WACKER Presents Innovation Award for Novel Manufacturing Process for Polymer Dispersions
Munich, July 26, 2021 – WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, has presented an in-house German-Chinese team with the 2021 Alexander Wacker Innovation Award for developing and launching a novel process for producing vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) polymer dispersions. The team – consisting of Henry Chen, Zhong Chen, Dr. Bernhard Eckl, Wilhelm Kaiser, Nelson Wang and Dr. Hans-Peter Weitzel – managed to intensify the VAE process and set new standards for product throughput and energy consumption. WACKER presented the €10,000 innovation award today at its Innovation Days. Due to the coronavirus