Light Duty | ECMS

The global leader in catalysis

BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions has unsurpassed expertise in developing innovative emissions control technologies for a wide range of applications to enable clean air for a sustainable future. Without innovation, these tightening regulations and durability requirements would mean larger, heavier emissions control systems. As the leading innovator with global R&D and manufacturing, we offer unique solutions to meet these challenges.

New emissions regulations help safeguard the environment. We clean the air we breathe.

Protecting the air we breathe

Protecting the environment from harmful emissions is the focus of all our innovative solutions. New engine technologies, tightening emission regulations and fluctuating precious metals prices create challenges to provide emissions control systems.

Serving our customers

We help make our automotive customers more successful with innovative, cost-effective solutions to meet the toughest emissions control regulations. We work closely with our customers to manage the precious metal content in the catalysts and cost-effectively comply with tightening environmental regulations around the world.

A pioneer in catalysis

Catalyst expertise enabled us to pioneer the development of the first catalytic converters for automobiles. The Three-Way Conversion catalyst (TWC) today is capable of destroying more than 90% of hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) produced by gasoline engines.

A history of sustainability

Arguably the most important pollution abatement device ever invented, the catalytic converter has been constantly improved and represents the key component of the automotive emission control system in cars around the world.

1974

Engelhard introduced the first three-way conversion catalytic converters for automobiles

>90%

Percentage of hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) in gasoline engines reduced by a modern TWC and FWC catalytic converter.

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Featured Products

Three-Way Conversion (TWC) Catalyst

Emission control innovation never stops. Adoption of the Tri-Metal Catalyst can reduce catalytic converter costs for automakers and partially rebalance market demand for PGMs, thereby enhancing PGM market sustainability.

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Four-Way Conversion (FWC) Catalyst

The innovative single component FWC (Four-Way Conversion) catalyst can remove Particulate Matter (PM), as well as CO (Carbon Monoxide), HC (Hydrocarbons) and NOx (Nitrogen Oxides) from gasoline-engine exhaust.

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Trimetal TWC

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FWC+

More perfomance for demanding conditions. FWC+ provides additional tunable filtration efficiency at limited back pressure or system size increase.

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LGC Lean GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection) Catalysts

The patented BASF ECMS Lean GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection) Catalyst technology provides the additional NOx (nitrogen oxides) removal required to treat exhaust from Lean GDI engines.

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