BASF construction chemicals - The Chemical Company
BASF is the world's leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Worldwide,
BASF has customers in more than 200 countries, production sites in over 150 countries and
approximately 95,000 employees.
BASF employs over 300 people in Australia and New Zealand. Major customers for BASF products
in Australia and New Zealand are from the agricultural, construction, petroleum refining,
automotive and chemical industries.
BASF provides products and services to the market segments of agricultural products, health &
nutrition, colorants & finishing products, catalysts, chemicals and plastics. BASF has a
manufacturing operation at Altona in Melbourne, producing acrylic and styrene butadiene
dispersions and other specialties. The company has fully equipped laboratories devoted to
applications development and material and product testing of dispersions. It is the only
company in Australia to produce a full range of aqueous polymer dispersions.
BASF has been in Australia for more than 80 years, and in New Zealand for more than 50 years.
BASF was represented in Australasia by Henry H. York and Co. from 1921 until 1963, when BASF
Australia Ltd began operating under its own name.
The company's head office is in the Melbourne suburb of Noble Park, and it has sales offices
in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney. BASF New Zealand Ltd services the New Zealand marketplace via
its office in Auckland.
BASF Coatings, the Coatings Division of the BASF Group, develops, produces and markets a
high-quality range of innovative automotive OEM coatings, automotive refinishes and industrial
coatings as well as decorative paints.
In Australia, under the name of BASF Coatings Australia Pty Ltd and operating out of Sydney,
BASF has a significant market position in the automotive OEM and refinish coatings business.
It all started for BASF Coatings in Australia back in 2000. BASF Akzo Nobel Automotive OEM
Coatings Pty Ltd was established to provide automotive OEM coatings, and in 2002, the company
acquired the automotive refinished business of Wattyl Ltd. In 2005 BASF strengthened its position
in the Australian coatings market, by acquiring full ownership of the OEM Coatings business.
BASF's Construction Chemicals division is the leading supplier of chemical systems and
formulations for the construction industry. Continuous innovation and tailor-made solutions
ensure its customers are more successful. Its Admixture Systems business unit specifically
helps customers in the ready-mix, precast and manufactured concrete and underground construction
industries. The Construction Systems unit offers a wide range of products for sports and
industrial flooring, external renders and wall insulation, expansion joints, wood preservatives
as well as specialist repair mortars, tile adhesives and waterproofing membranes. The division
operates production sites and sales centers in more than 50 countries and achieved sales of
€2.2 billion with approximately 7,500 employees in 2006.
BASF Construction Chemicals Australia Pty Ltd is active in most facets of the construction
industry and operates sales, warehousing and manufacturing facilities in most States.
For further information contact:
BASF
phone: (02) 8811 4200
fax: (02) 8811 3299
web: www.mbtaus.com.au
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