Solvay SA operates in the chemical and plastic businesses worldwide. The Chemicals segment offers barium strontium, calcium chloride, caustic soda, chlorinated inorganics, chlorinated organics, fluor and fluor organics, hydrogen peroxide, inorganic peroxides, organics, peracetic acids, persalts, polyglycerols, precipitated calcium carbonate and MG salts, soda ash, and sodium bicarbonate products. The Plastics segment offers fluorinated polymers, elastomers and fluids, barrier materials, polyarylamides, polysulfones, high performance polyamides, and liquid crystal polymers; inergy automotive systems; and vinyls, which include integrated electrolysis chain, vinyl chloride monomers, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) polymers, and PVC compounds. Solvay primarily serves human health, construction and architecture, automobile, chemical, glass, electricity and electronics, water and environment, paper, packaging, consumer goods, and human and animal food processing industries, as well as detergents, cleaning, and hygiene products. The company was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.