Production (unaudited section)

Production output rose by a low-single-digit percentage year over year. Production costs, on the other hand, fell slightly.

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Plant Utilization in 2020

 

%

 

Plant Utilization Rate

 

 

 

WACKER SILICONES

 

95

WACKER POLYMERS

 

87

WACKER POLYSILICON

 

85

Capital expenditures for 2020 amounted to €224.4 million (2019: €379.5 million). Maintenance costs totaled around €386.2 million.

Key Start-Ups

 

Location

 

Projects

 

Year

 

 

 

 

 

Burghausen, Germany

 

Nitrogen production capacity extension

 

2020

Cologne, Germany

 

New medium-voltage power supply

 

2020

Nanjing, China

 

Construction of storage tanks for dispersions

 

2020

Ulsan, South Korea

 

Dispersion reactor

 

2020

Priorities of the Productivity Program

The ongoing program is helping us boost productivity along the entire value chain. The most important goal is to continue reducing specific operating costs each year. In 2020, we handled 500 projects, involving savings spanning all cost types. Priorities were labor productivity and specific energy consumption. As a result of the pandemic, the WOS Academy conducted far fewer courses and training sessions in 2020.

Wacker Operating System (WOS)
The “Wacker Operating System” (WOS) program pools, promotes and processes corporate projects for systematic process improvement. It is the basis for a groupwide improvement initiative by WACKER.

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