16.03.2017
- Germany’s Wacker Group has reduced its stake in subsidiary Siltronic from 51.8% to 30.8%. The group sold 6.3 million shares to institutional investors for €55.85 per share, giving...
19.12.2016
- Wacker Chemie has announced it will invest around $150 million in a new pyrogenic silica plant in Charleston, Tennessee, USA. Construction work on the facility, which will have an...
02.05.2016
- Wacker Chemie has agreed to extend its polysilicon price agreement with China as the country’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) announces a review of its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy...
04.04.2016
- Dr. Robert Gnann (51) has taken over as president of Wacker Silicones effective April 1, 2016. He succeeds Dr. Christian Hartel, who was appointed to the Wacker Group’s Executive...
25.01.2016
- Germany’s Wacker group has expanded production capacity for functional silicone fluids at its Burghausen site, near Munich. The new €26 million expansion stage, which came on...
22.10.2015
- Germany’s Wacker Chemie has officially started its new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene co-polymer (VAE) dispersions at Calvert City, Kentucky, USA. In expanding its capacity by...
04.09.2015
- Around the globe, market conditions for chemical industry players remained volatile and challenging, corporate chieftains said unanimously in reporting on the second quarter and...
25.06.2015
- Joachim Rauhut (61), chief financial officer of Wacker Chemie, will leave the company as planned when his contract expires on October 31, 2015, the Munich-based chemical group has...
