BASF Report 2025

Nonfinancial Disclosures of BASF SE

The content of this section is not part of the statutory audit of the annual financial statements but has undergone a separate limited assurance by our auditor.

The content of this section is voluntary, unaudited information, which was critically read by the auditor.

Due to the importance of BASF SE within the BASF Group, specific disclosures are required when reporting key sustainability-related information. Such disclosures also became mandatory for the parent company of the BASF Group, BASF SE, as a result of the CSR Directive Implementation Act, which came into effect in 2017. An integrated reference option within the (Consolidated) Sustainability Statement was selected in the Management’s Report for the Nonfinancial Statement (NFS) to be issued in the reporting year in accordance with sections 289b to 289e of the German Commercial Code (HGB). The table on this page shows the relevant nonfinancial key figures of BASF SE. All disclosures on strategy, due diligence, targets, described processes and key figures contained in the statements in the Combined Management’s Report, including the (Consolidated) Sustainability Statement, apply to the BASF Group including BASF SE. No significant deviations were identified for BASF SE.

Nonfinancial disclosures of BASF SE

 

 

 

2025

2024

Employees

Employees

 

32,190

33,370

of which apprentices

 

1,730

1,978

Apprentices in final year of apprenticeship who received a job offera

%

86

88

Participants in Training Verbund (cooperation with partner companies in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region)

 

48

66

Training Verbund expenses

million €

3

3

Personnel expenses

million €

3,848

3,594

of which wages and salaries

 

3,040

2,972

of which social security contributions and expenses for pensions and assistance

 

808

622

of which pension expenses

 

273

125

Participants in the “plus” employee share program

 

15,938

17,469

Innovation

Employees in research and development

 

3,813

3,941

Research and development expenses

million €

1,176

1,221

Procurement

Procurement spend

million €

7,126

7,447

Safety (process and occupational safety)

Fatality rateb,c

 

0.0

0.0

Number of fatalitiesb

 

0

0

High-consequence work-related injury rateb,c,d

 

0.3

0.3

Recordable work-related injury rateb,c,d,e

 

8.8

8.8

Number of recordable work-related injuriesb,d,e

 

538

557

Number of days lost to work-related injuriesb,d

 

5,171

6,040

Rate of High Severity Work Process Related Injuries per 200,000 working hours

 

0.02

0.05

Rate of Process Safety Incidents per 200,000 working hours

 

0.34

0.34

Rate of High Severity Process Safety Incidents per 200,000 working hours

 

0.06

0.07

Transportation incidents

 

4

2

Incidents with spillage of more than 200 kilograms of dangerous goods

 

1

0

of which with significant impact on the environment

 

0

0

Emergency response

Major incident drills

 

2

1

Drills and simulations of emergency measures

 

132

163

Transport-Accident-Information and Emergency-Response-System (TUIS) interventions

 

113

136

Management systems

Responsible Care audits

 

33

24

Environmental

Energy demand – electricity

MWh

4,710,631

4,587,399

Energy demand – steam

metric tons

13,378,523

14,737,149

Energy demand – fossil fuels in power plants

MWh

12,427,771

12,056,102

Waste generation

metric tons

675,012

636,663

of which recycled waste

%

78.8

46.8

of which waste disposed of

%

21.2

53.2

of which hazardous waste

%

94.6

98.1

Emissions of air pollutants (excluding CH4); CO, NOX, NMVOC, SOX, dust, NH3 / other inorganic substances

metric tons

5,212

5,320

Greenhouse gas emissions: CO2, N2O, CH4, HFC, PFC, SF6

million metric tons of CO2 equivalents

4.8

5.1

Water withdrawal

million cubic meters

1,091

1,063

Water use

million cubic meters

1,980

2,021

Water discharge

million cubic meters

942

962

Emissions of organic substances to water

metric tons

3,670

4,077

Emissions of nitrogen to water

metric tons

1,359

1,068

Emissions of heavy metals to water

metric tons

5

6

Emissions of phosphorus to water

metric tons

51

63

a

Apprentices in catering are excluded from these disclosures.

b

In line with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), information on employees, nonemployees and contractors is shown as a total compared to the previous year’s report.

c

Per 1,000,000 working hours

d

There may be deviations in this metric from the prior-year figure due to data collection.

e

Recordable work-related injuries for BASF include all injuries recorded in the system in accordance with ESRS.

(Consolidated) Sustainability Statement

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