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3 unusual facts about Solvay


Comité Européen de l'Industrie de la Robinetterie

This conference will be under the heading of innovation, high level speakers from the Ghent Vlerick business school, from Solvay, from CEFIC, the trade association for the chemical industry and from FECS will address the audience.

Hazard family

Hazard family houses at Upland Farm, Piercefield in the Village of Solvay appear in that article.

Solvay, New York

The village is named after the Solvay brothers, Belgian inventors of the chemical process employed by the Solvay Process Company, formerly the major industry of the village.


Bert E. Salisbury

For a short period after 1890, while he was still attending college, Bert Salisbury was also employed by the Solvay Process Company in Solvay, New York on the southern edge of Syracuse.

Bert Eugene Salisbury (May 28, 1870 – October 20, 1946), was appointed president of Onondaga Pottery Company (O.P.Co.), later renamed to Syracuse China in 1913, and president and general manager of Pass & Seymour, Inc. in Solvay, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, in 1914.

Ernest Solvay

Solvay, New York and Rosignano Solvay, the locations of the first Solvay process plants in the United States and in Italy, are also named after him.

GreenFacts

Until 2004, it remained primarily funded by industrial companies such as Solvay, Carrefour, Suez.

Hyundai EP

Founded in 1988 as the Petrochemical Division of Hyundai Development Company, Hyundai EP signed technology transfer contract with Solvay Engineered Polymer in 1991, focusing on developing advanced technologies, and built a compounding factory in Dangjin in 1994 to start developing and producing automobile bumpers and interior materials.

Lakeland, New York

The community includes a few gas stations, a Byrne Dairy with an indoor Subway (restaurant), two churches, a few small restaurants, a car dealership, a credit union, Johnny Mac's Pizzeria and Deli, Solvay Middle School, a Best Western hotel, and a golf course.

Lonely Joe

Lonely Joe began production in October of 2007, in the towns of Solvay, Syracuse, Elbridge, and Geddes, New York.

Peter Ritchie Calder

Sir Lawrence Bragg's original announcement of the discovery of the structure of DNA was made at a Solvay conference on proteins in Belgium on 8 April 1953 but went unreported by the UK press, he then gave a talk at Guys Hospital Medical School in London on Thursday, May 14, 1953 which resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in the News Chronicle of London, on Friday, May 15, 1953, entitled "Why You Are You. Nearer Secret of Life."

President of the European Council

Van Rompuy's first council meeting was an informal gathering in the Solvay Library in Leopold Park, rather than the more usual formal gathering in the Justus Lipsius building nearby.

Rosignano Solvay

It houses the White Beaches (Italian: Spiagge bianche), whose sand is formed by limestone (90%) and Calcium chloride (10%) produced by the nearby Solvay since 1914.

Third Ward Railway

Its line extended from Salina Street on West Genesee Street to West Street and from there to Park Avenue and Willis Avenue with final termination at Solvay Process Company at Sixth North Street (now Gere Avenue) in Solvay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse.

Varna-Devnya Industrial Complex

Some of the largest companies based here are: Solvay-Sodi (Солвей-Соди), part of Solvay, Agropolichim (Агрополихим), part of the Acid & Fertilizers Group, Polimeri (Полимери АД), part of AKB Fores, Devnya-Cement (Девня-Цимент), part of Italcementi, Thermal Power Plant Deven (Девен AД), part of Solvay, Thermal Power Plant Varna (ТЕЦ Варна, (1260 MW), part of the ČEZ Group.

Weesp

There were large facilities of Solvay Pharmaceuticals, until February 2010 when Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, IL, USA acquired Solvay Pharmaceuticals.

WSYR

WSYR-FM, a radio station (106.9 FM) licensed to Solvay, New York


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