Basa Online - British Adhesives and Sealants Association

UK subsidiary of Wacker Chemie AG

Wacker Chemie AG is the largest manufacturer of silicones in Europe with all manufacturing sites accredited to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. The ELASTOSIL® product range includes the full spectrum of silicone materials for all market sectors e.g. building and construction, rubber fabrication, consumer care, textile, paper, chemical and coatings. For the Sealants industry Wacker offer raw materials as well as ready-compounded sealant in bulk, cartridges and foilpacks. In the GENIOSIL® range Wacker offer organofunctional silanes, prepolymers and "hybrid" sealants. Wacker also manufacture HDK® fumed silica - available in a range of hydrophilic and hydrophobic grades - which are used primarily for their thickening, thixotropic and reinforcing properties in the sealant, resin and surface coating industries. Wacker Polymer Systems offers an extensive range of binders that are highly effective in a wide variety of applications, above all in the building, adhesive, paint and coating, textile and technical textile industries. Wacker Polymer Systems is the world leader with its VINNAPAS® vinyl acetate/ethylene (VAE) copolymer dispersions, solid resins and redispersible powders

Brands and Products

SILCONE DIVISION

ELASTOSIL® Silicone Sealants

Raw Materials for silicone sealants

HDK® Fumed Silica

GENIOSIL® Silane Adhesion Promoters, prepolymers and hybrid sealants



POLYMERS DIVISION

Redispersible powders, construction dispersions, powder binders, solid resins based on vinyl acetate homo- and copolymers, polyvinyl butyrals, vinyl chloride co- and terpolymers

VINNAPAS®, VINNOL®

European and Middle East distributor for the Toray Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. range of THIOKOL LP Liquid Polysulfide (Polysulphide) polymers and Polymercaptan products.
Wessington Group Ltd provides technical and marketing support to customers and end-users of LP polysulfide polymers.
The company is ISO 9002 registered and is a member of the BCDTA "Responsible Care" programme.

Brands and Products

THIOKOL LP Liquid Polysulfide (Polysulphide) polymers
THIOKOL Powder Supported Polysulfide polymers
ZL-2502 LP-Epoxy Adduct
POLYTHIOL QE-340M Polymercaptan Curing Agent for Epoxy resins
Manganese dioxide powder and Manganese dioxide Curing Pastes for Polysulfide sealants

Distributor of Industrial Adhesives and the associated Application Equipment for Buhnen, Hexion, Henkel, Apollo, Power Adhesives - TecBond, Rapid, Bona, WeyCraft* & WeyBond*.

Supply everything from 150 kilo per hour Hot Melt Bulk Tanks to 12mm Hand held Glue stick Guns.

Largest Distributor of their kind in Southern England.



Brands and Products

Buhnen, Heinrich Buehnen KG (HBB) Hot Melt Adhesive Bulk Tanks - exclusive UK Distributor.
Hexion (Borden) Chemicals - UF Resin & Adhesive Distributor.
Power Adhesives - TecBond Distributor.
Henkel Adhesives - UK Distributor.
WeyCraft & WeyBond are registered trade marks of the company.