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it got a prigozhin, the leader of the wacker group, abruptly called off his armed rebellion. mid march to moscow. after agreeing to a mysterious deal reportedly brokered by the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. prigozhin may have a problem back down for now, but he has exposed some very real cracks in putins power. its hard to imagine things going back to where they were. over the next, hour were going to continue digging into a number of the big questions around the events i...

Christoph Kowitz, currently Head of Corporate Research at Wacker, will take over the management of the US subsidiary Wacker Chemical Corporation (WCC) at the beginning of May. He succeeds David Wilhoit, who has been responsible for the Group's North and Central American business since 2015 and is now retiring.

A kick-off event at the Zhangjiagang site in Jiangsu Province (China) marks the start of construction of several new production lines, where Wacker will manufacture functional silicone fluids, silicone emulsions and silicone elastomer gels.

Groundbreaking work in the field of low-coordinate silicon compounds has earned the prestigious Silicon Prize for 2023.

Christian Kirsten will succeed Auguste Willems on Wacker Chemie A.G.'s executive board.

The long-term partnership is aimed to make fermentation-based biotin available for the full range of relevant applications as a sustainable, non-chemical, European-sourced alternative.