Keyword: Wacker

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Wacker Starts US Plant for VAE

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...

Markets & Companies

Global Chemicals Markets Still Volatile and Challenging

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...

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Board Changes in Store at Wacker-Chemie

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...

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Siltronic Greenshoe Option Fully Exercised

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...

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Wacker Starts New Specialty Monomers Unit at Burghausen

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...

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Siltronic Share Offering May be Worth €480 Million

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...

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Siltronic Aims for Stock Listing Before Summer

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...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Together for Sustainability

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...