Flags at a BASF water treatment and paper chemicals plant, the first wholly-owned BASF plant in Nanjing. This multi-business unit production site consists of flocculants, tert-Butylamine (tBA) and other utility plants.
BASF in Greater China 2021

BASF in Greater China

At a glance

BASF has been a committed partner to Greater China since 1885. With larger production sites in Shanghai, Nanjing and Chongqing, BASF is a major foreign investor in the country’s chemical industry, and operates the Innovation Campus Shanghai, a global and regional research and development hub. BASF posted sales of approximately €121 billion in 2021 to customers in Greater China and employed 11,070 people as of the end of the year. Greater China is currently BASF’s second largest market after the United States.

BASF currently operates 26 major wholly-owned subsidiaries, 10 major joint ventures, and maintains 25 sales offices in Greater China. BASF’s business in Greater China includes Petrochemicals, Intermediates, Performance Materials, Monomers, Dispersions & Resins, Performance Chemicals, Catalysts, Coatings, Care Chemicals, Nutrition & Health and Agricultural Solutions.

These solutions are used in almost all areas of daily life such as in houses, cars, food, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, textile, household goods, electronic equipment, and packaging. Over the past 20 years, BASF has invested more than €8 billion in Greater China (more than €11 billion with partners) to build a locally competitive production, marketing, sales, technical service and innovation network.

BASF major sites in Greater China

Shanghai Pudong Innovation Park

Nanjing Verbund site

Shanghai Caojing site

Nanjing Site

Chongqing site

Zhanjiang Verbund site (under construction)

1 Sales of BASF Group companies in the scope of consolidation. Sales of joint ventures and associated companies with BASF’s investment of between 20% and 50% in general which are consolidated at equity (e.g.BASF-YPC Company Limited) are not included. 

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