Press Releases 2021

During an online Capital Market Day, Wacker Chemie AG today presented its new sustainable development goals to investors and analysts. WACKER’s new goals are much more ambitious than its previous ones.

WACKER and CordenPharma have signed a development partnership in the field of Lipid Nanoparticle formulation.

Due to the ongoing corona pandemic, Wacker Chemie AG has decided to hold next year’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting scheduled for May 20, 2022, as a virtual event without the physical presence of its shareholders or their proxies.

Aleph Farms, the first cultivated meat company to grow steaks directly from non-genetically engineered animal cells and WACKER, a supplier of leading protein production technologies, today announced the development of streamlined production processes for essential growth medium proteins to cost-effectively grow cultivated meat.

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, is showcasing two additives for processing biodegradable plastics at the 16th European Bioplastics Conference: its VINNEX® additive system based on polyvinylacetate technology and its silicone-based performance additive GENIOPLAST® for thermoplastics and engineering plastics. Both additives enhance the processing and material properties of bioplastics.

At the medical technology trade show COMPAMED, the Munich-based chemicals group WACKER is presenting silicone adhesive gels and liquid silicone rubber for medical applications.

Wacker Chemie AG ended Q3 2021 with strong growth in sales and earnings thanks to continued high customer demand across all business divisions.

The Munich-based chemical company WACKER acquires a 60 percent stake in specialty silane manufacturer SICO Performance Material Co., Ltd, Jining (China).

Due to continuously rising energy, raw material and logistics costs, the Munich-based chemical group WACKER intends to adjust its prices for polymer dispersions, dispersible polymer powders and resins.

Prokarium, a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the oncology field of microbial immunotherapy, and Wacker Biotech announced today that they had signed a contract for the manufacturing of Prokarium’s microbial novel immunotherapy for bladder cancer.

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, will be presenting a wide range of polymeric binders for nonwovens and textiles at INDEX 2021.

WACKER SILICONES is scheduling further price increases for its products.

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, is showcasing two products for processing biodegradable plastics at the Compounding World Expo 2021: its VINNEX® additive system based on polyvinyl-acetate technology and its silicone-based performance additive GENIOPLAST® for many thermoplastics.

CureVac N.V., a company based in Tübingen, Germany, needs less production capacity for CVnCOV, its mRNA vaccine candidate against Covid-19.

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, is to raise its prices for VINNAPAS® dispersions and dispersible polymer powders in Asia.

Wacker Chemie AG and the Finsterwalder Corporate Group intend to significantly expand their collaboration.

Wacker Chemie AG closed Q2 2021 with significant increases in both sales and earnings.

WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, has presented an in-house German-Chinese team with the 2021 Alexander Wacker Innovation Award for developing and launching a novel process for producing vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) polymer dispersions.

Wacker Chemie AG today published its Sustainability Report for 2019 and 2020.

Lanxess AG and Wacker Chemie AG announced today they have become supporting businesses of Foundation 2°.

The Munich based WACKER Group will implement an additional price surcharge of up to 10 percent for its VINNAPAS®, VINNOL® und VINNEX® resin product ranges.

Martin Oestreich, Professor of Synthesis and Catalysis at the Technical University of Berlin, is the winner of the WACKER Silicone Award 2021.

Due to rising raw material and logistics costs, WACKER intends to raise its temporary surcharge on VINNAPAS® dispersible polymer powder which has been effective since May this year.

The Munich-based WACKER Group has started to build a liquid resins unit at its Nünchritz site.

Munich-based chemical Group WACKER has developed a novel silicone co-emulsion for hair-care products.

WACKER will be unveiling its BELSIL^® REG 1103 B and BELSIL^® eco REG 1102 silicone resin elastomer gels at the tenth Cosmetic Ingredients & Technology Exhibition CITE in Japan.

As of the end of today’s Annual Share¬holders’ Meeting, Rudolf Staudigl (66), President and CEO of Wacker Chemie AG, retired from the company. As already announced, he was succeeded in that position by Christian Hartel (50).

WACKER is now taking its pioneering concept for resource-efficient silicone manufacturing and is applying it to its silicone release coatings.

A study recently published in the Journal of Functional Foods shows that ingestion of the curcumin-cyclodextrin complex CAVACURMIN^® leads to an increased metabolic bioavailability of tetrahydrocurcumin.

Wacker Chemie AG finished Q1 2021 with significant growth in sales and earnings.

Wacker Chemie AG’s project funding proposal to the European Union for building a production complex for green hydrogen and renewable methanol at its Burghausen site has reached the next selection stage.

Wacker Biotech US Inc. is the new name of Genopis Inc., the plasmid DNA manufacturer based in San Diego, USA, that WACKER acquired in February.

Effective April 1, 2021, WACKER POLYMERS will implement a surcharge for its complete product range, including dispersions, resins and dispersible polymer powders.

As already reported, Wacker Chemie AG’s total sales for 2020 did not quite match the prior-year level due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

WACKER is to raise prices for its entire silicones product range.

WACKER POLYMERS is to raise its prices for dispersions, resins and dispersible polymer powders globally. Effective March 15, 2021, prices for its complete product range will be increased by up to ten percent, or as customer contracts allow. This measure has been necessitated by the increase in raw material costs and extreme tightness on various raw materials.

WACKER has enhanced its patented ESETEC® Escherichia coli bacteria-based secretion system for manufacturing pharmaceutical proteins.

The Munich-based chemical company WACKER is acquiring 100 percent of the shares in pharmaceutical contract manufacturer Genopis Inc. from Helixmith Co Ltd, Seoul (South Korea) and Medivate Partners LLC, Seoul (South Korea).

Wacker Chemie AG closed 2020 in line with its own expectations.

WACKER POLYMERS is to raise prices for vinyl acetate dispersions of the VINNAPAS^® and VINNOL^® brands, polyvinyl alcohol solutions – brand name POLYVIOL^® – and VINNAPAS^® solid resins in Europe, the Middle East and in Africa.