Enabling a more sustainable future through innovations

For more than fourty years, BASF has been developing, producing, and selling the tailor-made high-performance footware materials Elastopan® for all types of shoes and soles.

BASF has been the preferred partner from fiber to fashion as well as industrial solutions for many decades, with a long established history dating back more than a century.

The BASF internal Start-up ‘Functional Coatings – Haptic’ develops and commercializes innovative coating technologies for highly flexible surfaces used in footwear, automotive interior and furniture industry. These technologies set new benchmarks when it comes to design freedom, individualization and process optimization contributing to bringing the most innovative unique products to market for our customers.