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Materials

Wacker Builds Vinyl Monomers Plant

by Michael McCoy
March 9, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 10

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Wacker’s Burghausen, Germany, site, where it is building a specialty monomers plant.
Picture inside the Wacker plant.
Credit: Wacker
Wacker’s Burghausen, Germany, site, where it is building a specialty monomers plant.

Wacker Chemie is building a plant at its flagship manufacturing site in Burghausen, Germany, that will produce vinyl neodecanoate and vinyl laurate, specialty monomers for dispersible polymer powders used in tile adhesives and other binders. The company says the plant will cost about $9 million and have capacity for 3,800 metric tons per year when it opens next quarter.

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