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Article: New ventures.
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- Medical Device Daily
- Article date:
- February 14, 2008
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New ventures
From soda ash to polymers -- Solvay moves into biomaterials
By OMAR FORD
Medical Device Daily Staff Writer
Solvay (Brussels, Belgium) has been in existence for almost 150 years - founded by Ernest Solvay in 1863. The Belgium chemist built the company around his ammonia-soda process for the manufacture of ?soda ash? from brine and limestone.
Since those relatively humble beginnings, the company has grown into an international chemical and pharmaceutical and plastics group that can boast of generating $13.6 billion in revenue in 2006. (The company even had the distinction of having Pope John Paul II in its employ ...