Our central technology platforms in Ludwigshafen combine BASF's know-how. They form the core of our Research Verbund together with our global research facilities and our subsidiaries. Worldwide, more than 8,300 employees work in research and development at BASF.
In its research strategy BASF concentrates major technology-driven issues of particular relevance to the future in five growth clusters. These cross-sectional technologies are outside the realm of the classical disciplines and can only be brought to fruition by interdisciplinary and international cooperation.
Its optimized starch composition turns Amflora into a renewable raw material, which helps to reduce material, energy and costs in many industrial applications.
New catalysts for clean diesel vehicles 
