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| Chi Mei Industrial
Factory was founded by Wen-Lung Hsu in Tainan City
in 1953. It was one of the first plastic processing
plants in Taiwan at that time and was well-known
for its beautiful and durable plastic wares and
toys. In 1960, Hsu established Chi Mei Industrial
Company Ltd., (now as Chi Mei Corporation, Nov 1992),
which was the first acrylic sheet manufacturer in
Taiwan. Chi Mei Corporation's primier product ACRYPOLY®
Acrylic Sheets, has achieved outstanding reputation
among our customers, in quality, trust, and value.
ACRYPOLYR was called the Acrylic Sheet of Taiwan,
and Hsu became known as the "Father of Taiwan Acrylic".
Chi Mei went on to become one of the top quality
Acrylic sheet suppliers in the world within just
ten years. The success of Chi Mei Corporation was
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development in Taiwan is fast and progressive, and
the demand for plastic raw material is great. In
1968, targeting the demand for Polystyrene(PS),
Chi Mei set up the "Poly Chemical Co. Ltd.", a joint
venture with Mitsubishi Petrochemical Corporation
(now is Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation), and marketed
a series of products: POLYREX® PS, KIBISAN® SAN(Styrene
Acrylonitrile or AS) and POLYLAC® ABS(Acrylonitrile
Butadiene Styrene), which became famous for top
quality, competitive pricing, breakthrough manufacturing
techniques, and innovative production equipment.
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In 1985, in order to integrate
resources, Chi Mei Corporation and Poly Chemicals
merged, causing an increase in R&D, production,
and sales. Chi Mei became the largest ABS/SAN
manufacturer in the world. As KIBITON® TPE(Thermo
Plastic Elastomer) resin and KIBIPOL® BR(Butadiene
Rubber) resin have become industrial standards
around the world, Chi Mei's POLYREX® PS series
product has performed outstandingly, too. The
ACRYREX® PMMA(PolyMethyl MethAcrylate) granulates
and ACRYPOLY-BX® PMMA Extrusion Sheet, which were
researched and developed in Chi Mei's R&D
Department, have taken important places around
the world.
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March Toward International Cooperation |
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| Because
of Chi Mei's experience in mass production techniques
and its strong R&D capabilities, the Chi Mei
Group has become an industrial leader. In 1999,
the Chimei-Asahi Chemical Company was set up under
a joint venture with Asahi Kasei Corp. of Japan.
Asahi Kasei Corp. had spent more than 20 years researching
the "non-phosgene melting process", which was the
breakthrough inventive PC(PolyCarbonate) manufacturing
procedure that met high EP standards and saved energy.
Chimei-Asahi Chemical successfully put this "non-phosgene
melting process" into mass production and commercialization,
and it provided Taiwan's electro-optical industries
a much more competitive raw material source. |
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Developing Electronic Business |
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| For more
than 50 years, the Chi Mei Group has kept developing
new technologies in the petrochemical field. In
1998, Chi Mei invested in the TFT-LCD(Thin Film
Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display) and established
the Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp., which coordinated
Taiwan’s best technical team of researchers. In
the following year, the first large size TFT-LCD
panel was developed and won high praise in the industry.
Furthermore, in 2001 the Chi Mei Group set up a
joint venture with IBM in the International Display
Technology Ltd. This not only enabled Chi Mei Optoelectronics
to be competitive in technique, output capacity,
and cost, but also had a doubling effect, increasing
technique and marketing. |
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