Anyone seen those BASF commercials? Well I'll bite. What DO they make?

aaharvel
aaharvel Posts: 4,489
edited April 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
"At BASF, we don't make alot of the products you buy. We make alot of the products you buy better."

Boy, I'm sure the stock holders are pissing in their pants with excitement to that one :rolleyes:

back in the 80's i remember they put their name on videocassettes. Other than that, beats the hell outta me...
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited October 2005
    I don't know what the purpose of those commercials is either other than to just boost interest in their stock.......
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited October 2005
    you would be suprised and amazed at what BASF is into.....
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited October 2005
    BASF is like DOW, they make components, among other things for other companies to use in their products, hence the slogan.
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited October 2005
    they are into everything...almost
    like I said....you would be suprised..!!
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited October 2005
    Yeah, they are into agriculture in a huge way, too.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited October 2005
    I like how nobody has named anything specific. :P
    Never Forget
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited October 2005
    hey, I don`t want a black van sittin across the steet from my house..!!

    I..KNOw...NOTHIng....
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited October 2005
    They make the flexing agent that many automotive paints that are specified for use on urethane and fiberglass body parts so your paint doesn't chip too badly when you run over a parking guard,

    They make the binding agent that gets that paint to stick to plastic in the first place!

    They make the material that the platters are made of that your Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor, etc...hard drive uses to store your ****.

    They make the glowing coating on the inside of the monitor that allows you to view your **** from the hard drive that you have that stores your **** that you probably screwed up your bumper on the parking guard when you went to go purchase said hard drive from the store. BTW, BASF probably put the reflective crap in the reflective ink that the barcode on the UPC for that hard drive was printed with.

    Oh yeah, they also make that mylar like coating on the inside of the candy bar wrapper of the candy bar you were staring next to the tabloids that BASF probably provided some of the pigments in the ink to print that tabloid, while you were waiting in line to buy the hard driver to store the **** and think about how stupid it was of you to crack up your bumper on that parking guard in the parking lot.

    BTW, BASF probably also made the refelctive stuff in the yellow paint that the parking guard was painted in to make sure that you saw it and wouldn't run over it with your car and screw up your car. Then again, you were probably thinking about all the **** you could collect with that new hard drive when you cracked up your car to begin with and I don't think BASF makes anything to fix that.
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited October 2005
    They revolutionized high end audio reproduction with Bose :D
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited October 2005
    BASF makes some supplies for carpet manufacturing... not sure exactly what. I can ask my dad though, he'd know.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • aaharvel
    aaharvel Posts: 4,489
    edited October 2005
    wow. my thread's been answered in spades.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited October 2005
    I just got on snopes.com and learned that BASF is an urban legend. They make nothing.
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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited October 2005
    BASF is like DUPONT they manufacture chemicals.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,957
    edited October 2005
    Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik... a German conglomerate who make all kinds of stuff. Mostly chemicals (doubt that they still make aniline or 'soda', though), polymers, that sort of thing. Big ol' BASF plant by the Jersey Tpk (at least, I THINK it still says BASF on it). They made audio and video tape for many, many years.
    http://www.corporate.basf.com/en/ueberuns/?id=NJime7c-5bcp0Zu
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited October 2005
    aaharvel wrote:
    wow. my thread's been answered in spades.

    They probably make those too :D
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited October 2005
    WE make lots of stuff at BASF. I make jounce bumpers out of microcellular polyurothane.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited October 2005
    Wow. They do a lot. Funny post, jstas!
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  • LiquidSound
    LiquidSound Posts: 1,261
    edited October 2005
    I like their business stance.. 'We don't spend our time reinventing, or creating the next hot product..we take existing ideas and hone them in.'
    ..although I'm sure they've reinvented a few things.

    "I just got on snopes.com and learned that BASF is an urban legend. They make nothing."

    Brilliant!
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited October 2005
    or...

    We don't make the beer we make the beer buzz ya faster.

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  • swerve
    swerve Posts: 1,862
    edited October 2005
    They don't make the air we breathe, they make it dirtier!!

    i've always wondered what they do myself.
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited October 2005
    BASF makes a little bit of everything. One thing they usually don't make is a finished consumer product. We make additives and ingredients to other things. The chemical industry is tough in that there is a liability for products long after it has been sold to the consumer.

    We also do it responsibly.
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