Wacker Chemie AG (WCH.DE) XETRA

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Wacker Chemie AG

Address

Hanns-Seidel-Platz 4

Munich, 81737

Germany

Phone

49 89 6279 0

Sector

Basic Materials

Industry

Chemicals - Specialty

Employees

16655

First IPO Date

April 10, 2006

Key Executives

NameTitlePayYear Born
Dr. Christian HartelChief Executive Officer, President & Member of Executive Board1.33M1971
Ms. Angela WorlHead of Human Resource, Personnel Director & Member of Executive Board823,8841968
Dr. Tobias OhlerChief Financial Officer & Member of the Executive Board1.09M1971
Dr. Christian KirstenMember of the Executive Board1.3MN/A
Mathias WiedemannPresident of Biosolutions division0N/A
Mr. Joerg Hoffmann C.F.A.Head of Investor Relations0N/A
Mr. Joerg KreySenior Vice President of Corporate Engineering & CDO Operations0N/A
Mr. Rainald HagenhuesHead of Corproate Accounting & Tax0N/A
Ms. Martina Schulze-AdamsSenior Vice President of Corporate R&D and Head of Consortium0N/A
Mr. Peter SummoPresident of Polymers Business0N/A

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 silicas for use in construction, electronics, automotive, health, and renewable energy industries. 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. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Wacker Chemie AG is a subsidiary of Dr. Alexander Wacker Familiengesellschaft mbH.