Our new product group is dedicated to Advanced Materials for the specific purposes in eletronic and other high tech applications such as LCD screens.

Solvay is a producer of a wide range of Barium and Strontium compounds and its coproducts. Our expertise and know-how gathered in more than 100 years of production, enables us to offer you today a wide range of high-quality customized products to suit your needs with in a range of applications such as in TV displays, glass, ferrites, bricks, tiles and ceramics amongst others.

We ensure that our products offer highest quality levels at all times by performing continuous chemical and technical audits on raw materials, production processes and final products. Our clients benefit on the one hand from in-depth advice and tailored support from our application services as well as from our sales staff, all seeking to ensure long-term client satisfaction.

CASO Calcium Chloride is one of Solvay's oldest products, and it still remains important today. Over the years, Solvay has adapted the applications of CASO to meet the demands of users as diverse as the agricultural and food & feed industries and civil engineering. It is also used extensively in the oil industry, in water treatment processes, for treating roads in winter and summer, and for domestic and industrial dehumidification.

A RAW MATERIAL ...
AN ESSENTIAL MATERIAL

Caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide, is a strong base soluble in water. Produced by the electrolysis of salt brine, it is available on a wide industrial scale.

Caustic soda is used in the manufacture of products which form part of our daily lives and in applications or uses as varied as the pulp & paper, detergents, the chemical, building and car industries, packaging, agriculture, environmental protection, water treatment, foodstuffs, health and textiles, and so on.
Solvay produces and supplies caustic soda in liquid form (aqueous solution) and solid form (anhydrous), under the main quality international standards, in order to provide efficient services to industry.

In keeping with Ernest Solvay's passion for progress without frontiers, we would like to welcome you to the Chlorinated products.
Our web pages contain extensive information on the products we make and the markets we sell them to. It should therefore be of interest to a wide range of people from current customers and shareholders to anyone with a vibrant curiosity.

Worldwide Excellence in Fluorine Products

Welcome to the peroxides section of the website. It contains information on the products we make, the markets where we sell them and our environmental policies and procedures. Whether you are a current customer a shareholder or simply someone with a more general interest in these products we hope you will find these pages informative and helpful.

SOLVAY is the world-leader in the production and marketing of vegetable based high purity Polyglycerols (Diglycerol, Polyglycerol-3 and Polyglycerol-4).

These products are used as such or transformed into derivatives by our customers, to serve high added value markets (food, personal care, pharmaceuticals, plastics, etc). Polyglycerols have been known since the beginning of the 20th century, and polyglycerol fatty acid esters have been used in Europe and America since the 1940s. Continuous research carried out by Solvay has led to a new generation of polyglycerols with consistently high purity and unique properties. These products and their derivatives are used in a wide range of applications including food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and industrial applications.

Your benefits with SOCAL^® and WINNOFIL^® PCC:

• Cost-effective performance in your specific application.
• Quality and consistency.
• Reliable supply availability to accompany your developments.
• Technical expertise to jointly identify the most suitable grade for your application.

Solvay has been producing PCC for more than 80 years. Therefore, today we are able to offer: 

• A complete range of fine and ultrafine, coated and uncoated, Precipitated Calcium Carbonates for specialty uses like Sealants, Paints, Plastisols, Polymers, Inks, Healthcare and Food.
• Products developed to meet specific performance and supply requirements of customers.
• Total quality control in design, manufacturing and delivery. All the production units are certified ISO 9001/9002.
• Products offering different combinations of particle size and coating functionality giving maximum effect in many areas of applications.

Solvay has 9 production facilities in three continents, producing more than 7 million tonnes of sodium carbonate both by the traditional Solvay ammonia process and by the refining of Trona.  Solvay produces high quality soda ash to meet its customers’ specifications in accordance with all applicable safety, health and environmental standards. Today, it is shipped to more than 90 countries, using every form of transport imaginable.

As well as being present in many major consumer markets, Solvay's global supply chain capability benefits from multiple sourcing opportunities and a wide network of local warehouses to give an even better service to its customers, both across Europe, the USA, and, even more importantly, in many export destinations.

A pharmaceutical grade of sodium carbonate anhydrous is also available which is produced in a dedicated production facility in Dombasle/France.

BICAR^® is a high quality product which is used in a wide range of applications including food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and industrial applications.