Rhodia, member of the Solvay group, is a specialty chemical company resolutely committed to sustainable development. As a leader in its businesses, the Group aims to improve its customers’ performance through the pursuit of operational excellence and its ability to innovate.

Structured around 11 Global Business Units, Rhodia is the partner of major players in the automotive, electronics, flavors and fragrances, health, personal and home care markets, consumer goods and industrial markets. Rhodia employs around 14 000 people worldwide and generated sales of €5.23 billion in 2010.

Rhodia was established in Uruguay in 1949, when it was home to a Rhône-Poulenc laboratory. Since the 1960s, Rhodia has maintained a commercial presence in the country, with an office dedicated to selling Rhodia products to Uruguayan industry. Filter tow, adipic acid, oxygenate solvents, silica, industrial yarns for tires, textile yarns, surfactants for polymerization, engineering plastics and vanillin are the most popular Rhodia products in Uruguay.

The Uruguay office manages several partnerships with local industries to promote and enhance the sales of Rhodia’s Novecare products in Latin America and the export of products to countries including Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala, Paraguay and Puerto Rico.

On January 1st 2000, the Rhodia Uruguay S.A. joined the company’s Cone Sul minizone, along with Argentina and Chile.

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