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Together with you, our inspired team creates the solutions of tomorrow.

For you, we combine cutting-edge solutions with established expertise. Bring us your ideas and we turn them into reality together!

You need more than just a product to solve your challenges. You need a variety of high-performance materials, application, engineering, simulation and manufacturing know-how to get the job done. Backed by our global team of industry-leading experts, we want to help you take your product to the next level. That means accelerating innovation, embracing digitalization and focusing on sustainability. We are ready to create the solutions of tomorrow with you! 

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What can we create together in your industry?

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Automotive

Automotive

We help you deliver the future of automotive ingenuity with tailor made solutions that deliver greater design freedom, more comfort and safety as well as fuel efficiency.
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Footwear

Footwear

With us, you're in the race to drive innovation in footwear. We offer exciting materials for lighter, more durable and better performing footwear combined with broad design and global market expertise.
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Electronics & Electric

Electronics & Electric

Engineering plastics used in electrical applications (E/E) have to show excellent electrical performance, good mechanical properties as well as high dimensional stability under heat. In daily operation, they have to guarantee insulation and therefore secure handling. They have to reduce fire risk in the event of an electrical defect or exposure to external sources of ignition. With a lot of applications, the plastic is used for designing the exterior of components as well. This is why design requirements, e. g. for surface quality, haptics, and colors, are becoming more and more important.
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Construction

Construction

From innovative building insulation products to high quality materials for coastal protection and ground surfaces, we help you succeed with ambitious architecture and infrastructure projects.
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Furniture

Furniture

Aesthetics, stability and a lot of design possibilities – these are but a few of the advantages to designing and manufacturing furniture with BASF flexible foams and engineering plastics.
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Medical Technology

Medical Technology

BASF offers medical plastics for applications such as inhalers, insulin pens, drug delivery devices, surgical instruments. 
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Appliances

Appliances

Energy efficient! Appliance materials from BASF.  Our products for your innovations in household appliances e.g in kitchen.
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Meet our biopolymers and polyphthalamides!

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Biopolymers

Biopolymers

BASF’s biopolymers are certified compostable and partly bio-based plastics which contribute to a circular economy by increasing organic recycling and closing the loop of the food value chain.
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Polyphthalamides

Polyphthalamides

Ultramid® Advanced is the polyphthalamide portfolio by BASF for high-performance parts that reliably work also under demanding application conditions.
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How do we want to create the solutions for tomorrow with you?

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Ultramid® Advanced N

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Elastopave®

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Spraytite®

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Infinergy®

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Infinergy®

What is your challenge? 

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Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Therefore it is even more important to conserve the available resources. We support you on your journey to more energy efficiency - from the production to the application.
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Food contact

Food contact

The Elastollan® FC portfolio has been specially developed for the use in food contact applications and is often used in the food industry or in drinking water applications.
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Das Besondere an den Materialien der BASF sind zum einen ihre herrausragenden Eigenschaften und zum anderen die Produktideen, die sie ermöglichen. Diese werden in der sogenannten „Wunderkammer“ präsentiert, einem Trichter, dessen Wände die Augen abschirmen und den Betrachter so jede räumliche Orientierung verlieren lassen. Die perspektivische Verzerrung lässt sowohl Objekte als auch Besucher in einer verblüffenden Collage verschmelzen. Ein Spiel mit der Wahrnehmung – genauso charmant und analog, wie es 1865, im Entstehungsjahr der BASF, noch gang und gäbe war. What makes BASF materials special is both their excellent properties and the product ideas they enable. These products are presented in the so-called “Wunderkammer”, or “cabinet of wonders” – a funnel, whose walls block off the peripheral view to suspend spatial orientation. The perspective distortion merges objects and visitors moving amongst them into an astonishing collage. Playing with perception – in just the same charming, analogue way as was so popular in 1865, the year in which BASF was founded.
Individualization and Lifestyle

Individualization and Lifestyle

Here you will find customized material, processing and design solutions for your needs. We will help you custom-design your products and distinguish yourself from others - with innovative solutions as varied as your customers.
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Metal Substitution

Metal Substitution

BASF engineering plastics offer decisive advantages over established metal structures in many areas. The range of applications for these intelligent plastic solutions extends far beyond automotive engineering and opens up significant development potential for the solar, construction and water industry.
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Miniaturization and Connectivity

Miniaturization and Connectivity

The world population is on the rise. Cities are becoming larger, space tighter. The requirements for your products undergo changes too. More technology and functionality in ever smaller formats - how is that supposed to work? Our materials and technologies offer right solutions for many issues.
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Pioneering Concept Studies

Pioneering Concept Studies

We help you maximize your potential by creating application-oriented industry solutions. We collaborate closely with customers across various target industries, in order to tailor our solutions specifically to individual application needs. As a result, development is driven by local market needs and is coordinated globally.
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Plastics for Mechanical Engineering

Plastics for Mechanical Engineering

We want to help you find innovative, sustainable solutions to problems facing equipment and machinery manufacturers today.
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Sanitary and Water Industry

Sanitary and Water Industry

When it comes to parts for the sanitary and water industries, it is not only technical properties that play a crucial role but it is above all health and safety. Under the name Aqua®, BASF offers a comprehensive range of engineering plastics optimized specifically for components in contact with drinking water and food.
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Die Kunststoff-Felge besteht aus zwei Teilen, der mittragenden Sichtblende und dem Strukturteil. Beide Elemente werden im Spritzgussverfahren hergestellt. Die abgebildete Werkzeughälfte ist ein Teil der Spritzgussform des Strukturbauteils der Kunststoff-Felge. Abdruck honorarfrei. Copyright by BASF. The polymer wheel rim consists of two parts: the supporting cover and the structure. Both elements are manufactured by the injection molding process. The form shown is part of the injection mold of the structural component of the polymer wheel rim. Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.
Speed and Simplicity

Speed and Simplicity

We live in a world demanding ever faster, ever better solutions. With our products you will stay up to date - everywhere in the world.
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Sustainable Solutions

Sustainable Solutions

At this stage, we are using more than our planet can regenerate. Therefore sustainable development is crutial for our future. We want to proactively co-create the future of our planet and are constantly involved in research to further develop our products.
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How can we support you?

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Material Testing

Material Testing

We offer our customers a comprehensive range of services with leading technologies and products. In our laboratories we execute plastic-related tests for various applications.
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Development engineers Rie Kaneko and Torsten Hensel discuss the structure of the lightweight comfort seat using a cross-section model. By means of the e-textile technology used, the seat heating can be directly embedded in the textile and is thus close to the body. Elastoflex® flexible foams in the sitting areas save up to 20 percent weight and at the same time provide ergonomic advantages by means of various hardness zones. Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.
Product Support & Troubleshooting

Product Support & Troubleshooting

With our calculation tools, information databases and FAQ we aim at helping you in answering technical questions related to our portfolio of performance polymers.
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Bei der Gestaltung der einteiligen, selbsttragenden Kunststoff-Sitzschale wurde das inzwischen universell einsetzbare Computersimulationsinstrument ULTRASIMTM der BASF SE eingesetzt. In der Entwicklungsphase wurde die Sitzschale aus dem Kunststoff Ultramid® mit Hilfe des Simulationsinstruments virtuell ausgelegt. Die BASF-Entwickler nutzten dies unter anderem zur Konstruktionsberechnung und zur Belastungssimulation der Sitzschale. Abdruck honorarfrei. Copyright by BASF. In the design of the one-piece, self-supporting plastic seat shell, use was made of what is now BASFâ s universal computer simulation instrument ULTRASIMTM. In the development phase, the seat shell of the plastic Ultramid® was virtually designed by means of the simulation instrument. The BASF developers used this for example to calculate the construction and for the stress simulation of the seat shell. Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.,Bei der Gestaltung der einteiligen, selbsttragenden Kunststoff-Sitzschale wurde das inzwischen universell einsetzbare Computersimulationsinstrument ULTRASIMTM der BASF SE eingesetzt. In der Entwicklungsphase wurde die Sitzschale aus dem Kunststoff Ultramid® mit Hilfe des Simulationsinstruments virtuell ausgelegt. Die BASF-Entwickler nutzten dies unter anderem zur Konstruktionsberechnung und zur Belastungssimulation der Sitzschale. Abdruck honorarfrei. Copyright by BASF. In the design of the one-piece, self-supporting plastic seat shell, use was made of what is now BASF’s universal computer simulation instrument ULTRASIMTM. In the development phase, the seat shell of the plastic Ultramid® was virtually designed by means of the simulation instrument. The BASF developers used this for example to calculate the construction and for the stress simulation of the seat shell. Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.
Ultrasim®

Ultrasim®

Ultrasim® is the versatile and flexible CAE competence for your innovations using BASF plastics. Our calculation of components concepts on a virtual basis starts with appropriate materials and adequate material models, ranging from the virtual prototype and ideal manufacturing process to the finished mass-produced component.
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