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BASF is the world’s leading chemical company with customers in more than 170 countries, over 150 production sites worldwide and 95,000 employees. BASF is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where it operates the world’s largest integrated chemical complex.

The Construction Chemicals division of BASF is the worldwide supplier of chemical systems and formulations for the construction industry. In North America, Construction Chemicals is comprised of four business lines that offer products and solutions primarily for commercial, residential, industrial, and infrastructure construction improving durability, sustainability, energy efficiency, safety and aesthetics.

Admixture Systems is one of the business lines in the Construction Chemicals division and was founded in 1909 as Master Builders, Inc. The Admixture Systems group is a leading innovator in the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical admixtures and silica fume for specialty concrete used in the ready-mix, precast, paving, manufactured concrete products and underground construction markets.

Admixture Systems offers the widest range of chemical admixtures available from a single source, used to improve the placing, pumping, finishing and appearance characteristics of concrete and masonry. The Company's respected Master Builders brand products ensure high strength and durability, inhibit corrosion of steel embedded in concrete, reduce permeability, improve resistance to chemical attack, allow effective placement of concrete in extreme weather conditions, enable concrete to be placed underwater, and also, improve water-repellency, provide better efflorescence control and color vibrancy to masonry. New liquid color-conditioning admixtures ensure enduring, structurally-sound colored architectural concrete.
 


 
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