Products and Investments

Products, customers and applications

Division

Products

Customer industries and applications

Performance Materials

Engineering plastics, biodegradable plastics, foam specialties, polyurethanes

Automotive manufacture, electrical engineering, packaging, games, sports and leisure, household, mechanical engineering, construction, agriculture, medical technology, sanitation and water industry, solar thermal energy and photovoltaics

Monomers

Isocyanates (MDI, TDI), ammonia, caprolactam, adipic acid, chlorine, urea, glues and impregnating resins, caustic soda, polyamides 6 and 6.6, standard alcoholates, sulfuric and nitric acid

Use in the BASF Verbund

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

Production capacities of selected productsa

 

Sites

 

Product

Europe

North America

Asia Pacific

South America, Africa, Middle East

Annual capacity (metric tons)

a

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

Ammonia

 

 

1,765,000

Chlorine

 

 

 

385,000

Urea

 

 

 

545,000

Isocyanates

 

2,610,000

Polyamides 6 and 6.6

 

820,000

Polyamide precursors

 

 

910,000

Propylene oxide

 

 

 

675,000

Sulfuric acid

 

 

 

920,000

Material investments

Location

Project

Startup

Altamira, Mexico

Capacity expansion: engineering plastics

2019

Dahej, India

Capacity expansion: Cellasto®

2019

Geismar, Louisiana

Construction: MDI synthesis unit

2020

Zhanjiang, China

Construction: engineering plastics plant

2022