- Chi Mei
Chi Mei Corporation ( _zh. 奇美實業廠) is a
plastics producer inTaiwan . It is the largest maker of ABS resin in the world, producing about 1 million tons of ABS annually as of 1999.Motohiko Kitahara. [http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/FR/NIKKEI/inasia/prizes/1999/99shi.html Innovative Strategies Help Shi Wen Long Foster Global Giant] . 1999.] It has factories in Tainan andZhenjiang . [Chinese Wikipedia. [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS%E6%A0%91%E8%84%82 ABS] ] It also producesacrylic glass ,polystyrene ,thermoplastic elastomer andsynthetic rubber . [ [http://www.chimeicorp.com/en/products.asp Products] ] The company was founded byWen-long Shi in 1960 as "Chi Mei Industrial Company Ltd.", the first acrylic sheet manufacturer in Taiwan; it was renamed "Chi Mei Corporation" in 1992. [Chi Mei Corporation. [http://www.chimeicorp.com/en/company/aboutchimei.asp Chi Mei profile] ]Chi Mei Optoelectronics, founded in 1997 as one of the subsidiaries of Chi Mei Corporation. The Chi Mei Group, a privately held company, is the largest shareholder in publicly listed Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO). CMO is the world’s No. 4 and Taiwan’s No. 2 largest maker of TFT-LCD panels [ [http://www.plasticsnews.com/china/english/headlines-arc2.html?id=1124126000 Plastics News - More News ] ] and the likely owner of
Westinghouse Digital Electronics . ThoughCEO 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. [ [http://www.emasiamag.com/article-341-consumerelectronicstheclonewars-Asia.html Consumer Electronics: The Clone Wars] , "Electronics Manufacturing Asia"]About Chi Mei
Chi Mei Industrial Factory was founded by Wen-Lung Hsu in 1968 to meet the need for Polystyrene. Chi Mei has a partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. of Japan (Mitsubishi holds 27.08% of shares). [Mitsubishi Chem. 2005 annual report [http://www.m-kagaku.co.jp/english/investor/irl-05.html] ] In 2001, the Chi Mei Group along with IBM Japan set up International Display Technology, which it subsequently sold to Sony in 2005. [Taipei Times [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2005/01/08/2003218552] and [http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200501/05-0107E/index.html] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.chimei.com.tw/en/index.asp Official website]
* [http://www.chimei.com.tw:81/gate/gb/www.chimei.com.tw/en/company/chimeigroup.asp Chi Mei Group]
* [http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123088,00.asp Article on record-breaking LCD screen]
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