Markets and Sites

BASF has subsidiaries in more than 80 countries and supplies its products to a large number of business partners in almost all countries. In 2007, we generated 56% of our sales with customers in Europe, of which 17 percentage points were in the Oil & Gas segment; 21% of sales were generated in North America; 16% in Asia Pacific; and 7% in South America, Africa, Middle East. We operate six Verbund sites worldwide, the largest of which is in Ludwigshafen, as well as almost 100 large and a multitude of smaller production sites. In our Verbund, we link production plants intelligently to save resources and energy. Ludwigshafen is the largest integrated chemical complex in the world. This was where the Verbund concept was developed and optimized before it was applied to other sites around the world.