International. Wacker Chemie announced that it is expanding its existing production plants for dispersions and dispersible powders of polymers in South Korea.
With Ulsan Mayor Gi-Hyeon Kim and numerous clients present, Wacker Executive Board member Dr. Christian Hartel; Wacker Polymers boss Peter Summo and Wacker Korea director Dal-Ho Cho celebrated the official start of construction of the major project during a symbolic ceremony.
The Group is building a new spray dryer for dispersible polymer powders at its Ulsan plant, which will have a total capacity of 80,000 metric tons per year. It is also building an additional reactor for dispersions based on vinyl acetate and ethylene copolymer (VAE), which are needed as raw material for the spray dryer to produce dispersible polymeric powders.
Ulsan's plant complex, which covers the entire production chain from VAE dispersions to dispersible polymer powders, will be one of the largest of its kind in the world. Investments will total around €60 million and production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2019.
