Solvay SA is a chemical manufacturing company. The company operates its business through two segments – Materials, and Consumer and Resources. The Materials segment offers a portfolio of polymers and composite technologies used essentially in sustainable mobility applications. These solutions facilitate weight reduction, and improve carbon dioxide (CO2) and energy efficiency. It serves different markets including next-generation mobility in automotive and aerospace, healthcare, and electronics. It offers specialty polymers with expertise in three technologies – aromatic polymers, high-barrier polymers, and fluoropolymers. The Consumer and Resources segment consists of the company’s Solutions business providing specialty ingredients with a focus on more natural and sustainable solutions. The company Solutions business offers formulation and application expertise through customized specialty formulations for surface chemistry and liquid behaviour. It focuses on specific areas including resources, improving the extraction yield of metals, minerals and oil; industrial applications such as coatings; and consumer goods and healthcare such as vanillin and guar for home and personal care. The Solutions business comprises Novecare, Technology Solutions, Aroma Performance, Special Chem, and Oil & Gas. Novecare offers specialty chemicals with a portfolio of customized and sustainable solutions. Technology Solutions provides specialty mining reagents, phosphine-based chemistry and solutions for the stabilization of polymers. Special Chem produces fluorine and rare-earth formulations for automotive, electronics, agrochemical, and construction applications. Aroma Performance is an integrated producer of vanillin for the flavours and fragrances industries. It also produces synthetic intermediates used in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and electronics. Oil & Gas provides a product portfolio in the upstream oilfield chemicals sector including friction reducers, gelling agents, emulsion breakers, surfactants, inhibitors, cementing additives, and biocides.