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Dow Corning, Wacker launch China project

September 18, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 38

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Wacker, Burns, and other attendees ceremonially break ground on a $600 million silicones project.
Credit: Jean-François Tremblay/C&EN
Wacker, Burns, and other attendees ceremonially break ground on a $600 million silicones project.

Wacker Chemie CEO Peter Alexander Wacker and Dow Corning CEO Stephanie Burns attended a recent ceremony in Zhangjiagang in China's Jiangsu province to mark the groundbreaking for silicon-related facilities worth some $600 million. A siloxane plant will use Dow Corning technology, and Wacker will contribute the production process for a fumed silica plant. The companies say the two plants will jointly produce up to 200,000 metric tons of products per year. They are scheduled to be fully operational in 2010.

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