This article is about the German company. For the French-owned company spun off from the BASF magnetic tape division, see EMTEC. For other uses, see BASF (disambiguation).
BASF SE
Company type
Public (Societas Europaea)
Traded as
FWB: BAS
DAX component
ISIN
DE000BASF111
Industry
Chemicals
Predecessor
Knoll AG Chemische Fabriken Zuckerfabrik Körbisdorf Herbol
Founded
6 April 1865; 159 years ago (6 April 1865) (as Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik); Mannheim, Baden
Founder
Friedrich Engelhorn
Headquarters
Ludwigshafen, Germany
Key people
Jürgen Hambrecht (chairman of the supervisory board)
Martin Brudermüller (CEO and chairman of the executive board)
Products
Chemicals, plastics, performance chemicals, catalysts, coatings, crop technology, crude oil and natural gas exploration and production
Revenue
€87.3 billion (2022)[1]
Operating income
€6.55 billion (2022)[1]
Net income
€−627 million (2022)[1]
Total assets
€84.5 billion (2022)[1]
Total equity
€40.9 billion (2022)[1]
Number of employees
111,481 (end 2022)[1]
Subsidiaries
Wintershall, Nunhems, TrinamiX, Cognis, BTC Europe, Chemster, Siegfried PharmaChemikalien Minden, Verenium Corporation, Isobionics, Succinity, Pinturas Thermicas del Norte
Website
basf.com
BASF SE (German pronunciation:[beːaːɛsˈʔɛf]ⓘ), an initialism of its original name Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (German for 'Baden Aniline and Soda Factory'), is a European multinational company and the largest chemical producer in the world.[2][3][4] Its headquarters are located in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
BASF comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries, operating six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites across Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa.[5] BASF has customers in over 190 countries and supplies products to a wide variety of industries. Despite its size and global presence, BASF has received relatively little public attention since it abandoned the manufacture and sale of BASF-branded consumer electronics products in the 1990s.[6]
The company began as a dye manufacturer in 1865. Fritz Haber worked with Carl Bosch, one of its employees, to invent the Haber-Bosch process by 1912, after which the company grew rapidly. In 1925, the company merged with several other German chemical companies to become the chemicals conglomerate IG Farben. IG Farben would go on to play a major role in the economy of Nazi Germany. It extensively employed forced and slave labor during the Nazi period, and produced the notorious Zyklon B chemical used in The Holocaust. IG Farben was disestablished by the Allies in 1945. BASF was reconstituted from the remnants of IG Farben in 1952. It was part of the German economic miracle, and has since expanded considerably. It has received modern criticism for its poor environmental record.[citation needed]
At the end of 2019, the company employed 117,628 people, with over 54,000 in Germany.[7] In 2019[update], BASF posted sales of €59.3 billion and income from operations before special items of about €4.5 billion. Between 1990 and 2005, the company invested €5.6 billion in Asia, specifically in sites near Nanjing, Shanghai and Jiangmen in China and Mangalore in India.[8] BASF is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, and Zurich Stock Exchange. The company delisted its ADR from the New York Stock Exchange in September 2007.[9] The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.[10][11]
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oxygen, and nitrogen. BASF invented carbonyl iron powder in 1925 and claims to be the world's leading producer. In 1934, BASF was also involved in the...
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properties of PVP and its oxidized hydrolyzate. PVP was first synthesized by BASF chemist Walter Reppe, and a patent was filed in 1939 for one of the derivatives...
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crude oil and natural gas producer. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF. The company was active in oil and gas exploration and production with operations...
in sunscreens to absorb UVB radiation. It is marketed as Uvinul T 150 by BASF. Ethylhexyl triazone has an absorption maximum of 314 nm. UV Absorber Portfolio...
expensive. Double-layer Type III tape formulations, advanced by Sony and BASF in the 1970s, never gained substantial market presence. In the 1980s the...
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(17 July 1821 – 11 March 1902) was a German industrialist and founder of BASF in Ludwigshafen. Friedrich Engelhorn was born on 17 July 1821 in Mannheim...
particular compound is also known by the BASF trade name Pluronic F-127 or by the Croda trade name Synperonic PE/F 127. BASF also offers a pharmaceutical grade...
various trade names including Terathane from Invista and PolyTHF from BASF. The BASF plant in Ludwigshafen at one point was producing 250,000 metric tons...
December 2016, the company sold the Chemetall Surface Treatment business to BASF for $3.2 billion. In January 2017, the company acquired the Jiangli New Materials...
Monsanto - and BASF were ordered to pay not only the $15 million in damages, but an additional $250 million in punitive damages. Bayer and BASF afterwards...
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Global Information
€87.3 billion (2022)[1]
€6.55 billion (2022)[1]