Industrial metal surface treatment is experiencing dramatic changes due to environmental legislation, cost cutting efforts and global restructuring. New technologies are necessary to cope with these changes.
Our Performance Chemicals portfolio covers applications for the whole process chain: From quenching hot metals, over shaping and machining them, cleaning, to electroplating, pretreating and coating them.
We at BASF have an outstanding record of inventions, problem solutions, application methods and products that have been specifically designed for the treatment of metal surfaces.
Talk to us and let us jointly innovate your technology! It may be about better metal surfaces or about better ways to make them; it may be about ecotox or safety - we are The Chemical Company at your side.

• Electroless nickel plating
• Nickel plating
• Passivation