22.10.2015
- Germany’s Wacker Chemie has officially started its new reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene co-polymer (VAE) dispersions at Calvert City, Kentucky, USA. In expanding its capacity by...
04.09.2015
- Around the globe, market conditions for chemical industry players remained volatile and challenging, corporate chieftains said unanimously in reporting on the second quarter and...
25.06.2015
- Joachim Rauhut (61), chief financial officer of Wacker Chemie, will leave the company as planned when his contract expires on October 31, 2015, the Munich-based chemical group has...
17.06.2015
- With the greenshoe in its initial public offering fully exercised by June 15, former Wacker-Chemie subsidiary Siltronic is now to 42.2% in free float. Total proceeds from the...
10.06.2015
- Wacker Chemie has started up its new €8 million, 3,800 t/y specialty-monomer plant at Burghausen, Germany. The company said the new plant strengthens its position as the world’s...
08.06.2015
- Germany’s Wacker-Chemie and its electronic chemicals subsidiary Siltronic have announced €30-38 per share as the price range for the planned initial public offering of Siltronic...
19.05.2015
- Siltronic, electronics subsidiary of Munich-based Wacker Chemie and the world's third-largest maker of the silicon wafers used in semiconductor chips, aims to raise more than €150...
29.04.2015
- Sustainability is not a new topic for the global chemical industry, which has a long-standing track record of putting such principles into practice. Along with creating clearly...