Coatings Solutions

Driving Surface Solutions

Get to know one of the leading suppliers of global surface solutions. BASF's Coatings division develops, produces and markets a high-quality range of innovative and sustainable automotive OEM and refinish coatings, decorative paints and surface-applied treatments for metal, plastic and glass substrates for a wide range of industries.

We treat various type of surfaces requiring specific properties: we color them, we protect them, and we give them functionalities. Our customers prefer to work with us because of our strengths: customer-centricity, deep expertise, and innovation potential in surfaces. We drive surface solutions! Meet your highest technical and qualitative demands in an environmentally friendly and beautiful way. We combine sophisticated design with functionality. Shine in the international marketplace!

We are a reliable worldwide performer – whether in research and development, production or service. Our “Innovation Beyond Paint” program as well as our Digital Incubation Unit develop new markets and businesses.

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Digital Incubation Unit

Driving Digital Innovation

Welcome to our Digital Incubation Unit (DIU). The DIU develops digital business models and establishes corporate ventures for BASF’s Coatings division. Get to know the fascinating interplay between the challenges of the automotive and surface treatment industry and the opportunities offered by digital trends.

New DIU Website

Biomass balance approach

Sustainable coatings

The BMW Group is the first OEM to use BASF paints certified according to the biomass balance approach. Reducing fossil resources and using more sustainable raw materials minimizes the carbon footprint.

Press release

Münster site

New laboratory building

BASF opened a new laboratory building for the development of automotive refinish coatings and innovations beyond paint at its site in Münster, Germany. It underlines the Coatings division’s global position as a future-oriented and innovative company.

Press Release

New Color Report

Sharper Point on Color

The total number of vehicles built on the world’s assembly lines in 2020 and 2021 was significantly lower than the years before. That put a sharper point on the popularity of certain color spaces in the BASF Color Report 2021 for Automotive OEM Coatings.

Global Color Report 2021

Personnel Changes

Holzenkamp succeeds Bremm

Dr. Uta Holzenkamp is the new president of BASF’s Coatings division effective January 1, 2022. She succeeds Dirk Bremm, who will lead the distinct legal entity BASF Automotive Catalysts and Recycling, headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, as CEO.

Press Release

Automotive Color Trends

SUPERPOSITION

Our designers have delved into new color spaces for the 2021-2022 Automotive Color Trends collection. Borrowing a phenomenon from quantum mechanics, this year’s collection is called SUPERPOSITION.

Digital Solution for Body Shops

Seamless Experience

With Refinity, we are the first company in the global refinish market offering a single digital platform that combines a number of different software solutions into one secure, easy-to-use cloud-based solution. A solution that is designed to drive body shop business success.

Sustainability

Climate Protection

BASF is committed to the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement and we act: Compared to 2018, we want to reduce our volume of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 25 percent by 2030. We want to become climate neutral by 2050.

Digital Logistics

Tracingo

Always keeping track of intermediate bulk containers – with Tracingo. Our digital solution tracks the location of containers and can determine their fill level remotely at any time.

Innovative cleaning solutions

PET Recycling

Up to 20 percent less energy consumption, wastewater and costs: Our cleaning solutions for washing and wastewater treatment plants do not only improve the safety, but also the life cycle assessment of PET recycling processes.

Footwear

BASF at Simac 2021

At Simac 2021, BASF presented also innovative coatings technologies for highly flexible substrates. These solutions protect, functionalize and color flexible surfaces. They set new standards in design opportunities and individualization.

Future Mobility

BASF's new virtual car

From engineering plastics and coatings to cathode materials, fuels and lubricants and more, this new interactive tool presents BASF’s broad portfolio of automotive solutions to help customers continue to innovate and drive the mobility industry forward.

Personnel Changes

Naber succeds Kloster

Frank Naber took over the position as head of the Automotive OEM Coatings Solutions EMEA business unit at BASF’s Coatings division effective May 1, 2021. In this position, he succeeds Thomas Kloster who has a new function in the BASF group.