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Wacker Metroark Chemicals’ production facility in Kolkata. The joint venture, in which WACKER has a 51 percent stake, produces silicones for the textile, personal-care and construction sectors.

WACKER POLYMERS’ new US headquarters in Allentown (Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA). Alongside research and applications labs, the 6,200 m² facility houses sales, marketing, customer-service and administrative functions.

WACKER produces cyclodextrins at its Eddyville site (USA). The ring-shaped sugar molecules bio-engineered from starch are used in the pharma, household, cosmetics, food, construction and agrochemical sectors as well as for producing novel surfaces with self-healing properties.

Ideal for cosmetic products: WACKER’s nature-identical hydroxytyrosol is a very effective, high-purity antioxidant, free of unwanted byproducts and with a defined amount of active ingredient. As a free radical scavenger, HTEssence^® can prevent wrinkle formation and skin aging.

Polymer-modified concrete is sprayed onto the walls in the Stetten salt mine to stabilize the tunnel and to act as a barrier to water seepage. The innovative formulation reduces the rebound during spray application, and so minimizes waste and material consumption.