Annual Report 2021

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Production (unaudited section)

Production output rose by a mid-single-digit percentage year over year. Production costs, on the other hand, fell slightly.

Plant Utilization in 2021

 

%

 

Plant Utilization Rate

 

 

 

WACKER SILICONES

 

97

WACKER POLYMERS

 

93

WACKER POLYSILICON

 

100

Capital expenditures for 2021 amounted to €343.8 million (2020: €224.4 million). Maintenance costs totaled around €386.2 million.

Key Start-Ups

 

Location

 

Projects

 

Year

 

 

 

 

 

Amsterdam

 

Capacity expansion and integration of specific mRNA customer processes

 

2021

Burghausen

 

Capacity expansion for the production of hydrophobic silica

 

2021

Burghausen

 

Capacity expansion of silicone-based facility

 

2021

Priorities of the Productivity Program

The ongoing Wacker Operating System (WOS) program is helping us boost productivity along the entire value chain. The most important goal is to continue reducing specific operating costs each year. In 2021, we handled 1,000 improvement projects, involving savings spanning all cost types. The focus of improvement measures in 2021 was to increase capacity amid high utilization of production facilities. An additional focus was on measures to reduce specific energy consumption in the interest of sustainability.

As a response to the coronavirus pandemic, the WOS ACADEMY developed several new online courses in 2021 and provided training to over 100 employees in improvement methods such as Six-Sigma and LEAN.

Wacker Operating System (WOS)
The Wacker Operating System (WOS) program pools, promotes and processes corporate projects for systematic process improvement. It is the basis for a groupwide improvement initiative by WACKER.