headquarters town and country missouri area served worldwide key people jeffry quinn chairman president and ceo products specialty chemicals number of employees 3400 parent eastman chemical company website www.solutia.com 318 monsanto st. east st louis il . solutia inc. is a global manufacturer of performance materials and specialty chemicals including polyvinyl butyral pvb ethylene vinyl acetate eva and thermoplastic polyurethane tpu interlayers for laminated glass aftermarket window films protective barrier and conductive films and rubber processing chemicals used in architectural automotive alternative energy electronic devices consumer and industrial applications . the company was formed on september 1 1997 as a divestiture of the monsanto company chemical business . in july 2012 the company was acquired by eastman chemical company . 1 solutia s worldwide headquarters are located in town and country missouri united states with regional headquarters located in louvain la neuve belgium ; s o paulo brazil ; and shanghai china . 2 solutia is currently known as the world s leading manufacturer of pvb eva and tpu interlayers custom coated window and performance films and chemicals for the rubber industry . 3 in 2009 the company completed the sale of its nylon division with closure of the sale in the second quarter 2009 . 4 in 2010 the company purchased etimex solar and novomatrix further enhancing its portfolio of interlayer and film products . 5 solutia was bought by eastman chemical company in 2012 for 4.8 billion . 6 contents 1 history 2 businesses and products 2.1 advanced interlayers 2.2 performance films 2.3 technical specialties 3 corporate leadership 4 environmental and health record 5 references 6 external links history edit the company was formed on september 1 1997 as a divestiture of the monsanto company chemical business . solutia filed for bankruptcy on december 17 2003 in response to significant litigation surrounding various products unsustainable debt structure and a downturn in the economy . solutia emerged from bankruptcy on february 28 2008 . 7 solutia employs approximately 3 400 people in more than 50 locations worldwide and reported 1.67 billion in annual revenues for 2009 and 984 million in revenues through june 30 2010 for its continued operations nylon revenue not included in figures ; new acquisitions included in figures for 2010 only . 8 businesses and products edit as of april 26 2010 solutia reports its businesses in three segments advanced interlayers performance films and technical specialties . the products within these segments are as follows advanced interlayers edit advanced interlayers plastic interlayers are used for laminated safety glass primarily in automotive and architectural applications ; advanced interlayers also produces pvb eva and tpu solar module encapsulants for thin film and building integrated photovoltaic applications . advanced interlayers brands include saflex vistasolar vanceva color studio and keepsafe max . performance films edit performance films professional and retail window films are custom coated and used primarily for automotive and architectural aftermarket tinting safety and energy efficiency applications under the brand names of llumar vista enerlogic v kool ique h per optik sun x nanolux gila and formulaone high performance auto tint . performance films precision coatings products sold under the flexvue films brand are used in protective and conductive films for touch screens and electronic devices as well as thin film photovoltaic and concentrating solar power applications . technical specialties edit flexsys rubber processing and antidegradant chemicals sold under the crystex and santoflex brands are integral to the manufacturing of tires and other rubber products such as belts hoses seals and footwear . therminol heat transfer fluids are used in systems that provide for indirect heating or cooling of industrial and chemicals processes including concentrating solar power plant applications . skydrol aviation hydraulic fluids and the skykleen brand of aviation solvents are supplied across the aviation industry . corporate leadership edit jeffry n. quinn chairman president and chief executive officer paul j. berra iii senior vice president general counsel and chief administrative officer robert t. debolt senior vice president business operations james m. sullivan executive vice president and chief financial officer james r. voss executive vice president global operations nadim z. qureshi vice president corporate strategy and development timothy j. wessel president and general manager saflex ray j. kollar president and general manager performance films d. michael donnelly president and general manager technical specialties environmental and health record edit solutia and its parent company monsanto agreed in 2003 to pay 700 million to settle claims by 20 000 anniston alabama residents over pcb contamination . 9 monsanto documents indicate that the company routinely dumped pcbs in the land and water supply of anniston and covered up its behavior for more than 40 years . 10 in 2008 pcbs were found outside anniston high school . 11 solutia s springfield massachusetts plant ranks as 4 on the epa s top five facilities that reported the largest quantity of on and off site environmental releases in massachusetts under the toxics release inventory for 2007 . 12 solutia s delaware river plant is responsible for contaminating the soil and the groundwater with three old hazardous waste disposal areas a phenol equalization lagoon two sludge lagoons a raw waste lagoon a process sewer system a storm water drainage ditch and a closed resource conservation and recovery act rcra regulated hazardous waste landfill . 13 the solutia aes property site near the kanawha river in nitro west virginia was found by the epa to have 18 buried deteriorating drums containing dioxin . epa determined that a threat to public health or welfare or the environment existed due to the release or threat of release of dioxin at the site . 14 the solutia facility in sauget illinois is responsible for emitting pcbs benzene chlorobenzene lead and mercury . solutia completed an interim remedy in 2004 to contain intercept and collect contaminated groundwater discharging and causing environmental impacts to the mississippi river . 15 in 2006 the epa filed suit against solutia shell oil and mallinckrodt over hazardous materials found at the great lakes container corp. in st. louis missouri . in 1995 a fire alerted officials to the potential dangers of the 11 acre 45 000 m2 site and environmental investigations turned up buried drums of hazardous materials asbestos and high levels of lead and polychlorinated biphenyls . according to the consent decree 61 650 tons of soil contaminated with pcbs and lead was removed from the site as were more than 800 buried drums . 16 solutia s chocolate bayou alvin facility ranked 1 in the epa s top ten facilities in texas for total on site and off site releases of all chemicals in 2009 . 17 in may 2009 the texas commission on environmental quality approved a penalty of 117 048 assessed against solutia for 14 air violations that occurred over a year and a half period . 18 references edit eastman to acquire solutia ; raises outlook for 2013 eps to greater than 6 . eastman . town and country mo. based spin off turns to monsanto for financial help . st. louis post dispatch . december 7 2003 . retrieved on august 19 2009 . solutia inc. at citi basic materials conference december 1 2009 solutia completes sales of nylon business dead link solutia announces agreement to acquire etimex solar and solutia announces the acquisition of novomatrix acquisition by eastman accessed 19 may 2014 solutia emerges from bankruptcy st. louis post dispatch investor fact sheet archived june 21 2011 at the wayback machine . http topics.nytimes.com top news business companies solutia inc index.html 1 http nl.newsbank.com nl search we archives p product ansb & p theme ansb & p action search & p maxdocs 200 & p topdoc 1 & p text direct 0 122958c7e443d810 & p field direct 0 document id & p perpage 10 & p sort ymd date d & s trackval googlepm http yosemite.epa.gov opa admpress.nsf 8b770facf5edf6f185257359003fb69e 725675289c4307098525757f005f2f0e opendocument http www.epa.gov region02 waste fssolut.htm http www.epa.gov reg3hscd npl wvsfn0305408.htm https web.archive.org web 20090805234828 http www.epa.gov reg5rcra wptdiv news te032808.htm . archived from the original on august 5 2009 . retrieved may 8 2009 . missing or empty title help http findarticles.com p articles mi qn4181 is 20060828 ai n16694928 http yosemite.epa.gov opa admpress.nsf a883dc3da7094f97852572a00065d7d8 dbb378814050a6b28525757e005fe1ee opendocument http www.alvinsun.net articles 2009 05 15 news doc4a0de0035d455338609167.txt external links edit company website saflex website vista films website skydrol website v t e monsanto people hugh grant john francis queeny edgar monsanto queeny william standish knowles subsidiaries dekalb genetics corporation mobay seminis facilities agracetus products roundup herbicide publications the world according to monsanto amusement park attractions adventure thru inner space monsanto house of the future related monsanto legal cases monsanto canada inc. v. schmeiser march against monsanto the monsanto years retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title solutia & oldid 737598101 categories companies based in st. louis county missouricompanies established in 1997chemical companies of the united stateshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from february 2015articles with wayback machine linkspages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 september 2016 at 21 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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