Wacker strengthens presence in Brazil and Mexico

Wacker Chemie is strategically expanding its presence in the Middle and South American growth region by extending its existing technical centre in São Paulo, Brazil and creating a new technical centre in Mexico City, Mexico.

The Group’s international training centre – the Wacker Academy – will also be expanded at the former site and a new one opened at the latter. Both projects are scheduled for completion in the Q1, 2013. For this purpose, Wacker is investing €1.2M.

In Mexico, polymer binders are the focal point of the new technical centre (pictured right). Covering an area of more than 800m2, the facility will house the new offices of the local sales subsidiary Wacker Mexicana SA and the R&D labs for dispersible polymer powders and vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions.