Strategy of the WACKER Group

WACKER pursues five overarching strategic goals. The core elements are profitable growth, leading competitive positions in our business divisions and achieving sustainability. WACKER published new strategic goals for the Group and for each business division in late March 2022. These goals cover the period up to 2030 and are the compass for our business success. The element that binds together our overarching strategic as well as operational goals is our corporate purpose: Our solutions make a better world for generations.

Our goals for the period up to 2030 are:

• Accelerate our growth
  In the future, sales growth – the result of higher volumes and a better product mix – should be between 1.5 and 2 times the historic rate of 4 to 5 percent per year. WACKER aims to achieve sales of over €10 billion in 2030.
• Enhance our profitability
  We want our chemical-division EBITDA margins to be above 20 percent by 2030 and the margin at WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS to be around 25 percent. WACKER POLYSILICON’s target is above 30 percent. Return on capital employed (ROCE) is to rise by 2030 to more than twice the cost of capital at the chemical divisions and at WACKER POLYSILICON. We want ROCE at WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS to be substantially higher than the cost of capital.
• Increase our capital expenditures
  We are intensifying our investment in capacity expansion to meet strong demand from our customers. To this end, we will systematically pursue our specialty chemicals strategy in the chemical divisions. WACKER will double its investment spending to over €400 million annually. We are actively scaling up our biotech activities with capital expenditures of over €80 million a year. In the polysilicon business, around €100 million annually is to be invested in semiconductor applications.
• Focus on sustainability as a powerful driver of future growth
  WACKER’s products and solutions help its customers to become more sustainable. Two-thirds of WACKER’s product portfolio already contributes to sustainable solutions. Increasing demand in this area is creating additional growth opportunities, which we want to leverage effectively.
• Work systematically on our own sustainability
  In December 2021, WACKER published specific sustainable development goals for the period up to 2030. The main goal is to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions by half during that time frame. WACKER’s target is to achieve a net zero carbon footprint by 2045.