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Top 25 German chemical companies based in Germany

RevenueBase identified 237 german chemical companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 84,402 professional contacts across them, including 35,908 with verified work emails. Hamburg is the largest hub.

This list covers german chemical companies headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 25 largest german chemical companies based in Germany

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 237 german chemical companies based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to german chemical companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceLudwigshafen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 202610001+54,344 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
2Indirect evidenceEssen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 202610001+12,861 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Evonik goes beyond the boundaries of chemistry with its combination of innovative strength and leading technological expertise.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
3Partial evidenceKöln, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 202610001+7,843 contacts →

Partial evidence

“LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 5.7 billion in 2025.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
4Indirect evidenceTübingen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000821 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SMART CHEMISTRY WITH CHARACTER.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
5Partial evidenceWesel, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000785 contacts →

Partial evidence

“BYK is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
6Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000554 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“HELM AG is a Hamburg-based family company established in 1900.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
7Partial evidenceBudenheim, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000447 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Budenheim is a global specialty chemical company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
8Partial evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000423 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Süd-Chemie is a highly-innovative, listed, specialty chemicals company headquartered in Munich.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
9Strong evidenceLahnstein, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000405 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Zschimmer & Schwarz is a global supplier of chemical auxiliaries and specialties headquartered in Lahnstein near Koblenz, Germany.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
10Partial evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,000313 contacts →

Partial evidence

“A leading multinational chemical distribution company with subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and North America, Nordmann distributes natural and chemical raw materials, additives and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
11Partial evidenceWesel, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20265,001-10,000306 contacts →

Partial evidence

“ALTANA is a global leader in true specialty chemicals.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
12Partial evidenceHildesheim, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000197 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PETROFER is an internationally operating industrial company with headquarters in Hildesheim, Germany.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
13Indirect evidenceEislingen/fils, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,000188 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Zeller+Gmelin GmbH & Co.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
14Indirect evidenceBielefeld, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000164 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“ABOUT US STOCKMEIER Chemie is a company of the STOCKMEIER Group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
15Indirect evidenceWolfratshausen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,000154 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The TUNAP GROUP, with it´s headquartered in Wolfratshausen near Munich, is one of the largest European manufacturers of aerosols, lubricants and cleaning solutions and is an…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
16Partial evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 20261,001-5,000139 contacts →

Partial evidence

“As a specialty chemicals company, the H&R Group is active worldwide in the development and manufacture of crude oil-based specialty chemical and pharmaceutical products and in the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
17Strong evidenceHeidelberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,000130 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Chemische Werke Kluthe GmbH is a chemicals company based out of 12Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße, Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
18Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500123 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“GO FURTHER.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
19Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Die Dr.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
20Partial evidenceRatingen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Join resources, build solutions" Connect Chemicals is a global producer, custom manufacturer, and traditional distributor of a wide range of specialty chemicals.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
21Indirect evidenceLutherstadt Wittenberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,00092 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Als größter Harnstoff- und Ammoniakproduzent Deutschlands umfasst unser Produktportfolio heute eine breite Palette von Spezialitäten der Agro- und Industriechemie.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
22Strong evidenceFrankfurt Am Main, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,00081 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Specialty Chemicals producer in the Frankfurt am Main / Germany region originally founded 1870 (ex Cassella / Hoechst); long tradition in pigments and building blocks for agro…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
23Partial evidenceDüsseldorf, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20078 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Chemistry, Innovation, Dreams – Three keywords represent the targets and ambitions Mitsui Chemicals Europe is driven by day by day.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
24Indirect evidenceHamburg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-50072 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Die Firma Schill+Seilacher "Struktol" GmbH ist ein mittelständisches Unternehmen der Chemischen Industrie.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
25Partial evidenceKarlsruhe, GermanyHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20071 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Specialty Chemicals and Service – Your Partner for Gute Chemie Products and Services that precisely meet your demands: We supply and produce specialty chemicals for industry as…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026

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German chemical companies based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 16, 2026
42.5%Verified-email coverage
356.1Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
8.4%Largest-city concentration · Hamburg
Sep 16, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
73
11-50
53
51-200
54
201-500
14
501-1,000
18
1,001-5,000
16
5,001-10,000
2
10001+
7

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 237 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among german chemical companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “german chemical companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names german chemical companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among german chemical companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 35,908 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names german chemical companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many german chemical companies are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 237 german chemical companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

BASF, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most german chemical companies?

Hamburg leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Dusseldorf (9) and Frankfurt Am Main (4).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 35,908 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 237 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.