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Wacker Chemie AG is a provider of specialty chemical products. The company operates its business through four divisions – Wacker Silicones, Wacker Polymers, Wacker BioSolutions, and Wacker Polysilicon. Wacker Silicones offers products with raw materials comprising silicon metal and methanol. Silicone products are made in product groups including silanes, siloxanes, fluids and emulsions, elastomers, resins, and pyrogenic silica. Wacker Polymers provides a technical portfolio of polymer binders and additives such as dispersible polymer powders and dispersions. Wacker BioSolutions supplies customized biotech and catalog products for fine chemicals. The products of this division include pharmaceutical proteins, vaccines, cyclodextrins, cysteine, polyvinyl acetate solid resins (for gum base), and acetylacetone. The division focuses on customer-specific solutions for pharmaceutical actives, food additives, and agrochemicals. Wacker Polysilicon produces hyper-pure polysilicon for the semiconductor and solar sectors.