Business Divisions and Companies at the Site
All of WACKER's five business divisions have production facilities at the Burghausen site. Beside WACKER, companies such as Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG and LCP Technology GmbH operate at the site, too.
All of WACKER's five business divisions have production facilities at the Burghausen site. Beside WACKER, companies such as Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG and LCP Technology GmbH operate at the site, too.
WACKER plays a leading role in Bavaria’s vocational training sector. For decades, special attention has been paid to basic and advanced vocational training. The Burghausen Vocational Training Center (BBiW) – a Wacker Chemie AG foundation – offers numerous initial and advanced vocational training options in the fields of chemistry/physics, metal work and electrical engineering, as well as in commercial subjects. This high-level basic and advanced training guarantees quality and secures the site's future.
Four main raw materials form the basis for production at the site today: metallurgical-grade silicon, methanol, ethylene and rock salt. Over 3,000 different products are manufactured from these and other raw and auxiliary materials.
The integrated silicon-based production system is one of the site's key strengths. The system is based on the principle of multiple usage of products and raw materials in a network of optimized material loops. Our researchers and technical experts closely investigate the potential suitability of by-products obtained during one production process as feedstocks for parallel production processes. This saves energy and cuts resource consumption, too.
The site consumes around 2,000 million GWh of electricity per year*, comparable to a city the size of Regensburg, southern Germany. The Alzwerke power plant – Germany’s largest industrial hydroelectric plant – produces an annual 270 million kWh of electricity in an environmentally compatible manner. A state-of-the-art gas-and-steam-turbine power plant (also referred to as a combined heat and power (CHP) plant) covers most of the site's remaining electricity demand.
Every year, some 750,000 metric tons* of WACKER products are shipped from the Burghausen site via rail and road. A modern logistics center with a container terminal and direct rail link enables the integration of storage and distribution processes for efficient transportation.
* Data as per 2010
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