Enabling a more sustainable future through innovations

The BASF internal Start-up ‘Functional Coatings – Haptic’ develops and commercializes innovative coating technologies for highly flexible surfaces used in footwear, automotive interior and furniture industry. These technologies set new benchmarks when it comes to design freedom, individualization and process optimization contributing to bringing the most innovative unique products to market for our customers. 

BASF has been the preferred partner from fiber to fashion as well as industrial solutions for many decades, with a long established history dating back more than a century.

For more than forty years, BASF has been developing, producing, and selling the tailor-made high-performance footwear materials Elastopan® and Elastollan® for all types of shoes and soles.