World Soda Ash Conference

A global player in glass and chemicals, Şişecam was founded to establish the glass industry of Türkiye in line with the vision of its founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a great leader respected worldwide.

As the only global company operating in all core areas of glass production, Şişecam ranks among the world’s top two manufacturers of glassware and the top five producers of glass packaging and flat glass.

Being one of the three largest soda producers in the world and the world leader in chromium chemicals, Şişecam plays a leading role also in the chemicals, automotive glass, glass fiber, mining, energy, and recycling business lines.

With 88 years of experience and 24,000 employees, Şişecam conducts product activities in 14 countries on four continents and operates a sales network in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Şişecam takes responsibility for protecting the planet, empowering society, and transforming life with its CareforNext strategy, which is compliant with and centered around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Continental Industries is a privately held company founded in New York City in 1983, active in international sourcing and marketing of industrial chemicals and polymers. We provide fully integrated solutions to a multitude of industrial clients, thanks to our expertise in complex supply chain management and flexible financing. We operate on a truly global scale through our strategically located offices in China, Turkey, Europe, United States and Latin America. Continental Industries has always been actively involved in Soda Ash & Sodium Bicarbonate!

We believe in providing you maximum value and to accomplish this we provide you with a wide range of services, including:

• Global sourcing, marketing, and sales
• Multiple financing solutions
• Transportation, stocking, and distribution & trusted, reliable, and timely delivery
• Close partnerships with customers and suppliers around the world
• Up-to-the-minute market intelligence
• An extensive list of products

To learn more about Continental, we invite you to visit our website directly at www.continental-industries.com

Natrio is a global company specializing in the import and distribution of dry chemicals, efficient logistics and supply chain solutions.
We are the world’s largest distributor of natural soda ash and recognized globally by our customers for our high levels of service, security of supply, credibility, reliability, integrity and regard for the environment.

Efficiency, professionalism and innovation drive Natrio and these pillars have been integral to upholding our success over the past 40 years.

It’s our expansive global network that sets us apart. We carefully partner with strategic suppliers to ensure not only a quality product but also a quality supply chain. From the producer to the freight carrier, Natrio doesn’t cut corners when ensuring the most reliable sourcing supply chain.

Based on four decades of experience, Natrio will continue to grow by expanding our global presence and diversifying our product and service offering, so that we are the most reliable distribution partner globally.

Since starting production in 2009, WE Soda has consistently been a global leader in soda ash. Today, we produce over 5 million tonnes of natural soda ash and sodium bicarbonate every year, and operate two of the lowest cost production facilities in the world, located in Turkey.

WE Soda sells our products to large industrial customers in almost 80 countries around the world. Fundamental to many industrial production processes, soda ash is one of life’s invisible ingredients which plays an essential role in the sustainable products we use in everyday modern life.

At WE Soda, our mission is to challenge the status quo, to innovate and to excel in everything we do. By fulfilling our mission, we’ll continue to attract, develop, empower and retain the best people, capable of operating to the highest standards in whatever roles they perform.

Strategically, WE Soda aim’s to maintain and extend our leadership position in the global soda ash industry in terms of production volumes, product quality and supply chain reliability, technology and process innovation and in safety and environmental standards. We will execute our strategy in a responsible and sustainable way, with the lowest impact on the environment whilst supporting and investing in the communities in which we work, creating a positive impact for our employees, our customers and for the communities in which we operate.

For more information on our products, mission and people, please visit us online at: https://www.wesoda.co.uk

Frontier Carbon Solutions is a leading carbon management company developing mission-critical infrastructure to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration for the soda ash and other hard-to-abate industries. Frontier also provides expertise in monetizing tax credits and associated environmental assets to enable economic and sustainable decarbonization.

Frontier is developing the Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub in southwestern Wyoming, one of the largest open-source carbon dioxide storage hubs in the United States. We understand the importance of long term, sustainable partnerships and we are equipped to provide capture, transportation, and sequestration services to the soda ash industry, ensuring that captured emissions are securely handled from the flue stream to the well.

Frontier has acquired over 50,000 acres of carbon sequestration rights in southwestern Wyoming and has submitted 3 Class VI UIC Permits with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for CO2 injection. When fully developed, the hub is expected to store over 350 million metric tons of CO2 in geologic reservoirs.

Frontier Carbon Solutions is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and is a portfolio company of Tailwater Capital LLC, an energy and growth infrastructure private equity firm. For more information on our solutions, please visit www.frontierccus.com or email info@frontierccus.com.

Tata Chemicals operates through two verticals – Basic Chemistry and Specialty Chemistry. The company’s Basic Chemistry product range provides key ingredients to many of the world’s leading brands for glass, detergents, pharma, bakeries and other industries.

We are the 3rd largest soda ash manufacturer and the 6th largest sodium bicarbonate manufacturer in the world, with facilities in the US, UK, India and Kenya. Our key Basic Chemistry products are soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, cement, salt, marine chemicals and crushed refined soda. Our chemistry solutions serve the world’s leading downstream brands for glass, detergents, pharma, lithium, and many others. With a global customer base, we are also one of the most geographically diversified players and we serve our customers through our subsidiaries Tata Chemicals North America, Tata Chemicals Europe, Tata Chemicals Magadi and Tata Chemicals South Africa.

Sustainability as a practice is at the core of all of Tata Chemicals’ activities, including our corporate social responsibility initiatives, and is intricately woven into all our business functions. We have adopted Science Based Targets for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C, by decreasing our carbon footprint by 28% by 2030. We have set a target to be net water neutral by 2030 and have adopted marine conservation programs in India. Tata Chemicals Europe has invested $21 million to build the UK’s first industrial scale carbon capture and utilization plant, capable of capturing approximately 40,000 tons per year of CO2, resulting in a reduction of carbon emissions by 11%.

Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. Headquartered in Brussels and with more than 22,000 employees in 61 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress.

Solvay Soda Ash & Derivatives is a global business division of Solvay. As a world leader in its markets, it provides a global, secured and sustainable supply of soda ash to its customers manufacturing glass for building, automotive, solar panels and packaging applications, as well as detergents and chemicals. It also develops solutions based on sodium bicarbonate for the health care, food, animal feed and flue gas cleaning markets. Solvay Soda Ash & Derivatives has 11 industrial sites worldwide, more than 3,200 employees and serves 120 countries.

The Solvay Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet roadmap crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering a better life.

The Group’s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems.

Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world’s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of €13.4 billion in 2022. Solvay SA is listed on Euronext Brussels & Paris. (SOLB). Learn more at www.solvay.com.

Verbrugge International is a logistics service provider with broad knowledge of various industries. We specialize in the storage and transshipment of various dry and liquid bulk products. We perform these activities for different industries such as agricultural products, wood pellets, concentrates, fertilizers, and minerals.

Your ideal “gateway to Europe”, thanks to our strategic locations, customer focus, operational quality and high safety standards. Verbrugge offers a total package of logistics services for various industries in the ports of Flushing/Vlissingen and Terneuzen.

Verbrugge is a true service provider. We offer a total package of logistics services, and we have grown into a strong partner in: Port logistics, Stevedoring, Vessel handling, and Cargo Operations, Storage, Warehousing and (Offshore) Project Marshalling Yard Services, Transport, Distribution, Chartering and Forwarding, Lashing and Securing Cargo, Port Agency, Customs and Fiscal Services.