BASF Performance Materials:

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For you, we combine cutting-edge solutions with established expertise. Bring us your ideas and we turn them into reality together.

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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 team of industry-leading experts, we want to help you take your product to the next level. That means accelerating innovation, embracing digitalization and focusing on sustainability. We are ready to create the solutions of tomorrow with you!

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Biopolymers

BASF’s biopolymers are certified compostable and partly bio-based plastics which contribute to a circular economy by increasing organic recycling and closing the loop of the food value chain.

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Polyphthalamides

Ultramid^® Advanced is the polyphthalamide portfolio by BASF for high-performance parts that reliably work also under demanding application conditions.

Sustainability

With BASF as your global partner in the plastics value chain, you can choose solutions that power the circular economy and make net zero possible.

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Solutions for sustainable engineering plastic and sustainable products to design a circular economy

Innovation

BASF will help you innovate faster: with our technologies & services, our sustainability vision and our people.

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Comfort, Health and Safety

Are you looking for an adhesive raw material for medical-technical applications or for a plasticizer for food packaging? We provide the appropriate solution for every need. Select a product from the below selection to find out more.

Cost Effectiveness

Plastics offer numerous advantages compared to other materials: With versatile application options they allow for great freedom of design and are also more cost-efficient than alternative materials. With our tools and many years of experience, excess materials and rejects have become a thing of the past.

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 use in food contact applications and is often used in the food industry or drinking water applications.

Das Besondere an den Materialien der BASF sind zum einen ihre herrausragenden Eigenschaften und zum anderen die Produktideen, die sie ermöglichen. Diese werden in der sogenannten „Wunderkammer“ präsentiert, einem Trichter, dessen Wände die Augen abschirmen und den Betrachter so jede räumliche Orientierung verlieren lassen. Die perspektivische Verzerrung lässt sowohl Objekte als auch Besucher in einer verblüffenden Collage verschmelzen. Ein Spiel mit der Wahrnehmung – genauso charmant und analog, wie es 1865, im Entstehungsjahr der BASF, noch gang und gäbe war.

What makes BASF materials special is both their excellent properties and the product ideas they enable. These products are presented in the so-called “Wunderkammer”, or “cabinet of wonders” – a funnel, whose walls block off the peripheral view to suspend spatial orientation. The perspective distortion merges objects and visitors moving amongst them into an astonishing collage. Playing with perception – in just the same charming, analogue way as was so popular in 1865, the year in which BASF was founded.

Individualization and lifestyle

Here you will find customized material, processing and design solutions for your needs. We will help you design your products to measure and distinguish yourself from others, with innovative solutions as varied as your customers.

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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.

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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 and sustainable solutions to the problems facing equipment and machinery manufacturers today.

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Sanitary and Water Industry

When it comes to parts for the sanitary and water industries, it is not only technical properties that play a crucial role but it is above all health and safety. Under the name Aqua^®, BASF offers a comprehensive range of engineering plastics optimized specifically for components in contact with drinking water and food.

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.

Metal substitution

Engineering plastics from BASF offer decisive advantages over established metal structures in many areas. The range of applications for these smart plastic solutions extends far beyond automotive engineering and opens up significant development potential for the solar, construction and water industries.

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BASF Creation Centers

In our Creation Centers we help you to find the right material and design for your next product idea. In an inspiring atmosphere you get materials and design consulting with tangible and digital experience, ideation workshops and advanced development. From inspiration to solution in one place.

Die Entwicklungsingenieure Rie Kaneko und Torsten Hensel besprechen anhand eines Querschnittmodells den Aufbau des Leichtbau-Komfortsitzes. Mit Hilfe der eingesetzten E-Textile-Technologie kann die Sitzheizung direkt in Textilen und somit nahe am KÃ¶rper angebracht werden. ElastoflexÂ®-Weichschaumstoffe in den SitzflÃ¤chen sparen bis zu 20 Prozent Gewicht und bieten gleichzeitig ergonomische Vorteile durch verschiedene HÃ¤rtezonen.
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Development engineers Rie Kaneko and Torsten Hensel discuss the structure of the lightweight comfort seat using a cross-section model. By means of the e-textile technology used, the seat heating can be directly embedded in the textile and is thus close to the body. ElastoflexÂ® flexible foams in the sitting areas save up to 20 percent weight and at the same time provide ergonomic advantages by means of various hardness zones.
Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.,Die Entwicklungsingenieure Rie Kaneko und Torsten Hensel besprechen anhand eines Querschnittmodells den Aufbau des Leichtbau-Komfortsitzes. Mit Hilfe der eingesetzten E-Textile-Technologie kann die Sitzheizung direkt in Textilen und somit nahe am Körper angebracht werden. Elastoflex®-Weichschaumstoffe in den Sitzflächen sparen bis zu 20 Prozent Gewicht und bieten gleichzeitig ergonomische Vorteile durch verschiedene Härtezonen.
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Development engineers Rie Kaneko and Torsten Hensel discuss the structure of the lightweight comfort seat using a cross-section model. By means of the e-textile technology used, the seat heating can be directly embedded in the textile and is thus close to the body. Elastoflex® flexible foams in the sitting areas save up to 20 percent weight and at the same time provide ergonomic advantages by means of various hardness zones.
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Product support and troubleshooting

With our calculation tools, information databases and FAQs, we aim to help you answer technical questions related to our high-performance polymer portfolio.

Testing of materials and parts

We offer our customers a wide range of services with leading technologies and products. In our laboratories we perform plastic-related tests for various applications.

Bei der Gestaltung der einteiligen, selbsttragenden Kunststoff-Sitzschale wurde das inzwischen universell einsetzbare Computersimulationsinstrument ULTRASIMTM der BASF SE eingesetzt. In der Entwicklungsphase wurde die Sitzschale aus dem Kunststoff UltramidÂ® mit Hilfe des Simulationsinstruments virtuell ausgelegt. Die BASF-Entwickler nutzten dies unter anderem zur Konstruktionsberechnung und zur Belastungssimulation der Sitzschale.
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In the design of the one-piece, self-supporting plastic seat shell, use was made of what is now BASFâ s universal computer simulation instrument ULTRASIMTM. In the development phase, the seat shell of the plastic UltramidÂ® was virtually designed by means of the simulation instrument. The BASF developers used this for example to calculate the construction and for the stress simulation of the seat shell.
Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.,Bei der Gestaltung der einteiligen, selbsttragenden Kunststoff-Sitzschale wurde das inzwischen universell einsetzbare Computersimulationsinstrument ULTRASIMTM der BASF SE eingesetzt. In der Entwicklungsphase wurde die Sitzschale aus dem Kunststoff Ultramid® mit Hilfe des Simulationsinstruments virtuell ausgelegt. Die BASF-Entwickler nutzten dies unter anderem zur Konstruktionsberechnung und zur Belastungssimulation der Sitzschale.
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In the design of the one-piece, self-supporting plastic seat shell, use was made of what is now BASF’s universal computer simulation instrument ULTRASIMTM. In the development phase, the seat shell of the plastic Ultramid® was virtually designed by means of the simulation instrument. The BASF developers used this for example to calculate the construction and for the stress simulation of the seat shell.
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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.

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BASF Performance Materials: Together with you, our inspired team creates the solutions of tomorrow.

Let us Go!Create together!

What is happening at Performance Materials? _______________________________________________

What can we create together in your industry? ____________________________________________

Meet our biopolymers and polyphthalamides ____________________________________________

Biopolymers

Polyphthalamides

How do we want to create the solutions for tomorrow with you?_______________________________________________________

Sustainability

Innovation

What is your challenge ? ____________________________________________

Comfort, Health and Safety

Cost Effectiveness

Energy Efficiency

Food contact

Individualization and lifestyle

Miniaturization and Connectivity

Pioneering Concept Studies

Plastics for mechanical engineering

Sanitary and Water Industry

Speed and Simplicity

Metal substitution

How can we support you ? ____________________________________________

BASF Creation Centers

Product support and troubleshooting

Testing of materials and parts

Ultrasim®

Consult with an expert

BASF Performance Materials:

Together with you, our inspired team creates the solutions of tomorrow.

Ultrasim^®