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Business Atlas. "BASF." Accessed September 6, 2026. https://business.interactiveatlas.org/companies/basf.

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Business Atlas. (n.d.). BASF. Retrieved September 6, 2026, from https://business.interactiveatlas.org/companies/basf

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@misc{businessatlas-basf,
  author = {Business Atlas},
  title = {BASF},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://business.interactiveatlas.org/companies/basf},
  note = {Accessed September 6, 2026}
}

BASF is a German multinational chemical company headquartered in Ludwigshafen, the largest chemical producer in the world, founded in 1865 as a dye manufacturer. Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, a BASF employee, developed the Haber-Bosch process there by 1912, after which the company grew rapidly; it operates production sites in more than eighty countries and supplies a wide range of industries.

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Diversified chemicals industry peer.

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Diversified chemicals industry peer.

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