Targets

WACKER has set itself the target of keeping the impact of our production on people, nature and the environment as low as possible and conserving water and marine resources. This target helps to reduce our footprint and is part of our sustainability strategy.

Group target: Sustainable water management

WACKER ensures sustainable water management at 100 percent of its global production sites (annual target).

This allows us to protect water as a resource, make continuous improvements to how efficient we are in using water and reduce emissions. We use our WaWaS assessment across the Group to achieve this (for details, please refer to ESRS E3 – Actions).

Our Group target is a voluntary one that goes beyond the legal requirements at individual sites. The target includes all production sites, water and marine resources, and water risk zones. Each production site is obliged to keep an up-to-date WaWaS assessment available.

The Group Coordinator for the Environment is responsible for monitoring this Group target.

The new water target was developed and adopted across the Group in the current reporting year. We will publish results on target achievement for the first time in the 2026 reporting year.

Note: We have decided to drop our original water target of a flat-rate reduction in water withdrawal based on production volume. The target had to be revised because the previous water reduction target was very heavily focused on growing production volumes. The three-year average, moreover, distorted the trend and hindered targeted management. In addition, the previous water target did not adequately reflect local site-specific water risks.