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Performance Products - Close cooperation with customers


Pigment proofs on a wall
This segment consists of the Acrylics & Dispersions, Care Chemicals and Performance Chemicals divisions, which develop performance products to improve the processes and end products of our customers.
In this segment, we use intermediates from the BASF Verbund to create products, formulations and system solutions for customers in almost all sectors of the processing industry. Performance products add significantly to the functionality and performance of processes and final products and thus create differentiation potentials on the market for our customers.

Product Range



  • Functional polymers from the Acrylics & Dispersions division can be found in countless everyday products: they make diapers more absorbent, for example, and stamps self-adhesive.
  • Our new Care Chemicals division combines all activities that contribute to people’s well-being. These include vitamins for food supplements and light stabilizers for sun creams.
  • The Performance Chemicals division develops solutions for the oil, automotive, coatings and plastics industries, and for the manufacture of leather and textiles. Examples include resins and pigments, and fuel additives.

Key Figures




Million € 2007 20061 Change in %
Sales 8,862 8,494 4.3
Income from operations before special items 712 671 6.1
Income from operations (EBIT) 681 431 58.0

1
Contains only the sales of Degussa AG’s construction chemicals business acquired on July 1, 2006.

Pie chart: Segment data Performance Products

Million € %
1
Acrylic & Dispersions 3,522 40
2
Care Chemicals 3,025 34
3
Performance Chemicals 2,311 26
    8,862 100

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