BASF evaluates strategic options for feed enzyme business

• Business features global brands and strong innovation pipeline
• Nutrition Ingredients business unit to focus resources on core value chains and ingredients

Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF is evaluating strategic options for its feed enzymes business, which is part of the company’s Nutrition & Health division. “We are looking for partners for whom feed enzymes represent a strategic focus area to drive innovation and profitable growth,” said Dr. Martin Volland, President of BASF’s Nutrition & Health division. “This attractive business brings together a highly skilled team that combines market and technical expertise with pioneering experience in feed enzymes, globally established brands, and a robust innovation pipeline – all of which positions it for continued success.”

BASF is a pioneer in the feed enzymes market and launched Natuphos^® in 1991 as the world’s first commercial feed enzyme (phytase). Over time, the company expanded its portfolio, which by 2021 included phytase, xylanase, glucanase and mannanase.

“Our feed enzymes business has significantly outgrown the market over the past years. We are proud of what the team has built. In our Nutrition Ingredients business unit, we will continue to strengthen our core product platforms for vitamins and carotenoids as part of BASF’s key value chains. We are confident that in an alternative setup, the feed enzymes business will be able to fully unlock its potential,” said Daniela Calleri, Head of Nutrition Ingredients at BASF. “Our priority is to ensure continuity for employees, customers and partners.”

This announcement is related only to BASF’s feed enzymes business in the Nutrition & Health division and does not include the enzymes product portfolio for the home care and I&I industry, which is part of BASF’s Care Chemicals division.
 

About BASF’s Nutrition & Health division 

BASF Nutrition & Health provides a comprehensive product and service range for human and animal nutrition, pharmaceutical, and flavor & fragrance industries. With our science-driven portfolio, we address customers in globally growing markets to meet the demands of an expanding world population. Together with our customers, we play an active role in enhancing the nutrition, health and wellbeing of consumers all over the world. Our products fulfill the highest safety, regulatory and sustainability standards. BASF Nutrition & Health operates sites in Europe, North America and in Asia-Pacific. For more information, go to www.basf.com. 
 

About BASF

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. Our ambition: We want to be the preferred chemical company to enable our customers’ green transformation. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 112,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises, as core businesses, the segments Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, and Nutrition & Care; our standalone businesses are bundled in the segments Surface Technologies and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €65.3 billion in 2024. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the United States. Further information at www.basf.com.

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