Solvay may refer to:

Companies and organizations

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (abbreviated as SBS-EM and also known as simply Solvay) is a school of economics and management and a Faculty of the Université libre de Bruxelles, a French-speaking private research univ ...

, Brussels, Belgium *

Solvay Conference The Solvay Conferences (french: Conseils Solvay) have been devoted to outstanding preeminent open problems in both physics and chemistry. They began with the historic invitation-only 1911 Solvay Conference on Physics, considered a turning point i ...

, founded by Ernest Solvay, deals with open questions in physics and chemistry *

Solvay Indupa Solvay Indupa is an Argentine petrochemical company formerly owned by Solvay. It was considering selling this business to Braskem, but the project was rejected by the Brazilian competition authority. Solvay Indupa is one of the largest petrochem ...

, an Argentine petrochemical company formerly owned by Solvay *

Solvay Institute of Sociology The Solvay Institute of Sociology ''SIS; ''Institut de Sociologie Solvay''assumed its first "definitive form" ( Solvay 1902/1906: 26) on November 16, 1902, when its founder Ernest Solvay, a wealthy Belgian chemist, industrialist, and philanthropi ...

, Brussels, Belgium, part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles *

Solvay Process Company The Solvay Process Company was an American chemical manufacturer that specialized in the manufacture of soda ash. A major employer in Central New York, the company was key in the origin of the village of Solvay, New York, where it was headquarter ...

(1880–1985), a former U.S. company that employed the Solvay process *

Solvay Public Library The Solvay Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Solvay at Onondaga County, New York. It was built between 1903 and 1905, and is a one-story, buff-colored brick building on a high basement. It has a hipped roof and C ...

, on the National Register of Historic Places *

Solvay S.A. Solvay is a Belgian multinational chemical company established in 1863, with its headquarters located in Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Belgium. In 2015, it realized €12.4 billion in revenues, €2.336 billion of EBITDA, 43% of its sales in ...

, an international chemicals and plastics company founded by Ernest Solvay

Places

Solvay Castle Solvay Castle (french: Château Solvay, also called ''Château de La Hulpe''), is a château located in Wallonia in the municipality of La Hulpe, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Completed for the Marquis Maximilien de Béthune as an imposing manor hous ...

, La Hulpe, Belgium *

Solvay Hut The Solvay Hut or Solvay Bivouac (German: ''Solvayhütte'') is a mountain hut located on the north-eastern ridge (Hörnli Ridge) of the Matterhorn, near Zermatt in the canton of Valais. At it is the highest mountain hut owned by the Swiss Alpine ...

, on the Matterhorn *

Hôtel Solvay The Hôtel Solvay (french: Hôtel Solvay, nl, Hotel Solvay) is a large Art Nouveau town house designed by Victor Horta on the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan in Brussels, Belgium. The house was commissioned by Armand Solvay, the son of the chemist ...

, a town house in Brussels, Belgium *

Solvay, New York Solvay is a village located in the town of Geddes, Onondaga County, New York, United States, and a suburb of the city of Syracuse. According to the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 6,584. The village is named after the Solvay br ...

, a village *

Solvay Mountains The Solvay Mountains are a mountain range that rises to 1590 m ( Cook Summit) and extends in an ENE–WSW direction in the south part of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. They were discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedit ...

, Brabant Island, off the coast of Antarctica

People

Ernest Solvay Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (; 16 April 1838 – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Rebecq, he was prevented by his acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical fac ...

(1838–1922), Belgian chemist, inventor of the Solvay process * Lucien Solvay (1851–1950), Belgian journalist, art historian, and poet

Other uses

Solvay process The Solvay process or ammonia-soda process is the major industrial process for the production of sodium carbonate (soda ash, Na2CO3). The ammonia-soda process was developed into its modern form by the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay during the 1860s ...

, a major industrial chemical process * 7537 Solvay, an asteroid * Solway (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo, surname