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Solvay Invests In Electronics, Polymers

by Michael McCoy
September 13, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 37

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Credit: Solvay
Solvay researchers test organic electronics.
Credit: Solvay
Solvay researchers test organic electronics.

Solvay will spend $4 million to buy a minority stake in Polyera, a Skokie, Ill.-based developer of organic semiconductors and dielectrics for flexible electronics. Solvay has a similar investment in Pittsburgh’s Plextronics. Separately, Solvay and Chinese partner Sinochem Lantian will build a facility in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, China, for electronics-grade hydrogen fluoride. And the Belgian firm will invest close to $13 million at its plant in Spinetta Marengo, Italy, to expand capacity for peroxide-curable fluoroelastomers, used in the automotive and aerospace industries.

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