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As the global leader in catalysis with more than 100 years of catalyst manufacturing experience, BASF offers a broad range of manufacturing assets combined with critical expertise in custom catalyst development.

We collaborate with customers to develop and commercialize catalyst technologies. From idea creation to scale-up and manufacturing, BASF provides service through the entire value chain. Our proven business model was created with experience earned from more than 50 years of custom manufacturing.

Why BASF?

With more than 50 years of successful custom catalyst partnerships, BASF has an impeccable reputation for maintaining full confidentiality and intellectual property (IP) protection for customers. We offer the commercial production of unique materials with customized functionality to meet strategic business objectives. With our surface and material science competencies, customers have what they need to create customized functionalities and enhance yield, selectivity, and lifetime.

Extensive Resources

Our unmatched research and development (R&D) resources include specialized custom catalyst scale-up experts supported by more than 1,100 catalyst R&D experts globally.

Comprehensive Assets

Customers who work with BASF gain access to a broad range of catalyst manufacturing assets in more than 40 manufacturing sites around the world.

Flexible Process

Our varying business models range from tolling of fully commercialized manufacturing processes to joint development arrangements, which provides our customers with added flexibility.

Custom catalysts can be developed for chemical process catalysts, industrial catalysts, refining catalysts, as well as adsorbents. Contact us to discuss your custom catalysts requirements at custom-catalysts@basf.com or fill out the form below.

Partnerships

With our long history of successful catalyst manufacturing, BASF understands that an outstanding custom catalyst requires a well-established partnership built on trust. Our methodology relies on the creation and maintenance of an open dialogue with customers. BASF’s portfolio of successful customer relationships is broad and mostly confidential, but three partners are in the public domain.

Fischer-Tropsch catalysts

Olefin Conversion Technology (OCT)

Fluid bed oxychlorination catalysts

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Outsource Custom Catalyst Manufacturing to BASF

Catalyst manufacturing is what we do. We offer manufacturing capabilities to formulate your custom catalysts within our global network of production plants, research units and site communities around the world.

Realize cost efficiencies through capital cost avoidance and manufacturing cost reductions

Achieve speed-to-market while maintaining high quality and flexibility

Focus on your core competencies and leverage BASF's catalyst expertise

Confidentiality
BASF Catalysts | Confidentiality

A BASF custom catalyst is a catalyst developed or co-developed by a BASF customer with full confidentiality and intellectual property (IP) protection. The IP ownership resides with the inventing party with possible joint patent positions. We recognize our customer's Intellectual Property (IP) is important. Therefore, we have established a successful protocol which includes:

  • Establishment of legal agreements for IP Protection
  • Internal "Firewall" protection
  • Limitation of information dissemination on a "need-to-know" basis
  • Project teams chosen to avoid conflicts of interest

Technologies

At BASF, we combine a comprehensive portfolio of proven custom catalyst manufacturing services with an infrastructure of knowledgeable chemists and researchers. That’s how we turn catalysts into commercial reality.

From manufacturing to development, BASF has the foundation to support even the most challenging design and processing requirements. With our assets and resources, we have the ability for rapid scale-up and mass production in a cost-efficient manner.

BASF leverages core chemical and catalyst technologies with the creative imagination of over 1,100 R&D experts to create practical solutions that drive new levels of customer performance and achievement. Competencies in material science and surface chemistry result in unique materials with customized functionality to meet your strategic business objectives.

Engineered Materials

Specialized Chemical Formulations

Process Optimization

Where We Operate

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