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Innovation, an essential value for Solvay.
Innovation is an integral part of the Group’s culture and one of its fundamental components. (Innovation and Strategy). It is the key driver for contributing to sustainable growth and competitiveness.
Through innovation, Solvay opens new growth markets, moves its business forward by creating new and advanced solutions, and fully live up to its role in society.
Anticipating the challenges of its markets and innovating allows Solvay to progress and ensure its competitiveness in a way that is ever more respectful of life and the planet.
In doing so, the Group fully lives up to its role as world leader in sustainable chemistry.
Many initiatives are designed to motivate employees by rewarding and recognizing their contributions. Among these is the Solvay Innovation Trophy, a flagship initiative of the innovation thrust.
Exploring new seams of innovative solutions for future’s chemistry
Solvay is looking for sustainable and profitable growth, by creating new opportunities in markets of the future and has set up strategic platforms for growth New Business Development. These develop business opportunities in new fields as well as establish strong international networks: R&D in cooperation with academic partnerships, start ups and venture capital funds, provides synergies and guarantees a seamless link between fundamental and applied research.
Our projects are focused on energy savings, renewable energy, water treatment, renewable materials, health and well-being.
Solvay innovates to succeed
Flexible Organic LED lighting reaches high energy efficiency thanks to shared research effort
Solvay and Holst Centre have demonstrated high efficiency flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) lighting tiles with a surface area of 69cm2.
These large-area demonstrators contain several layers deposited by solution processing at Holst Centre and additional layers applied by conventional vacuum deposition at Solvay.
Current OLED devices are made at pilot scale by depositing many layers on glass by vacuum process. Solvay and Holst Centre were able to deposit several layers of the OLED by solution processing, which brings the use of printing technologies to produce OLEDs closer.
The highly efficient flexible OLED stack was designed and optimized at Solvay. It is based almost entirely on organic functional materials developed at Solvay and integrates Plexcore© OC Hole Injector Layer (HIL) from Plextronics, Inc. The demonstrators include Holst Centre’s own thin-film encapsulation and large-area transparent anode technologies on plastic substrates from DuPont Teijin Films.
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