BASF operates as a chemical company. The company conducts its operations through business segments that includes chemicals, plastics, performance products, functional solutions, agricultural solutions, and oil and gas. The company offers products for customers in the chemical, electronic, construction, textile, automotive, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries and provides other BASF segments with chemicals for production. Its portfolio ranges from basic chemicals, glues, and electronic chemicals for the semiconductor and flat panel display industry, to solvents and plasticizers, as well as starting materials for detergents, plastics, textile fibers, paints, coatings, and pharmaceuticals. The Chemicals segment consists of the Inorganics, Petrochemicals, and Intermediates divisions.