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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Since its founding in 1972, CleanAir has an established reputation for excellence on projects of all sizes, ranging from boiler, APC equipment and cooling tower efficiency testing to SCR baseline testing and optimization to hazardous air pollutant (HAPs) studies and CEMS RATAs.
The strength of CleanAir's organization is its solid base of professionals with boiler and air emissions testing, combustion, flue gas cleaning, engineering, heat rejection, regulatory, and analytical experience which have performed thousands of projects on hundreds of utility, industrial, municipal solid-waste (MSW) and hazardous waste boilers in the United States and abroad.
In addition to the strength of our professional organization, CleanAir has extensive equipment resources maintained through CleanAir Instrument Rental as well as CleanAir Express, which provides in-house manufacturing capabilities for customized sampling equipment such as HVT probes and multi-point sampling grids.
SurTec develops, manufactures and supplies chemical specialities for surface finishing. With its five fields of application Industrial Parts Cleaning, Metal Pre-treatment, Functional and Decorative Electroplating as well as Functional Coatings, SurTec covers the full portfolio in this sector. SurTec is a supplier for almost all segments dealing with surface treatment, including Automotive, Transportation, Construction, Electronics & Electrical and Healthcare & Lifestyle.
The SurTec Group, headquartered in Bensheim, Germany, has subsidiaries in 22 countries with about 400 employees. It also cooperates with partners who represent SurTec in more than 20 additional countries.
To guarantee consistently high product quality, independent of place of manufacture, all production facilities worldwide operate in compliance within internationally recognised standards. Quality controls are performed at every phase of the production process, starting with raw material qualification through further processing, checking of the finished products, shipment and – finally - delivery.
SurTec is certified according to ISO 9001 (Quality Management). The additional certifications according to ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 respective ISO 45001 emphasise the important corporate goals of ecological friendliness and the conservation of resources.
SurTec is a business unit of Freudenberg Chemical Specialities SE & Co. KG, Munich, a 100% subsidiary of Freudenberg SE, based in Weinheim, Germany. Freudenberg is a globally active family-owned company, which was founded 175 years ago by Carl Johann Freudenberg.
Creativity, diversity and innovative strength as well as reliability and responsible action are its success factors. Freudenberg and its 10 Business Groups rely on partnerships with customers in around 60 countries, long-term orientation, financial solidity and the competence and experience of its more than 50,000 employees.