January 18, 2016 – The Munich-based WACKER Group completed the production capacity expansion project for functional silicone oils at its Burghausen production base, which was officially completed and put into production in early January this year. Through this new expansion project, WACKER will meet the growing demand for specialty silicone oils and silicone emulsions in the global coatings, paper, textile, cosmetics and personal care products industries. Highly specialized functional silicone oils are an extremely important upstream here. product. The total investment in the new production line is approximately 26 million euros.
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This expansion project is of great significance to WACKER Silicones business unit. This functional silicone production line can use silicone upstream products and other raw materials to produce high-tech functional silicone oils. These products are defoaming agents, impregnating agents, release agents or auxiliaries for construction, coatings, papermaking, cosmetics and personal care products. important raw materials. The expansion project will increase the production line’s production capacity by approximately 70%.
“With the completion of WACKER’s polysilicon production base in Tennessee, USA, we have basically completed the investment in large-scale upstream product production lines,” WACKER President and CEO Dr. Rudolf Staudiger said at the commissioning ceremony “Our current focus is on production lines for intermediates, finished products, and specialty products,” Shan said, and this functional silicone production line is a good example. Dr. Staudiger continued, “With this expansion, we have sufficient production capacity in Burghausen to meet the growing global demand for versatile silicone fluids and silicone emulsions.”
Wacker also continues to optimize the production process during the process of capacity expansion, further improving the production efficiency and purity of silicone oil. “This production line can be said to be our core production plant,” said Dr. Christoph Kowitz, head of the Functional Silicones Business Unit. “We produce here the most important intermediates required for our product portfolio.” Most of these intermediates are produced in Bo Ghausen or other production bases are continued to be processed into high-quality specialty silicone oil and emulsion products. Dr. Kowitz emphasized, “The value we create here is very considerable. The expansion of high-efficiency functional silicone oil production capacity has laid another important cornerstone for the sustainable development of our business.”
