Key Products, Services and Business Processes

Our divisions’ overall range of products and services remained unchanged. In several fields of application, we expanded our product portfolio during 2010.

Our WACKER SILICONES division provides customers with our broadest offering of over 3,000 products – ranging from silicone-based fluids, emulsions, resins, elastomers and sealants, to silanes and pyrogenic silica. 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. Application areas include the automotive, paper and adhesive sectors. The main customer for polymeric binders is the construction industry, which uses them as additives in tile adhesives, exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS), dry-mix mortars and self-leveling flooring compounds.

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

WACKER POLYSILICON produces hyperpure polysilicon for the semiconductor, electronic and – above all – solar sectors. Most of this polysilicon is sent to external customers. Internally, we supply both Siltronic and its Siltronic Samsung Wafer joint venture.

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