BASF : Factsheet Ludwigshafen 2024

Ludwigshafen site

2024 in figures

Sales
BASF Group (in million €) 2024		2023		BASF SE (in million €) 2024		2023
65,260		68,902		21,791		22,832

Employees (as of December 31, 2024)

	2024
BASF Group employees	111,822
Thereof employees of BASF SE	33,370
Thereof women BASF SE %	22.6
Thereof shift employees BASF SE %	23.2
Thereof apprentices of BASF SE	1,978

A site on the move

Site area

~10 km2

Total number of buildings

~2,000

Plants

~200

Production facilities

~125

Pipelines

~2,850 km

Roads

~106 km

Rails

~230 km

Sales volume (p.a.)

~6.8mmt

Barges (daily)		Trucks (daily)		Rail cars (daily)
~15		~1,900		~400
Proportion of total transport volume		Proportion of total transport volume		Proportion of total transport volume
40%		32%		28%

AGV* transports (daily)

~30

*Automated Guided Vehicles

Ludwigshafen site 2024 in figures Environment, health and safety

	2024
Energy consumption
Electricity MWh	4,587,399
Steam metric tons	14,737,149
Fossil fuel power plants MWh	12,056,102
Water
Emissions of organic substances to water (TOC) metric tons	4,077
Emissions of nitrogen to water metric tons	1,068
Emissions of phosphorus to water metric tons	63
Emissions of heavy metals to water metric tons	6
Water abstraction million cubic meters	1,063
Water used in production million cubic meters	116
Water used in cooling processes million cubic meters	1,905
Withdrawal of surface water %	98.2
Withdrawal of groundwater %	1.7
Withdrawal of drinking water %	0.1
Air
Emissions of air pollutants (excluding CH4): CO, NOX, NMVOC, SOX, dust, NH3/other inorganic substances metric tons	5,320
Greenhouse gas emissions: CO2, N2O, CH4, HFC, PFC, SF6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents	5.1
Waste
Waste generation metric tons	636,663
of which waste recovered %	46.8
of which waste disposed of
through incineration %	40.8
in surface landfills %	12.2
in underground landfills %	0.2
Safety
Rate of high severity work process related injuries (HSI)* per 1,000,000 working hours	0.2
Number of fatalities as a result of work-related injuries and work-related ill health*	0
Rate of process safety incidents (PSI)* per 1,000,000 working hours	1.7
Rate of high severity process safety incidents (hsPSI)* per 1,000,000 working hours	0.3
* BASF SE, temporary workers and contractors

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