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Materials

Wacker Gets Technical In Latin America

by Michael McCoy
November 12, 2012 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 90, Issue 46

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Credit: Wacker Chemie
An engineer at Wacker’s Brazilian technical center tests polymer powders.
A worker in PPE manipulates a grey substance with a square-notched tile trowel.
Credit: Wacker Chemie
An engineer at Wacker’s Brazilian technical center tests polymer powders.

Wacker Chemie is expanding its technical center in São Paulo, Brazil, and creating a new technical center in Mexico City at a combined cost of about $1.5 million. CEO Rudolf Staudigl says the company’s Latin American sales have grown by an average of 15% annually over the past five years. The centers will mainly support users of the company’s dispersible polymer powders for paint and construction applications.

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