WACKER Consolidates Sales Structures for Functional Polymers and Redispersible Powders

03-Dec-2003

The Munich-based WACKER Group is streamlining the number of distribution partners for redispersible powders and functional polymers. Effective January 1, 2004, the Group will transfer sales responsibility for its VINNAPAS® redispersible powder, VINNAPAS® solid resin, VINNOL® surface coating resin, as well as PIOLOFORM® polyvinyl butyral product lines. Formerly with Gustav Grolman GmbH & Co. KG, these lines will be sold by the distributors Brenntag AG (Brenntag CEE), Internatio N.V. and Interorgana GmbH & Co. KG, who are already WACKER partners.

The German and Swiss sales regions, currently handled by Grolman, will be served by Interorgana, Cologne (Germany), a subsidiary of the Dutch IMCD Group. The IMCD subsidiary Internatio N.V., which already distributes silicones and functional polymers in the Benelux countries, is now taking over redispersible powder distribution in the region.

Responsibility for Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Rumania, Slovakia and Slovenia has changed, too. In these countries, the Brenntag AG (Brenntag CEE) subsidiaries responsible for Eastern Europe assume responsibility for functional polymers. Another Brenntag subsidiary, Neuber GmbH, becomes the distribution partner for Austria (including redispersible powders). Brenntag and Neuber have been selling redispersible powders and functional polymers in various Eastern European countries since 2000. RADKA spol s.r.o. Pardubice remains the distribution partner for redispersible powders in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The consolidation measures affect only the sale of WACKER products through distributors. The changes have no impact on the WACKER Group's sales structures.

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