BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
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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 |
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Free | 50.0 hectare |
Infrastructure and Connectivity
Highway | yes | |
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Railway | yes | |
Waterway | yes | |
Sea harbor | no |
Compounds
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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
2023-01-01
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News
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...
BASF to build new fermentation plant for crop protection products in Ludwigshafen, Germany
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen →Investment in the high double-digit million euro range. Strengthening the portfolio of biological and biotechnology-based crop protection products. Further step in the transformation of production ...
BASF increases production capacity for alkoxylates at Antwerp, Belgium, and Ludwigshafen, Germany
Port Of Antwerp → BASF SE, Ludwigshafen →Investment primarily in response to a growing European demand for alkoxylates Additional capacity to come on stream step by step from the second quarter of 2023 onward Antwerp, Belgium, and Ludwigs...