BASF founds start-up from

The young company comes from the in-house incubator Chemovator. BASF Venture Capital continues to hold a minority stake.

Boxlab Services is the name of the first spin-off from BASF's so-called "Chemovator". With this program, the chemical company wants to promote promising ideas from its own employees that initially have little to do with its core business. According to the company, BASF employees receive money, freedom and support from external start-up experts.

Boxlab Services is now the first start-up to emerge from the program. Founders Mischa Feig and Lisa Raschke have designed an app that can be used to quickly replace damaged packaging and the associated labels.

If cardboard packaging or labels are damaged, customers can report this via the app. Boxlab Services then delivers a new label or individually labeled cardboard packaging within 24 hours. They specialize in highly specialized industries. The product has already been used in the Chemovator and is said to have given BASF customers a clear advantage.

This should also include advising customers. To date, 70 warehouses from ten different countries are among the customers of the start-up from Ludwigshafen. The chemical company intends to continue to hold a minority stake via its investment arm BASF Venture Capital.