Suzhou is a sino joint venture, originally formed in 1995, between Jiangsu Suhua Group Co. and Solutia Inc., a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company. In China, the joint venture is known as Solutia Therminol Co. Ltd.

The site is manufacturing and marketing high-performance Eastman Therminol^® heat transfer fluids and coolants (Therminol 55,Therminol 66, Therminol VP-1, etc.), which are widely used in applications found in a variety of industries including chemical, textile, plastics, and solar.