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Herbert Werner Quandt (22 June 1910 – 2 June 1982) the son of Günther Quandt (28 July 1881 – 30 December 1954) and both are hidden Dutch-German royalties and related to my fake sister Suhair Bdeir

 

Note: in every country there are two royal families, one is the visible and wave at the crowd and the other is hidden and in control of the business life of that country, such as and among others the Quandt family in Germany and in the Netherlands

 

These persons and their families are identified as following:

1.     Persecuting me and manipulating my life while using me to black mail the Rockefeller family

2.     Are related to my fake sister Suhair Bdeir alias a hidden Benelux and in particular Dutch royalty

3.     Manipulated my life using their companies and suppliers and relative my ex-wife the CIA agent Anita Disbray alias a hidden Swedish royalty and an identical lookalike mother or grandmother of princess Madeleine of Sweden, if prices Madelein is around 160 cm, then I would say that is Anita Disbray

4.     1972-1977 using the main supplier of BMW called Hurth (today it is called Gleason-Hurth Maschinen Und Werkzeuge GmbH), where officially my ex-wife the CIA agent Anita Disbray was working or pretending to be working there, whereby Anita Disbray was over 50 years old and pretended to be  23 years old at that time, and she was forced upon me by the American military using the concentrated evil McGraw Kasern in Munich, Germany, and there with the Quandt family knew exactly what the American military intelligence did to me and helped cover it up in matter of fact helped keep me enslaved

5.     1972 using the car manufacturer BMW to manipulate my life negatively

6.     1973-1974 using the BMW car transportation company Kuehnwald in Munich, Germany to manipulate my life negatively

7.     1974/75 to 1982 using one of their hidden rich relatives called John Müller that pretended to be a truck driver, but today I strongly suspect him to be of the Quandt family and top executive at the company BASF and/or Wintershall AG that was established by among others the Quandt family

8.     1996-97 using their relative most probably called Harald Vabø disguised as Bil Kimes in Houston, Texas, USA and totally disrupted and destroyed my business life

9.     Very possibly is my fake son Abdulhamid Najar alias Günther Najar that was set on me by the Dutch and German government on 27 December 2002 as my son from USA is also related to the Quandt family, whereby Günther Najar performed a severe damage to my life from 2003 to 2006, during which he used his ESP to force me to go to Germany and live between the streets, jails, prisons and refugee camps between the Netherland and Germany (for more information see “for the purpose of completion” under my fake Dutch ID)

 

For more information see:

A.    the German petroleum Wintershall AG that was established among others by Günther Quandt

B.    Herbert Werner Quandt general info

C.    Günther Quandt

D.    BASF that own Wintershall AG

E.    See photos below

 

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Photo-A01: Herbert Werner

 

Photo-A02 to A07: Some of the family members of Herbert Quandt, I am positive that he has a lot of family members in the Middle East because he sold officially his Mercedes shares to a Kuwaiti family, and if I am a business man, I would never sell my shares at the car manufacturer Mercedes, and since I know that the Kuwait was established just like Libya and Saudi Arabia as a joint venture petroleum project, this mean he sold his shares to his other identity in Kuwait!!!

 

Photo-A08: Herbert Quandt most left, I don’t know who are the others, yet the woman looks very familiar to me but due to all the brainwash performed upon me I can’t pinpoint where I know her from!

Photo-B01: Günther Quandt

 

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Herbert Werner Quandt (22 June 1910 – 2 June 1982),

Herbert Quandt

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Herbert Werner Quandt (22 June 1910 – 2 June 1982), was a German industrialist who is regarded as having saved BMW when it was at the point of bankruptcy and made huge profit in doing so.

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·         1 Early life

·         2 Post-war business activities

·         3 Personal life

·         4 References

·         5 Further reading

·         6 External links

[edit] Early life

Herbert Quandt was born in Pritzwalk, the second son of Günther Quandt (1881–1954) and Antonie ‘Toni’ Quandt (née Ewald). Antonie died of the Spanish flu in 1918.[1]

The Quandts are descendents of a Dutch rope-making family who had settled in Wittstock and Pritzwalk, between Berlin and Schwerin, in the 18th century. Günther's father, Emil Quandt, married the daughter of a rich textile manufacturer and took charge of the company in 1883. During World War I, with Günther in charge, the Quandts supplied the German army with uniforms, building up a larger fortune that Günther would use after the war to acquire Accumulatorenfabrik AG (AFA), a battery manufacturer in Hagen; a potash mine; and metal fabricators including IWKA in 1928).

Herbert was afflicted with a retinal disease that left scars, and he was nearly blind from the age of nine. Consequently he had to be educated at home. After extensive training at the family's companies at home and abroad, Herbert Quandt became a member of the executive board of AFA, later VARTA AG, in 1940. Forced labour was used at many of the Quandt factories during the World War II and conditions were brutal. Herbert was the director of Pertrix GmbH, a Berlin-based subsidiary of AFA. The company used female slave laborers, including Polish women who had been transferred from Auschwitz. Herbert Quandt was not tried after the war, though his father was interned until 1948 while he was investigated.

A programme by the German public broadcaster, ARD, in October 2007 described in detail the role of the Quandt family businesses during the Second World War. As a result four family members announced, on behalf of the entire Quandt family, their intention to fund a research project in which a historian will examine the family's activities during Hitler's dictatorship.[2]

[edit] Post-war business activities

He gained greater responsibility for companies which his father had acquired and after 1945, he rebuilt them. He developed a business philosophy of decentralised organisation which gave executives wide powers for decision-making and allowed employees to participate in their company's success.[3]

When Günther died in 1954, the Quandt group was a conglomerate of about 200 businesses including the battery manufacturer, several metal fabrication companies, textile companies and chemical companies (including Altana AG). It also owned about 10% of car company Daimler-Benz and about 30% of BMW. After Günther's death, the conglomerate was divided between his two sons: Herbert and Harald Quandt who was Herbert's half brother.[4]

BMW was an ailing company and in 1959 its management suggested selling the whole concern to Daimler-Benz. Herbert Quandt was close to agreeing to such a deal, but changed his mind at the last minute because of opposition from the workforce and trade unions. Instead he increased his share in BMW to 50% against the advice of his bankers, risking much of his wealth. He was instrumental in turning the company around.

BMW was already planning its BMW 1500 model when Quandt took control. It was launched in 1962 and established a new segment in the car market: the quality production saloon. It occupied a position between the mass production car and the craftsman-built output of the luxury producers. BMW's sophisticated technical skills put it in a strong position to fill this niche. It was this model that put BMW on the path to success.

When Harald died in 1967 in an air crash, Herbert received more shares in BMW, VARTA and IWKA. In 1974 Herbert and Harald's widow, Inge, sold their stake in Daimler-Benz to the Government of Kuwait.

[edit] Personal life

He married his first wife, Ursel Münstermann, in 1933 but they divorced in 1940. This marriage had produced a daughter, Silvia Quandt (b 1937), who stayed with her mother after the divorce. Silvia is now an artist who lives in Munich. Ten years later, in 1950, he married his second wife, the jeweller Lieselotte Blobelt, but they divorced in 1959. This second marriage produced Sonja (b 1951) (now Sonja Quandt-Wolf), Sabina (b 1953) and Sven (b 1956). Sven became the manager of the BMW rally team.

Herbert married his third wife Johanna Bruhn in 1960, just a year after his second divorce. She had been a secretary in his office in the 1950s and eventually became his personal assistant. After Herbert's death she did not remarry and now lives quietly in Bad Homburg, though she still owns 16.7% of BMW. The current board members at BMW include Johanna's two children: Stefan Quandt, holder of 17.4% of the shares in BMW and Susanne Klatten, a 12.5% shareholder. They joined the board in May 1997.

Herbert ensured that the shares in his companies were not thinly spread and so to avoid family disputes the children of the previous marriages received large shares in other Quandt family companies. Silvia Quandt, the oldest child, received extensive investments and property in the 1970s. Later the three children from the second marriage were given the majority of the shares of VARTA Battery AG but these have since been sold. Susanne also received his shares in Altana AG, while Stefan also received shares in a holding company called Delton with interests in medical products and power supplies.

Herbert Quandt died 2 June 1982 in Kiel.

Today the Quandts are multi-billionaires, although it is difficult to put an exact figure on their wealth. They do not give interviews and are very publicity shy.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Who's who Germany
  2. ^ Description of the programme by Der Spiegel
  3. ^ Herbert Quandt Foundation web-site
  4. ^ Prignitzlexikon

[edit] Further reading

·         Rüdiger Jungbluth: Die Quandts: Ihr leiser Aufstieg zur mächtigsten Wirtschaftsdynastie Deutschlands. Campus 2002 (ISBN 3-593-36940-0)

[edit] External links

·         Biography

·         BMW Foundation Hebert Quandt

·         Wiki for The Quandt Family

 

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Günther Quandt (28 July 1881 – 30 December 1954)

Günther Quandt

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Quandt in 1941

Günther Quandt (28 July 1881 – 30 December 1954) was a German industrialist and Nazi who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (chemicals).

Eight of the hundred currently richest Germans are among his descendants.

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·         1 Early life

·         2 The Nazi period

·         3 After the war

·         4 Further reading

·         5 See also

·         6 References

[edit] Early life

He was born in Pritzwalk in Germany, the son of Emil Quandt (1849–1925). Emil had married in 1883 the daughter of a rich textile manufacturer (Reichswolle AG) and he took charge of the company in 1900. He had three siblings: Gerhard, Werner and a younger sister named Edith. Werner married Eleanor Quandt, who after the Second World War helped to protect her brother-in-law, Günther, from prosecution by the Allies. Günther's sister Edith married the owner of another textile company.

During World War I, with Günther in charge, the Quandts supplied the German army with uniforms, building up a larger fortune that Günther would use after the war to acquire Accumulatorenfabrik AG (AFA), a battery manufacturer in Hagen that would become VARTA, a potash-mining company, metal-working companies (including IWKA) and stakes in BMW and Daimler-Benz.

Günther Quandt first married Antoine ‘Toni’ Ewald. They had two sons Helmut Quandt (1908–1927) and Herbert Quandt. Antonie died of the Spanish flu in 1918 and Helmut died of complications from appendicitis in 1927.

His second marriage on 4 January 1921 in Bad Godesberg to Magda Ritschel produced another son, Harald Quandt. Magda was half Günther's age. The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. Two years later Magda married Joseph Goebbels with Adolf Hitler as a witness.

[edit] The Nazi period

After Hitler's election in 1933 Quandt joined the Nazi Party. In 1937 Hitler gave him the title of a Wehrwirtschaftsführer, (Leader of the Armament Economy), like other industrialists who played a leading role in the war economy. Quandt's businesses supplied ammunition, rifles, artillery and batteries, using slave labourers from concentration camps in at least three factories. Hundreds of these labourers died. An execution area was set up in the grounds of AFA's Hanover factory.[1] Quandt also appropriated factories throughout Europe after German invasions.


At the end of World War II, the US Senate held hearings on the operations of the German economy during the war. They found that Gunther Quandt was an important director in German industry, with a number of inter-locking companies, syndicates and corporations. He had interest in such areas as insurance, banking, automobiles, ammunition, textiles, electricity, batteries and other areas. They found that he was given a title, “Leader in the War Economy” (Wehrwirtschaftsführer)” by the Nazi government. Gunther Quandt's known connections in 1942 are as follows: Banking: Deutsche Bank, Berlin-Director; Westfalenbank A. G .. Bochurn/Westfalen-Director. Insurance: Gerling-Konzern, Rheinische Versichrungsgruppe A. G., Köln Insurance; subsidiary of Gerling-Konzern)-Chairman; Friedrich Wilhelm Lebensversicherungs A. G., Berlin (life insurance; subsidiary of Gerling-Konzern)-Chairman; Gerling-Konzern, Rückversicherungs A. G., Köln (re-insurance; 100 percent subsidiary of Gerling-Konzern Rheinische Versicherungsgruppe A. G.)- Deputy chairman; Gerling-Konzern, Lebensversicherungs A. G., Köln (life-insurance; 100 percent subsidiary of Gerling-Konzern, Rückversicherungs A. G.)-Deputy chairman. Industrial: Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft, Berlin (electric trust) – Director; Accumulatoren-Fabrick A. G., Berlin (storage batteries; Quandt owns 75 percent of the stock)-Chairman of management committee; Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken A. G., Berlin (arms and ammunition; probably belongs to the Quandt interests)-Chairman of management committee; Durener Metallwerke A. G., Berlin (miscellaneous metals; subsidiary of Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken A. G.) -member of management committee; Berlin-Erfurter Maschinenfabrik Henry Pells &: Co., A. G., Berlin (machinery; 100 percent subsidiary of Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken A. G.)- Chairman; Concordia Elektrizitäts A. G., Dortmund (electrical installations; subsidiary of Accumulatoren Fabrik A. G.)-Chairman; Dominitwerke G. m. b. H., Berlin (electrical apparatus; subsidiary of Accumulatoren-Fabrik A. G.)-Chairman; Pertrix-Werke G. m. b. H., Berlin (flashlights and batteries; subsidiary of Accumulatoren Fabrik A. G.); Wintershall A. G., Kassel (potash)-Deputy chairman; Bergbau A. G. Lothringen, Bochum-Gerthe (mining; subsidiary of Wintershall A. G.)-Deputy chairman; Gewerkschaft Victor-Stickstoffwerke, Castrop-Rauxel (nitrogen products) owned by Wintershall A. G.)-Member of mining committee; Gewerkschaft Wintershall, Heringen (mining)-Chairman of mining committee; Gebrüder Draeger Tuchfabrik, Pritzwalk (textile factory)-Co-owner; Draeger-Werke G. m. b. H., Potsdam-Babelsberg (textiles)- Manager; Byk-Guldenwerke Chemische Fabrik A. G., Berlin (chemicals)-Chairman; Deutsche Wollenwaren-Manufaktur A. G., Grünberg/Sehlesien (woolen products; subsidiary of four German Grossbanken under leadership of Dresdner Bank)-Chairman; Deutsche Tuchsyndikat G. m. b. H., Berlin (German cloth syndicate)-Chairman; Hermann Herzog & Co. A. G., Neugersdorf/Sachsen (textile finishing; subsidiary of Concordia Spinnerei & Weberei)-Chairman; Busch-Jaeger, Lüdenscheider Metallwerke A. G., Lüdenscheid/Westfalen (electrical installation apparatus)-Deputy chairman; A. G. für Verkehrswesen, Berlin (railroads and other transportation)-Director; Daimler-Benz A. G., Stuttgart (automobiles)-Director; Deutsches Kalisyndikat G. m. b. H., Berlin (potash syndicate)-Director; Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. A. G., Leipzig (wool yarns, worsteds)-Director; Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken A. G., Schweinfurt (ball bearings; subsidiary of SKF of Sweden)-Director.[2]

[edit] After the war

In 1946 Günther Quandt was arrested because of the Goebbels connection, and was interned. To the surprise of many, he was judged to be a Mitlaufer, namely someone who accepted the Nazi ideology but did not take an active part in crimes. He was released in January 1948. One of the prosecutors in the Nuremberg trials, Benjamin Ferencz, now says that if today's evidence against Günther Quandt had been presented to the court at the time, "Quandt would have been charged with the same offences as the directors of IG Farben." They served up to eight years in jail. Instead Quandt was able to re-install himself in the supervisory boards of various German firms, e.g. Deutsche Bank. He also became honorary citizen of the University in Frankfurt in 1951. He died on vacation in Cairo on 30 December 1954.

His two surviving sons, Herbert and Harald, administered their inheritance together, though Harald Quandt concentrated on the industrial plants Karlsruhe Augsburg AG (IWKA) which were involved in mechanical engineering and arms manufacture, while Herbert Quandt managed the investments in AFA/VARTA, Daimler-Benz and BMW.

[edit] Further reading

·         Rüdiger Jungbluth: Die Quandts: Ihr leiser Aufstieg zur mächtigsten Wirtschaftsdynastie Deutschlands. Campus 2002 (ISBN 3593369400)

[edit] See also

·         Susanne Klatten

·         Herbert Quandt

·         Harald Quandt

·         Johanna Quandt

·         Stefan Quandt

·         Silvia Quandt

[edit] References

1.       ^ English summary of TV programme transmitted by ARD in October 2007

2.       ^ United States, and Bernard M. Baruch.1945. Elimination of German Resources for War. Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 107 (78th Congress) and S. Res. 146 (79th Congress) Authorizing a Study of War Mobilization Problem : Testimony of Hon. Bernard M. Baruch Before the Full Military Affairs Committee on Control and Occupation of Germany, Relations with Russia, Cartels and Nationalized Industries against Free Enterprise. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., July 1945. Pages 780-781, 863.

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BASF

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This article is about the German chemical company. For the French-owned company spun off from the BASF magnetic tape division, see EMTEC.

BASF SE

Type

Societas Europaea

Traded as

FWB: BAS

Industry

Chemicals, manufacturing, energy

Founded

1865

Headquarters

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Key people

Eggert Voscherau (Chairman of the supervisory board), Kurt Bock (CEO and Chairman of the executive board)

Products

Chemicals, plastics, performance chemicals, catalysts, coatings, crop technology, crude oil and natural gas exploration and production

Revenue

63.87 billion (2010)[1]

Operating income

€7.761 billion (2010)[1]

Profit

€4.557 billion (2010)[1]

Total assets

€59.39 billion (end 2010)[1]

Total equity

€22.66 billion (end 2010)[1]

Employees

109,140 (end 2010)[1]

Website

www.basf.com

BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Germany.[2] BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik (English: Baden Aniline and Soda Factory). Today, the four letters are a registered trademark and the company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, and Zurich Stock Exchange. The company delisted its ADR from the New York Stock Exchange in September 2007.

The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, Americas and Africa.[3] Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany). BASF has customers in over 200 countries and supplies products to a wide variety of industries. Despite its size and global presence BASF receives little public attention as it abandoned consumer product lines in the 90s.

At the end of 2010, the company employed more than 109,000 people, with over 50,800 in Germany alone. In 2010, BASF posted sales of €63.87 billion and income from operations before special items of about €8.1 billion. The company is currently expanding its international activities with a particular focus on Asia. Between 1990 and 2005, the company invested €5.6 billion in Asia, for example in sites near Nanjing and Shanghai, China and Mangalore in India.

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·         1 History

o    1.1 Dyes

o    1.2 Soda

o    1.3 Sulfuric acid

o    1.4 Ammonia

o    1.5 IG Farben

o    1.6 World War II

o    1.7 BASF refounded

o    1.8 Production abroad

o    1.9 Takeovers

o    1.10 Genetically modified organisms

·         2 Business segments

o    2.1 Chemicals

o    2.2 Plastics

o    2.3 Performance products

o    2.4 Functional Solutions

o    2.5 Agricultural

o    2.6 Oil and gas

·         3 Investors

·         4 Production

·         5 Environmental record

o    5.1 Chromium spill from BASF plant in Hannibal

·         6 Cooperation with Monsanto

·         7 References

·         8 Further reading

·         9 External links

[edit] History

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BASF in Ludwigshafen

BASF was founded on 6 April 1865 in Mannheim, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, by Friedrich Engelhorn. He had been responsible for setting up a gasworks and street lighting for the town council in 1861. The gasworks produced tar as a byproduct, and Engelhorn used this for the production of dyes. BASF was set up in 1865 to produce other chemicals necessary for dye production, notably soda and acids. The plant, however, was erected on the other side of the Rhine river at Ludwigshafen because the town council of Mannheim was afraid that the air pollution of the chemical plant could bother the inhabitants of the town. In 1866 the dye production processes were also moved to the BASF site.[4]

[edit] Dyes

The discovery in 1856 by William Henry Perkin that aniline could be used to make intense colouring agents had led to the commercial production of synthetic dyes in England from aniline extracted from coal tar. BASF recruited Heinrich Caro, a German chemist with experience of the dyestuffs industry in England. Caro developed a synthesis for alizarin (a natural pigment in madder), and applied for a British patent on 25 June 1869. Coincidentally Perkin applied for a virtually identical patent on 26 June 1869, and the two companies came to a mutual commercial agreement about the process.[4]

Further patents were granted for the synthesis of methylene blue and eosin, and in 1880 research began to try to find a synthetic process for indigo dye, though this was not successfully brought to the market until 1897. In 1901, some 80% of the BASF production was dyestuffs.[4]

[edit] Soda

Sodium carbonate (soda) was produced by the Leblanc process until 1880, when the much cheaper Solvay process became available. BASF ceased to make its own and bought it from the Solvay company thereafter.[4]

[edit] Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid was initially produced by the Lead chamber process, but in 1890 a unit using the Contact process was brought on stream, producing the acid at higher concentration (98% instead of 80%) and at lower cost. This followed extensive research and development by Rudolf Knietsch, for which he received the Liebig Medal in 1904.[4]

[edit] Ammonia

The development of the Haber process from 1908 to 1912 made it possible to synthesize ammonia (a major industrial chemical as the primary source of nitrogen), and, after acquiring exclusive rights to the process, in 1913 BASF started a new production plant in Oppau, adding fertilizers to its product range. BASF also acquired and began mining anhydrite for gypsum at the Kohnstein in 1917.[5]

[edit] IG Farben

As a result of this monopoly, BASF was able to start operations at a new site in Leuna in 1916, where explosives were produced during the First World War. On September 21, 1921, an explosion occurred in Oppau, killing 565 people. The Oppau explosion was the biggest catastrophe in German industry. Under the leadership of Carl Bosch, BASF founded IG Farben with Hoechst, Bayer, and three other companies, thus losing its independence. BASF was the nominal survivor, as all shares were exchanged for BASF shares prior to the merger. Rubber, fuels, and coatings were added to the product range. Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, IG Farben cooperated with the Nazi regime, profiting from guaranteed volumes and prices, and from the slave labor provided by the government's concentration camps. IG Farben also achieved notoriety owing to its production of Zyklon-B, the lethal gas used in Nazi extermination camps. In 1935, IG Farben and AEG presented the magnetophon – the first tape recorder – at the Radio Exhibition in Berlin.[6]

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BASF Portsmouth Site in the West Norfolk area of Portsmouth, Virginia. The plant is served by the Commonwealth Railway.

[edit] World War II

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The Ludwigshafen site was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War and was subsequently rebuilt. The allies dissolved IG Farben in November 1945.

[edit] BASF refounded

On July 28 1948, an explosion in which 207 people died occurred in Ludwigshafen. In 1952, BASF was refounded under its own name following the efforts of Carl Wurster.[7] With the German economic miracle in the 1950s, BASF added synthetics such as nylon to its product range. BASF developed polystyrene in the 1930s and invented Styropor in 1951.

[edit] Production abroad

In the 1960s, production abroad was expanded and plants were built in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain and the United States. Following a change in corporate strategy in 1965, greater emphasis was placed on higher-value products such as coatings, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and fertilizers. Following German reunification, BASF acquired a site in Schwarzheide, eastern Germany, on October 25 1990.

[edit] Takeovers

In 1968 BASF (together with Bayer AG) bought the German coatings company Herbol. BASF completely took over the Herbol branches in Cologne and Würzburg in 1970. Under new management the renewal and expansion of the trademark continued. After an extensive reorganisation and an increasing international orientation of the coatings business Herbol became part of the new founded Deco GmbH in 1997.

In 1999 the European coatings business of BASF was taken over by AkzoNobel. On May 30, 2006, BASF bought the Engelhard Corporation for 4.8 billion USD. This takeover is the largest takeover in the company's history. BASF is now the world's largest manufacturer of catalytic converters.

Other acquisitions in 2006 were the purchase of Johnson Polymer and the construction chemicals business of Degussa.

The acquisition of Johnson Polymer was completed on July 1, 2006. The purchase price was $470 million on a cash and debt-free basis. It provides BASF with a range of water-based resins that complements its portfolio of high solids and UV resins for the coatings and paints industry and will strengthen the company’s market presence, in particular in North America.

Also on July 1, 2006 the acquisition of the construction chemicals business of Degussa AG was completed. The purchase price for equity was just under €2.2 billion. In addition, the transaction was associated with debt of €0.5 billion.

The company agreed to acquire Ciba (formerly part of Ciba-Geigy) in September 2008.[8] The proposed deal was reviewed by the European Commissioner for Competition, and on April 9, 2009, company acquired Ciba (formerly part of Ciba-Geigy).[9][10]

On December 19, 2008, BASF acquired U.S.-based Whitmire Micro-Gen together with U.K.-based Sorex Ltd, Widnes, Great Britain.[11] Sorex is a manufacturer of branded chemical and non-chemical products for professional pest management. In March 2007 Sorex was put up for sale with a price tag of about 100 million pounds.[12]

[edit] Genetically modified organisms

Anti-biotechnology protest groups have criticized BASF's plans to hold trials of GMO potatoes in the UK.[13] A subsidiary of BASF which focuses on GMOs is BASF Plant Science which produces the Amflora GM potato.

[edit] Business segments

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BASF building

 

BASF headquarters, Ludwigshafen, Germany

BASF operates in a variety of markets. Its business is organized in the segments Chemicals, Plastics, Performance Products, Functional Solutions, Agricultural Solutions and Oil & Gas. The company occasionally advertises to the public using the tagline "At BASF, we don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better." Its slogan is "BASF The Chemical Company".

[edit] Chemicals

BASF produces a wide range of chemicals, for example solvents, amines, resins, glues, electronic-grade chemicals, industrial gases, basic petrochemicals and inorganic chemicals. The most important customers for this segment are the pharmaceutical, construction, textile and automotive industries.

[edit] Plastics

BASF offers a comprehensive product line and market expertise ranging from commodities to engineering and high-performance materials in thermoplastics, foams and urethanes.[14]

1. Engineering Plastics
BASF's Engineering Plastics consists of the "4 Ultras" - Ultramid polyamide (PA) nylon-based resins, Ultradur, polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), Ultraform, polyacetal (POM), and Ultrason, polysulfone (PSU) and polyethersulfone (PES).

2. Styrenics
BASF Styrenics consists of the Foams and Copolymers. BASF's styrenic copolymers have applications in electronics, building and construction, and automotive components.

3. Polyurethanes
BASF's Polyurethanes business consists of diverse technologies and finished products. Urethane chemicals are raw materials used in rigid and flexible foams commonly used for insulation in the construction and appliance industries, furniture, packaging and transportation.

4. Foams
Foams like Styropor are generally used as insulating materials. They are eco-efficient and offer advantages over other materials in terms of cost-effectiveness, preservation of resources and environmental protection. Investments made for insulating materials usually pay for themselves within a short time and contribute to retaining and even enhancing the value of buildings.

5. Polyamides and Intermediates
BASF is a manufacturer of polyamide precursors and polyamide. BASF offer polyamide 6 and polyamide 6,6 polymers as well as precursors.

6. Biodegradable Plastics
BASF was a pioneer in manufacturing and developing biodegradable plastic, namely, Ecoflex. Ecovio, consists of Ecoflex and a high content of polylactic acid.

[edit] Performance products

BASF produces a range of performance chemicals, coatings and functional polymers. These include raw materials for detergents, textile and leather chemicals, pigments and raw materials for adhesives, paper chemicals. Customers are the automotive, oil, paper, packaging, textile, sanitary products, detergents, construction materials, coatings, printing and leather industries.

[edit] Functional Solutions

BASF's Functional Solutions segment consists of the Catalysts, Construction Chemicals and Coatings divisions. These divisions develop innovative, customer-specific products and system solutions, in particular for the automotive and construction industries.

[edit] Agricultural

BASF's pesticide division supplies agricultural products and chemicals. The company produces fungicides, herbicides and insecticides including F500 (pyraclostrobin), epoxiconazole, pendimethalin, boscalid, fipronil, seed treatment products and the Clearfield Production System.[15] The company also researchs Nutrigenomics.[16]

[edit] Oil and gas

BASF explores for and produces oil and gas through its subsidiary Wintershall Holding AG. In Central and Eastern Europe, Wintershall works with its Russian partner Gazprom.

[edit] Investors

75% of the BASF shares are held by institutional investors (BlackRock

 more than 5%). 36% of the shares are held in Germany, 11% in the UK and 17 % in the U.S.

[edit] Production

BASF's recent success is characterized by a focus on creating resource efficient product lines after completely abandoning consumer products. This strategy was reflected in production by a re-focus towards integrated production sites. The largest such integrated production site is located in Ludwigshafen employing 33,000 people. Integrated production sites are characterized by co-location of a large number of individual production lines (producing a specific chemical), which share an interconnected material flow. Piping is used ubiquitously for volume materials. All production lines use common raw material sourcing and feed back waste resources, which can be used elsewhere (e.g. steam of various temperatures, sulfuric acid, carbon monoxide). The economic incentive for this approach is high resource and energy efficiency of the overall process, reduced shipping cost and associated reduced risk of accidents. Due to the high cost of such an integrated production site it establishes a high entry barrier for competitors trying to enter the market for volume chemicals.

[edit] Environmental record

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In 2006 BASF was praised by the Climate Leadership Index for their efforts in problems with climate change and greenhouse gasses in our world. In recent years the BASF Company has set aside a large portion of their R&D budget on resource conservation.[17]

BASF has reported that one of their recent developments has been creating filters for wastewater treatments plants that help to reduce emissions.[18]

Another recent environmental move the BASF Company has done is formed a partnership with Columbia University. The BASF Company and Columbia University came together so that they can further research “environmentally benign and sustainable energy sources”.[19] The company has recently reported their emissions in 2006 to be “1.50 million metric tons of waste.” Even though it is a lot of waste, BASF has shown improvement in that they have steadily reduced their waste emissions in the last few years.[18]

[edit] Chromium spill from BASF plant in Hannibal

In May 2009, accidental discharge of chromium from BASF Plant in Hannibal, Missouri into the Mississippi River reportedly contaminated the drinking water. The local Department of Natural Resources did not react at the time to test the chromium levels, but later tests in December 2009 showed the chromium levels did not exceed regulatory safety limits.[20]

Subsequently, BASF worked with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDNR) to resolve questions regarding the elevated level of hexavalent chromium that was detected in the effluent from one of its permitted outfalls into the Mississippi River. The company notified MoDNR about the elevated level and collected tandem water samples for testing. The state department of health was also notified and upon reviewing the test results determined that the very small amounts found were well below recommended public health screening levels.[21]

[edit] Cooperation with Monsanto

BASF is cooperating with Monsanto Company in research, development and marketing of biotechnology.[22]

[edit] References

1.       ^ a b c d e f "Annual Results 2010". BASF. http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/en_GB/function/conversions:/publish/content/about-basf/facts-reports/reports/2010/BASF_Overview_Full_Year_2010.pdf. Retrieved 24 February 2010.

2.      ^ BASF SE information and related industry information from Hoover's United Kingdom (UK)

3.       ^ http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/en/about-basf/profile/index BASF Website

4.       ^ a b c d e W. Ludewig (1966) Trans Inst Chem Engrs vol 44 ppT237-252 "Highlights in the History of BASF"

5.      ^ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. pp. 75, 76, 79, 88.

6.       ^ "IG Farben to be dissolved". BBC News - Business (BBC News). September 17, 2001. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1549092.stm. Retrieved 2008-05-09.

7.      ^ Carl Wurster (1900–1974)

8.      ^ Kuehnen, Eva (15 September 2008). "BASF bids $3 bln for Switzerland's Ciba". Reuters. http://uk.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUKLF63993220080915. Retrieved 2008-09-15.

9.       ^ "EU mergers and takeovers (March 6)". Reuters. 6 March 2009. http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSPRWP1420090306?sp=true. Retrieved 2009-03-06.

10.  ^ BASF Website

11.  ^ "BASF finalizes acquisition of Sorex pest control business". BASF. 22 December 2008. http://www.agro.basf.com/agr/AP-Internet/en/content/news_room/news/P-08-539. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

12.   ^ "Reuters Press Digest: British business press". Reuters. 18 March 2007. http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSL1827372620070318?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

13.  ^ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/01122006/325/ahead-given-gmo-potato-trials.html

14.   ^ BASF Plastics Portal - Global Homepage

15.  ^ "Major Products: Welcome to BASF Crop Protection". http://www.agro.basf.com/agr/AP-Internet/en/content/solutions/index.

16.   ^ GeneWatch UK. "Your Diet Tailored to Your Genes: Preventing Diseases or Misleading Marketing?" (PDF). http://www.genewatch.org/uploads/f03c6d66a9b354535738483c1c3d49e4/Nutrigenomics.pdf. Retrieved 9 May 2008.

17.  ^ BASF's environmental efforts recognized :: evertiq.com

18.   ^ a b BASF Group: Efficient processes for Companies and the environment

19.   ^ BASF and Columbia University Forms Partnership

20.   ^ New tests find higher level of chemical, Kim McGuire and Tony Messenger, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 01/08/2010, stltoday.com

21.   ^ Henley, Danny (February 12, 2010). "BPW: Chromium-6 findings require no water treatment changes". Hannibal Courier-Post. Retrieved on March 9, 2010.

22.   ^ BASF-Gruppe: Interview Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht zur Zusammenarbeit mit Monsanto

[edit] Further reading

·         Abelshauser, Werner. German History and Global Enterprise: BASF: The History of a Company (2004) covers 1865 to 2000

·         Beer, John J. The Emergence of the German Dye Industry (1959)

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