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2011
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The Group increased its stake in chemical refinery plant in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province to 100%;
In early 2011 the Group acquired another caustic soda plant in Gaomi, Shangdong province. |
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2010
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The Group increased its stake in chemical refinery plant in Yangzhou,Jiangsu province to 90%;
In May 2010, the Group was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the Global 2000 leading companies and by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the leading Tech 100 companies;
Additional monthly production capacity of 400,000 sheets paper laminates was added in Fogang plant, Guangdong province;
The Laminate plant in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province was established successfully;
Huaqiao Kingboard Plaza and Kunshan Kingboard Qiandeng Yu Garden commenced construction;
The group laid the foundation stone for Shanghai Kingboard Plaza, located at Shanghai Hongqiao Linkong Economic Zone on 25th November. |
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2009
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"KB ", "KingBoard", "and "建滔"trademarks were successfully registered in PRC and overseas;
Hebei acetic acid plant commenced trial production in September;
The Group strategically increased its stake in the chemical refinery plant in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province to 66% at the end of September;
Our first residential project Shanghai Yu Garden in Kunshan, Jiangsu province started pre-sale in December. |
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2008
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Phase four of the caustic soda plant in Hengyang, Hunan province commenced operation, providing 100,000 tonnes additional capacity per annum;
Selected as one of the Top 2000 Global Companies by the Forbes magazine;
The new glass yarn plant in Qingyuan, Guangdong province and the new glass frabic plant in Liangzhou, Guangdong province commenced trial production;
Both new HDI PCB plants in Kunshan, Jiangsu province and Kaiping, Guangdong province commenced production successfully in December. |
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2007
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Natural gas based methanol plant in Chongqing commenced production;
The new phenol/acetone plant in Huizhou, Guangdong province commenced production;
Capacity expansion in glass epoxy laminate plants in Fogang, Guangdong province and Jiangyin, Jiangsu province was commenced;
Lianzhou copper foil plant commenced production;
The Group acquired 51% equity interest in 江西省宏豐塑料有限公司. |
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2006
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Kingboard Laminates was spun off for a separate lising on the main board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;
Methanol JV with China BlueChemical in Hainan province commenced production. |
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2005
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The Group acquired 100% interests of the Hong Kong-listed Elec & Eltek International Holdings Limited ("Elec & Eltek") and 70% interests of the Singapore-listed Elec & Eltek International Co Ltd. Elec & Eltek's listing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong was voluntarily withdrawn on 18 March 2005;
The production capacity expansion of caustic soda plant in Hengyang of Hunan province was completed in August;
The Group was named by the Forbes magazine as one of the world’s best small companies for 6 consecutive years. |
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2004
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Acquired Elec & Eltek Group successfully;
Coke and methanol plant in Hebei Province commenced trial production;
Copper foil plant in Lianzhou became operational;
Kingboard Chemical was named one of the World's Best 200 Small Companies by Forbes Global for the 5th consecutive year;
Glass fibre plant in Lianzhou commenced operation;
Bleached kraft paper plant in Taicang started production;
Acquired a further 33% stake in Techwise Circuits Company Limited to increase the total equity stake to 90%; new line epoxy glass fibre and paper laminates plants in Fogang, Guangdong, commenced operation;
Kingboard Chemical became a MSCI World Index constituent stock;
Acquired a hydrogen peroxide plant with a monthly production capacity of 6,000 tonne in Gaomi, Shandong;
A new formalin plant was established in Changzhou, Jiangxu province;
The coke-methanol plant had completed its first phase and started trial production of coke smoothly in October;
The Group was named by the Forbes magazine as one of the world’s best small companies for 5 consecutive years. |
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2003
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Phase II of glass yarn plant in Nansha, Panyu commenced operation;
Establishment of second production line for bleached kraft paper in Qinyuan;
Epoxy resin and hydrogen peroxide production capacity further expanded;
Acquired a petrochemical terminal in Changzhou, Jiangsu;
TBBA plant set up in Nansha,Panyu and began production;
For the forth consecutive year the Group was named “the world’s 200 Best Small Enterprises” by Forbes in October 2003. |
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2002
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Acquired a 57% stake in Techwise Circuits Company Limited in January as vehicle to expand downstream PCB business;
Glass yarn plant set up in Nansha,Panyu;
Began offering value-added services, such as drilling and mass lamination to PCB customers;
Paper laminates plant located in Shaoguan started production in December;
Construction of a 50,000-tonne petrochemical terminal in Nansha, Panyu was completed;
For the third consecutive year the Group was named “the world’s 200 Best Small Enterprises” by Forbes in October 2002. |
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2001
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Acquired two formalin plants in Guangdong;
Epoxy resin plant located in Nansha, Panyu began production in October;
Two glass epoxy laminates plants established in Kunshan and Jiangmen, increased the production capacity by 50%;
A new laminate plant in was established in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province;
A paper mill plant was established in Qingyuan, Guangdong and commenced production;
The Phase II of the glass fabric plant expansion was completed. |
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2000
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Hydrogen peroxide plant was established in Panyu;
The bleached kraft paper plant located in Fogang commenced production in June;
Acquired a paper laminates plant in Jiangmen;
Glass fabric plant production capacity was doubled. |
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1999
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Phase II of the copper foil plant commenced production;
Formalin plant set up in Taicang and commenced production in March;
Production capacity of our formalin plant in Panyu increase over 50%;
Kingboard Copper Foil Holdings Limited was successfully spun off on The Singapore Stock Exchange Limited. |
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1998 |
Glass fabric plant established in Longhua,Shenzhen commenced operation in September. |
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1997 |
Formalin plant established in Panyu began operations in October. |
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1996
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Phase I of the copper foil plant started operation;
Longhua plant accredited under ISO9002 quality assurance certification;
Production of glass epoxy laminates began. |
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1995
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Commenced production of flame retardant laminates to expand our product portfolio;
Commenced production of Glass epoxy laminate. |
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1994
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Established a joint-venture paper laminates plant in Kunshan,Jiangsu with Hitachi Chemical Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi Chemical Company Limited. |
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1993
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Kingboard Chemical was successfully listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in October;
Liantang facilities were relocated to Shuitian, Shenzhen;
Construction of copper foil plant began in Fogang, Qingyuan. |
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1992 |
A joint-venture paper laminates plant was established in Shanghai with two state-owned enterprises. |
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1991 |
The second paper laminates plant was set up in Longhua, Shenzhen. |
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1988 |
The first paper laminates plant was established in Liantang, Shenzhen by Mr. Paul Cheung Kwok Wing, Mr. Patrick Chan Wing Kwan and other founders. |
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