The products manufactured by Solvay's Advanced Functional Minerals Strategic Business Unit include coated and uncoated ultrafine and uncoated fine precipitated calcium carbonates. Products are sold under the brand names of Socal and Winnofil. These products are produced at Angerra, Italy; Salin de Giraud, France; Rheinberg, Germany; Ebensee, Austria and at Lostock, UK. The related research facilities are located in Brussels, Salin de Giraud,and Rheinberg.

All production facilities are ISO 9001-2000 certified. Solvay firmly believes in continuous quality improvement and sets the highest quality standard among its peers. To ensure unsurpassed customer satisfaction, we provide expert advisory services and custom tailored support through our technical service teams and highly experienced sales staff.

Socal and Winnofil, ultrafine and fine PCCs, are functional minerals fillers that allow the formulator to control rheology, improve strength, material flow and optical properties of adhesives & sealants, plastics, paint & coatings, rubber and ink. In pharmaceuticals, these act as an excipient and improve the blending process.  In cosmetics, they will provide acid neutralization, calcium availability, rheology control and pigment extension. In paper application, they provide an alternative to expensive pigment with low abrasion characteristics. They are used in agriculture area as a carrier for active ingredients and to control viscosity of the solvent based formulations.

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