They don’t come much bigger than BASF, yet when it comes to dealing with the leather industry, the giant chemical company appears to have mastered the art of providing a personal and individual service for its clients. A visit to BASF Curtex in Barcelona, from which it runs its European Performance Chemicals for Leather business unit, provides the answer: it is far enough away from BASF headquarters in Ludwigshafen to have retained the local feel that came with the acquisition of the Curtex business in 1994, after BASF Española had become a partner and majority shareholder in the Spanish company back in 1970.

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