Press Releases

General Motors today presented BASF Coatings with a 2025 Supplier of the Year Award at GM’s 34th annual Supplier of the Year event in Austin, Texas. This marks the 19th award for BASF overall. The Supplier of the Year celebrates global suppliers that distinguish themselves by exceeding GM’s standards while providing innovative technologies and achieving some of the highest quality standards in the automotive industry. 

The custom color “Nightfall Rose”, with its design led by Xiaomi EV and enabled by BASF Coatings’ technical solutions, has received the 2026 Ringier Technology Innovation Awards – Coatings Industry in the “Innovative Coatings of the Year” category. It is also the only color innovation recognized among this year’s award winners.

Chemetall, the surface treatment global business unit of BASF Coatings, has opened its first application laboratory in the southern province of Tây Ninh (formerly Long An), near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The facility provides product testing and technical support to surface treatment customers across diverse market segments such as automotive OEM and components, general industry, and plastics recycling.

As part of its Carbon Management Roadmap, BASF Coatings has successfully completed the planned switch of its European production sites to electricity from renewable sources.

BASF Coatings has received certification from TÜV Rheinland for the calculation methodology of its Eco Impact Assessment tool. The independent assessment confirms that the methodology meets established standards for transparency and consistency. The certification verifies that the tool’s corporate carbon footprint calculations for body shops are aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. This provides body shops with a validated basis for assessing and managing their environmental impact alongside operational performance.