Research & Development

With a strong focus on R&D, WACKER is a highly research-intensive company that supplies an innovative momentum for products and applications designed to improve people’s quality of life and to conserve the environment and resources. Our technology can be found in countless products, from baby pacifiers, digital cameras and electric motors, not to mention adhesives, food products and medical engineering, right through to photovoltaic systems, wind turbines and external thermal insulation composite systems.

Exploring New Fields

Recognizing, evaluating and promoting future technologies is the primary challenge for Central R&D and its technology and portfolio-management units. After all, innovation is methodical.

Located at the site of WACKER’s corporate research facility (Consortium für elektrochemische Industrie), the Central R&D laboratories are the perfect environment for researching new topics. Making what is good even better has been the Consortium motto since 1903 and it is the basis for many forward-looking innovations, after all innovation shapes the future.

Market-Driven & Customer-Oriented Innovations

The primary challenges facing innovation-driven development at WACKER’s business divisions are all about determining and evaluating market and customer requirements and then implementing these in (transforming them into?) new products. This approach secures the long-term competitiveness and future security for ourselves and our customers thanks to our innovations from the business divisions.

Award-Winning Innovation

Numerous patents, international awards and renowned prizes are the best evidence of WACKER’s pioneering achievements in the development of innovative materials and methods. But WACKER has not only received prizes, we also regularly award research prizes.

The Future Starts Today

Knowledge about what the world will be like in the future is gained by thinking about it today. Our researchers act on this principle. Future-oriented products emerge from their ideas: for example, a wafer-thin precision film made from silicone for energy-efficient wave farms...

More about Research and Development @ WACKER

Battery Research

View Video
Battery Research

Paths to Innovation

WACKER sees innovation as an important lever for profitable growth. When creativity is pointed in the right direction, many developments soon result in successful business activities...