Solvay Partners with French Start-Up Ostium in Single-Use Surgical Instruments Material Recycling

10-Nov-2022 - Solvay has teamed up with French start-up Ostium in a joint project designed to enable the mechanical recycling of end-of-life single-use surgical instruments molded in glass-fiber reinforced Ixef® polyarylamide (PARA) from Solvay’s portfolio of specialty polymers. The initiative is the first for ...

ALTANA acquires formulated resins business from Solvay

Will be incorporated into the ELANTAS Electrical Insulation division

04-Jan-2017 - The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has acquired the Formulated Resins business of Belgian chemical group Solvay. This business generated sales of approximately 20 million USD in 2015. With the acquisition, ALTANA takes over a research and production facility from Solvay with 53 employees in ...

Solvay projects 35 percent capacity increase of sulfone polymer production over the next five years

19-Oct-2016 - Solvay announced that it expects to increase global production capacity for its high-performance sulfone polymers by more than 35 percent over the next five years through significant investments and process optimizations at facilities in the U.S. and Asia. The company has already added more than ...

Solvay Successfully Concludes LIFE+ GLEE Project

Sustainable Alternative Technology for the Manufacturing of Li-ion Battery Materials

29-Jul-2016 - Solvay has announced the successful conclusion of the LIFE+ GLEE project, a highly focused sustainability program the aim of which was to replace organic solvents with water in the rechargeable lithium ion (Li-ion) battery manufacturing process. Because cathode materials are usually ...

AkzoNobel and Solvay partner to expand sustainable raw materials in coatings

06-Jun-2013 - AkzoNobel and Solvay have signed a three-year agreement whereby AkzoNobel will increase the use of renewable raw materials in its paints and coatings, building on an existing partnership between the two companies. Under the terms of the deal, AkzoNobel will progressively increase the use of ...

Solvay and Avantium to jointly develop green engineering plastics

08-Jul-2011 - Solvay and Avantium announced that they have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a next generation of green high-performance polyamides for engineering plastics. The partnership combines Solvay’s leading position in specialty polymers and Avantium’s YXY technology for producing building ...

Solvay to build large specialty polymers production plant in China

27-Jun-2011 - Solvay announced it has launched a project to build a specialty polymers production plant for SOLEF® Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF), Tecnoflon® Fluoroelastomers (FKM) and their essential monomer VF2 in China to satisfy the growing demand for these high value-added specialty polymers in Asia. The ...

Solvay will expand compounding capacity for specialty polymers in China

EUR 21 million investment in new capacity to satisfy surging demand

12-Oct-2010 - Solvay announced that it has decided to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Start-up of the plant is expected in the last quarter of 2012. The plant will satisfy the growing demand for specialty polymers in China and requires the ...

Solvay commissions new sodium bicarbonate plant in USA to serve growing demand for flue gas cleaning

Process reclaims and transforms manufacturing waste into new Select S300 sodium bicarbonate for use in pollution control solutions in the USA

10-May-2010 - Solvay announced that its American affiliate Solvay Chemicals, Inc. has commissioned and brought online one of the world’s only dedicated manufacturing facilities that reclaims and transforms sodium carbonate waste streams from processed trona into a marketable grade of sodium bicarbonate. The ...

Solvay will build a very large fuel cell at SolVin’s Antwerp plant

More than EUR 5 million invested in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell on hydrogen

12-Feb-2010 - Solvay announced it will invest over EUR 5 million in the construction of a test fuel cell with a total electric power of 1 megawatt (MW) at the SolVin plant in Lillo, Antwerp, Belgium. The investment is part of the Project Hydrogen Region Flanders - South Netherlands. The fuel cell will convert ...