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Six years of Solvay Sodi

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Solvay Sodi Devnya began its operations in Bulgaria in April 1997. Then it had 2150 employees, today it has just 928.

Sodi Devnya is one of the biggest soda ash plants in the world and is ideally located on the shore of the black sea, close to a deep sea harbour.

In 1997 the company's only assets were the plant itself. In August 2000, Solvay Sodi acquired three companies supplying raw salt and limestone as well as electricity and steam.

The plant provides a wide range of products although its output is dominated by the bulk production of soda ash and smaller quantities of soda bicarbonate.

Each year about 18 million leva is invested to improve production at the soda ash plant. The company has no major plans to expand in the immediate future.

Head of operations is Paul Jacquelot. He holds an engineering degree and started working for the Solvay group in 1990 as technical director of the Jemeppe sur Sambre plant in Belgium. He has been Executive Director of Solvay Sodi SA since the beginning of 2000, and a member of the board of directors since 1999.

The Executive Director of Solvay Sodi Devnya is Ivan Bochukov. He holds a degree in chemical engineering and started working for Sodi in 1973. He has been an executive director of Solvay Sodi since 1997 and member of the Solvay Soldi SA board of directors since 1997.

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