About BASF – Overview
BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from oil and gas to chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals. As a reliable partner BASF helps its customers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, BASF plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as climate protection, energy efficiency, nutrition and mobility. BASF has more than 95,000 employees and posted sales of almost €58 billion in 2007. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com.
Employees at BASF share a common goal: to help improve the quality of human life. To succeed here requires integrity, passion, innovation, entrepreneurship, urgency, commitment, making a contribution, accountability, embracing our goals and self-development. We communicate our goals through our company mission statement, our strategic intent and our leadership essentials.
Shaping the Future
As the world’s leading chemical company, BASF plays a decisive role in shaping the future. Sustainable actions as well as the ongoing quest for innovation drive our business activities. They enable us to find answers to global challenges. We not only set ourselves high energy efficiency goals, but with our innovative products we help our customers to save resources and energy, protect the climate and environment and in this way grow sustainably. This is our key to long-term growth.
We combine economic success with social responsibility and environmental protection. Our economic success depends on social acceptance and on the confidence that those around us have in our actions. For BASF, having a future-oriented corporate policy means taking on social responsibility. This applies especially in the communities and regions in which our sites are located. Education is the focal point of our social commitment.
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