WACKER Is Building New Liquid Resins Unit at Nünchritz Site
MUNICH — WACKER Group announced that it has started to build a liquid resins unit at its site in Nünchritz, Germany. The unit will supply key upstream products for formulating silicone-based building-protection agents and binders for exterior paints and industrial coatings. Currently, only WACKER’s site in Burghausen, Germany, produces these substances. Scheduled to go on stream at the end of 2022, the new unit will close important material loops and further increase the cost-effectiveness of WACKER’s integrated production system. The company reports that capital spending will be approximately €30 million.
WACKER uses silanes and liquid resins to formulate several specialty silicone grades. Building-protection agents and concrete-protection creams contain these kinds of hydrophobic and hence water-repellent active ingredients, as do binders for exterior paints, corrosion-resistant protective coatings and heat-resistant powder paints. The company currently produces these additives at its liquid resins plant in Burghausen, where side-stream products resulting from the manufacture of silicones react with alcohol to become silanes and liquid resins. The company’s Burghausen and Nünchritz sites process these substances into silicone products for construction and coating applications.