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The BASF AG is the prominent chemistry enterprise of the world. The abbreviation BASF stood in former times for "aniline and Soda-Fabrik of Baden ". Today the contraction from four letters is the registered label name of the enterprise. The BASF is quoted in Frankfurt (BAS), London (Federal Labour Office), New York (BF) and Zurich (ON).
The group of BASF consists of more than 160 daughter and holding companies as well as production and group locations in 41 countries in Europe, Asia as well as north and South America. The head office of the enterprise is in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine (Rhineland-Palatinate), the world-wide largest coherent chemistry area. 80,945 coworkers worked at the end of of 2005 in all world for the enterprise, of it more than 45,620 in Germany. World-wide 2,330 training are employed. The company maintains business relations to customers in over 170 countries and supplies approximately 8,000 sales products world-wide to a multiplicity of different industries. In the year 2005 the group of BASF obtained a conversion of 42.7 billion euro. The BASF extended at present their international activities and particularly develops their locations in the asiatic area. BASF set itself the goal of obtaining to 2010 a portion of 20 per cent of its world-wide conversion and result from the chemistry business in the region Asia/Pacific. Up to this time are to originate 70 per cent of the company turnover in this region from local production. Until 2005 will invest BASF 5.6 billion euro in the asiatic-Pacific area. With investments in Kuantan/Malaysia, Nanjing and Caojing/China, Yeosu and Gunsan/South Korea as well as in Japan, India, Indonesia and Singapore BASF developed a regional net at manufacturing plants.
The five main business fields of the BASF corporation are chemicals, plastics, improving products, plant protection and nutrition as well as oil and gas.
The BASF manufactures a broad pallet at chemicals as for example softeners, amines, resins, glues, electronics chemicals, petrochemical raw materials and inorganic chemicals. The most important customers of this business field are the Pharma, building, textile and automobile industry.
BASF is one the internationally leading manufacturer of styrene plastics and - foam. Technical plastics go at injection moulding manufacturers into many industries. The PU of the enterprise are used world-wide in various form.
The chemistry enterprise produces a multiplicity of improving chemicals, lacquers and improving polymers. Examples are raw materials for detergents, textile and leather chemicals, pigments and sticking raw materials. Customers are manufacturers of automobiles, oil, paper, packing, textiles, sanitary articles, detergents, building materials, lacquers as well as the pressure and leather industry.
BASF is a supplier of plant protection agents and fine chemicals for the agriculture, animal nutrition as well as for the Pharma, the food and Kosmetikindustrie. In the plant biotechnology the corporation concentrates on the research on the ranges efficient agriculture, healthier nutrition and plants for the more efficient production of products. Products of the division plant protection are among other things Pestizide (plant protection and pesticides, like e.g. fungicides (against fungal attack), insecticides (against insects) and herbicides (against weeds)). The division fine chemistry offers Pharmawirkstoffe, Pharmahilfsstoffe, polymer for the hair care and UV light protective agent for sun creams beside the Vitaminen also.
By the hundred percent daughter winter-resound AG, Kassel, opens and promotes BASF oil and natural gas. With the Russian partner Gazprom is common winter-resounds in central and Eastern Europe actively. A result of this co-operation (Gazprom, BASF and E.ON) is the building of the northEuropean gas line.
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