Environmental protection, just like safety and health protection, is a core component of all processes at WACKER. The focus is not so much on remedial measures but on prevention – evaluation begins as early as the product-development and plant-planning stages. In accordance with the core ideas of the Responsible Care^® initiative, our environmental protection measures often go beyond what is legally required. We continuously work on improving our production processes to conserve resources. By closing material cycles and recycling byproducts from other areas into production, we are able to prevent or reduce waste.

Our sites keep the public regularly up to date about our environmen-tal-protection activities, in-cluding annual community discussions at Nünchritz, as well as similar events with neighbors or “open houses”, at Adrian, in Michigan, USA, and Zhangjiagang in China. Our Burghausen, Freiberg and Nünchritz sites publish annual environ-mental reports containing environmental-protection and safety-related facts & figures.