| 2009 |
"KB ", "KingBoard", "and "建滔"win inner and abroad the registered trademark protection respectively.
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| 2008 |
Selected as one of the Top 2000 Global Companies by the Forbes magazine;
The new glass yarn plant in Qingyuan, Guangdong province commenced trial production ; the new glass frabic plant in Liangzhou, Guangdong province commenced trial production;
Acquired 80% interests in a Taiwanese PCB shop - Express Electronics (Suzhou) Company limited in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. |
| 2007 |
Natural gas based methanol plant in Chongqing commenced production;
The new phenol/acetone plant in Huizhou, Guangdong province commenced production;
Capacity expanion in glass epoxy laminate plants in Fogang, Guangdong province and Jiangyin, Jiangsu province. |
| 2006 |
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 |
| 2005 |
The Group acquired 100% of the Hong Kong-listed Elec & Eltek International Holdings Limited ("Elec & Eltek") and 70% 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 Elec & Eltek's listing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong was voluntarily withdrawn on 18 March 2005. |
| 2004 |
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 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. |
| 2003 |
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. |
| 2002 |
Acquired a 57% stake in Techwise Circuits Company Limited in January as vehicle to expand 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;
Completion of a 50,000-tonne petrochemical terminal in Nansha, Panyu. |
| 2001 |
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%. |
| 2000 |
Hydrogen peroxide plant established in Panyu;
The bleached kraft paper plant located in Fogang started production in June;
Acquired a paper laminates plant in Jiangmen;
Glass fabric plant production capacity was doubled. |
| 1999 |
Phase II of the copper foil plant started production;
Formalin plant set up in Taicang;
Kingboard Copper Foil Holdings Limited was successfully spun-off on The Singapore Stock Exchange Limited. |
| 1998 |
Glass fabric plant established in Longhua,Shenzhen commenced operation in September. |
| 1997 |
Formalin plant established in Panyu began operations in October. |
| 1996 |
Phase I of the copper foil plant started operation;
Longhua plant accredited under ISO9002 quality assurance certification;
Production of glass epoxy laminates began. |
| 1995 |
mencement of production of flame retardant laminates. |
| 1994 |
Established a joint-venture paper laminates plant in Kunshan,Jiangsu with Hitachi Chemical Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi Chemical Company Limited. |
| 1993 |
Kingboard Chemical was successfully listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited; Liantang facilities were relocated to Shuitian, Shenzhen; Construction of copper foil plant began in Fogang, Qingyuan. |
| 1992 |
A joint-venture paper laminates plant was established in Shanghai with two state-owned enterprises. |
| 1991 |
The second paper laminates plant was set up in Longhua, Shenzhen. |
| 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. |
