Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group wins Best Business Award

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG) is delighted to announce it has been named winner of the Best Employer category at the 2021 Best Business Awards(BBAs). WMFTG has always strived to be a desirable place to work, and its teams work tirelessly to create innovative strategies to ensure ...

How chemical reactions compute

A single molecule contains a wealth of information. It includes not only the number of each kind of constituent atom, but also how they’re arranged and how they attach to each other. And during chemical reactions, that information determines the outcome and becomes transformed. Molecules collide, ...

KRAHN Chemie further strengthens presence in Europe by acquiring companies based in Sweden, Great Britain and Spain

The KRAHN Chemie Group, which is part of the globally operating Otto Krahn Group, has acquired majority stakes in six companies from Jollis AB & Partners. “The acquisitions further expand our cooperation with existing top producers geographically but offer interesting new opportunities as well. ...

WACKER achieves strong sales growth in Q3 2022 and confirms full-year forecast

Full-year forecast confirmed in the upper half of the range

Wacker Chemie AG finished Q3 2022 with significant sales growth. From July through September, the Munich-based chemical company generated sales of €2,132.2 million. That was 29 percent higher than in the same period last year (€1,658.6 million). Relative to a quarter earlier (€2,174.2 million), ...

Change in WACKER’S Executive Board

Board Member Auguste Willems to Leave the Company at the End of April

Auguste Willems (64), member of the Executive Board of Wacker Chemie AG, will leave the company on April 30, 2023, at his own request. The Supervisory Board appointed Dr. Christian Kirsten (51) as his successor. Kirsten will join the Executive Board on May 1 on a three year contract. A graduate ...

OQ Chemicals Launches Cost-Cutting Program and Organizational Realignment in Germany

“We will take all necessary steps to make the reorganization socially responsible and preserve as many jobs as possible“

As one of the world's leading manufacturers of oxo chemicals, OQChemicals faces the challenges of high raw material and energy prices, as well as inflation rates, particularly in Europe. To maintain its competitiveness in the rapidly changing economic and geopolitical environment of today, the ...

Targets for 2030: WACKER Accelerates Growth with High Profitability

Growth will double, sales should exceed €10 billion

At the Capital Market Day in London, Wacker Chemie AG presents its new strategic growth targets. By 2030, the company aims to lift sales significantly while keeping profitability high. The annual sales growth rate – the result of higher volumes and a better product mix – should reach between 1.5 ...

WACKER ends 2022 with new highs for sales and earnings

The polysilicon business performed particularly well

Wacker Chemie AG set new sales and earnings records in 2022. According to preliminary figures, the Munich-based chemical Group’s sales came in at €8.21 billion last year, an increase of 32 percent over 2021 (€6.21 billion). Higher selling prices were the main factor in this year-over-year growth. ...

Using X-rays to identify liquid chiral molecules

New method can for the first time distinguish their components in liquid form – and more effectively than ever before

Sugars, amino acids, drugs - chiral molecules are everywhere. Researchers in the AQUACHIRAL project at the Fritz-Haber-Institut have used X-rays to study hair-thin liquid jets of these molecules. Using a new method, they can now for the first time distinguish their components in liquid form – and ...

Researchers obtain promising results against capacity loss in vanadium batteries

A computational study conducted in Brazil could help extend the working lives of these batteries, which are widely used by utilities and manufacturers

An article by researchers at theCenter for Development of Functional Materials(CDMF)in Brazil describes a successful strategy to mitigate charge capacity loss in vanadium redox flow batteries, which are used by electric power utilities among other industries and can accumulate large amounts of ...