Sustainability News Archive 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 Chemie AG has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), which aims to advance decarbonization of the chemical industry.

At the end of July, the WACKER Relief Fund appealed for donations to help areas affected by the floods.

Finally the car was full! Some HQ staff had looked around their homes for useful and lovely items to add to the collection for the Munich-based children’s charity, The Ark.

At the New York Climate Week WACKER has announced it is joining with other companies from key German industries to support the UN’s initiative on climate neutrality.

Wacker Chemie AG joined the Hydrogen Alliance Bavaria today.

Since its founding in 2006, WACKER has been a partner The Ark can rely on.

WACKER is providing €100,000 in flood aid for “Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V.” via the WACKER Relief Fund. With this, the company is supporting the cleanup work in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and other devastated areas.

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°.

WACKER’s Nünchritz site was awarded the Responsible Care prize by the Northeast branch of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI).

Two years ago, Wacker Chemie AG and the Altötting Landscape Conservation Association launched a joint project to promote biodiversity, with the meadows along a 1.5-kilometer stretch of the Alz canal between Burgkirchen and Hirten being given a new lease of wildlife.

WACKER’s voluntary commitment to implementing the UN Global Compact’s ten principles dates back to 2006. These focus on human rights, labor standards, the environment, climate, and corruption prevention.

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.

Leading label manufacturers are cooperating in a recycling initiative for release paper. Some 30 companies are now members of the consortium, including global label manufacturers such as UPM Raflatac, Avery Dennison or Herma, and European subcontractors like WACKER.

Over 30 WACKER teams submitted their projects in a bid for the Sustainability Ambassador 2020 title. The Pilsen site won the competition.