BASF U.S. PROFIT,TURNOVER BOOSTED BY ACQUISITIONS BASF AG <BASF.F> said net profit of its U.S. Operating company, BASF Corp, rose last calendar year to 105 mln dlrs from 39 mln in 1985. Turnover rose by by more than one billion dlrs to 3.6 billion, the parent company said in a statement. The rise, however, partly reflected the inclusion of the first full business year of three acquisitions made in 1985. Excluding these, BASF Corp turnover rose four pct from 1985. Acquisitions were the high-performance connecting materials operations of Celanese Corp, Inmont Corp bought from United Technologies and American Enka bought from AKZO NV <AKZO.AS>. BASF said it expected a U.S. Investment of 240 mln dlrs in 1987, part of a five-year programme totalling one billion. U.S. Projects completed in 1986 included the second acrylic acid plant in Freeport, Texas, a technical centre in Southfield, Michigan, in which paint lines from automotive plants can be refitted, and the new agricultural research centre in Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina. BASF said that work this year had begun in Geismar, Louisiana, on plants for production of special amines and polytetrahydrofuran, as well as for expansion of capacity for producing tetrahydrofuran.