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BASF Performance Materials:

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

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

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! 

What can we create together in your industry?

Automotive
We create advanced automotive solutions using high‑performance materials that enable eMobility, lightweight design, and sustainable technologies. Developed by BASF. ✅
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Footwear
In the ever-evolving footwear industry, standing still is not an option. Make the Move to pioneering footwear solutions with our advanced polyurethane materials. 
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Miniature Circuit Breaker
Electronics & Electric
High-performance polymers for electric & electrical components ➤ Ensure excellent electrical performance, flame retardant safety & superior mechanical properties ☆ Explore now ✅ BASF
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Meet our biopolymers and polyphthalamides!

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

What is your challenge? 

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.
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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 custom-design your products and distinguish yourself from others - with innovative solutions as varied as your customers.
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How can we support you?

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.
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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. Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.
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.
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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. Abdruck honorarfrei. Copyright by BASF. 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. 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. Abdruck honorarfrei. Copyright by BASF. 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. Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.
Ultrasim®
Ultrasim® is the versatile and flexible CAE competence for your innovations using BASF plastics. Our calculation of components 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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