Ultramid® nylon offers a strong combination of properties that allow you to design performance into your products. Toughness, sustainability, resilience, soft-feel, clarity, and barrier are just a few of the properties that have been tailored throughout our portfolio to help you succeed in your markets. Learn more below.
Sustainability
BASF has been on the forefront of the shift to sustainable materials and continues to push forward in this area. Find out what we've been up to.
Film
From complex multilayer PE/PA coextrusions to monolayer webs, from thermoforming films to lid stock, from food-contact to industrial films, BASF has you covered with a refined selection of nylon chemistries and support to optimize your film products.
Fiber
Long a leader in producing nylon for fiber applications, we have a time-tested portfolio of polyamides for your spinning processes and applications from carpet to textiles to industrial yarns.
Wire & Cable
Tough and flexible, our Ultramid® grades for wire jacketing shield your conductors from abrasion and provide critical resistance to gasoline, oil, and other hydrocarbons for building wire, power cable, fixture, and appliance wiring applications.
Engineering Plastics
Providing strength and quality for injection molding, colorants, and masterbatch applications.
Monofilaments
Our tough polyamides exhibit even higher-tensile strength and durability in oriented form such as that found in paper machine clothing, weed trimmer string, and fishing line applications.
Nylon Intermediates
BASF is a leading manufacturer of nylon intermediates including low moisture caprolactam. We're the only company in the world that offers both PA6 and PA66 polymers as well as their intermediates globally.
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