Our sites regularly inform the public about our environmental-protection activities, including annual community meetings at Nünchritz (Germany), as well as similar events with neighbors or “open houses” at Adrian (Michigan, USA) and Zhangjiagang in China. Our Burghausen, Freiberg and Nünchritz sites publish annual environmental reports (available in German only) containing environmental-protection and safety-related facts and figures.

WACKER has been a member of the Bavarian Environmental Pact since it was founded in 1995. From 2010 to 2015, this Pact is running under the slogan “Sustainable growth balanced by environmental and climate protection.” The Environmental Pact is an agreement between the Bavarian government and Bavarian industry, in which both parties have declared their belief that natural resources can be better protected through voluntary, responsible cooperation between industry and state rather than by laws and regulations alone. The Pact serves as a catalyst to promote climate protection and energy conservation, sustainable mobility, environmental engineering and resource efficiency. Its primary aim is to avoid environmental pollution. In 2011, the Bavarian Environment Ministry honored WACKER with a certificate for having participated in the Bavarian Environmental Pact from the very start.