Sustainable Solutions
Sustainable Solutions from Petrochemicals
The Petrochemicals Division serves as the starting point of our customers’ value chains, providing essential building blocks for a wide range of industries. With a strong global market position and regional production, we are well positioned to meet the diverse needs of our customers worldwide.
Our pivotal role in BASF's sustainability transformation is reflected in our capabilities for greenhouse gas emission reduction and feed-in points for alternative feedstocks. In addition to our standard portfolio, we offer products with low carbon footprint as well as circular solutions, including biobased, biomass balanced and Ccycled products as well as a product with mechanically recycled content. As of 2025, we have RFNBO-certified hydrogen in our portfolio which we produce in our water electrolyzer using renewable power.
Explore how BASF's Petrochemicals Division can add value to your business and enable your green transformation.
Climate-smart technologies
As markets for sustainable products grow, we want to be in a position in the medium and long term to apply and scale up the new emission-free processes and technologies that we are currently developing and, in some cases, piloting. They will help us to reduce the carbon footprint of customer products.
Important levers for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are electrification of processes combined with renewable energy sources, low-emission steam generation and continuous operational excellence measures.
Find out more about our climate-smart technologies.
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.jpg "KASK, the iconic Italian helmet brand, is using expandable polystyrene (EPS) granules Neopor® Ccycled® from BASF for the production of safety helmets for workers. In the manufacturing process of Neopor® Ccycled® fossil feedstocks are replaced by pyrolysis oil obtained from recycled post-consumer plastic waste through chemical recycling at the very beginning of the BASF value chain using the mass balance approach. This way, BASF is able to offer Neopor® Ccycled® with a Product Carbon Footprint reduced by approximately 90% compared to conventional Neopor®.
KASK is now using this more sustainable EPS to produce the internal shell of the Primero series as well as the internal shell of the Zenith X and Superplasma safety helmet series from the end of October 2024. These products feature the same high quality and safety performance and an improved product carbon footprint in comparison to using conventional EPS. By choosing these product series, which together cover the majority of helmets sold, KASK is able to make a positive impact on the circular economy.")
.jpg "BASF has expanded its portfolio of graphitic expandable polystyrene (EPS) granulate. Neopor® F 5 McycledTM contains 10 per cent recycled material and is suitable for numerous applications in buildings, particularly facade insulation.")
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