The Solvay’s renewable chemistry aims to study the potential of biobased chemistry with the objective of identifying opportunities for improving, developing or extending Solvay’s existing products.

Renewable raw materials are focusing on:

• processing chains based on agricultural resources, like sugar cane in Brazil, for manufacturing chemical or mineral feedstocks
• industrial biotechnologies based on carbohydrates of photosynthetic rather than fossil origin
• conversion of certain sugars and vegetable oils to produce basic components for new specialty polymers. This research is being done largely in collaboration with third parties
• fractionation of biomass and exploitation of the derivative compounds by chemical or biotechnological means
• various pathways of CO2 recovery using emerging biosynthetic or catalytic technologies