Strategic Vision

A Message from our CEO

Each year is more and more notable for Solenis. We solve new challenges, we become more innovative and we reaffirm our commitment to sustainability. Like every business, our year was again impacted by COVID and we continued to focus on keeping our employees safe. Sadly, we lost two colleagues to COVID and another to an accident while traveling. These were heartbreaking moments, but they have motivated us to do an even better job on safety in the future.

In addition, COVID’s impacts were seen in disruptions to supply chains that hampered our ability to receive raw materials, and challenged our ability to serve our customers. I am proud of the efforts of our employees who despite these obstacles met our customers’ needs without fail. Because of their hard work and dedication, we were able to do our part to keep the world moving. Solenis products and services are critical to maintaining water supplies, producing packaging and manufacturing tissue and other essential paper products.

While our teams continued to execute our day-to-day business, in 2021 we also tackled two significant initiatives: we facilitated the transformation of our ownership with Platinum Equity, and we integrated the Sigura Water business into our company. These were no small feats given the many other priorities of running our business.

As we look to the future, we know that building a great company — and making it sustainable — means never standing still. To that end, in 2021, we:

• Developed and continuously evolve metrics around our manufacturing productivity and environmental parameters.
• Improved customer relationship management. Now, when we talk about sustainability, it’s about ESG+C™… “C” for Customer.
• Rededicated ourselves to prioritizing our people through diversity, culture and engagement to ensure that we have the talent in place to reach our goals.

And lastly our work in 2021, was recognized through the achievement of Ecovadis Platinum rating.

All of these initiatives will make Solenis a stronger, more sustainable company. From my viewpoint, it’s hard not to be excited about the potential of Solenis in 2022 and beyond. Read our full 2021 Sustainability Report.

John E. Panichella
Chief Executive Officer