Ludwigshafen

Industrial city on the Rhine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, home of BASF’s main site.

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Source	Author	Role	In one line
How to Take Smart Notes	Sönke Ahrens	backdrop	The chemical ‘Verbund’ behind the slip-box analogy.

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How to Take Smart Notes — Sönke Ahrens (2017)

Source: How to Take Smart Notes · Readwise highlight

The first and most developed “verbund” is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. It belongs to BASF, the world’s biggest chemical company and one of the most consistently profitable, despite being located in a highly developed country with high wages and social security costs.

• Role: backdrop
• In the book: An endnote to the passage likening the slip-box to a chemical Verbund, where one plant’s by-products feed another. It names Ludwigshafen, BASF’s site, as the first and most developed Verbund, profitable despite high wages and social costs.
• Why it matters: It anchors Ahrens’s analogy in a real working system; a minor, endnote-level place.