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BASF AG, based in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is a chemicals company that includes plastics, agriculture and nutrition, oil and gas, and performance products businesses. The firm produces basic and specialty petrochemicals and inorganics. It offers customers plasticizers, electronic chemicals, amines, acids, and other products. It also manufactures styrenics, engineering plastics, nylon, and polyurethanes. Herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, vitamins, UV absorbers, and other agricultural and nutrition products are marketed to businesses across the farming, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and personal care industries. BASF's performance products include coatings, functional polymers, detergent raw materials, textile chemicals, fuel and lubricant additives, monomers, and superabsorbers. Performance chemicals are marketed to clients across the automotive, oil, paper, packaging, textile, construction, and printing sectors. The firm's Wintershall Holding AG subsidiary explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas. Wintershall has formed a partnership with Gazprom, based in Russia. BASF has formed research alliances with 1,400 industrial and academic organizations worldwide. The company serves customers in 200 countries. BASF is listed on the XETRA exchange under the 515100 code.
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