The WACKER ACADEMY

Your gateway to more success! Discover the chemistry behind WACKER products

The WACKER ACADEMY

The WACKER ACADEMY is a digital and face-to-face forum for learners, collaborators, creators and discoverers. We’ll help you make your innovations a reality.

Focused on Our Customers’ Applications

Our experts know the regional demands of your market, are always nearby and speak your language.

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Overview of ACADEMIES Throughout the World

At WACKER ACADEMIES, we tailor your applications, products and solutions to your individual requirements and to your market. With some 800 events at 14 sites on 5 continents, we offer you a range of practical seminars attuned to your specific needs.

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Seminar Finder

Do you need training in your specific topic? Our 14 WACKER ACADEMIES on a total of 5 continents offer you a practical, unique portfolio of seminars and training programs tailored to your individual needs. Use our seminar finder to select your topic.

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Seminars for Construction Materials

Walls, floors, exteriors or roofs? The WACKER ACADEMY will give you an inside look at the entire world of construction. Find out everything about a material, both in theory and in practice: learn how to optimize your use of construction chemicals and benefit from expertise on current market trends, potential savings, quality problems and our solutions to those problems.

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Seminars for Carpets

Carpets are subjected to heavy demand each and every day, and that means they have to be durable. At WACKER ACADEMY seminars, you will gain theoretical and practical insight into how you can use our chemistry to optimize carpet applications. Our labs will give you an opportunity to test WACKER products and see for yourself how they can benefit your specific application.

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Insights: Carpets

Whether in offices, hotels or conference centers, carpets are subject to a great deal of wear and tear, especially in public spaces. That means the backing has to be durable enough for the job. For these types of application areas, the Condor company of the Netherlands has developed a new product line that uses VAE dispersions from WACKER.

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Insights: Tile Adhesives

In many countries, tiles are laid using the outdated thick bed process, which consumes large quantities of material. The use of tile adhesives modified with WACKER binders can reduce the sand and cement involved by 80 percent. The difference between the thin- and thick-bed processes can be seen experimentally.

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