REACTION INHIBITORS: HIGH TECHNICITY MARKETS
The Aroma Performance Global Business Unit (GBU), part of the Solvay group, includes Rhodia’s diphenol and fluorinated intermediates operations, comprising three main Business Units :
- Aroma ingredients: flavorings and fragrances for the food and perfumery markets (with its flagship vanillin and ethyl-vanillin product line sold under Rhovanil® and Rhodiarome® brand names), produced via a fully- integrated manufacturing chain using best-in-class “green” processes;
- Inhibitor solutions: monomer stabilizers and polymerization control agents for the petrochemical industry and for polymers intended for such end- markets as construction, automotive and consumer care;
- Crop protection, health and specialties (CPHS): intermediates and molecules for the crop protection, pharmaceutical and electronics markets.
This business unit (CPHS) is producing a high value fluorinated additive, generally used as an equivalent for metal salts or ionic liquids in different fields, such as the latest generation of lithium batteries. In the process of identification of new value applications, an interesting antistatic property was recently emphasized for this product and validated with some commercial successes in this area.
