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The Munich-based WACKER Group was commended for its sustainable approach to avoiding CO₂ emissions: Markus Stumpp (left) und Arnd Martin (right) from FleetCompany presented this year’s GreenFleet^® Award to WACKER. Rainer Schmidt (second from left) and Dieter Winklhofer from WACKER’s Technical Procurement & Logistics division accepted the award (photo: TÜV SÜD).

WACKER’s nature-identical hydroxytyrosol offers effective UV protection for skin and hair, thus reducing skin aging as well as color-fading and bleaching of hair. This makes HTEssence^® ideal for the formulation of high-quality anti-aging creams, hair masks or leave-in conditioners.

The heart of the new logistics center in Zhangjiagang is a high-bay ware-house covering 4,000 square meters. All incoming and outbound goods are recorded electronically and distributed across the center’s 9,000 pallet bays by a computer-aided warehouse management system.

WACKER’s new Logistics Center in Zhangjiagang, China. Used as a distribution center for downstream silicone products manufactured on site, the new facility enables the company to supply its customers in the region even faster and with even greater flexibility.

Industrial-scale protein refolding: with the novel FOLDTEC^® refolding technology, microbially produced pharmaceutical proteins can be manufactured cost-efficiently and reliably in high yields, without the need for antibiotics or phage components.