RHA

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.rhodia.com

Specialty chemicals company Rhodia manufactures performance materials, functional chemicals, and plastics for companies in the automotive, electronics, and personal care products industries. Rhodia's largest unit manufactures polyamide products that are used in engineering plastics and high-strength fibers. Its Novecare segment makes surfactants and phosphorous derivatives used in oil and gas exploration, personal care products, and agrochemicals. Rhodia also makes acetate tow (used in cigarette filters), silicas (as additives in specialty rubber), and rare earth products (in catalysts). Its EcoServices unit makes sulfuric acid, recovers the sulfuric acid after its use, and processes it to be used again

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $6,713.4M
One year growth: (10.2%)
Net income: $150.8M
Income growth: (21.8%)

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
COO: Gilles Auffret
Group EVP and CFO: Pascal Bouchiat

Competitors:
Akzo Nobel
BASF SE
Celanese

RHA is an abbreviation, which may refer to:

• Regional Health Authority
• Religious Heritage of America
• Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound
• Residence Hall Association
• Rice Husk Ash, a by-product from rice culture very rich in amorphous silica and used as cement admixture (filler and pozzolanic material)
• Rivers and Harbors Act, any number of various acts of legislation of the United States Congress
• Road Haulage Association
• Rolled homogeneous armour
• Royal Hibernian Academy
• Royal Horse Artillery

Rha may refer to:

• Rha, Netherlands, a population center in Steenderen;
• Rhamnose, a monosaccharide;
• the ancient Scythian hydronym *Rhā, the antique name for Volga River, supposedly cognate with the ancient Avestan and Sanskrit names Rañha and Rasah for a mythical river supposed to flow around the earth.

Letters from alphabets that can be called rha:

• र, ड़', ढ़, र्ह — Devanagari letters which can be called ra, ṛa or rha;
• Ԗ — the 23rd letter rha («ра») in the older (1924−1927) Moksha language cyrillic alphabet.

See also

• Ra (disambiguation)

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