Product sustainability and safety
The responsibility for the safety of the products Solvay provides to its customers is essential all along the life cycle of products, down to their end-of-life and recycling. This is reflected in the important efforts to identify and communicate accurately about the potential dangers of some of Solvay products and the ways to manage the associated risks, according to all existing regulations, and in line with our Responsible Care Policy.
We support: Product stewardship
Our customers are fully informed about the properties of our products and their conditions of use.
We play an active part in ensuring product safety throughout its entire lifecycle – from the acquisition of raw materials to disposal – to minimize potential adverse impacts on people and the environment.
Going one step further, we also help them calculate the Lifecycle Assessments (LCAs) of a given application made with our products by providing eco-profiles. Extensive eco-profiles are available for the largest part of Solvay products (“cradle to gate” approach).
We have also embarked on a high-level research platform coordinated by CIRAIG on LCA methodologies. Through this, partners of the project, including our customers, will establish long term contact collaboration and benefit from global expertise, enrichment of their own sustainability assessment tools , and have a better account of their social impact, among other things.
We take an active part in controlling the risks of our products by ensuring their proper management through initiatives such as:
- Worldwide phone assistance, through Carechem 24, in case of an accident or incident with our products during transport
- Highly integrated industrial complexes to reduce transport, energy use and improve recycling
- Providing customers information about safe storage, distribution, use, disposal and recycling
- Delivering specific and in-depth support such as training sessions and site visits for industrial products
We comply: regulatory compliance
We are committed to meeting regulatory compliance for product safety and fulfilling Classification Labeling Packaging (CLP) obligations in the application of the Globally Harmonised System (GHS) for all our substances and mixtures.
We meet and stay current with REACH obligations for all our products to ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment.
