The WACKER Group is a technological and market leader along different value-creation chains and continually expands its activities to growth markets that fuel promising megatrends. The largest investments are made in the promising fields of photovoltaics, energy and white biotechnology. As for the semiconductor industry, the Group is working on a new wafer generation that entails processes for design rules from 16 to 22 nanometers.
Under the WACKER Group's umbrella, there are five specialized divisions driving these developments: WACKER SILICONES, WACKER POLYMERS, WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS, WACKER POLYSILICON and Siltronic.
Siltronic primarily supplies growing semiconductor-wafer demand for digital devices. Far more demand for wafers exists in the promising market for solar energy, a field in which WACKER POLYSILICON continues to make major investments. Silicone products from WACKER SILICONES are found in countless everyday items, for which demand is particularly growing in emerging BRIC countries. WACKER POLYMERS' products are used wherever sustainable and resource-conserving everyday materials are needed. Last but not least, modern biotechnology is gaining in importance and WACKER BIOSOLUTIONS meets this demand via its biological formulations. With this portfolio, the WACKER Group supplies key promising markets worldwide.
*BRIC = Brazil, Russia, India and China
