Features
WACKER’s Features offer you regularly updated articles – with photos – about innovations and new, interesting applications and solutions. The articles are well written and easy to understand for use in various media forms.
December 2009
Concrete Deep Within a Mountain: Specialty Silanes Protect the Roof of the Swiss Gotthard Tunnel
No matter how important water may be in the production of concrete, salt water and concrete form a lethal cocktail.
November 2009
Let There Be LEDs: Silicones Simplify the Production of Energy-Saving, Climate-Protecting Light-Emitting Diodes
Light means progress: the incandescent light bulb, once the pioneer of a global lighting revolution, is disappearing from stores.
November 2009
Let There Be LEDs: Silicones Simplify the Production of Energy-Saving, Climate-Protecting Light-Emitting Diodes
Light means progress: the incandescent light bulb, once the pioneer of a global lighting revolution, is disappearing from stores.
June 2009
Thermal Insulation in a Desert Climate: Sustainable Construction in the Middle East – Using Polymeric Binders to Save Energy and Protect the Climate
The costs for energy and raw materials are rising worldwide, while resources are becoming scarcer. Even in regions with large oil reserves, people have started looking for ways to conserve energy.
April 2009
Polymeric Binders for Tunnel Walls – New Standards in Infrastructure Projects
Whether in tunneling, mining, hydraulic engineering or road construction, sprayed concrete is a construction material of major importance.