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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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.

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.