Performance Polymers

Co-Create With BASF Performance Materials

You need more than just a material to address your needs.

An integrative approach that includes a diverse portfolio of BASF performance materials, sustainable solutions to reduce your carbon footprint, and the expertise of an inspired team will position your company to excel in the global marketplace.

Supported by our global team of industry-leading specialists, we will help you realize your potential through customized plastics innovations focused on sustainability and performance. Together, we are positioned to create the high-performance plastics of tomorrow.

We invite you to be part of our exciting journey towards the world's largest trade fair for plastics and rubber. Join us and experience our progress at first hand.

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The unique solutions you need to succeed in your industry

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Explore the vital role of engineering plastics in automotive engine applications, improving performance and efficiency through lightweight and durable solutions. Discover how these advanced materials are transforming the automotive industry.

Check out BASF's biodegradable, bio-based and certified compostable biopolymers.

Discover how polyurethane solutions improve insulation, lightweight design, and sound absorption in various industries. Increase energy conservation, comfort, and safety with these innovative products.

Engineering Plastics

Dive deeper into Engineering Plastics

Engineering plastics are used in numerous applications, such as automotive engineering, the electrical and electronics sectors, household appliances and precision technology as well as in medical technology.
This product group includes Ultramid^® based on polyamide (PA), Ultradur^®based on polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), Ultrason^®, a high-temperature plastic based on polyarylethersulfone (PPSU, PSU, PESU) and Ultraform^® based on polyoxymethylene (POM).

Biopolymers

How to support circular economy with biopolymers

BASF has been researching biodegradable, bio-based and certified compostable biopolymers for more than 30 years. Bioplastics do not substitute conventional plastics but complement them as special materials: They offer new properties and application possibilities while having environmental benefits.
Biopolymers like BASF’s ecoflex^® (PBAT) and the compound ecovio^®make an important contribution to circular economy by increasing organic recycling and closing the loop of the food value chain.

Polyurethanes, Thermopolyurethanes and Foams

What do Polyurethanes, Thermopolyurethanes and Foams improve?

Polyurethane solutions improve insulation for buildings and household appliances, light-weight design for cars and other consumer products, conserving energy while increasing comfort and safety. This product group includes PU (polyurethane) systems, TPU (thermoplastic polyurethanes or Elastollan^®) and MPU (microcellular polyurethane or Cellasto^®) as well as the particle foam Infinergy^®based on E-TPU (expanded thermoplastics polyurethane) and Basotect^®, the flexible open cell foam made from melamine resin for sound absorption in many industries.

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BASF offers high-performance polymers and solutions for a wide variety of industries and applications. Whether you wish to incorporate compostable plastics into your product lines or increase safety and comfort for your customers, our extensive product portfolio will have what you need.

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Why innovators choose to co-create with BASF

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BASF facilitates faster innovation through higher-performing plastics materials, leading-edge tools and services, global reach and experts who are with you every step of the way. When you partner with us, you become more than a customer. You are a co-creator, and together, we can pave the road to a better future for your company and the planet.

Elevate innovation with Ultrasim®, the versatile CAE tool for BASF plastics.

Tools & Services

A partnership with BASF gives you access to innovative tools you will not find anywhere else, helping you get an edge over your competitors, including Ultrasim^®, a computer-aided engineering (CAE) solution that uses BASF’s high-performance plastics to ensure you bring your best to market. We also offer fire, equipment and materials testing to ensure product safety and compliance with regulatory requirements, as well as technical support for development and sales for all BASF sites and customers worldwide.

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Creation Centers

Explore the world of BASF Performance Materials at one of four global BASF Creation Centers. Join other innovators to learn about our latest creations and understand the endless possibilities of what our materials and you can do. You will have access to proprietary tools, such as Ultrasim^®, all while accessing support from our designers, engineers and simulation experts in your early product development phase. This results in faster innovations, better performing end products, and a learning experience you will never forget!

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Explore our eco-friendly performance materials and tools to contribute to a circular economy. Our expertise helps you quantify your carbon footprint, create low carbon footprint (LCF) products, and manage plastic waste.

Sustainability

Our portfolio of performance materials that includes recyclable and compostable plastics will help you meet your customers’ demands for more sustainable products along with proprietary tools that can help you contribute to a circular economy. Whether you wish to quantify your carbon footprint, creating low carbon footprint (LCF) products, or managing plastic waste with chemical and organics recycling, our global reach and expertise will help you every step of the way so that you can make net zero a reality.

Discover Sustainable Performance

Successful projects start with inspired people

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Our team works on certified compostable and soil-biodegradable plastics because we see them as complementary to existing recyclable plastics for specific applications in food packaging and agriculture. Thus BASF – and our customers - can achieve their circular economy goals. Our aspiration is for the rest of the value chain to join in, as meaningful impact is achieved when the whole industry is engaged.

Afsaneh is active in several plastic and paper packaging associations where she shapes the way biopolymers are perceived. She provides first-hand scientific facts on how biopolymers help to increase the collection of organic waste.

Dr. Afsaneh Nabifar

Head of Global Advocacy and Sustainability for Biopolymers

Energy efficient and future-oriented construction is of key importance when it comes to climate change. BASF delivers suitable materials for this and intends to be climate neutral by 2050. With our products, we help our customers to follow in our footsteps and achieve their own ambitious climate goals.

Fabian specializes in the Mass Balance approach, allowing to save fossil resources and reduce emissions already in the production process. In his presentations, he discusses the opportunities of combining PU sandwich panels and the mass balance approach.

Dr. Fabian Lied

Segment Marketing Manager

Together with our customers and partners, we are accelerating #ourplasticsjourney by co-creating from an early stage of product development, from design to material selection, simulation, and prototyping. With a certified chain of custody, we are strongly committed to supporting customers in meeting their sustainability targets.

Joseph leads Performance Materials on strategic and development activities on Sustainability & Circular Economy to deliver on BASF’s corporate goals of Net Zero by 2050, focusing on establishing sustainability value chains in close collaboration with cross-industry alliances and partnerships in Asia Pacific.

Joseph Pang

Head of Sustainability & Circular Economy, Performance Materials Asia Pacific, BASF

While mechanical recycling should be used for anything that can be recycled this way, ...the goal must be to recycle more plastics, burn less, and transfer less to landfills. We believe that there will be further improvement in recycling processes, not only chemical processes, but also mechanical ones. The optimal result can clearly be achieved from a combination of both.

In interviews with industry publications, Matthias discusses the chemical recycling’s place in the recycling arena.

Dr. Matthias Scheibitz

Head of Sustainability Strategy Performance Materials at BASF

In order to achieve the goals of a circular economy, it is important to develop new systems that help preserve resources and reduce emissions in all phases of make-use-recycle. BASF is ready for the circular economy and a partner for sustainable sole production.

Felix receives numerous invitations to speak – including to Congress and on various media platforms – about sustainability and the circular economy in the footwear sector.

Felix Willenbrink

Marketing Manager for Footwear, Sports and Leisure, BASF Polyurethanes

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Whether you are looking for performance plastics for your products, integrative simulations to ensure you are bringing the highest quality product to market, or solutions that advance your company on the path to zero, our experts can help you each step of the way.

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Co-Create With BASF Performance Materials

The unique solutions you need to succeed in your industry

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Engineering Plastics

Biopolymers

Polyurethanes, Thermopolyurethanes and Foams

Select your industry to get an overview of BASF’s product solutions

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Why innovators choose to co-create with BASF

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Successful projects start with inspired people

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Get in touch with our experts

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Always be up to date with our LinkedIn Channel

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Check out our Performance Materials press releases

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One of life’s great little pleasures

Metpack and BASF cooperate to demonstrate certified home-compostable, coated paper for food packaging

Cellasto^® invests €60 million to establish a second plant in China

CHINAPLAS 2025: Cellasto® and Össur collaborate to enhance performance in foot prosthesis

New possibilities for challenging E&E parts with specialty plastic Ultrason^® D

BASF receives Operation Clean Sweep^® certification at all its European production sites for plastic pellets

Against hydrolytic degradation: durable PPAs for components in harsh environments

BASF introduces biomass balance flexible polyurethane foam systems for the North American furniture industry

The world's first biomass-balanced polyethersulfone (PESU)

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