company based in and near basel switzerland . ciba stood for chemische industrie basel chemical industries basel . it was formed as the non pharmaceuticals elements of novartis were spun out in 1997 following the merger in the previous year of ciba geigy and sandoz that created novartis . in 2008 ciba was acquired by the german chemical company basf 1 and in april 2009 integrated into the basf group . 2 ciba ag initially continued to trade under the old name 3 but was renamed to basf schweiz ag in march 2010 . 4 the basf subsidiary makes products in the following areas agriculture automotive construction & pipes electronic materials extractive & process technologies home & fabric care inks & graphics lubricants monomers & water soluble polymers packaging paints and coatings paper personal care photo & digital imaging plastics & rubber textiles & fibers water treatment 1 contents 1 history 2 board of directors 3 references 4 external links history edit part of the merger agreement of 1997 between ciba geigy and sandoz was that the former s industrial chemicals business would be spun off as a separate business leading to the formation of ciba specialty chemicals plc. in 2004 ciba bought paper chemical manufacturer raisio chemicals from raisio group . in 2006 ciba divested its textile dyes and chemical auxiliaries business in a sale to huntsman corporation . in 2007 the company announced the intention to adopt the name ciba inc. ciba s board of directors agreed to a 3.4 billion takeover offer from basf the world s largest chemicals company on 15 september 2008 . 5 in 2009 the company changed the name to basf performance products limited basf group . board of directors edit michael heinz chief executive officer armin meyer chairman of the board beat w. hess vice chairman of the board utz hellmuth felcht member of the board erwin w. heri member of the board gertrud h hler member of the board jean marie pierre lehn member of the board peter littmann member of the board uli sigg member of the board references edit medienmitteilung von basf vom 20 . november 2008 definitives endergebnis f r ciba angebot betr gt 94 59 prozent medienmitteilung von ciba und basf vom 9 . april 2009 welcome to ciba eine marke verschwindet die ciba heisst nun basf schweiz ag . in basler zeitung 1 . m rz 2010 kuehnen eva 15 september 2008 . basf bids 3 bln for switzerland s ciba . reuters . retrieved 2008 09 15 . external links edit ciba u.s.epa superfund sites nj department of health ciba geigy corp. proposes multimillion dollar settlement companies portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ciba specialty chemicals & oldid 732834710 categories chemical companies of switzerlandmanufacturing companies based in baselspeciality chemical companiesbasfrecreation engineering and chemicals navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages alemannischdeutschfran ais suomi edit links this page was last modified on 3 august 2016 at 15 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view