Silcea
Rhodia Silcea is the world leader in high-performance silicas, rare earth-based compositions, diphenols and vanillin. The enterprise is at the forefront of technology and focuses on growing markets including low energy tires, catalytic converters, energy saving light bulbs, flavorings and fragrances.
Rhodia Silcea’s leadership is based on a strong global presence, partnerships with major customers and its complete and innovative portfolio, including a range of products that address concerns about sustainable development.
Leading brands & innovation
Rhodia Silcea combines exclusive know-how and proprietary technologies to develop tailor-made processes and products. By the nature of the markets involved, Rhodia Silcea’s latest innovations are intrinsically committed to sustainable development:
Zeosil® Premium, a new generation of high performance silica for energy-efficient tires
Eolys™ third-generation, fuel-borne catalyst for diesel particulate filter regeneration
Actalys™-Optalys™ materials range for enhanced performance of catalytic converters
Luminostar™ phosphors for low energy lamps
Rhovanil® Extra-Pure and ethylvanilline Rodiarome® Extra-Pure are high quality vanilla flavors dedicated to food and flavor applications.
Rhovanil® Natural, the unique non-vanilla bean originated vanillin that can be labellised as a "Natural Flavour" for the consumer end-products.
Total sales in 2009: €635 million
Leadership positions
N° 1 in the world in high performance silica
N° 1 in the world in rare-earth based formulations
N° 1 in the world in diphenolsfor vanillin
Rhodia Silcea (France)
Headquarters
190, avenue Thiers
69009. Lyon
Phone:
+ 33 4 37 24 88 88
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