Solvay is the global market leader for non-corrosive fluxes used in aluminium brazing technologies: we sell NOCOLOK® brand products supported by a full spectrum of aluminium brazing supplies and services plus specialized know-how. The world of NOCOLOK® is the world of aluminium brazing.
Solvay acquired the Flux Schweiß- und Lötstoffe GmbH (Flux), now renamed as Solvay Flux GmbH, complementing its aluminum brazing capabilities and products with fast-growing formulations for automotive heat exchangers and stationary heat, ventilation and air conditioning units.
Solvay Flux GmbH is a part of Solvay Special Chemical’s Business Unit Automotive, whose aluminum brazing products are globally recognized as the industry standard.
Combining Solvay’s fluorinated chemical research and innovative capabilities with Flux’s outstanding know-how in formulations and applications will form a strong global platform for growth, bringing innovative and tailor-made solutions to customers.
We continue to be your leading and competent partner for aluminium brazing challenges and remain at your disposal. Please contact us for any further information or visit our world of NOCOLOK®.
The Solvay Flux GmbH headquarters and production facilities are located in Garbsen, near Hannover. Forty employees work in the areas of research, management and marketing. Solvay Flux maintains representative offices and storage facilities worldwide via the Special Chem global distribution network.
To support customers locally in North America Special Chem also produces Pastes and coatings at its facility in Cincinatti Ohio.
The Cincinnati plant supplies various chemicals for the catalytical converter production and has a lot of know how in automotive requirements. In addition the powder production there requires similar laboratory facilities like for the flux chemistry.
Solvay Cincinatti produces Paint fluxes and various pastes. To be regional improves the shelf life of such liquids, offers make to order processes and shortens the delivery times.
The CIN plant works with the same raw materials and process recipies like its sister plant in Garbsen Germany and fulfills general requirements of global key account clients.
Bad Wimpfen, Germany - Onsan, South Korea - Quzhou, China
Solvay is the global market leader for non-corrosive fluxes used in aluminium brazing technologies: we sell NOCOLOK® brand products supported by a full spectrum of aluminium brazing supplies and services plus specialized know-how. The world of NOCOLOK® is the world of aluminium brazing.
Solvay started as pioneer at their German Bad Wimpfen site in 1980. There Solvay produces a portfolio of inorganic fluorides, the most of them used for metal and glass surface treatment applications.
The uniqueness of the Nocolok brazing process brought a lot of growth opportunities followed by new sites in South Korea (Onsan in 2007) and China (Quzhou in 2014).
Onsan plant, South Korea
These 3 sites represent the chemical and innovative competence beside the 2 composition and blending facilities which focus on the application varities.