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Business Description
BASF SE (BASF) is a chemical company, which carries out research and development (R&D), production, marketing and sales of chemicals, plastics, crop protection products, and performance products.
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R&D Overview
BASF focuses on innovations based on chemistry to address significant global challenges, aiming to improve and develop new products and processes that enhance competitiveness and support customers' green transformation. The company's R&D initiatives include developing materials for electromobility, innovative catalyst manufacturing technologies, herbicide-tolerant cotton traits, novel production processes for detergent enzymes, circular solutions for textiles, biodegradable polymers, and methane pyrolysis for hydrogen production. The company emphasizes sustainability and customer-focused activities integrated into its operating divisions. The R&D units of BASF include the operating divisions, which focus on application- and customer-related activities, and the cross-functional global division Group Research, which supports the R&D activities of the operating divisions. Group Research is responsible for projects of strategic relevance to the BASF Group, including process innovations for green transformation, circular economy, and digital tools. The unit is globally positioned with research centers in Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America. BASF has several R&D centers, including the largest site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Innovation Campus Shanghai in China, Innovation Campus Mumbai in India, and Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA. In FY2025, the company filed 898 new patents worldwide, with 45% focusing on sustainability. The company collaborates with multiple companies and 269 universities and research institutes. In FY2025, the company spent EUR1,995 million on R&D, which as a percentage of revenue stood at 3.3% and grew 1.3% YoY.
Business Segments
- Agricultural Solutions
- Chemicals
- Industrial Solutions
- Materials
- Nutrition & Care
- Other
- Surface Technologies
Overview
Includes herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and biological crop protection products besides seeds and seed treatment products. Fungicides: Protects crops against harmful fungal diseases. Major products include F500, Boscalid, dimethomorph, Initium, metiram, metrafenone, Revysol, Serifel and Xemium. Herbicides: Reduces competition from weeds for nutrients, sunlight and water. Major products are dimethenamid-p, Basta, Engenia, Finale, imazamox, Kixor, Liberty, pendimethalin topramezone and Tirexor. Insecticides: Combats insect pests in agriculture and beyond. Major products include chlorfenapyr, fipronil, Alpha-cypermethrin, Inscalis, Interceptor, Nealta, teflubenzuron and Termidor. Seed Treatment: Offers biological and chemical crop protection and inoculants. Major products are Flo Rite, ILeVO, Integral, Nodulator PRO, PONCHO, Serifel, Systiva, Vault HP, and Velondis. Seeds & Traits: Includes optimization and development of seeds and new traits. Major products are Credenz, FiberMax, InVigor, LibertyLink, Nunhems and Stoneville. In FY2025, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR351 million, which declined 9.3% YoY.
Performance
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Overview
It supplies basic chemicals and intermediates to other segments. Petrochemicals: It offers basic chemicals and specialties to internal and external customers. Major products include butadiene, benzene, ethylene, propylene, plasticizers, alkylene oxides, alcohols, solvents, acrylic monomers, glycols, styrene and polystyrene, styrenic foams and superabsorbents. Intermediates: Provides intermediates and specialties that are used as precursors for products such as coatings, plastics, pharmaceuticals, textile fibers, and crop protection products. Its basic products are alkylamines and alkanolamines, butanediol and derivatives, neopentyl glycol, formic and propionic acid. Specialties products include specialty amines such as polyetheramine and tertiary butylamine, gas treatment chemicals, acid chlorides, vinyl monomers, chloroformates and chiral intermediates. In FY2025, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR2,108 million, which declined 38.1% YoY.
Performance
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Overview
It includes Dispersions & Pigments besides Performance Chemicals divisions. It develops and markets additives and ingredients for industrial applications such as pigments, polymer dispersions, resins, antioxidants, electronic materials, oilfield chemicals and additives. Dispersions & Pigments: Major products include polymer dispersions, resins, pigments, additives and electronic materials. Performance Chemicals: Major products are antioxidants, light stabilizers, flame retardants, fuel and refinery additives, brake fluids, engine coolants, polyisobutene, lubricant additives, and base stocks. In FY2025, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR391 million, which grew 12% YoY.
Performance
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Overview
It includes Performance Materials and Monomers divisions. It offers isocyanates and polyamides besides inorganic basic products and specialties for the plastics and plastic processing industries. Performance Materials: Offers thermoplastic polyurethanes, and foam specialties for construction, transportation and consumer goods and industrial applications sectors. Major products include engineering plastics, biodegradable plastics, foam specialties and polyurethanes. Monomers: Provides polyamides and isocyanates besides inorganic basic products and specialties for plastics, automotive and construction industries. Major products are ammonia, caprolactam, isocyanates (MDI, TDI), adipic acid, chlorine, glues urea and impregnating resins, polyamides 6 and 6.6, caustic soda, standard alcoholates, and nitric and sulfuric acid. In FY2025, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR940 million, which declined 17.5% YoY.
Performance
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Overview
It includes Care Chemicals and Nutrition & Health divisions. Its customers include food and feed producers, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and detergent and cleaner industries. Care Chemicals: Offers ingredients for detergents, cosmetics and cleaner industries and agrochemical and technical applications. Major products are emollients, cosmetic active ingredients and UV filters among others. Nutrition & Health: Provides products for flavor and fragrance, food and feed, pharmaceutical and bioethanol sectors. Major products include sterols, enzymes, vitamins, carotenoids, omega-3 fatty acids, emulsifiers, human milk oligosaccharides, citral, geraniol, L-menthol and linalool, citronellol, valencene and nootkatone. In FY2025, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR662 million, which declined 18.2% YoY.
Performance
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Overview
Includes income generated from other activities. In FY2025, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR131 million, which declined 45.4% YoY.
Performance
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Overview
It includes the Catalysts and Coatings divisions. Its portfolio includes coatings, surface treatments, catalysts and battery materials for the chemical and automotive industries. Catalysts: Offers battery materials, precious metal trading, clean air technologies and recycling. Coatings: Provides decorative paints, automotive OEM coatings and automotive refinish coatings. In FY2025, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR116 million, which declined 62.5% YoY.
Performance
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Geographical Segments
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