Empowering megatrends with silicones

For more than 75 years, we have been among the top producers of silicone and silicone resins. For almost 60 years, our SILRES^® silicone resins have set standards in the quality of decorative coatings. This success story has been made possible by a unique chemical network – but even more so by a highly dedicated network of people.

Your Needs Are Driving Our Innovation! In close collaboration with universities and research institutions, WACKER’s corporate R&D team of over 200 researchers continuously develops new production platforms and technologies for all types of biopharmaceuticals including recombinant proteins, live microbial products, pDNA, mRNA and LNPs. The R&D scientific team has secured patents for more than 200 different patents and applications across these diverse areas. They are also involved with 35+ active academic and industry collaborations.

Do you know how many times you have already encountered WACKER today? Why entire industries rely on our chemistry? And what (mostly) invisible – but no less fascinating – roles molecules from WACKER play?

Doing business with WACKER is now easier than ever: My Account offers a variety of features and benefits as well as a simple, intuitive and modern user interface. 

There’s only one way to find out how cementitious construction materials behave under certain conditions: testing, testing and more testing. And that’s exactly what WACKER experts are doing at the technical competence center in Burghausen – and at other sites all over the world. Always with the aim of finding perfect formulations for unique applications.

What makes for really good building materials? Excellent raw materials, of course. But, above all, a great deal of expertise and experience. WACKER has a home for all these: its technical competence center for construction polymers in Burghausen. Here, we have been working to find the best formulation for each individual customer since 1957.

How do renders react long-term to climatic influences? What is the highest or lowest temperature at which a formulation can be applied without loss of performance? Is a tile adhesive flexible enough to cope with temperature fluctuations? Our experts at the Burghausen technical competence center give you the answers.

For decades, now, WACKER has dedicated itself to silicone chemistry, honing its weatherproofing skills to perfection. Why? So that paint makers, professional painters and home owners throughout the world won’t have to worry about facade protection for decades.

Earth Overshoot Day occurs on August 22, the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what Earth can regenerate in 2020. In other words, simply to maintain its lifestyle at current levels, humanity would need to consume the equivalent of 1.75 Earths.