4月3日BASF表示其位于路德维希港的柠檬醛工厂按计划完成修复，并已开始投料试车，启动过程需要几周，巴斯夫强调在启动的这一阶段，可能会出现一些需要调整和优化的操作问题。在未来几周内，公司将启动所有必要的资源，以解决这些潜在的运营问题，并优化持续生产柠檬醛。
柠檬醛生产开始后，下游产品的生产需要逐步进行。生产完成后，将产品运往各地区的时间不同，从欧洲的几天或几周，到海外国家的几个星期或几个月。BASF表示无法更准确地确定恢复产品供应的时间范围，也无法在这个时候解除不可抗力。原文见下：
据饲料巴巴了解，根据此前BASF发布的时间表，德国柠檬醛工厂启动后的6-12周，将逐步恢复VA、VE产品生产，然而启动需要时间，运输需要时间，BASF马来西亚工厂柠檬醛未能正式生产，预计二季度国VA供应依然偏紧，目前国内VA市场库存低位，部分厂家提价意愿依存，VA市场存有支撑，受偏多因素影响，本周VA市场询问增加，成交有所好转。
After the unforeseeable incident in October last year, we said that we expect our Citral plant to be ready for start-up end of March at the earliest. Over the last weeks and months, our teams have worked very hard to bring the Citral plant in Ludwigshafen back on stream: We have about 150 workers on site – working 24 hours, 7 days a week, to finalize the repair work as quick as possible.
We have completed all individual work streams in time: Within the last week of March, we have mechanically completed the extensive repair work and are filling the plant with the first chemicals.
As we have highlighted before, the start-up procedure is expected to take several weeks. A return to normal production can only be expected along the communicated timeline for re-establishing the production of Citral and its downstreams in Ludwigshafen.
After the initiation of Citral production, downstream products need to be manufactured in a step-wise approach. Once manufactured, the lead time to ship products to the regions differs, taking from a few days or weeks within Europe, to several weeks or months in countries overseas (please compare ‘timeframes for product availability’). Please understand that we cannot be more precise regarding timeframes for product availability or the lifting of the Force Majeure at this point in time.
At this stage of the start-up, operating issues may arise that require adjustments and optimization. In the coming weeks, we will activate all necessary resources to address such potential operating issues and to optimize the set-up for continuous production of Citral.
