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In its cloud-based platform Refinity, BASF Coatings consolidates a comprehensive suite of digital business solutions for the automotive refinish industry, ensuring body shops worldwide can embrace sustainable digitalization with confidence. With the latest launch of a new color innovation and additional features, automotive refinish customers get access to the most advanced digital color experience, as well as business and training solutions seamlessly. 
 

At CHINAPLAS 2025, BASF reaffirmed its commitment to enable the green transformation of its customers, by unveiling sustainable innovations and co-creations that advance sustainability, circularity, and performance across the MAKE–USE–RECYCLE phases of #OurPlasticsJourney.

At CHINAPLAS 2025, TE Connectivity (TE) and BASF will jointly introduce a new TE automotive connector with components made from BASF Ultramid^® Ccycled^® polyamide, a circular solution with an attributed share of pyrolysis oil originating from Asia-sourced post-consumer plastic waste. Through the mass balance approach, Ultramid Ccycled offers the same identical high-performance properties as virgin fossil-based materials.

Hyundai-Kia and BASF have once again co-created for its 3rd concept car - the Kia EV3 Study Car, an experimental model developed together with Hyundai-Kia’s Materials Research & Engineering Center of the Advanced Vehicle Platform division. Made with BASF’s innovative and sustainable performance materials, the Kia EV3 Study Car is designed to enhance both the vehicle’s performance, design, functionalities and environmental footprint by applying sustainable material solutions in, for example, plastics, textiles, tires, and steel.

At CHINAPLAS 2025, BASF will showcase medical tubes, and a conveyor belt made with a food contact (FC) grade of its Elastollan^® Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) material innovation. BASF’s TPU plant in Shanghai is now certified to produce the Elastollan FC grade according to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). This brings the production of BASF’s Elastollan FC closer to customers in Asia Pacific.