BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions serves customers in many industries including automotive, aerospace, air quality, semiconductors and hydrogen economy, and provides full loop services with its precious metals trading and recycling offering. With a focus on circular solutions and sustainability, ECMS is committed to helping our customers create a cleaner, more sustainable world. BASF’s ECMS division is the world’s leading supplier of environmental and process catalysts. The group offers exceptional expertise in the development of technologies that protect the air we breathe, produce the fuels that power our world and ensure efficient production of a wide variety of chemicals, plastics and other products, including advanced battery materials. We believe mobility’s future lies in more than just products. So where others come to a full stop, we’re just getting started—by leveraging the full power of BASF to continually advance our comprehensive package of sustainable solutions that enable us to travel further, as well as above and beyond. Protecting the air we breathe from harmful emissions through innovation. BASF leverages unsurpassed expertise in the development of emission control technologies for a wide range of market applications. BASF is committed to advancing and promoting environmentally-sound technologies to achieve a sustainable future in aviation. Offering 50 years of experience developing intelligent solutions for air quality over a wide range of applications — enabling clean air for a healthier, more sustainable future. With more than 150 years of experience in metal sourcing, trading, and hedging, we’ve built tangible results for our industrial customers. With more than 100 years of experience in recycling materials, BASF’s end-to-end recycling program is known and trusted around the globe. As a leader in precious-metal thermocouples for many years, BASF recently applied its technological expertise to optical-based temperature measurement. Developing and producing pharmaceutical ingredients for more than 75 years, enabling us to provide the solutions you need to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges for your pharmaceutical business. Find the latest news and media information for BASF’s ECMS division, headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, USA, the world’s leading supplier of environmental and process catalysts. Explore this collection of resources to learn more about our innovative research and Catalyst solutions.

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Protecting The Air We Breathe

BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions serves customers in many industries including automotive, aerospace, air quality, semiconductors and hydrogen economy, and provides full loop services with its precious metals trading and recycling offering. With a focus on circular solutions and sustainability, ECMS is committed to helping our customers create a cleaner, more sustainable world.

Leveraging its deep expertise as the global leader in catalysis and precious metals, BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions (ECMS) is a standalone division of BASF SE.

ECMS serves customers in many industries including automotive, aerospace, air quality, semiconductors and hydrogen economy, and provides full loop services with its precious metals trading and recycling offering. With a focus on circular solutions and sustainability, ECMS is committed to helping our customers create a cleaner, more sustainable world. Protecting our elements of life is our purpose and this inspires us to ever-new solutions.

ECMS operates globally in 15 countries with approximately 20 production sites and over 4,000 employees.

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Research and Innovation

Successful research combines market input with scientific insights to develop innovative products. Innovation in catalysis is crucial for all our product groups.

For Mobile Emissions Catalysts, the focus is on improved products to meet new exhaust gas standards, especially for diesel.

Our Expertise

At BASF ECMS, we hire and work with world-leading scientists, product specialists and industry experts who are at the cutting edge of technology and innovation.

This combined knowledge sets us apart from our competitors and ensures that you have all the resources needed to build on your success and lead the way forward. Contact us today to get started.

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Innovations and Awards

We have over 1,100 scientists in catalysts globally developing innovative solutions to help make our customers more successful. They are further supported by over 7,000 scientists in the BASF technology organization. One measure of their success is the awards and other forms of recognition they receive.

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Recent News and Media

BASF's ECMS division is making strides in the media. Learn about our latest product launches, partnerships, and innovations below.

Latest News and Media

Check out ECMS latest articles and press releases to learn more about our innovations, investments, partnerships, and more.

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October 02, 2018 Temperature Sensors, Thermocouples, Industrial Applications

BASF launches next generation thermocouple

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Dec 18, 2024

New BASF VOC2.0 catalyst technology now available in the VOZC converter on Airbus A320 fleet

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Nov 22, 2024

BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions wins 2024 Edison Patent Award

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Nov 06, 2024

BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions opens new hydrogen component laboratory in Hannover, Germany

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Diverse Portfolio of Industries and Sectors

Our product portfolio touches across various industries and sectors. Learn more about our division below.

Automotive and Transportation

As the world’s leading supplier of catalysts, BASF has unsurpassed expertise in the development of emission control technologies for a wide range of market applications that protect the air we breathe.

Aviation

BASF offers technology to reduce both harmful ozone and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in aircraft cabin air. This technology improves air quality by removing certain hydrocarbon compounds responsible for unpleasant odors, such as jet fuel smell.

Our products and solutions for the Aviation industry:

Air Quality

BASF has over 50 years of experience in developing solutions for clean air. We offer innovative emission control catalyst technologies for the abatement of carbon monoxide, VOC, nitrogen oxides, ammonia, particulate, ozone, and more.

Our products and solutions for the Air Quality industry:

Precious Metals

BASF is a full service provider of precious metals products and services. We leverage our unparalleled market insight and decades of precious metals sourcing, trading and hedging expertise to create a tangible competitive advantage for BASF and our industrial customers. We tailor our programs to meet our customers’ specific precious metals needs and requirements.

Our products and solutions for the Precious Metals industry:

Recycling

With more than 100 years of experience in recycling materials, BASF’s end-to-end recycling program is known and trusted around the globe. With world-renowned laboratories and decades of industry experience, BASF offers dependable partnership at every stage of the recycling process. We provide unmatched resources, state-of-the-art assets, expert knowledge — and the best value for your material.

Our products and solutions for the Recycling industry:

Temperature Sensors

BASF supplies a wide range of industries with exceptionally high quality optical pyrometers, thermocouples, and calibration services to provide temperature insights, which can enable higher yields and assist our customers with attaining increased profit.

Pharmaceutical

BASF is an industry leader in providing cutting-edge catalytic technologies to the pharmaceutical and fine chemical markets where speed to market, cost-effectiveness and product uniqueness are imperative.

Our products and solutions for the Pharmaceutical industry:

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