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Medical silicones satisfy the most stringent of demands on quality, reliability and safety. They are dispensed and packaged under cleanroom conditions in accordance with WACKER’s CLEAN OPERATIONS production standard. This guarantees verified purity from the end product back to the raw-material source.

Practical test at WACKER’s new technical center in Jakarta: Technical service engineers test products and formulations for the Southeast Asian market. The new lab focuses mainly on polymeric binders, which are used in construction applications such as tile adhesives, waterproofing membranes or indoor paints.

New IPA reactor as part of the integrated ketene production system at WACKER’s Burghausen site, where acetic acid is converted into ketene, isopropenyl acetate and acetylacetone in various steps. These substances serve not only as starting materials for further products in the WACKER portfolio, but also as building blocks for syntheses in numerous industries, from pharmaceutical active ingredients through to specialty automotive coatings.

In Jincheon, South Korea, the chemical company WACKER also manufactures high-performance silicones for the electronics and LED industries.

Wacker Chemie AG’s production site in Burghausen. Here, the chemical company has some 10,000 employees, making the site one of the region’s largest employers.