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.
April 2009
Versatile Fragrances: Walls with New Functions
Essential oils are much sought-after. They can change your mood, combat microbes and repel pests. But their action is only fleeting – they are volatile and quickly degrade.
March 2009
A New Facade for Cairo’s Television Tower
Cairo’s summer temperatures often soar above 45°C. Such extreme conditions are hard on inhabitants and structures alike.
September 2008
Polymeric Sealing Slurries: Protection of Tomorrow’s Resources
Water is a vital resource that is becoming ever scarcer and ever more precious around the globe. However, it is also a construction material’s greatest enemy, since rainwater, groundwater and vadose water can cause rapid and extensive damage to buildings.
July 2007
50 Years of VINNAPAS®: Mortar’s Metamorphosis – a Dispersible Polymer Powder Makes History
Usually invisible, but always indispensable: WACKER’s polymer dispersible powders have been leaving their mark on the construction industry for 50 years.
June 2007
Streamlining Construction Work – Self-Leveling Fillers Produce Level Surfaces
The modern construction industry values versatility together with quick and easy handling. That is particularly true for flooring compounds, where good adhesion to any substrate and crack-free hardening are required.