At BASF’s SE Ludwigshafen site, some 8,500 sales products are produced with a total volume of eight million metric tons per year from just a few raw materials, such as naphtha, rock salt and sulfur. The Ludwigshafen site also serves as a technology platform and competence center for the BASF Group. Ludwigshafen is the headquarters of BASF’s corporate management and the center of corporate research. Ludwigshafen is BASF’s biggest production Verbund: Production plants, energy and waste-flows, logistics and infrastructure are closely linked to each other. This integration (Verbund) 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 more than 200 production plants that are connected to each other by over 2,000 kilometers of pipelines and more than 200 kilometers of rail track.

Core Sectors / Industries 

• Chemicals (inorganics, petrochemicals, intermediates)
• Plastics (performance polymers, polyurethanes)
• Functional solutions (catalysts, construction chemicals, coatings)
• Performance products (dispersions & pigments, paper chemicals, care chemicals, perfomance chemicals)
• Agricultural solutions (crop protection)
• Oil & gas

Companies 

• Air Liquide Deutschland GmbH
• BASELL Polyolefine GmbH
• BASF Construction Polymers GmbH
• BASF Future Business GmbH
• BASF IT Services GmbH
• BASF Jobmarkt GmbH
• BASF Lampertheim GmbH
• BASF Plant Science GmbH
• BASF Sozialstiftung
• BASF Venture Capital GmbH
• DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH
• EPS Ethylen-Pipeline-Süd GmbH & Co. KG
• Extranthis UG
• Klaus F. Meyer GmbH
• Kombi-Terminal Ludwigshafen GmbH
• Lanfer Logistik GmbH
• Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH
• LUWOGE GmbH
• PE PiezoElectronics GmbH
• pronova BKK
• SCL GmbH
• Styrolution GmbH

Number of Employees

About 37,900 people are directly employed at BASF Ludwigshafen Site (BASF SE, BASF Group companies and third party companies, average figures of 2011)