Europe

Europe is the continent where everything began for BASF: with the company’s founding on April 6, 1865, in Mannheim. Today, with an area of approximately ten square kilometres the Ludwigshafen Verbund site is the world’s largest integrated chemical complex. As the headquarters of BASF, it is also the cradle of the Verbund concept, where production facilities, energy flows and logistics are networked together intelligently in order to utilize resources as efficiently as possible. Another European Verbund site is located in Antwerp, Belgium.