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Chi Mei Corporation
World's largest ABS resin maker (~2.1M t/a; Tainan + Zhenjiang, China).
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ABS & Styrenics
PMMA / Optical Materials
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Did you know2024
Chi Mei Corporation of Taiwan is the world's largest maker of ABS resin — and ABS is the unglamorous workhorse plastic behind a startling range of everyday objects: the housings of appliances, the interior trim and panels of cars and motorcycles, electronics enclosures, safety helmets, and the toys in a child's hands (ABS is the plastic of LEGO bricks). So one company supplies a major share of the rigid, impact-resistant plastic that the molded-products economy is built from. When ABS prices spike or supply tightens — as happens with petrochemical cycles — it ripples simultaneously into toys, white goods, autos and consumer electronics, all of which quietly depend on the same resin. A material almost no consumer can name, from a company almost no consumer has heard of, is one of the most pervasive substances in the manufactured world.
Chi Mei Corporation ↗Origin2024
Chi Mei was built by Shi Wen-long (Hsu Wen-lung), who turned a small plastics venture into one of the world's largest styrenics and ABS producers — and then poured the fortune into one of the most remarkable private cultural collections on Earth. The Chimei Museum in Tainan houses an enormous collection of Western art, natural history, weaponry and, most famously, fine violins — one of the largest collections of antique stringed instruments in the world, including Stradivari and Guarneri instruments that Chimei lends to musicians. So the plastics that make toys, appliances and screens also funded a treasury of the world's great violins. It echoes a pattern seen with Würth (fasteners and a major art collection): an industrialist's fortune from an utterly utilitarian product becoming a vehicle for preserving high culture — and a reminder that behind even the most banal materials company can sit a singular human story.
Chi Mei Corporation / Chimei Museum ↗