These growth opportunities naturally necessitate production-capacity expansion. €600.8 million was invested in property, plant and equipment in fiscal 2010 alone. All our production facilities meet the highest productivity demands and the Wacker Operating System (WOS) will continue to boost productivity.

Over the next two years, WACKER will bring additional production capacity on stream. The most important start-up is Nünchritz’s Poly 9 expansion stage, with a nominal capacity of 15,000 metric tons. Production there is due to begin in the second half of the year. At our Siltronic Samsung Wafer joint venture in Singapore, further production-capacity expansion is expected.