Wacker Chemie
Wacker Chemie is a major in the Materials segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain, headquartered in München, DE. Its key customers include SUMCO, GlobalWafers, Siltronic.
Major polysilicon and silicone maker supplying semiconductor-grade silicon.
- Ticker
- ETR: WCH
- Headquarters
- München, DE
- Revenue
- $6.4B (FY2025) · -4.1% YoY
- Net income
- $-954M
- Operating margin
- 6.3%
- Market position
- major
- Value-chain segment
- Silicon Wafers, Photoresists & Chemicals
- Key products
- Semiconductor-grade polysilicon (hyper-pure), Pyrogenic silica (HDK), Silicone fluids, elastomers, and resins
About Wacker Chemie
Wacker Chemie, headquartered in Germany, operates in the Silicon Wafers and Photoresists & Chemicals segments of the semiconductor & AI supply chain and is positioned as a market major there. Its key products include Semiconductor-grade polysilicon (hyper-pure), Pyrogenic silica (HDK), Silicone fluids, elastomers, and resins. wafergraph maps 11 tracked customers for Wacker Chemie across the value chain. It has a supply-chain criticality score of 70/100, with 247 companies downstream of it.
Role in the chain
Wacker Chemie is a market major in Materials (Silicon Wafers), headquartered in Germany. Major polysilicon and silicone maker supplying semiconductor-grade silicon.
Diligence questions
- The dataset names 11 tracked customers for Wacker Chemie. How concentrated is demand among those names, and which of them have a documented second source in this graph?
- Wacker Chemie is headquartered in Germany. What jurisdiction, export-control or logistics risk sits at that HQ, versus at the fabs or plants the filings actually name?
- Wacker Chemie trades as ETR:WCH. What does the latest reported period say about capacity and backlog versus the graph position above?
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Key products
- Semiconductor-grade polysilicon (hyper-pure)
- Pyrogenic silica (HDK)
- Silicone fluids, elastomers, and resins
Customers
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Sources
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Cite as: wafergraph, “Wacker Chemie — supply chain, financials & market position”, https://wafergraph.com/company/wacker (data as of 2026-09-05).
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