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- Siltronic AG develops, produces and sells hyperpure silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry worldwide. The company offers an extensive portfolio of products including polished wafers, epitaxial wafers, annealed wafers, non-polished wafers, as-sawn wafers, as-lapped wafers, as-etched wafers and float zone wafers with diameters up to 300 mm, manufactured using Czochralski (CZ) and float zone (FZ) processes for applications in high-voltage components, low-resistivity devices, automotive engineering, telecommunications, integrated microprocessors and memory modules. Siltronic operates advanced production facilities in Europe (Germany sites in Munich, Burghausen and Freiberg), Asia (Singapore) and the USA (Portland, Oregon), employing around 4,400 staff and serving customers in Germany, rest of Europe, the United States, Taiwan, Mainland China, South Korea and other Asian markets. Founded in 1968 as Wacker-Chemitronic and renamed Siltronic AG in 2004, the company is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and listed on the German stock exchange under ticker WAF with shares in the SDAX and TecDAX indices. Recent developments include the inauguration of a new 300 mm wafer fabrication facility in Singapore in 2024 following first production in 2023, completion of customer qualifications for the Singapore fab and cessation of small-diameter wafer production (up to 150 mm) at the Burghausen site in the first half of 2025, alongside a 5.3% stake acquisition by Netherlands-based HAL in 2024.