BASF
Chemicals · Germany
BASF is the world's largest chemical company by sales: it makes basic chemicals, plastics, catalysts, nutrition ingredients and crop protection in linked "Verbund" sites, selling them to around 75,000 industrial customers.
What makes it different
Seven giant sites where plants feed each other.
7Verbund sitesFY2025
The Verbund links production so by-products of one plant become raw materials for the next, cutting energy and logistics costs.
How big it is
How big is BASF?
€59.7BSalesFY2025
234Production sitesFY2025
108,251EmployeesFY2025
How it makes money FY2025
Plastics and basic chemicals first, then crop protection and catalysts.
- Materials21%€12.7B
- Chemicals17%€10.1B
- Agricultural Solutions16%€9.6B
- Surface Technologies15%€9.0B
- Other31%
How the business works
Linked plants turn basics into specialties.
- 1Basic chemicals in Verbund sites
- 2By-products feed next plant
- 3Plastics, catalysts, crop protection
In a Verbund site one plant's by-products and heat feed the next, so BASF makes thousands of products from shared crackers more cheaply than separate plants could.
Who owns it
- Private investors (mostly in Germany)45%
- Institutional investors, United States and Canada23%
- Institutional investors, rest of Europe10%
CEO: Dr. Markus Kamieth
Who it competes with
Key moments
- 4-06BASF founded in Mannheim
- 1913Ammonia synthesis goes into production
- 1925Merged into I.G. Farben
- 1-30BASF re-established
- 2022Net loss from Russia write-downs
Sources
Every number on this page comes from BASF's own reports.
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What BASF tracks18 metrics
Verbund sites
Production sites
Customers
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from4 regions
Europe
North America
Asia Pacific
The full timeline17 moments
1965
2025
2026
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