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 108,000 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.
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.
Our Research Focus: Overcoming the challenges of our time
As a global leader in chemical R&D, BASF develops solutions for a sustainable future. Our research helps secure safe, high-quality food, advances cleaner and safer mobility through battery materials, and supports a circular economy with biobased products and new recycling processes. We also drive climate-smart production by improving energy efficiency, expanding renewable energy use and developing CO2-free technologies such as methane pyrolysis. Across hundreds of projects worldwide, our researchers help customers meet changing needs, regulations and sustainability goals.
BASF generated sales of around €60 billion in 2025. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the United States.
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Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a global leader in surface technologies and advanced materials. With a unique portfolio spanning surface engineering, high-performance materials, coating equipment and components, we make products better by enhancing performance, efficiency and sustainability. Oerlikon serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, medical, luxury, semiconductors and tooling. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, Oerlikon operates in 38 countries with about 10,000 employees, achieving sales of CHF 1.6 billion in 2025.
About SURTECO GmbH
SURTECO GmbH is among the world's leading suppliers of all forms of decorative surface finishes made of paper and plastics. We develop multimaterial products that are perfectly harmonised in terms of design, colour and surface finish. As a one-stop shop in our sector, we also set future-orientated standards when it comes to the combination of surfacing and edging.
The business was established in 2018 by means of the merger of internationally successful companies BauschLinnemann GmbH, Döllken-Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH and SURTECO DECOR GmbH. As a result, the many years of experience, extensive technical know-how and design skills of these individual ventures have been amalgamated in this one single business. And this means unique advantages for customers and dealers in the furniture, wood processing, flooring and caravan sectors.
SURTECO GmbH is a subsidiary of the listed company SURTECO GROUP SE that has its headquarters in Buttenwiesen in Bavaria. The concern has more than 3800 employs and currently 26 sites on five continents with their own production and distribution facilities.