Wacker Chemie AG Company Description
Wacker Chemie AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides chemical products worldwide.
It operates through four divisions: Wacker Silicones, Wacker Polymers, Wacker Biosolutions, and Wacker Polysilicon.
The Wacker Silicones division offers silanes, siloxanes, silicone fluids, silicone emulsions, silicone elastomers, silicone resins, and pyrogenic silica.
The Wacker Polymers division provides binders and polymeric additives, such as dispersible polymer powder and vinyl acetate-ethylene dispersions, which are used in construction, paper, adhesive, paint, coating, and basic chemical industries.
The Wacker Biosolutions division offers customized biotech and catalog products for fine chemicals, such as pharmaceutical proteins, vaccines, cyclodextrins, cysteine, polyvinyl acetate solid resins, and acetylacetone for pharmaceutical actives, food additives, and agrochemicals.
The Wacker Polysilicon division produces hyperpure polysilicon for use in semiconductor and solar sectors.
Wacker Chemie AG was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Wacker Chemie AG operates as a subsidiary of Dr.
Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH.
Country | Germany |
Founded | 1914 |
Industry | Specialty Chemicals |
Sector | Materials |
Employees | 16,378 |
CEO | Christian Hartel |
Contact Details
Address: Gisela-Stein-Strasse 1 Munich, 81671 Germany | |
Phone | 49 89 6279 0 |
Website | wacker.com |
Stock Details
Ticker Symbol | WCH |
Exchange | Deutsche Börse Xetra |
Fiscal Year | January - December |
Reporting Currency | EUR |
ISIN Number | DE000WCH8881 |
SIC Code | 2821 |
Key Executives
Name | Position |
---|---|
Dr. Christian Hartel | Chief Executive Officer, President and Member of Executive Board |
Dr. Tobias Ohler | Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Board |
Angela Worl | Head of Human Resource, Personnel Director and Member of Executive Board |
Dr. Christian Kirsten | Member of the Executive Board |
Rainald Hagenhues | Head of Corproate Accounting and Tax |
Joerg Hoffmann C.F.A. | Head of Investor Relations |
Goetz Neumann | Head of Legal Affairs |
Jörg Hettmann | Head of Corporate Communications |
Dr. Thomas Koini | Head of Sales and Distribution |
Dr. Fridolin Stary | Head of Corporate Research and Development |