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Alexander Heusener
Sustainability Communications
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Marco Benen
Marco Benen
Sustainability Management
+49 1520 9373624

Heading Towards a Sustainable Future - Our Journey

Sustainability is a journey that involves continuous improvement and commitment. At BASF Coatings, we recognize that achieving our sustainability goals requires both strategic planning and tangible actions. We so far have established significant milestones along this journey, reflecting our dedication to reducing our environmental impact, promoting resource efficiency and living up to responsibility as an essential part of society. Below, timeline highlights just some of the current and previous milestenes in our sustainability journey, illustrating our ongoing efforts and progress toward a sustainable future.

2024 and beyond

Road to Net Zero

Product Innovation, Road to Net Zero, Empowering Change for a Sustainable
TODAY. TOMORROW. TOGETHER.
The whitewater river Steyr next to a paved road. The water is still blue from the melting snow in the montains in springtime. Location: next to the small ski resort Hinterstoder in the "Totes Gebirge" area in Upper Austria.
2024

First ChemCycling® products in refinish market

BASF Coatings' next generations of clearcoats employ the company’s unique ChemCycling® technology. The product lines, manufactured using recycled feedstock, are marketed under the premium refinish brands Glasurit® and R-M®.

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2024

Green electricity for China

BASF's Coatings division successfully renews its agreement to procure 100% renewable electricity at its automotive OEM coatings manufacturing operations in China. 

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100 % Nutzung erneuerbarer Energien an den BASF Shanghai Coatings Standorten Minhang und Caojing in Schanghai sowie in der Harzfabrik von BASF Coatings in Caojing, Schanghai, im Jahr 2023.
2024

Biomassed refinish products in Asia-Pacific

BASF's Coatings introduces a new portfolio of eco-efficient clearcoats and undercoats for the Asia-Pacific refinish market under its Glasurit® and R-M® brands. With BASF's biomass balance approach (BMB), the manufacturing process effectively reduces CO2 emissions by replacing fossil feedstock with renewable raw materials. 

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2022

First biomass OEM coatings in China

BASF’s ColorBrite® Airspace Blue ReSource basecoat, certified by REDcert² according to a biomass balance (BMB) approach, makes its debut to the Chinese market and to a local customer.

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BASF‘s ColorBrite® Airspace Blue ReSource basecoat, certified through a biomass balance approach.
2022

Renewable raw materials 

The BMW Group was the first carmaker to place its trust in more sustainable automotive OEM coatings certified according to BASF’s biomass balance approach. The BMW Group has chosen to use BASF Coatings’ CathoGuard® 800 ReSource e-coat at its plants in Leipzig, Germany, and Rosslyn, South Africa, and the iGloss® matt ReSource clearcoat throughout Europe.
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The matt clearcoat of the new BMW i4 M50 in Frozen Portimao Blue was produced without fossil raw materials and is based on organic waste. (Photo: BMW Group)
2021

Sharkskin-Technology

Lufthansa Group and BASF Coatings bring Sharkskin technology to series production. The innovative surface technology from Lufthansa Technik and BASF improves fuel efficiency and helps achieve sustainability goals.

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2018

World premiere for biomass refinish products

Market launch of world’s first refinish products in Europe manufactured according to the certified biomass balance approach (BMB).
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Young female car painter
2011

25 years of waterborne basecoats

BASF Coatings is the first paint manufacturer to launch the production of waterborne basecoats. At the paint line at the Opel plant in Bochum, the first cars were coated with the environmentally friendly technology.