Article: WACKER innovative paths to the future: whether biotechnology, silicon or polymer chemistry, WACKER's business fields place it among the world's technology leaders. Its creative and inventive spirit, together with efficient innovation management, guarantees WACKER a steady stream of innovations for tomorrow's markets.(Company Profile)(Company Profile)

WACKER has a long tradition in R&D. For over 100 years, the company's chemists and applications engineers have been devoting much of their time to inventing and developing new and better products. A great many of their inventions mark research milestones and have impacted the history of chemistry. Inventions by WACKER researchers formed the basis of carbide-based industrial acetylene chemistry in the early 20th century; laid the foundations of the plastics industry in the 1920s; and made a significant contribution to industrial-scale petrochemistry in Germany following the Second World War. WACKER also made important contributions to biotechnology. We continue to rank ...

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