BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
Contact
Location
About 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, Intermediates)
- Materials (Performance Materials, Monomers)
- Industrial Solutions (Dispersions & Pigments, Performance Chemicals)
- Surface Technologies (Catalysts, Coatings, Construction Chemicals)
- Nutrition & Care (Care Chemicals, Nutrition & Health)
- 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)
Area
| Total | 1000.0 hectare |
|---|---|
| Free | 50.0 hectare |
Infrastructure and Connectivity
| Highway | yes | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway | yes | |
| Waterway | yes | |
| Sea harbor | no |
Compounds
Query the BASF productfinder
Services
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
Investments on this park
2023-06-01
Investment details2023-03-01
at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen (DE)2023-01-01
Investment details2023-01-01
at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen (DE)2023-01-01
at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen (DE)Pipeline grid availability
Companies on this park
News
Vattenfall and BASF sign contract with Vestas for latest 15 MW offshore wind turbines in Germany
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen →Supply and service contracts signed for Vestas turbines for Nordlicht offshore wind park, co-owned by Vattenfall and BASF. Turbine type V236 with nominal output of 15 MW per turbine currently most ...
BASF, SABIC, and Linde celebrate the start-up of the world's first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace at Ludwigshafen demoplant, Germany
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen →Demonstration plant with 6 megawatts input of renewable electrical energy to test material behavior and process on an industrial scale. Joint development and construction of electric steam cracking...
Inauguration ceremony for the new BASF fermentation plant for crop protection products in Ludwigshafen, Germany
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen →The plant is expected to go into operation in the second half of 2025 and will manufacture biological fungicides and biological seed treatment products. The plant will employ 30 people in productio...
CO2-free hydrogen: BASF receives funding approval for 54-megawatt water electrolysis plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen →Proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer expected to produce up to 8,000 metric tons of hydrogen per year. Annual reduction in CO2 emissions of up to 72,000 metric tons. German Ministries provid...