Production (unaudited section)
Production output rose by a low-single-digit percentage year over year. Production costs, on the other hand, fell slightly.
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WACKER SILICONES |
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95 |
WACKER POLYMERS |
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87 |
WACKER POLYSILICON |
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85 |
Capital expenditures for 2020 amounted to €224.4 million (2019: €379.5 million). Maintenance costs totaled around €386.2 million.
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Burghausen, Germany |
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Nitrogen production capacity extension |
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2020 |
Cologne, Germany |
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New medium-voltage power supply |
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2020 |
Nanjing, China |
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Construction of storage tanks for dispersions |
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2020 |
Ulsan, South Korea |
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Dispersion reactor |
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2020 |
Priorities of the Productivity Program
The ongoing Wacker Operating System (WOS) 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 2020, we handled 500 projects, involving savings spanning all cost types. Priorities were labor productivity and specific energy consumption. As a result of the pandemic, the WOS Academy conducted far fewer courses and training sessions in 2020.