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The chemical company WACKER has considerably expanded its production capacity for functional silicone fluids at its Burghausen site. The investment measure was driven by the rising global demand for specialty fluids and silicone emulsions in the construction, coating, paper, cosmetics and personal care industries.

Scrub resistance test at the Technical Center in Mexico City: The new lab for polymer dispersions used in architectural coatings and adhesive applications serves to develop new and locally adapted formulations and promotes internationally recognized quality standards in Latin America.

The heart of the new logistics center in Zhangjiagang is a high-bay ware-house covering 4,000 square meters. All incoming and outbound goods are recorded electronically and distributed across the center’s 9,000 pallet bays by a computer-aided warehouse management system.

WACKER’s new Logistics Center in Zhangjiagang, China. Used as a distribution center for downstream silicone products manufactured on site, the new facility enables the company to supply its customers in the region even faster and with even greater flexibility.

Industrial-scale protein refolding: with the novel FOLDTEC^® refolding technology, microbially produced pharmaceutical proteins can be manufactured cost-efficiently and reliably in high yields, without the need for antibiotics or phage components.