A fully-owned WACKER subsidiary was established in Dubai to service this region in 1999, and, in the year 2002, the Technical Center was launched as a development and testing lab for construction-chemistry applications.
In recent years, WACKER Chemicals Middle East witnessed a double-digit growth across its territory. The Munich-based company focuses on providing the region with high-quality and state-of-the-art chemicals that cater to both the construction and the infrastructure sectors. These products are compliant with global building codes of practice and to the materials’ environmental compatibility and energy-saving potentials.
However, WACKER’s applications are used in various other industries within the region namely insulator coatings, elastomers, consumer care, paints, sealants, adheasives and textiles.
Located at the Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) technology park in a 3,200 m2 building and spanning a plot of nearly 13,000 m2, the technical center is furnished with state-of-the-art equipment and hosts both the sales operations, research and application labs, and a training academy.