Procurement and Logistics (unaudited section)

WACKER’s procurement volume fell in 2019 to €3.4 billion (2018: €3.6 billion). This was mostly due to substantially reduced raw-material prices, but also to slightly lower purchasing volumes. At 69 percent, the procurement rate – raw materials, services and other materials as a percentage of sales – was well below the prior-year level (2018: 73 percent). At around 11,000, the number of suppliers was at the prior-year level.

At €1.9 billion, the amount spent by the Group to procure energy and raw materials was down nearly 10 percent (2018: €2.1 billion). Energy spending (electricity and natural gas) climbed some 9 percent, prompted by higher output in the USA and by Germany’s persistently high, and rising, electricity prices. This added expenditure was more than offset by raw-material savings. Raw-material quantities fell by a low-single-digit percentage versus the prior year. Additionally, raw-material prices sank by over 5 percent after two years of rising market prices.

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Procurement Volumes (incl. Procurement for Capital Expenditures)

 

 

 

 

 

€ million

 

2019

 

2018

 

2017

 

2016

 

20151

1

Including Siltronic AG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Procurement volumes

 

3,414

 

3,603

 

3,144

 

2,890

 

3,220

Polysilicon
Hyperpure polycrystalline silicon from WACKER POLYSILICON is used for manufacturing wafers for the electronics and solar industries. To produce it, metallurgical-grade silicon is converted into liquid trichlorosilane, highly distilled and deposited in hyperpure form at 1,000 °C.

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