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BASF SE is a German chemical company and the largest producer in the world . The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in ___MASK13___ , Asia , ___MASK46___ , the Americas and Africa . Its headquarters is located in ___MASK22___ , ___MASK9___ . BASF has customers in over 200 countries and supplies products to a wide variety ___MASK64___ industries . Despite its size and global presence , BASF has received relatively little public attention since abandoning its consumer product lines in the 1990s . The Herbert H . Dow House , also known as Dow House , was the home ___MASK64___ Herbert H . Dow , founder ___MASK64___ Dow Chemical Company , from 1899 until his death in 1930 . His wife , Grace , and five children survived him and continued to reside there . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 . ___MASK67___ is a city in the U . S . state ___MASK64___ ___MASK6___ in the Tri - Cities region ___MASK64___ Central ___MASK6___ . It is the county seat ___MASK64___ ___MASK67___ County . The city ' s population was 41 , 863 as ___MASK64___ the 2010 census . It is the principal city ___MASK64___ the ___MASK67___ Micropolitan Statistical Area , part ___MASK64___ the larger Saginaw - ___MASK67___ - Bay City Combined Statistical Area . In 2010 , ___MASK67___ was named the no . 4 Best Small City to raise a family in by " Forbes " magazine . E . I . du Pont de ___MASK59___ and Company , commonly referred to as DuPont , is an American conglomerate that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by French - American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont . The Dow Chemical Co ., commonly referred to as Dow , is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in ___MASK67___ , ___MASK6___ , United States . As of 2007 , it is the second - largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue ( after BASF ) and as of February 2009 , the third - largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization ( after BASF and DuPont ). It ranked second in the world by chemical production in 2014 . ___MASK6___ is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States . The name ___MASK6___ is the French form of the Ojibwa word " mishigamaa ", meaning " large water " or " large lake ". ___MASK6___ is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States , with the 11th most extensive total area ( the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River ). Its capital is Lansing , and its largest city is Detroit .