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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Technical Competence Centers

 

 

 

 

Site

 

Business Division

 

Examples of Relevant Industries

 

 

 

 

 

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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