Chi Mei Corporation

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Chi Mei Corporation
奇美實業
Company typeCorporation
IndustryChemistry, Medical, Biotechnology
Founded11 January 1960 (1960-01-11)
FounderShi Wen-long
HeadquartersRende, Tainan, Taiwan
Key people
Shi Wen-long (Founder)
Liao Jinxiang (Chairman)
Zhao Lingyu (General Manager)
ProductsPlastic, Photoelectronic, Food
Websitewww.chimeicorp.com
Footnotes / references
NT$17,924,000,000

Chi Mei Corporation (Chinese: 奇美實業; pinyin: Qíměi Shíyè; CMC) is a plastics producer in Taiwan. It is the largest maker of ABS resin in the world, producing about 1 million tons of ABS annually in 1999.[1] It has factories in Tainan and Zhenjiang.[2] It also produces acrylic glass, polystyrene, thermoplastic elastomer and synthetic rubber.[3]

Chi Mei Corporation is part of a privately held holding company called the Chi Mei Group, which has numerous subsidiaries. One of them is Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), which was founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Chi Mei Corporation. Chi Mei Group was the largest shareholder in publicly listed CMO. The new Chimei Innolux Corporation (Chinese: 奇美電子, CMI) is the world's No. 2 and Taiwan's No. 1 largest maker of TFT-LCD panels[4] and the likely owner of Westinghouse Digital Electronics. Though CEO Douglas Woo has maintained the confidentiality of the ownership of the private Westinghouse licensee, they admit a significant vertically integrated relationship exists between the two.[5]

Chi Mei has a partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Japan (Mitsubishi holds 27.08% of shares).[6]

History

The company was founded by Shi Wen-long in 1960 as Chi Mei Industrial Company Ltd., the first acrylic sheet manufacturer in Taiwan; it was renamed Chi Mei Corporation in 1992.[7]

In 2001, the Chi Mei Group along with IBM Japan set up International Display Technology, which it subsequently sold to Sony in 2005.[8][9] In 2010, Chi Mei Optoelectronics, then a subsidiary of Chi Mei Corporation, pleaded guilty to a price fixing conspiracy with respect to sales of TFT-LCDs between 2001 and 2006.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Motohiko Kitahara. Innovative Strategies Help Wen-long Shi Foster Global Giant Archived February 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. 1999.
  2. ^ "Contact Us | Chi Mei Corporation: Bringing you Real Happiness". www.chimeicorp.com. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  3. ^ Chi Mei Corporation: Products Archived October 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Plastics News - More News". Archived from the original on 2009-05-08. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
  5. ^ Consumer Electronics: The Clone Wars Archived October 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Electronics Manufacturing Asia
  6. ^ "Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation 2005 Annual Report". Archived from the original on 2007-06-17. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
  7. ^ Chi Mei Corporation. Chi Mei profile Archived March 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Wang, Lisa (2005-01-08). "Chi Mei to sell Japanese unit to Sony". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
  9. ^ "Sony to Acquire IDTech's Yasu LCD Manufacturing Facility" (Press release). Sony. 2005-01-07. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
  10. ^ http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2009/252936.htm

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