Rhodenium was incorporated in 2018 to commercialize innovative technologies in the soft flooring market. We manufacture Wall to Wall Carpets, Carpet Tiles, Artificial Turf, Area Rugs, and Bath Rugs using world-renowned machinery and leading-edge tufting, coating, and digital printing technologies.
Our core team has combined experience of 100 plus years in Carpets, Rugs, Yarns, Masterbatches, and Pigments. Our vision is to be the preferred Indian partner for major global brands by 2025.
Rohit Rathi is an MBA from Duke University, USA (2000). Before this, he completed his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1996 from North Carolina State University, USA. Subsequently, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Management Consultant and at Sudarshan Chemical Industries Limited as one of the business heads in the field of Pigments for about six years. His last venture spanning over a decade involved starting a masterbatch company called Prescient Color Limited, which was later sold to an American company Americhem Inc. in 2018.
Kishor Rathi has served as the Managing Director and Chairman of Sudarshan Chemical Industries Limited. He retired in 2018 and serves on the board as the Chairman in an advisory capacity. His technical experience includes a deep knowledge of Pigments and Pesticides. Kishor Rathi is a BSc, Pune University 1959, BSc (Tech) – Dyestuff, Bombay University 1961, and MA, Chemistry 1963 from Columbia University, USA.
Arun Pathak has over 36 years of experience in the pesticide, pigments and Masterbatch industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree and is certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Before joining Rhodenium, he was Head of operations and oversaw manufacturing of pesticides, pigments and masterbatches through his career.
Harshal Badhe has over nine years of experience in the Masterbatch Industry. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer Engineering and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Before joining Rhodenium, he was a Leader - Marketing and oversaw new business development in markets such as carpets, automotives and bath rugs. He has experience an implementing cutting-edge IT systems.
Soumitra Banerjee has over 25 years of international experience in the tufted carpet industry. He holds a BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay followed by a post-graduate diploma in Marketing from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences. He has had experience in businesses like paints, packaging, chemicals with the last quarter century being spent in techo-commerical capacities in tufted carpets catering to commercial, hospitality, residential and automotive flooring industries.
Sujay Ushir has worked in Sales and Marketing for more than eight years in Telecom as well as the Masterbatch industry. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and MBA from Pune University. His experience encompasses handling channel management, systems building and developing profitable business of masterbatch in carpets and bathmats segment.
Conduct business with ethics and build robust business processes with external audits and certifications. Underpromise and overdeliver.
Conduct all tasks with a sense of urgency.
Reputation with partners and being a stellar corporate citizen is more important than business objectives. Relationships create long term success.
In every task and process, evaluate and implement the latest technologies. Choose superior but optimal technology over aesthetics and short term profits.
Long term success supersedes short term metrics of performance.
An open culture that promotes respectful disagreement, statistics based decision making and idea implementation based on merit.