Wacker Polymers has recently opened its Burghausen, Germany-based Training and Competence Center, the Vinnapas Academy. The training center provides both advanced training courses and an opportunity for networking between customers, distributors and Wacker experts. The center provides customers, partners and Wacker employees an opportunity to learn about Vinnapas polymer powders and dispersions. Set up in early 2006, the training center initially offered employees Vinnapas-related advanced training courses. “But since external demand for Wacker polymers courses has been rising steadily, too, we decided to give customers access to our Training and Competence Center,” said Peter Summo, heard of the construction polymers business unit. “As the market leader with 50 years of expertise, we enable customers and partners to tap into our knowledge pool. This represents truly added value, because they can directly translate what they learn into a competitive advantage.”