BASF dates its founding to 1865 when Friedrich Engelhorn, owner of a coal gas company in Mannheim, Germany, established Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik to produce soda ash used in soap, along with magenta and aniline dyes for the textile industry. After the planned acquisition of a site in Mannheim fell through, Engelhorn built his manufacturing facilities on the opposite side of the Rhine River, in Ludwigshafen.
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