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Features

WACKER’s Features offer you regularly updated articles – with photos – about innovations and new, interesting applications and solutions. The articles are well written and easy to understand for use in various media forms.

March 2009

A New Facade for Cairo’s Television Tower

Cairo’s summer temperatures often soar above 45°C. Such extreme conditions are hard on inhabitants and structures alike.

September 2008

Polymeric Sealing Slurries: Protection of Tomorrow’s Resources

Water is a vital resource that is becoming ever scarcer and ever more precious around the globe. However, it is also a construction material’s greatest enemy, since rainwater, groundwater and vadose water can cause rapid and extensive damage to buildings.

July 2007

50 Years of VINNAPAS®: Mortar’s Metamorphosis – a Dispersible Polymer Powder Makes History

Usually invisible, but always indispensable: WACKER’s polymer dispersible powders have been leaving their mark on the construction industry for 50 years.

June 2007

Streamlining Construction Work – Self-Leveling Fillers Produce Level Surfaces

The modern construction industry values versatility together with quick and easy handling. That is particularly true for flooring compounds, where good adhesion to any substrate and crack-free hardening are required.

April 2007

No More Boiling of Hair – The Answer Now Lies in Biotechnology: Cysteine from the Bio-Reactor

In many places, the amino acid cysteine is nowadays still extracted from human or animal sources: from hair, feathers and pig bristles.