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Solvay and Honda sign exclusive supply agreement for business jets programs

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Alpharetta, GA, April 16, 2020 --- Solvay signed a long-term exclusive agreement through 2027 with Honda Aircraft for the supply of innovative composites and adhesives to be used across Honda aircraft business jet HA-420 and Elite programs.

Solvay will supply Honda with CYCOM® 5276-1 prepreg and SURFACEMASTER® 905 lightning strike protection surfacing film, two advanced material solutions that help the company achieve its performance and cost targets.

We value our long standing and rewarding relationship with Honda and this new supply agreement further solidifies our relationship. We look forward to supporting Honda as they look to maximize the benefits that composites can bring them” said Carmelo Lo Faro, President of Solvay’s Composite Materials Global Business Unit.

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About Solvay Composite Materials

Solvay’s new Global Business Unit Composite Materials is a global provider of technologically advanced lightweighting material solutions that enable our customers in the aerospace, automotive and other demanding industries to design, develop and efficiently manufacture high-quality, high-performance and complex composite structures. Composite Materials has the most extensive product portfolio, including prepregs, resin systems, adhesives and surfacing films, carbon fiber, textiles, tooling and vacuum bagging consumables, thanks to its leadership in advanced materials science, chemistry and application engineering. Solvay Composite Materials combines the former Cytec Aerospace Materials and Industrial Materials businesses.

About Solvay

Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group’s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world’s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of €10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program. Learn more at www.solvay.com.