About us

With business partners in over 200 countries, more than 150 production sites worldwide and over 85,000 employees, 10,000 in the US, BASF is the world’s leading chemical company. BASF is one of the worlds leading vitamin producers with a competence focus on vitamin A. The quality of the nutrients formulated by BASF is valued as an important contribution to making nutrition programs effective. Through a highly integrated production concept (“Verbund”), BASF owns a leading cost position within the vitamin industry, BASF is an industry leader in sustainable development and a founding participant of the UN Global Compact.

Food-Fortification is a flagship corporate social responsibility initiative that offers BASF the opportunity to address a humanitarian challenge at scale in an economically sustainable way. Through its product solutions, technical assistance, scientific capacities and partnerships with academic and public-interest organizations, BASF engages in programs in over 30 developing countries assisting local producers, the public sector and civil society in the reduction of vitamin and mineral deficiencies.