Group Structure and Operations

WACKER is a globally active company with state-of-the-art specialty chemical products. Our portfolio includes over 3,500 products supplied to more than 3,500 customers in over 100 countries. WACKER products are used in countless everyday items, ranging from cosmetic powders to solar cells.

Silicon Is Our Main Starting Material

Most of our products are based on inorganic starting materials. Silicon-based products account for 80 percent of WACKER sales, and products that are primarily ethylene-related for 20 percent. We supply products to virtually every major sector, ranging from consumer goods, food, pharmaceuticals and textiles, through to the solar, electrical/electronic and basic-chemical industries, and to medical technology, biotech and mechanical engineering. As a manufacturer of silicones and polymers, WACKER is particularly well represented in the automotive and construction sectors. We are also a key supplier of silicon wafers to the semiconductor industry. Over the last four years, we have greatly expanded our polycrystalline-silicon business for the solar industry, where WACKER is one of the world’s largest manufacturers.

International Presence Enhanced

In 2010, we strengthened our presence primarily in growth regions. Now, WACKER has 50 sales offices in 29 countries worldwide. Over recent years, the Group has set up a network of technical competence centers to enable customers to learn about its product portfolio and to run product tests there. A total of 20 such centers ensure optimum customer support. With our WACKER ACADEMY facilities, we also offer customers topic-specific seminars and training sessions on our products and their fields of application. In 2010, we opened three WACKER ACADEMY branches (our fifth, sixth and seventh) in Dubai, São Paulo and Singapore, respectively. We also opened a new sales office in Chengdu, China.

Burghausen Is Our Key Production Site

WACKER’s global production network consists of 26 production sites – 9 are in Europe, 7 in the Americas and 10 in Asia. The Group’s key production site is Burghausen (Germany), with about 9,700 employees. In 2010, Burghausen’s manufacturing output reached around 500,000 metric tons. That is about 50 percent of groupwide production volumes. We are strongly expanding our Nünchritz site (Saxony), where our first polysilicon plant outside Burghausen will come on stream in 2011, with a nominal production capacity of 10,000 metric tons per year.

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Business Division

  

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The Americas

  

 

  

 

Adrian, Michigan

  

WACKER SILICONES

  

Construction, automotive, medical technology, electronics, chemicals, cosmetics, textiles, paper

Allentown, Pennsylvania

  

WACKER POLYMERS

  

Adhesives, construction, paints and surface coatings

Portland, Oregon

  

SILTRONIC

  

Computers, telecommunications, consumer electronics

Jandira, São Paulo

  

WACKER SILICONES. WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction, chemicals, cosmetics, textiles, paper

 

  

 

  

 

Asia

  

 

  

 

Dubai

  

WACKER SILICONES. WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction, textiles, paints

Kolkata

  

WACKER SILICONES

  

Chemicals, cosmetics, textiles, paper

Mumbai

  

WACKER SILICONES. WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction, chemicals, plastics

Beijing

  

WACKER POL YMERS

  

Construction

Shanghai

  

WACKER SILICONES. WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction, automotive, medical technology, electronics, chemicals, cosmetics, paper, paints and surface coatings

Shunde

  

WACKER SILICONES

  

Textiles

Singapore

  

WACKER SILICONES. WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction, automotive, medical technology, electronics, chemicals, cosmetics, textiles

 

  

SILTRONIC

  

Computers, telecommunications, consumer electronics

Hsinchu

  

SILTRONIC

  

Computers, telecommunications, consumer electronics

Suwon

  

WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction, paints, adhesives

Akeno

  

WACKER SILICONES

  

Automotive, electronics, moldmaking, chemicals, cosmetics, textiles, paper

Hikari

  

SILTRONIC

  

Computers, telecommunications, consumer electronics

Melbourne

  

WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction

 

  

 

  

 

Europe

  

 

  

 

Moscow

  

WACKER SILICONES. WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction

 

  

 

  

 

Germany

  

 

  

 

Burghausen

  

WACKER SILICONES. WACKER POLYMERS

  

Construction, automotive, medical technology, electronics, chemicals, cosmetics, textiles, paper, adhesives, paints and surface coatings

 

  

SILTRONIC

  

Computers, telecommunications, consumer electronics

Freiberg, Saxony

  

SILTRONIC

  

Computers, telecommunications, consumer electronics

Nünchritz

  

WACKER SILICONES

  

Construction

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