for the environmental and ESG markets that WSP did business in. Whether it was with flocculants, super absorbents, or adhesives, WSP has applied it’s diverse market knowledge and portfolio of client needs to help BASF improve its sale of products. It is a symbiotic relationship as often the innovation is applied to BASF projects to improve its performance, while also educating our own staff on the BASF product so that it can be applied on non-BASF projects as well.

Social Equity WSP has formed an Equity Centre of Excellence for the purpose of operationalizing equity in our own projects and to help our clients do the same. BASF was a keynote speaker at our annual technology conference, where the role of social equity in environmental remediation projects was discussed. The discussion has continued since then, with WSP presenting to BASF in the US, on the broader topic of Project Management through an Equity Lens. This is one of several themes in which our two companies are aligned.

Confidential Expert Testimony ----------------------------------------- PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS — While most of WSP’s services to BASF to date have been to provide subject matter expertise and delivery capacity on actual projects that we are undertaking, WSP can also apply that subject matter expertise for evaluation of other scenarios. — On short notice, WSP was able to provide BASF with senior level expertise to evaluate the potential for future environmental liabilities should the operational layout be forced to change due to decisions made by neighbouring facilities. WSP was able to help make BASF successfully make its case to its neighbour, to allow operations to continue at the BASF site without significant re-work. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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