Products and Investments

Products, customers and applications

Division

 

Products

Customer industries and applications

Dispersions & Pigments

 

Polymer dispersions, pigments, resins, formulation additives, electronic materials

Coating, construction, paper, adhesives, printing and packaging, plastics and electronic industries

Care Chemicals

 

Ingredients for skin and hair cleansing and care products, such as emollients, cosmetic active ingredients, polymers and UV filters

Ingredients for detergents and cleaners in household, institution or industry, such as surfactants, enzymes, chelating agents, polymers, biocides and products for optical effects

Excipients for crop protection product formulations, products for concrete additives and chemical processes such as emulsion polymerization, metal surface treatments or textile processing, as well as products for biofuels and other industrial applications

Superabsorbents for baby diapers, incontinence products and feminine hygiene articles

Use in the BASF Verbund

Chemical and plastics industry, detergent, hygiene, automotive, packaging and textile industries; production of paints, coatings, and cosmetics as well as oilfield, construction and paper chemicals

Nutrition & Health

 

Additives for the food and feed industries, such as vitamins, carotenoids, sterols, enzymes, emulsifiers and omega-3 fatty acids

Industrial enzymes for ethanol production

Flavors and fragrances, such as citral, geraniol, citronellol, L-menthol and linalool

Excipients for the pharmaceutical industry and selected, high-volume active pharmaceutical ingredients, such as ibuprofen and omega-3 fatty acids

Use in the BASF Verbund

Industries such as plastics, woodworking, furniture, packaging, textile, construction and automotive

Performance Chemicals

 

Antioxidants, light stabilizers and flame retardants for plastic applications

Fuel and refinery additives, polyisobutene, brake fluids and engine coolants, lubricant additives and basestocks, components for metalworking fluids and compounded lubricants

Process chemicals for the extraction of oil, gas, metals and minerals, chemicals for enhanced oil recovery

Functional chemicals and process chemicals for the production of paper and cardboard, water treatment chemicals, membrane technologies, kaolin minerals

Use in the BASF Verbund

Plastics, coatings and pharmaceutical industries, production of detergents and cleaners as well as crop protection products and textile fibers

Production capacities of significant products1

 

 

Sites

 

Product

 

Europe

North America

Asia Pacific

South America, Africa, Middle East

Annual capacity (metric tons)

1

All capacities are included at 100%, including plants belonging to joint operations and joint ventures.

Anionic surfactants

 

600,000

Citral

 

 

 

78,000

Chelating agents

 

 

170,000

Methane sulfonic acid

 

 

 

 

30,000

Nonionic surfactants

 

 

635,000

Polyisobutene

 

 

 

265,000

Superabsorbents

 

590,000

Investments

Location

 

Project

Startup

Antwerp, Belgium

 

Gradual capacity expansion: alkoxylates

2018–2021

Bishop, Texas

 

Capacity expansion: production plant for ibuprofen

2019

Düsseldorf, Germany

 

Gradual upgrade of production plants in accordance with the Good Manufacturing Practice Standard issued by the European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients (EFfCI)

2022

Jiaxing, China

 

Construction: production plant for electronic-grade sulfuric acid

2018

Jurong, Singapore

 

Capacity expansion: antioxidants (Irganox®)

2021

Kaisten, Switzerland

 

Capacity expansion: antioxidants (Irganox®)

2019

Kuantan, Malaysia

 

Construction: aroma ingredients complex

2017/2018

Ludwigshafen, Germany

 

Expansion: production plant for dispersions

2018

 

 

Construction: production plant for vitamin A

2020

 

 

Construction: production plant for ibuprofen

2022

Nanjing, China

 

Capacity expansion: polyacrylamide plant

2018

Pasir Gudang, Malaysia

 

Capacity expansion: production plant for acrylics dispersions

2020

Shanghai, China

 

Construction: production plant for plastic additives

2019