| 1950
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¡E |
The CHIMEI Store opened and sold children¡¦s clothes and items Shu-Ho Shi, father of the founder of the CHIMEI group Wen-Lung Hsu, chose the characters Chi (unique)and Mei(beauty) as his store¡¦s name because these two ideas were requirements for popular merchandising, thus originating the CHIMEI name. |
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| 1953 |
¡E |
The CHIMEI
Industrial manufacturing plant was set up.
Engaging in the production of daily necessities
items and plastic processing. The capital investment
was twenty thousand New Taiwan dollars; the factory
floor occupied about 26 square meters and was staffed
by four employees. |
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¡E |
The CHIMEI Industrial research staff
started experimenting with ways to manufacture ¡§Acrylic
Sheets¡¨. |
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¡E |
CHIMEI Industrial
Co. Ltd. was created with a capital investment of
two million New Taiwan dollars. Wen-Lung Hsu was
the founding president, and the industrial complex
was built at Yen Chen Tainan. |
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| 1960 / 02 |
¡E |
Hsu set this date as
the ¡§Founding Memorial Day of the CHIMEI Industrial
Co. Ltd.¡¨
CHIMEI started Acrylic Sheets shipping at a monthly
output of 2 tons. |
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1963 / 01 |
¡E |
CHIMEI started exporting
Acrylic Sheets.
CHIMEI to Hong Kong. |
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1963 / 06 |
¡E |
CHIMEI started production
of Decorative Plywood ¡§KIBI BOARDR ¡§.
CHIMEI started production of Decorative Plywood
¡§KIBI BOARDR ¡§ Kibi BoardR was made
by pasting beautifully
printed patterns or woodlike-texture paper onto
plywood, and then
coated with one layer of Polyester
resin for protection. CHIMEI stopped production
of Kibi
Board and MEGA BOARDR simultaneously in
1985. During the 22 years of production, Kibi
Board
and MEGA Board were extremely profitable and contributed
to the CHIMEI Group¡¦s
investment in other businesses. |
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1964 |
¡E |
CHIMEI started production
of buttons.
At its peak, the CHIMEI buttons and their final
products dominated the market. CHIMEI stopped production
in 1982. |
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1965 / 11 |
¡E |
CHIMEI set up a joint
venture with Mitsubishi Petrochemical Company Ltd
and Mitsubishi International to establish Chi Lin
Plastics Industrial Co. Ltd
This was CHIMEI¡¦s first joint venture business
with a foreign company. |
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1966 / 07 |
¡E |
CHIMEI started researching
EPS production technique at the Yen Chen Plant. |
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1967 / 01 |
¡E |
CHIMEI started manufacturing
MEGA BoardR .
The difference between KIBI BoardR and MEGA BoardR
was MEGA BoardR was coated with a layer of Aminoalkyd
resin. |
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1968 / 01 |
¡E |
CHIMEI set up another
joint venture, Poly Chemical Co. Ltd., with Mitsubishi
Petrochemical Company Ltd. Poly Chemical manufactured
POLYREXR PS products.
CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Petrochemical Company Ltd.
collaborated to test and verify initial manufacturing
techniques. The patents and technical fees provided
by Mitsubishi Petrochemical Company Ltd. were free.
CHIMEI stopped production of EPS (Expandable Polystyrene)
in 1991. |
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1968 / 08 |
¡E |
CHIMEI adopted the ¡§CM¡¨
logo of the CHIMEI Group.
The logo was approved by National Bureau of Standards
in May 1970. |
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1969 / 09 |
¡E |
The Poly Chemical Company
began manufacturing GPS (General Purpose Polystyrene)
and HPS (High Impact Polystyrene) resins.
The monthly output for GPS was 200 tons and 100
tons for HIPS. |
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1971 / 03 |
¡E |
CHIMEI was granted it
first patent for its invention of the ¡§Door/Window
Materials and Manufacturing Method¡¨. |
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1971 / 09 |
¡E |
CHIMEI invested in Chi
Mei Storage Co. Ltd. |
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1971 / 12 |
¡E |
CHIMEI invested in Chi
Mei Frozen Food Co. Ltd. |
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1973 / 03 |
¡E |
CHIMEI signed a contract
with the Phillipine corporation PMCI for its ¡§Whole
Plant (PS) Exportation Contract¡¨. |
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1973 / 12 |
¡E |
Sales of Polystyrene
exceeded that of the Acrylic Sheets division and
other divisions for the first time. |
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1974 / 04 |
¡E |
CHIMEI started the initial
phase of researching ABS manufacturing technique. |
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1976 / 07 |
¡E |
The Poly Chemical Company
was the first manufacturer in Taiwan to manufacture
ABS granulate with an output of 200 tons per month. |
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1977 / 04 |
¡E |
CHIMEI set up the CHIMEI Culture Foundation to procure artworks. |
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1979 / 04 |
¡E |
CHIMEI purchased the
site for the new Jen Te Industrial complex. |
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1979 / 07 |
¡E |
CHIMEI set up the Poly
Engineering Co., the research and engineering division
of the Chi Mei Group. |
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