To expand professional-grade 3D printing applications. Creality also launches the fully-enclosed FDM 3D printer Sermoon D3 featuring HP-ULTRA, a high-end filament series Creality co-developed with Forward AM specifically designed for Creality 3D printers.

BASF

Additive manufacturing makes objects by systematically adding material via a CAD program

Additive Manufacturing

Creality

Companies that develop only the materials used for additive manufacturing operations. These are typically compatible with 3D printers offered by other/partner companies.

Announced a partnership that sees the integration of BASF subsidiary's (trinamiX) high-performance hardware into AgroCares’ next-generation Nutrient Scanner solution.

AgroCares

Jointly develop solutions for a more secure and convenient vehicle access by integrating trinamiX (BASF subsidiary) Face Authentication into Grupo Antolin’s new product portfolio.

Grupo Antolin

To purchase pyrolysis oil from mixed plastic waste

Reinforcing recycling, rerouting refuse, and reducing wasteflows

Waste Recovery & Management Tech

ARCUS Greencycling Technologies

Startups developing recycling technologies, including the pyrolysis process or a recycled propylene technology, to convert plastic waste into products such as pure propylene, recycled plastic, crude oil, and furniture.

SHIFT Invest

Gorilla Capital

Future Energy Ventures

Rock International Group

EDP Ventures

Jungle AI

Started construction of the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces. By using electricity from renewable sources instead of natural gas, the new technology has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions of one by at least 90% compared to technologies commonly used.

Linde

SABIC

To develop new soybean weed control solutions for farmers around the world. The two companies agree to cross-license soybean traits, while developing complementary herbicide technologies, enabling both companies to offer innovative soybean weed management solutions.

Biologically protecting plants from pests

Biopesticides

Corteva Agriscience

Companies that develop pesticide substances produced by plants as a result of genetic manipulation. These companies use technology such as genetic engineering to derive natural substances that plants can produce to kill pests that feed on them.

Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the goal of advancing technologies for renewable fuels and chemically recycled plastics that will further expand the partners’ portfolio of sustainable solutions.

Sulzer Chemtech

Kongsberg Gruppen

Energy Impact Partners

Equinor Technology Ventures

Arosa Capital Management

Nysnø

eSmart Systems

Jointly launched an eco-friendly industrial packaging, which adopt by the Nippon Paint dry-mixed mortar series products

Nippon Paint Holdings

Pasqal partnered with BASF to implement its neutral atom-based quantum computing for weather modeling and other computational fluid dynamics applications.

Quantum information processing is slowly becoming a reality, ushering in a new technological era.

Quantum Computing

PASQAL

Developers of quantum algorithms and software programs for specific industries such as pharmaceuticals or finance.

To expand the production capacity of BASF TODA Battery Materials LLC (BTBM) at the Onoda site in Japan

Toda Kogyo

Announced their program to jointly reduce CO2 emissions associated with barley production in Ireland. The pilot project, a world-first to involve the entire malting barley value chain, was initiated as part of the 2022 barley campaign with 50 selected Irish farmers.

Boortmalt

Partner over the construction of a large-scale heat pump at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen aimed at reducing the site’s natural gas consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, establishing the use of low-CO2 technologies in the chemical production.

MAN Energy Solutions

To develop a certified compostable and dual ovenable food tray based on paper

Confoil

Entered into a mutually beneficial trait licensing agreement to develop next-generation Enlist E3® soybeans with the nematode resistant soybean (NRS) trait for farmers

Enhancing seed and crop traits via biotechnology

Crop Biotech

MS Technologies

Companies that develop a platform to insert, edit, or delete the DNA of a plant itself using approaches such as CRISPR-Cas 9, TALENs, and Zinc Fingers. These approaches help develop plant genes or seeds with traits such as disease-resistant, enhanced-performance, or improve yield.

To establish a commercial sales collaboration for its Smart Spraying solution with Stara, the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in Brazil.

Sustainably solving the food shortages of the future

Smart Farming

Stara

Start-ups providing smart machinery such as agricultural robots and autonomous tractors, as well as other smart hardware devices for crop and livestock management.

The acquisition builds on a long-standing partnership between the two companies and  BASF will continue to invest in digital services for sustainable agriculture, in line with the European Green Deal

Horta

Signed a joint development agreement where the companies will co-develop a process with reduced by-products for commercial production of next-generation cathode active materials, based on BASF's HEDTM-family of advanced CAM and using Nano One's patented One-Pot process and metal direct to CAM technologies.

Nano One

Lightspeed Venture Partners

TLV Partners

Viola Growth

O.G. Venture Partners

Maor Investments

Buildots

XYZprinting Sales Director,  extends strategic alliance with BASF Forward AM and more industrial materials.To support the continuous adaptation of 3D printing technology across several industries, XYZprinting sets its sights on making affordable machines capable of industrial performance. The manufacturer recently release the MfgPro236 xS Selective Laser Sintering 3D printer to the professional market.

XYZprinting

Libryo

OurCrowd

F2 Capital

NGN Partners

Regal Four

Technologies that automate and optimize building operations using data-driven insights.

Smart Building Technology

Oriient

Providers of smart elevators and escalators as well as people-sensing platforms.

Shell Ventures

Japan Energy Fund

Using real-time data to create dynamic virtual representations of the real world

Digital Twin

Akselos

Companies that facilitate the creation of digital twins to monitor and maintain assets, including buildings and network infrastructure.

Expanded partnership to enable new capacities of several downstream chemical plants and a new tert-butyl acrylate plant

Sinopec Group

Bayern Kapital

EnBW New Ventures

Technologies bringing about a new reality

Extended Reality

Hololight

Companies offering engines that enable the development of AR/VR content, also includes companies offering capabilities to capture and create 3D images for immersive environments

Mediahuis

Skenariolabs

To developing new talent in the automotive refinish industry and solidifies BASF’s support of the next global WorldSkills Competition.

WorldSkills International

Announced a new strategic cooperation agreement aiming at developing state-of-the-art recyclate formulations for applications used in the automotive, packaging and consumer industries.

REEF

Startups that develop recycling technologies or provide solutions such as AI-based online platforms or algorithm-based predictive solutions to primarily support businesses in their in-house recycling efforts.

ArcTern Ventures

Electrifying passenger and commercial travel

EV Economy

Ev.energy

Companies offering software solutions to optimize the performance of EV batteries (e.g. charging optimization software, Digital Twin solutions, etc.)

Announced the formation of a new  joint venture aiming at recovering precious metals from spent automotive catalysts in China.

Heraeus

Insight Partners

SE Ventures

Prisma Photonics

Partnering with  Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd., a chemical engineering company, over low-carbon development and utilization of marine gas resources in South China Sea.

Wuhuan

Partnering with China BlueChemical Limited Company over low-carbon development and utilization of marine gas resources in South China Sea.

China BlueChemical

Joule Ventures

Bloc Ventures

Springtide Ventures

DIVEdigital

NextLeap Ventures

Atlas Asset Management

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

ShieldIOT

Companies that provide solutions to protect industrial internet of things (IIoT) and operational technology (OT) devices.

Signed an agreement for StarChase to become the authorized importer of Glasurit, the premium refinish paint brand of BASF, in Mongolia.

wearnes

Formed a partnership to develop battery materials focussing on development of cathode active materials as well as raw materials supply and the recycling of battery cells from SVolt,

SVOLT

Signed an agreement with the intention to expand the annual production capacity of 2-Ethylhexanoic Acid (2-EHA) from 30,000 to 60,000 metric tons by 2024

Petronas Chemicals Group Bhd

Signed a Memorandum of Understanding for strategic collaboration of polyurethane dispersions development. The two parties aim to jointly develop and produce innovative products with strong sustainability contribution

Sanyo Chemical Industries

To provide greater energy return in the footwear brand’s market-leading comfort shoes

Hotter Shoes

Announced a strategic partnership on battery materials solutions, including cathode active materials (CAM) and battery recycling

Contemporary Amperex Technology

Startups developing recycling technologies such as lithium-ion battery recycling processes or a Magnet-to-Magnetä recycling process to convert electronic waste into products that include recycled batteries and cathode materials.

Georgian

Constellation Technology Ventures

Moore Strategic Ventures

Accurant International

Smart Homes: Energy & Water Solutions

Bidgely

Companies that develop real-time energy usage and efficiency monitoring solutions and generate energy reports. Includes companies that offer demand management solutions to monetize excess capacity.

Signed a strategic cooperation agreement to further strengthen the development of sustainable automotive glass and functional exterior application in combination with BASF material solutions.

Fuyao Glass Industry Group

Collaborated to focus on four key segments to develop and execute breeding work-flows, combining the NSIP genomic. selection toolbox and BASF germplasm and breeding expertise.

Nature Source Improved Plants

Tidhar

BASF, Zhejiang Jiahua Energy Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. (“Jiahua”) and its fully-owned subsidiary Zhejiang Jiafu New Material Technology Co. Ltd (“Jiafu”) sign an agreement to further expand the production capacity of electronic-grade sulfuric acid in Jiaxing, China. This double-digit million-euro investment more than double the company’s existing sulfuric acid production capacity in China to serve the country’s fast-growing semiconductor industry. The site expansion plans to be complete by 2023.

Zhejiang Jiahua Energy Chemical Industry

BASF selects by Cellforce Group, a joint venture between Porsche and Customcells, as the exclusive cell development partner for its next generation lithium-ion battery. As part of the collaboration, BASF provide high-energy HEDTM NCM cathode active materials to contribute to high-performance battery cells for fast charging and high energy density.

Porsche

Companies developing Li-ion EV batteries and battery materials. Includes next-gen advancements in Li-ion batteries (e.g. fast charging batteries, graphite-anode substitutes)

To jointly promote the usage of BASF BoldurTM Poles for the facility structure of Agrivoltaics power generation projects in Korea

JS Power

Clim8 Invest

Cyan Finance

Dunelm Energy

To develop prefabricated cryogenic pipes made with BASF’s polyurethane rigid foam system, Elastopor® Cryo

Harvest

IBB Ventures

First Imagine! Ventures

NEW KRAFTWERK Technology AG

Lumenaza

BASF enhances its innovation efficiency in Japan by moving the Dispersions and Resins Applications R&D Center from Amagasaki to Yokkaichi. The new R&D center  adjacents to BASF’s dispersions and resins production plant where the commercial and supply chain management teams are based. Under this new setup, cross-functional collaboration will be further strengthened.

Intercom R&D Center

To promote chemical recycling in Japan through cooperation across the value chain, BASF and Mitsui Chemicals evaluate collaborative business models and various options to commercialize chemical recycling in Japan to address the local challenge of plastic waste recycling.

Mitsui Chemicals

Agreed to form a BASF majority-owned joint venture (BASF: 51%; Shanshan: 49%) to produce cathode active materials (CAM) and precursors (PCAM) in China

Shanshan

Nextlaw Ventures

The Future Fund

German chemicals giant BASF forms a strategic partnership with Germany's top utility RWE for its long-term goal to achieve climate neutrality.

Temasek Holdings

Oriza Holdings

Continental Grain Company

Bits x Bites

Pagoda

CITIC Agriculture

Songshan Capital

Zhidao Capital

Yongxin Oriental

EAVISION

To develop and demonstrate solutions for electrically heated steam cracker furnaces. The partners already jointly working on concepts to use renewable electricity instead of the fossil fuel gas typically used for the heating process.

To extend its longstanding, commercially approve supplier status with the car company to Australia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

Mercedes Benz

Cycle Capital

DOEN Participaties

Apex energy solutions

Nuventura

Signed a strategic technology agreement with Holiferm to focus on developing and manufacturing sustainable, non-fossil based, fermentation-derived ingredients for other classes of glycolipids with potential for application in Home Care, Industrial Formulators and Personal Care products.

BASF

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