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BASF Performance Materials:

We turn your ideas into ideal solutions.

For you, we combine cutting-edge solutions with established expertise. Bring us your ideas. We’ll help you turn them into a reality.

Ultramid<sup>®</sup> Advanced T2000 Fuel Valve

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 research and development network and our team of industry-leading experts, we can help you take your product to the next level. That means innovation. Enhanced sustainability. Speed to market. And a solutions-focused approach to whatever challenges you face.

Our team of materials experts and industry-leading portfolio of plastics and polyurethanes can help you meet and exceed your product development and business goals.

On Our Agenda: Innovations

Research and innovation are the motive forces of our business. We always work on developing the most attractive innovations for our customers. One of our latest innovations is a new specialty polyamide suitable for components which are high-gloss - Ultramid® Deep Gloss.

Ultramid<sup>®</sup>®<sup>®</sup> Deep Gloss

Ultramid® Deep Gloss

Ultramid® Deep Gloss is a new specialty polyamide suitable for components which are high-gloss. It reproduces structures true to detail. Thus, the material enables an interplay of light and shadow high in contrast. This provides designers with new opportunities to combine unusual textures with new levels of emotion. Initially only available in piano-black look, now in contrast colors and color.

    

Ultramid<sup>®</sup> Advanced T1000

Ultramid® Advanced T1000

BASF is now extending its polyphthalamide (PPA) portfolio by Ultramid® Advanced T1000 – a new compound group based on the polyamide 6T/6I. Ultramid® Advanced T1000 comprises the strongest and stiffest products of the Ultramid® (PA) family with stable mechanical properties up to temperatures of about 120 °C. It offers high resistance against humidity and contact with challenging media – outperforming standard polyamides and many other PPA materials.

Ultramid<sup>®</sup> Vision panels

Ultramid® Vision

BASF has now succeeded in developing Ultramid® Vision, the first semi-crystalline polyamide that allows light to pass through largely unhindered. Compared to opaque standard polyamides, Ultramid® Vision shows very high light transmission with low light scattering. Ultramid® Vision – the first semi-transparent polyamide.

Ultramid® Advanced N Superhero

Ultramid® Advanced N

Ultramid® Advanced N is a new polyphthalamide by BASF with an excellent property profile: The compound portfolio offers excellent mechanics at elevated temperatures. In addition, the PPA compounds can withstand humidity and contact with challenging media while maintaining their strength.  

SLENTITE®

With its combination of properties, SLENTITE eclipses all existing insulating materials. The new product with its lambda value of < 17 mW/m x K achieves the best insulation performance for a ready-to-use panel. Compared to conventional products, insulation 25 to 50 percent slimmer is possible.

Infinergy<sup>®</sup> Adidias Shoe

Infinergy®

Infinergy® - Small Beads, Big Possibilities

Infinergy® is the world’s first expanded thermoplastic polyurethane (E-TPU). The closed-cell, elastic particle foam combines the properties of TPU with the advantages of foams, making it as elastic as rubber but lighter.

How Performance Materials Can Deliver Customized Solutions for You

Ultramid® Advanced N

The new PPA for challenging applications in all industries

Ultramid® Deep Gloss

The BASF polyamide for high gloss in automotive interiors

Slentite®

Constructing Tomorrow. How will we live in tomorrow’s cities

Infinergy®

Go Beyond

Infinergy®

revolutionizes tennis rackets
CORPUS

CORPUS Magazine

Digital stories from the world of construction

CORPUS, BASF’s magazine devoted to architecture, infrastructure and high-performance construction materials has moved from app to web. As of now we will be supplying you with exciting and inspirational stories from the world of construction. Have a look and discover how we will live and build tomorrow.

car interior ideal

Car Interior Ideal

We turn your car interior ideas into ideal solutions

The development of autonomous driving and e-mobility will have a major impact on the interior of the car. With our comprehensive expertise in Engineering Plastics and Polyurethanes, individual car parts testing, consultancy in design, simulation and much more - we support our customers and set new trends in the industry. Get the latest information on our Interior Blog.

Plastics in different Industries

Automotive

We want to 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.

Construction

Is there a high performance insulation that can give you design flexibility as well as energy efficiency? How do you build something that is both durable and sustainable? These are but a few of the questions that we want to help you answer with our innovative, sustainable solutions.

Electronics & Electric

Electronics and Electric (E&E) devices are an inseparable part of our daily lives and will become even more so in the future. At BASF, we connect our innovation with the needs of our customers in the global electronic industry to provide the most advanced chemicals and electronic materials in the E&E value chain.

Footwear

Today’s consumer is looking for an edge. A shoe that is lighter, or has more energy return, or is slip resistant or has a specific design geared to running a marathon or strolling around the neighborhood. We have the material and design expertise that you need to deliver that type of footwear technology.

Solutions

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

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.

BASF designfabrik® öffnet Wunderkammer / BASF designfabrik® opens the “Wunderkammer”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Plastics for Mechanical Engineering

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

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.

Sustainable Solutions

At this stage, we are using more than our planet can regenerate. Therefore sustainable development is crucial 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.

Services

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.

Leichtbau Komfortsitz / Lightweight comfort seat

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.

Leichtbau Komfortsitz / Lightweight comfort seat

Ultrasim®

Ultrasim® is the versatile and flexible CAE competence for your innovations using BASF plastics. Our calculation of component 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.

Successful Customer Projects

Proven in practice: These case studies demonstrate the successful use of our products in customer projects.