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Vision & Goals
Management
As head of Corporate Development, Dr. Martina Schulze-Adams is responsible for sustainability management at the WACKER Group. We don’t consider sustainability to be a fad. The opposite is true, as sustainability has been firmly anchored in our business processes for years. As experts in integrated production, we are striving for circular solutions that apply not only within our sites, but also beyond our factory gates.
Vision & GoalsPandemic Management
Pandemic Management
The coronavirus pandemic has had a substantial impact on all our lives. Dr. Jürgen Commeßmann, head of WACKER’s Health Services, has taken numerous precautions and adopted measures to safeguard employees’ health, limit the risk of infection, flatten infection curves and thus keep the business running.
FeatureKey Figures
Key Figures
Research & Development
Environment
70 percent
of steam needed at the Nünchritz site is obtained through heat recovery
Production & SafetyProducts
90 percent
of our products are assessed for sustainability based on the criteria of the WACKER Sustainable Solutions program
Product AssessmentUp to 100 percent
of the fossil raw materials needed to manufacture selected product lines have been replaced by sustainable, certified biomass
Sustainable ProductsEnergy
Production & Safety
We have optimized the integrated energy production system at our Nünchritz site and achieved a substantial increase in the heat recovery ratio. Construction site manager Jürgen Peterle, project manager René Münch and plant manager Lutz Gruschinski (from left to right) at the 1,500-meter long steam main that closes the energy loop at the Nünchritz site.
EnergyVocational Training
Employees
Our Burghausen Vocational Training Center (BBiW) is getting the virtual working world into the training workshops. With their HoloLens (3D goggles) and tablets, apprentices can monitor processes in production facilities. Using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), they learn to use digital processes and test their skills with the virtual welding simulator.
Vocational TrainingSustainable Products
Production & Safety
It is more sustainable to produce vaccines using bacterial systems than, for example, using chicken eggs. We have added new classes of actives to our portfolio. For instance, the team at Wacker Biotech US Inc., based in San Diego, CA, is developing nucleic acid-based gene therapies and vaccines.
Sustainable ProductsWater
Production & Safety
Bernhard Fenzl from the Water Protection unit of the Environmental Protection Department in Burghausen takes regular samples of the water in the Alz canal. Under our water stewardship program, our business divisions and sites commit to using water resources responsibly throughout the entire supply chain.
WaterEnvironmental Compatibility
Products
At the WACKER Technical Center in Shanghai, Jonas Yin is working on silicone-based thermal interface materials for electric cars, consumer electronics and the telecommunications industry. Our innovative technologies help cut energy consumption and conserve resources. Our goal is that, by 2030, 90 percent of our products should make a neutral or positive contribution to sustainability in accordance with the criteria of the WACKER Sustainable Solutions program.
Product AssessmentEmployees
Employees
If it is to remain innovative and competitive, WACKER needs committed and skilled workers – like the plant fire department team at Burghausen, our largest site. We need every employee’s skills and dedication. Their diversity and qualifications enhance our company’s performance.
Employees