The world’s healthcare and pharmaceutical companies are continually seeking innovative approaches in the development of molecules for health treatment. Skilled staff at Solvay work together with these companies, assisting them with their projects, and helping them to select the most suitable product from the wide portfolio of possibilities available. Solvay is able to offer scientific resources, long-term relationships and high quality manufacturing of substances for healthcare products. The company invests in maintaining its pharmaceutical manufacturing standards and holds a recognised record of innovation in chemical science and process engineering.

Solvay can offer an impressive range of inorganic specialties (notably salts and oxides of sodium, calcium and magnesium), peroxides, and fluorine and chlorine derivatives. Organic chemical intermediates are developed by Solvay as valuable building blocks for the synthesis of pharmaceutical products. The list of healthcare and medical applications is long: inorganic products, for example, are used for tablet excipients, dialysis purification and toothpaste additives, whilst peroxides and peracetic acid are powerful disinfectants.
Solvay products for healthcare are manufactured in strictly controlled, pharmaceutical quality environments to ensure perfect cleanliness. The company employs special hazard analysis and critical control point techniques to analyse possible contamination risks in the manufacturing process, so achieving total quality control. In this way, for example, ultra pure sodium bicarbonate is able to play a vital role in blood dialysis purification treatment.