Wacker Chemical Corp.
Adrian, MI 49221
Wacker Silicones Presents Low-Viscosity Liquid Silicone Rubber Grades for Manufacturing Insulators
Munich, August 27, 2006 - The Munich-based chemical company WACKER is presenting liquid silicone rubber grades for the manufacture of high and medium voltage insulators at CIGRE Session 2006 from August 27 to September 1 in Paris. These rubber types exhibit particularly low viscosities - thereby offering significant processing advantages for complex casting molds. Under the POWERSILÃ-®...
Read More »Wacker Chemical Corporation Launches Web Shop for Quick Standardized Rubber Compound Purchasing
ADRIAN, Mich., Sept. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Since launching SILMIX.com in the fall of 2019, SILMIX®, the U.S.-based custom rubber compounder, has enhanced the site to include a web shop offering customers a select number of standard products. SILMIX® identified the top standard products that customers order and the 16 options are now available for quick ordering online. To access the web...
Read More »WACKER Opens New Production Site for Silicones in South Korea
Munich, April 24, 2018 – Wacker Chemie AG today opened a new production site for silicone elastomers in South Korea. The plant is located around 100 kilometers southeast of Seoul at Jincheon, where the Group has already been producing silicone sealants since 2010 and specialty silicones for the electronics industry since 2012. In moving to the new site, WACKER is significantly expanding its...
Read More »Wacker Opens a New Plant for Functional Silicone Fluids in India
Munich / Amtala, March 20, 2018 - Wacker Metroark Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. is expanding its existing silicone production at its Amtala site near Kolkata with a new hydrosilylation plant for manufacturing functional silicone fluids. The plant with an annual capacity of over 6,000 metric tons was officially opened today at a ceremony in Amtala. The expansion is WACKER’s response to growing regional...
Read More »Wacker Chemical appoints BSI exclusive West Coast Distributor
Adrian, MI, December 17, 2010 - Wacker Chemical Corporation announces the appointment of Brenntag Specialties, Inc. (BSI) to exclusively service and distribute VINNAPASÃ-® dispersions and construction polymer products to West Coast-based customers. BSI is one of North America's leading specialty chemical distributors and has established a long-standing reputation for providing excellence in...
Read More »Wacker Acquires Silicon-Metal Production Site in Norway
Munich, July 1, 2010 - Wacker Chemie AG has successfully concluded its acquisition of the silicon-metal production site in Holla from FESIL Group (Norway). The transaction announced early last month has now been cleared by the relevant antitrust authorities and approved by WACKER's and FESIL's supervisory bodies. Under the terms of the transaction, WACKER takes over for a purchase price of around...
Read More »WACKER Appoints New Distributor for Polymer and Silicone Products in Chile
Munich, July 1, 2010 - WACKER, the Munich-based chemical company, reorganizes its distribution network for silicone and polymer products in Chile to improve efficiency and to create crossregional synergies. As part of an ongoing optimization of WACKER'S distribution sales channels, Quimica Anders is to be entrusted with the distribution of WACKER's polymer and silicone products in Chile....
Read More »WACKER Appoints New Distributor for Dispersions VINNAPAS-® and VINNOL-® in Switzerland and Brazil
Munich, January 1, 2010 - WACKER, the Munich-based chemical company, continues to consolidate its distribution networks for VINNAPASÃ-® and VINNOLÃ-® brand polymer dispersions to improve efficiency and to create crossregional synergies. In the course of a constant optimization of the distribution sales channels, WACKER's polymer dispersion business in Switzerland will be transferred from...
Read More »Ten Years of Wacker Asahikasei Silicone in Japan
Munich / Tokyo, December 7, 2009 - WACKER Asahikasei Silicone Co., Ltd. is celebrating its tenth anniversary today. The company, headquartered in Tokyo and with a production facility in Akeno, was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Munich-based chemical group WACKER and Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation. 50 percent held by WACKER, it has some 100 employees on its payroll who produce and...
Read More »Wacker Dymatic Silicones Moves to New Offices and Production Site
Munich, July 20, 2009 - WACKER DYMATIC Silicones, a joint venture between Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) and DYMATIC Chemicals Inc. (Shunde, China), has commissioned a new silicone emulsion plant. It is located at the company's new headquarters in Shunde (Guangdong province) and has an annual production capacity of some 4,500 metric tons. The specialty chemical company plans to increase its...
Read More »WACKER Expands Biologics Operation in Jena, Germany
o Investment of 15 Million o Expansion of Existing Production-Plant o New Building for Process Development and Quality Control o Investment Secures Further Growth in Promising Biologics Market Munich and Jena, November 7, 2007 - WACKER is strengthening its biopharmaceutical operations in Jena, Germany. The Munich-based chemical Group is investing around 15 million in this undertaking, which...
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