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 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 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 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. 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. In 2008, PCBs were found outside Anniston High School. 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. 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. 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. The Solutia facility in Sauget, Illinois is