DyStar is a provider of products and services for the textile, leather, paper, plastic and other chemical industries. The company combines the textile dye businesses of the former dye producers Bayer, Hoechst, BASF, ICI/Zeneca, Mitsubishi and Mitsui with the auxiliary activities of Boehme and Rotta.
DyStar has about 2,000 employees in more than 50 countries and runs 14 production facilities in 12 countries. Worldwide sales amounted to US$1.000 million in 2014.
History
DyStar was founded in 1995 as a joint venture from Bayer AG and Hoechst AG.[2] In 2000 the textile dyes business from BASF