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WACKER Executive Board members Dr. Tobias Ohler and Dr. Rudolf Staudigl (1st and 2nd from left) as well as Dr. Christian Hartel and Auguste Willems (1st and 2nd from right) with this year’s winners of the “Alexander Wacker Innovation Award”: Dr. Harald Voit, Dr. Steffen Dörrich, Erich Schaffer und Dr. Florian Hoffmann (from left to right).

At Fakuma 2017, WACKER is presenting its new ELASTOSIL^® LR 5040 product line. This liquid silicone rubber is extremely robust after curing and can be used in sensitive areas even without thermal post-curing.

The new liquid silicone line ELASTOSIL^® LR 5040 has been specially developed for applications in the baby-care, food-contact and medical industries. Its products contain only few volatile components and exhibit excellent mechanical properties even without thermal post-curing.

High LDL (low density lipoprotein) levels are one main factor for the occurrence of coronary heart diseases and atherosclerosis. WACKER’s HTEssence^® is able to significantly reduce LDL

Results of a recent clinical human study show a significant reduction of LDL cholesterol with WACKER’s nature-identical hydroxytyrosol HTEssence® in comparison to olive extract and placebo