Who we are

How It All Began

In the Beginning Were the Dyes
1865 - 1885
Business Pioneers in China
1886 - 1924
Revolution in the Rice Field
1925 - 1930
Between Shanghai and Chongqing
1931 - 1946

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Main laboratory at BASF in 1887: Fundamental chemical innovations were researched and developed in the building directly at the plant’s main entrance.
(Photo: BASF-Archive)