The packaging world is a business that encompasses a variety of products, diverse applications, consumer marketing and highly technical industries.  Within this segmented and differentiated jungle Solvay offers two families of products: resins, which deliver outstanding barrier properties, and compounds, which are used for familiar packaging applications.  Solvay plastics are found in food, non-food and pharmaceuticals packaging.

Food
Whether for the packaging of solid food or liquids, Solvay's product range offers an excellent combination of visual, mechanical and chemical properties.  Because of this flexibility, Solvay products are recommended for many applications, including bottles and caps, bags and pouches, containers, seals, films, artificial fibers, surface treatments, barrier films.

Solvay's compounds for food packaging comply with regulations concerning chemical resistance and barrier properties, thus making them ideal materials for bottling domestic products.

Furthermore, most of the plastics used in packaging can be recycled.  Solvay companies and their partners are more and more often managing their own recycling operations.

Non-food, technical and pharmaceutical
In non-food and cosmetics packaging, Solvay compounds are essential for trade in ensuring good barrier properties for flexible packaging and perfectly watertight seals. Packaging helps to preserve and protect goods, facilitates their transport and storage, and informs the consumer. It can also help prevent theft.  Food and pharmaceutical products can be stored for long periods.  Solvay plastics can be can be moulded, extruded or blown into a wide range of hollow shapes for bottles, pots and jars for detergent, cosmetic or pharmaceutical packaging.