WACKER, the Munich-based chemical company, is restructuring its distribution network for VINNAPAS^® and VINNOL^® brand polymer dispersions. As part of a constant sales channel improvement, the IMCD Group – a Dutch chemicals distributor and already a WACKER partner – is to be entrusted with the distribution of WACKER’s polymer dispersions in the UK and Ireland. Effective October 1, 2009, IMCD UK Ltd. replaces previous distribution partner Grolman Ltd. Furthermore, dispersions business will be transferred from WACKER’s previous partner Biesterfeld to IMCD in the Baltics as well as in Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine, effective October 1, 2009. In addition, IMCD will also distribute WACKER’s polymer dispersions in Austria from October 2009.