Immer mehr Elektroautos werden jedes Jahr weltweit zugelassen. Gleichzeitig sind die Rohstoffe für ihre Batterien begrenzt und deren Gewinnung ist mit negativen Umweltauswirkungen verbunden. BASF-Forscher am Standort Ludwigshafen arbeiten daher an einem neuen chemischen Verfahren, damit das in der Batterie enthaltene Lithium in hochreiner Form zurückgewonnen werden kann. Dabei werden zudem Abfälle vermieden und der CO2-Fußabdruck gegenüber bisherigen Recyclingverfahren gesenkt. Laborantin Theresa Simon prüft die Kristallisation der Lithiumsalze in einem Laborreaktor.
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Innovations for a sustainable future

Optimism is what drives all human beings. At BASF, this motivates us every day to develop solutions for the greatest challenges of our time – so we can better protect the climate, make optimal use of limited resources and provide food, energy and clean water for a booming world population.

Innovations made BASF the leading chemical company. Today our customers and the whole society are more than ever looking for innovative solutions. We all need answers for problems like climate change, scarcity of resources and marine littering. As the most innovative chemical company we take a special responsibility here, because innovations based on chemistry are key to those answers.   

With our Carbon Management Program we set a benchmark in achieving the climate protection targets, with our  ChemCycling approach we aim towards a circular economy. We also co-founded the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a global effort to end plastic waste in the environment. This is how we understand our corporate purpose – "We create chemistry for a sustainable future". 

Vorsitzender des Vorstands: Legal, Taxes, Insurance & Intellectual Property; Corporate Development; Corporate Communications & Government Relations; Senior Executive Human Resources; Investor Relations; Compliance; BASF 4.0; Corporate Technology & Operational Excellence; Digitalization in Research & Development; Innovation Management

Martin Brudermüller

Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE

Our innovative power 

                              … is based on efficient research and development. We build on our Know-How Verbund: the great creativity, the specific skills and the broad knowledge of our networks. It is all about developing solutions together … 

for a sustainable future.
  

Facts and figures 2022

~10,000
employees in research and development (R&D) worldwide

€2.3 billion
expenses for R&D

~€12 billion 
sales with products launched on the market in the past five years that stemmed from R&D

~1000
new patents worldwide

Research facts and figures 2017

~10,000

     employees in research and

      development worldwide

 

~70

      R&D locations worldwide

 

~80

     patents filed

~1,888 million

  expenditures in research and
    development in 2017

 

~3,000

                           R&D projects

 

 

 

Collaborations in Alliances and networks with universities and institutes

We innovate in Academic Research Alliances and maintain close relations with approximately 220 universities, institutes and individual research groups around the world. Collaboration is all about bringing the right people together to find answers to the big challenges of today. 

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Immer mehr Elektroautos werden jedes Jahr weltweit zugelassen. Gleichzeitig sind die Rohstoffe für ihre Batterien begrenzt und deren Gewinnung ist mit negativen Umweltauswirkungen verbunden. BASF-Forscher am Standort Ludwigshafen arbeiten daher an einem neuen chemischen Verfahren, damit das in der Batterie enthaltene Lithium in hochreiner Form zurückgewonnen werden kann. Dabei werden zudem Abfälle vermieden und der CO2-Fußabdruck gegenüber bisherigen Recyclingverfahren gesenkt. Laborantin Theresa Simon prüft die Kristallisation der Lithiumsalze in einem Laborreaktor.
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... create chemistry for a sustainable future. They develop new products, processes and solutions that make our everyday lives easier and enable climate protection. Learn more about their stories.

Innovations in the limelight

Battery Materials
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Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing will become an important leading technology for almost all industries. It is therefore essential to enable future innovation.
Research Press Conference 2022
On November 17, 2022, we explained, why White Biotechnology is becoming increasingly important for the chemical industry, why BASF and LanzaTech are jointly developing a process that enables chemicals to be produced from alternative carbon sources such as industrial off-gases, and why basic research on biodegradability makes an important contribution to developing sustainable products.