Solvay SA engages in the manufacture and distribution of chemical and plastic products. The firm is predominantly engaged and focuses on providing chemical products and intermediates. The company principally presents its services to customers in a broad range of consumer and industrial end-markets. Its portfolio concentrates on operating through five main divisions: Soda Ash and Derivatives, Peroxides, Silica, Special Chem and Coatis. The company offers customer-proximate regional locations as well as competitive cost curve positioning due to the vertical integration in its main businesses, process technology and product know-how. The company mainly has a balanced global footprint with 12 R&I centers' as well as 45 industrial sites in 41 countries across the world.