Production (unaudited section)

Compared with the prior year, production output declined by a low-single-digit percentage. On the other hand, production costs rose 5 percent. One of the main factors in this increase was that the Charleston plant was in operation for the entire year.

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Plant Utilization in 2019

 

%

 

Plant Utilization Rate

 

 

 

WACKER SILICONES

 

95

WACKER POLYMERS

 

85

WACKER POLYSILICON

 

90

Capital expenditures for 2019 amounted to €379.5 million (2018: €460.9 million). Maintenance costs totaled around €445 million.

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Key Start-Ups

 

Location

 

Projects

 

Year

 

 

 

 

 

Zhangjiagang, China

 

Silicone elastomers

 

2019

Ulsan, South Korea

 

Dispersible polymer powders

 

2019

Charleston, USA

 

Pyrogenic silica

 

2019

Holla, Norway

 

Silicon metal

 

2019

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 2019, we handled more than 600 projects, which centered on raising production output from existing plants and optimizing energy consumption. The WOS ACADEMY held courses in which over 100 employees were trained in the use of productivity methods such as Six Sigma and LEAN.

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

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