BASF Shock AdBlue Price Increase

International chemical company BASF based in Ludwigshafen, Germany have shocked the industry by announcing the immediate price increase of their AdBlue product.

The news, announced May 13th detailed a sharp rise in the cost of AdBlue by €45 per 1,000 litres.

This has come as no surprise to leading Air1 online distributor, AdBlue Online. Robin Futcher, Managing Director of AdBlue Online (part of the Commercial Fuel Solutions Ltd Group) commented, “All AdBlue manufacturers have seen an increase in the cost of raw materials used in production over the course of the last year” he continued.., “Because we have such a high turnaround of product, we identified the need to implement our price increase earlier this year, softening the impact on our customers by providing plenty of notification, this also enabled us to keep our increases below £20 per tonne”

AdBlue is now the preffered choice of over 80% of HGV manufacturers in order to reach the imminent Euro 5 Emission Standards.

More information on AdBlue is available from Commercial Fuel Solutions dedicated AdBlue sales channel www.adblueonline.co.uk