ST. LOUIS, April 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), a market-leading performance materials and specialty chemicals company, announced today that it has sold its Santoweb® and Vocol® businesses to Rhein Chemie, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LANXESS AG, a German-based specialty chemicals company.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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"Solutia continues to execute its strategy of focusing the Flexsys® portfolio on high-value, global market-leading rubber chemicals," said Greta Senn, president and general manager of Solutia's Technical Specialties division.  

Solutia's Technical Specialties division offers advanced chemical and specialty products that meet or exceed rigorous specifications and are distributed through a reliable, global supply system. As one of the world's largest producers of chemicals for the rubber and tire industry, Flexsys products help control the process of manufacturing rubber while improving its durability, flexibility and appearance.  

Sales from the Santoweb and Vocol businesses represented less than 0.5% of Solutia's consolidated 2010 results.  For more information on Solutia and its diverse portfolio of product solutions, please visit www.solutia.com .

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Corporate Profile

Solutia is a market-leading performance materials and specialty chemicals company. The company focuses on providing solutions for a better life through a range of products, including: Saflex® polyvinyl butyral interlayers for glass lamination and for photovoltaic module encapsulation and VISTASOLAR® ethylene vinyl acetate films for photovoltaic module encapsulation; LLumar®, Vista™, EnerLogic™, FormulaOne®, Gila®, V-KOOL®, Huper Optik®, IQue™, Sun-X® and Nanolux™ aftermarket performance films for automotive and architectural applications; Flexvue™ advanced film component solutions for solar and electronic technologies; and technical specialties products including Crystex® insoluble sulfur, Santoflex® PPD antidegradants, Therminol® heat transfer fluids and Skydrol® aviation hydraulic fluids. Solutia's businesses are world leaders in each of their market segments. With its headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, the company operates globally with approximately 3,300 employees in more than 50 worldwide locations. More information is available at www.Solutia.com .

About Rhein Chemie:

Rhein Chemie develops, produces and sells additives, specialty chemicals and service products for the rubber, lubricant and plastics industries. In fiscal year 2010 Rhein Chemie achieved sales of EUR 283 million and has approximately 1,000 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Mannheim, Germany and has production facilities in Europe, Asia and North and South America. Rhein Chemie is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the specialty chemicals group LANXESS, Leverkusen, Germany.

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