Katja Scharpwinkel

BASF Coatings GmbH designs, develops, produces, and markets automotive OEM coatings, automotive refinishes, industrial coatings, and decorative paints for customers worldwide. Its automotive OEM coatings include e-coats, primers, basecoats, and clearcoats. The firm also offers commercial transport products for the manufacturers of commercial vehicles, such as agricultural machines, construction machines, earthmovers, buses, tractor trailers, and trailers and railway vehicles; and special-purpose vehicles and bodies, including fire-fighting vehicles, cement mixers, and cattle trucks. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Munster, Germany.

Wintershall Dea AG engages in the exploration, production, and distribution of natural gas and crude oil. It specializes in transport and natural gas sales. The company was founded by Carl Julius Winter and Heinrich Grimberg on February 13, 1894 and is headquartered Kassel, Germany.

BASF Antwerpen NV manufactures organic and inorganic chemicals and plastics. Its products include ammonia, sulfate, benzene, chemicals, plastics, polystyrene products, sulfide, sulfite, sulfur compounds, and sulfuric acid. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Antwerpen, Belgium.