Key Products, Services and Processes

Our divisions’ overall range of products and services remained unchanged in the reporting period. In several application areas, we expanded our product portfolio. Our WACKER SILICONES division provides customers with our broadest offering of over 2,800 products – ranging from silicone fluids and emulsions, resins, elastomers and sealants, to silanes and pyrogenic silica grades. The division manufactures both specialty products tailored to customers’ specific needs, and standard products primarily used as starting materials in the production of silicones.

WACKER POLYMERS manufactures state-of-the-art binders and polymeric additives (such as dispersible polymer powders and dispersions). These are used in diverse industrial applications or as base chemicals. Customers include the paints, coatings, paper and adhesives industries. The main customer for polymeric binders is the construction industry, which uses them as additives in tile adhesives, dry-mix mortars, self-leveling flooring compounds, and EIFS (exterior insulation and finish systems)/ETICS (external thermal insulation composite systems).

WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS, our smallest division, supplies customized biotech and catalog products for the fine-chemical sector. Products include pharmaceutical proteins, cyclodextrins, cysteine, polyvinyl acetate solid resins (for gumbase), organic intermediates and acetylacetone. The division focuses on customer-specific solutions for growth areas, such as food additives, pharmaceutical actives and agrochemicals.

WACKER POLYSILICON produces hyperpure polysilicon for the semiconductor, electronics and – above all – solar sectors. Most of this polysilicon is sent to external customers. In-house we supply polysilicon to the Siltronic division.

Siltronic supplies leading semiconductor manufacturers with silicon wafers. These wafers are the essential raw materials for virtually all semiconductor products – whether for discrete semiconductor components (e.g. transistors and rectifiers) or microchips (e.g. microprocessors and memory chips).

Divisional Shares in External Sales

Divisional Shares in External Sales (Kreisdiagramm)Divisional Shares in External Sales (Kreisdiagramm)

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External Sales by Customer Headquarters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

€ million

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Germany

 

663.7

 

647.0

 

686.0

Rest of Europe

 

1,130.5

 

1,073.8

 

1,090.7

The Americas

 

810.7

 

761.0

 

834.2

Asia

 

2,039.7

 

1,826.1

 

1,862.0

Other regions

 

181.8

 

171.0

 

162.0

Group

 

4,826.4

 

4,478.9

 

4,634.9

 

 

 

 

 

WACKER Adds Value through Integrated Production

Integrated production (Grafik)Integrated production (Grafik)

WACKER’s integrated production system forms the basis of high cost, energy and resource efficiency. By-products and waste heat feed back into production via highly interlinked material and energy loops and go on to create more value.

  • Over the past decades, WACKER has expanded its production into an integrated system with largely closed loops.
  • In integrated processes, we optimize the use of raw materials and auxiliary materials. By-products of chemical processes are used as raw materials in the facility that produced them or in a neighboring facility, where they are turned into valuable products.
  • Likewise, we use the waste heat from production processes and waste incineration for further chemical processes.