Sustainability News Archive 2020

WACKER has not forgotten the unsung heroes of the pandemic – individuals mostly hidden from the public eye – who have worked tirelessly to support children and youngsters in the past few months.

Families in Haiti are hard hit by the economic effects of the corona pandemic. The children who attend the elementary and high school in Gressier, which the WACKER Relief Fund supports, also face poverty and hunger during school closures.

WACKER has managed to cut carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to car journeys of more than 12 million kilometers!

Leading label manufacturers launched a recycling initiative for release coatings at the end of October. Future recycling of coated wastepaper is to be achieved by creating a collection system and sustainable circular economy.

The coronavirus has also hit Nepal, where the WACKER Relief Fund supports schools. Over 90 percent of cases are registered in the Kathmandu valley.

Employees around the world networked at a virtual congress – the first of its kind – during sustainability week.

With our WACKER Sustainable Solutions program, we assess our product portfolio from a sustainability perspective.

WACKER joins Operation Clean Sweep^® (OCS). The initiative is committed to preventing the loss of plastic granules (flakes, powders and pellets) and their release into rivers lakes and oceans.

Just over a year ago, Wacker Chemie AG started a community project to promote biodiversity.

The Munich-based WACKER Group is supporting a project by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to build up an innovation platform for sustainable construction.

With SustainaBalance^®, WACKER has set out a sustainability strategy with goals until 2030.

Wacker Chemical Corporation produces its own hand sanitizer due to the corona pandemic.

Wacker Metroark Chemicals (WMC) has made a generous donation of over 15 million rupees (€183,000) to support two aid organizations in their battle against the coronavirus on the subcontinent.

Founded some 15 years ago, the WACKER College in Sri Lanka has become a professional yet warm-hearted facility.

WACKER’s voluntary commitment to implementing the UN Global Compact’s ten principles dates back to 2006.

Due to the coronavirus-related restrictions, many WACKER employees are working remotely at home.

WACKER Wins First Place in the German Idea Management Prize 2020 Category of “Best Idea in Occupational Safety and Workplace Health”!

Saving 462,815 kg of CO₂ is equivalent to 462 flights from Munich to Dubai.

On receiving an inquiry from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Munich-based chemical group WACKER this weekend made the unbureaucratic gesture of donating chemicals for the production of 15,000 liters of hand sanitizer for the production of disinfectants to Bavarian hospitals and care facilities.

WACKER has received the platinum recognition level from EcoVadis for 2020.

The Ruperti workshops in Altötting offer support on many levels. People with disabilities are given meaningful employment and individual vocational training at the institution, which falls under the diocesan Caritas Association.

“Daily CO₂ footprint – how accurate is my estimate?” This is the kind of question employees attending the first WACKER Sustainability Forum discussed at HQ in Munich.