BASF SE, Ludwigshafen

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. This integration leads to efficient value-adding chains from basic chemicals to highly sophisticated products. The backbone of the Ludwigshafen production Verbund is a dense network of around 200 production plants that are connected to each other by over 2,850 kilometers of pipelines and more than 230 kilometers of rail track. At BASF’s Ludwigshafen site, some 8,000 sales products are produced with a total volume of 8.5 million metric tons per year from just a few raw materials, such as naphtha, rock salt and sulfur. The site also serves as a technology platform and the center of corporate research.

Segments

• Chemicals (Petrochemicals, Monomers, Intermediates)
• Performance Products (Dispersions & Pigments, Care Chemicals, Nutrition and Health Chemicals, Performance Chemicals)
• Functional Materials & Solutions (Catalysts, Construction Chemicals, Coatings, Performance Chemicals)
• Agricultural Solutions

Number of Employees

About 39,000 people are directly employed at BASF Ludwigshafen Site (BASF SE, BASF Group companies and third party companies)

Logistics

An effective logistical infrastructure complements the Verbund. Keystones are the intermodal transport terminal (300,000 units/year), the modern logistics center (100,000 tons packed chemicals, eightfold throughput per year), harbor facilities and connection by block trains to Antwerp, Rotterdam, Eastern Germany and the Mediterranean Sea. Furthermore, ethylene and propylene pipelines link Ludwigshafen to other key chemical complexes.

Feedstocks

Comprehensive production Verbund: organic, inorganic and intermediate products.

Utilities

Electricity, steam, natural gas, industrial gases, water

Storage

Warehouses and tank farms