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ChemScore report card 2025
Solvay
Total Score
16/100
Ranking
12/40
About the company
After spinning off its speciality chemicals business in 2023 (Syensqo), Solvay has concentrated on providing a broad spectrum of chemical products and intermediates to various consumer and industrial sectors. Founded in 1863, Solvay now operates through five main divisions: Soda Ash and Derivatives, Peroxides, Silica, Special Chem, and Coatis. The company is also the world’s largest producer of soda ash and sodium bicarbonate, with 45 industrial sites in 41 countries.
Transparency
10 out of 25 points
Action points
- Report on the company’s global hazardous substances portfolio (beyond EU/US) on a substance-by-substance basis
- Be encouraged to have a lower reporting threshold (<1000 ppm) for the hazardous substances present in the company’s products and include more hazard classes as well as report the effected revenue on a more detailed level, substance by substance
- Include more hazard classes as well as report the produced volumes of hazardous substances leaving the facilities on a more detailed level, substance by substance
Phase-out of persistent chemicals
2 out of 25 points
Action points
- Start reporting and/or limit the share of revenue from persistent chemicals considerably
- Stop producing persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
- Stop buying/importing persistent chemicals and set up a timed phase-out plan
Product portfolio
0 out of 25 points
Number of registered hazardous chemicals
11
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Candidate List
0
Number of chemicals on the EU’s Authorisation List and/or POP substances
0
Number of persistent chemicals
11
Product portfolio transparency
51%
Action points
- Reduce the number of hazardous substances the company is using, producing and placing on the market
Safer solutions
4 out of 25 points
Action points
- Publicly commit not to develop or market new products containing hazardous substances. As a minimum, REACH candidate list substances must be excluded from such products
- The company has a public commitment to increase the share of sales of safer solutions, but should increase it even more
- Start disclosing the share of R&D expenditures that are targeted towards the development of safer solutions
Category breakdown
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Company facts
Founded
1863
Headquarters
Brussels, Belgium
Revenue
4.9 billion USD
ISIN
BE0003470755
Category
Basic
Plastic / Rubber / Fibres
Other
Metal / Mineral
CSRD
Pollution reporting
