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Membranes, pipes, medical devices
Fuel cells, transport of water
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Solar Impulse: Dreams Take Flight
Solar Impulse, soon to be the world’s first manned aircraft to circumnavigate the globe day and night relying purely on solar-generated power, demonstrates Solvay’s commitment to innovation, partnership and sustainable development. Solvay is aboard the Solar Impulse with 11 products, contributing to 25 different applications and more than 6,000 parts, mainly in the 3 main applications of energy system, structure and weight reduction.
Zero Emission Race Cars
The “Formula Zero” is the European Championship for hydrogen fuel cell-driven vehicles. SolviCore, a joint venture by Umicore and Solvay, creates and markets membrane-electrode assemblies for hydrogen fuel cell applications. It also sponsored the winning 2011 team!
All-Plastic Recyclable Airline Catering Trolley
AeroCat’s sleek trolley is the airline industry’s first recyclable catering trolley with a virtually all-plastic design. Made using Radel® PPSU, the trolley weighs 25% less than conventional aluminum trolleys and can significantly decrease fuel consumption, which directly results in reduced aircraft emissions.
Asian coral regeneration uses PVC pipes
In order to encourage coral regrowth in the waters around Thailand, a framework of locally-made PVC pipes containing coral fragments has been laid on the sea bed. This initiative is supported by Solvay Vinythai.
Recycling PVC thanks to Vinyloop®
The Vinyloop® recycling process, created by Solvay, extracts PVC compounds from composite materials to be re-used as recycled material. It is rated as the most ‘eco-efficient’ recycling process.
Low-emission paints use PVDC nanoparticles
Thanks to Solvay PVDC latex technology, high-barrier, strong-adhesion, steel-coating paints, with minimal VOC emission are a thing of reality.
3D design with Nidacell®
Nidacell® elevates design to a new dimension. Solvay has created an original one-step process for the production of honeycomb structures. Known as the Nidacell® process, it can be adapted to a large range of thermoplastics, giving plastic processors various ways of differentiating their products and the opportunity of producing the 3D materials.
Self-supporting emergency shelters
Cost-effective and tremendously useful PVC 'Shelt-Easy' emergency tents are quickly assembled, include sanitary installations and can be used for long periods.