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Agenda
25%
Base for POLYMERS Binders
Key Figures 2017 Polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol,
Sales: 1,245 mn € co- and terpolymers based on vinyl
EBITDA: 206 mn € acetate, ethylene, vinyl chloride and
acrylates
Employees: 1,539
excellent high cohesion superior improved high dry and outstanding low odor, low excellent scrub
weatherability level workability flexibility wet strength machinability VOC* resistance
Others WACKER
Others WACKER
Dairen
Dow #1 #1
Dairen
Elotex** Celanese
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2007 2017
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Moscow
Allentown
Burghausen Seoul
Istanbul
Dalton
Mumbai Shanghai
Mexico City Bogota Dubai
Singapore
Technical Center Bogota:
March 2016 Jakarta Technical Center Jakarta:
São Paulo May 2017
Melbourne
49 tn $
Global demand in
200,000 2-5 x
higher VOC compounds found
$ infrastructure investments
from 2016 to 2030
people are added daily to
world´s urban population
inside US homes than outside
levels
cohesive strength
Digitalization
New Applications
Data mining
low emissions and
Production support Research & flammability resistance
Productivity Development in new applications
Sustainability Regionalization
Renewable materials Regional R&D compe-
Formaldehyde and tences (e.g. new pilot
APEO-free products reactor in Nanjing)
Compostable
C1 in advantage Highest Compliant with
to C2-C6 efficiency regulatory
Access to Closed loop Enabler for our
renewables production customers and
focus on needs
Cement production causes approxi- Besides fresh water, sand is the most
mately 5% of global man-made CO2- widely consumed natural resource
emissions Every year, some 15 bn tons of sand are
>10,000 kilowatt hours of heating mined for construction globally
energy escape through the walls of an China consumed more sand between
uninsulated detached house each year 2011 and 2013 than the USA in 100 years
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Dispersion Production
WACKER
POLYMERS
Cologne Burghausen
Calvert City Nanjing Ulsan