Founded in 1914 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Wacker is one of the world’s most research-intensive chemical companies. Their coating ingredients offer high opacity, binding power, high transparency, flexibility at low temperatures, and stain resistance in final products.
Wacker aims to achieve a sustainable society governed by 3 principles designed to promote the balance between ecological, social, and economic factors. To reach net zero emissions the company is expanding its portfolio, particularly of sustainable products and decarbonized production. Their coating ingredients comply with US FDA, TSCA, and REACH regulations. Wacker’s product portfolio comprises of resins like acrylic copolymers, ethylene co-terpolymers, silicones, silazanes, silicates, vinyls, additives like thickeners, water repellents, adhesion promoters, flow agents, surface modifiers, acrylate/methacrylate oligomers, and silicone-based monomers.
Key brands of Wacker include:
- VINNAPAS® range of polymer-based dispersions, powders and resins
- SILRES® range of liquid and powder coatings resins, and intermediates
- GENIOSIL® range of organofunctional silanes and silane-modified polymers
- VINNOL® range of vinyl chloride co- and terpolymer form of dispersions & resins
- HDK® range of pyrogenic silica grades
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