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WACKER’s Feature Service offers you regularly updated articles – with photos – about innovations and new, interesting applications and solutions. The articles are well written and easy to understand for use in various media forms.
Water is a vital resource that is becoming ever scarcer and ever more precious around the globe. However, it is also a construction material’s greatest enemy, since rainwater, groundwater and vadose water can cause rapid and extensive damage to buildings.
Usually invisible, but always indispensable: WACKER’s polymer dispersible powders have been leaving their mark on the construction industry for 50 years.
The modern construction industry values versatility together with quick and easy handling. That is particularly true for flooring compounds, where good adhesion to any substrate and crack-free hardening are required.
Essential oils are much sought-after. They can change your mood, combat microbes and repel pests. But their action is only fleeting – they are volatile and quickly degrade.
In many places, the amino acid cysteine is nowadays still extracted from human or animal sources: from hair, feathers and pig bristles.
With the growing wellness trend, highly active ingredients, such as vitamins have been playing a greater role in anti-aging agents and anti-wrinkle creams. However, the major drawback of all these substances is that they decompose easily when exposed to light and air, and thereby lose their effectiveness.
When temperatures plunge in winter, prices for natural gas, heating oil and electricity always go up.
Corrosive salts are a curse for thousands of bridges.
Biomanufactured pharmaceuticals, commonly known as biologics, is a market witnessing enormous growth: cancer drugs, growth hormones and agents to treat multiple sclerosis can be manufactured selectively in bacterial cells.
They work behind the scenes — but without them there would be no modern steam irons, electric stoves, ovens or certain other household appliances.
Swiss wine researchers have established that the timely addition of small amounts of oxygen will considerably enhance a wine’s quality.
Though the solar sector is booming, it may soon face a silicon shortage.
Over the coming years large numbers of water and frost-damaged roads will need to be repaired.
American and European drug approval agencies are pressing for higher-purity drugs.
Cable fires have often caused devastating disasters, from the destruction of a terminal at Düsseldorf Airport, to the crash of a Swissair flight five years ago.