The automotive industry makes use of a diverse range of products from inorganic fluorides to refrigerants and blowing agents.

A variety of our products are used for the building and construction industry. These products include blowing agents and flame retardants for Polyurethane and Polystyrene insulation products and anhydrite for the cement industry. Inside buildings Solvay products can be found in air conditioners, heat pumps and refrigerators.

In the multi-faced world of consumer products, Solvay chemicals are used for a wide range of applications.

Solvay manufactures several detergent ingredients as well as products used for our daily hygiene such as washing powders and liquids (especially for fabrics with delicate colour dyes), dishwashing and cleaning products for tiles and windows for example.

The high quality of chemicals produced by Solvay, together with the close collaboration between the industry’s and Solvay’s specialists make it possible to achieve significant progress.

Protecting the environment is a crucial challenge facing our societies. Solvay has committed itself to a Sustainable Development policy, aimed in particular at improving performance in the areas of health, safety and the environment. The unique properties of our products make them particularly suited to providing protection for the environment in all areas of everyday life and throughout industry. From pollution prevention to abatement and cure, Solvay Chemicals can provide an effective solution to environmental problems.

In our daily life eating is both a necessity and a pleasure. Solvay builds on its extensive know-how in many traditional products to continue improving our sustenance at every point along the feed and food chain.

For fruit juices, beverages and sweets, the most added mineral is calcium. It is added because of its nutritional value, its solubility, its taste, its bio-availability and the added commercial value of a product "enriched with calcium".

In constant use since ancient times, glass is still a highly valued material. Today, glass is a sophisticated product requiring state-of-art technologies. New grades of glass have been developed and, depending on their composition, distinctions can be made among approximately a dozen types of glass, which fall into the categories of hollow glass, flat glass and specialty glass.

We offer a wide spectrum of inorganic specialties for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. With an international leading position in the world markets, some of these products are manufactured under GMP-conditions supported by CEP documentation. We want to provide you with our industrial competence and scientific knowledge.

Industrial applications is the field concerned with the support of industrial processes and engineers. Our products cover a huge range of applications including gas drying, metallurgy and surface cleaning among many more.

As a medium for writing or as a packaging material, paper has become one of life’s essentials. Today’s pulp and paper industry uses many Solvay chemicals. Hydrogen peroxide for example is widely used to brighten and to delignify and also to address environmental problems.