Footwear

Make The Move to Pioneering Footwear Solutions

In the ever-evolving footwear industry, standing still is not an option. Our advanced polyurethane materials are designed to keep you moving forward, creating shoes that are lighter, more comfortable, and incredibly durable.

From safety shoes to running shoes, our unique and integrated toolbox of polyurethane solutions, including Elastopan^®(PU), Elastollan^®(TPU), and Infinergy^®(E-TPU), supports all processing technologies and meets the diverse needs of the footwear industry. With our deep expertise in the entire value chain, we help to bring innovative products to the market more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Make the Move to pioneering footwear solutions.

Footwear branding images showing the excite to win spirit

We are in the race to win it. Through exciting innovation.

We deliver high performance footwear materials for all types of shoes and soles – from safety shoes to running shoes to casual shoes. With our portfolio of polyurethane systems, thermoplastic polyurethanes and engineering thermoplastics, we offer you a unique and integrated toolbox of solutions. We do not only have material expertise, we have a full understanding of the value chain – from how the foam is produced to how to attach the shoe sole. That knowledge can help you find new and more cost effective ways to bring your product to market.

The race is on. And together we are going to win it.

Excite to win.

A clean win - footwear and sustainability

With sustainability becoming more and more important in the footwear industry - be part of our race for an eco-friendly future!

Footwear Design Contests

Since 2006, young students design outstanding shoes in collaboration with BASF, whose materials are used for the soles every year.

Have a look at the different themes and shoes of all the contests from the last years!

Discover our products for the footwear industry

Product	Properties	Description
Elastopan^®	PU	Elastopan^® is the step change of PU solutions in footwear. With vast possibilities of customization, excellent technical support and next level of performance enhancing functionality it constantly reinvents itself to finish first in the productivity and innovation race.
Elastollan^®	TPU	Elastollan^® secures high performance across a broad variety of TPU applications – in the footwear industry and beyond. Its versatility and adaptability to automation is key in shaping the exciting products that market success is made of.
Infinergy^®	E-TPU	Infinergy^® E-TPU revolutionized the performance footwear industry. Exceeding all expectations in performance and comfort, its iconic design is a success from start to finish with customers.

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BASF at Simac Tanning Tech 2024

Making the Move to high-performance footwear solutions.
Our advanced polyurethane materials are designed to keep you moving forward, creating shoes that are lighter, more comfortable, incredibly durable and sustainable.
We made it to Simac 2024 and showed our latest material developments designed for a circular economy.

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Innovative Solutions for the Footwear Industry

In a market characterized by high sophisticated production technology, the characteristics of the chosen material are requested to be at the top.

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Extremely light, outstanding durability, comfortable to wear and excellent running properties – no problem with our PU, TPU or E-TPU materials in sports footwear.

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High international standards have to be fulfilled when it comes to the manufacturing of safety and working shoes.

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Under “Functional Coatings – Haptic”, BASF develops and markets innovative coating technologies for highly flexible substrates.

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Product Applications

Learn more about the diverse uses of our materials.

Footwear Design Contest by Politecnico Calzaturiero

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