WACKER SILICONES is constantly striving to improve its excellent product and service offerings provided to its DEHESIVE® release coating customers. Even in the face of significant cost increases for energy, transportation, packaging and raw materials – most notably for platinum metal, silicon metal and methanol – WACKER SILICONES will continue to work towards offsetting increasing silicone prices by implementing cost-efficient solutions. Among them are, in particular, new product developments for high-speed coating, low platinum systems for optimized cost control and solutions for film coating.

The price adjustment is necessary in order to maintain WACKER SILICONES product and service excellence and to ensure continuing improvements in the extent and quality of the offerings to its paper and film coating customers.

About WACKER SILICONES
One of the world’s leading producers of silicones, WACKER SILICONES offers one-stop solutions for products, services and strategies in the silicones field. It acts as co-driver for customers’ innovations and helps them penetrate global markets, optimize business processes, reduce overall costs and boost productivity. WACKER SILICONES operates ten production sites with sales offices and subsidiaries in 26 countries and counts 3,500 employees (as of year-end 2004).