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Inspired
by the Government policy of development in capital and
technology intensive industry in 1979, Taiwan Styrene
Monomer Corporation was founded and begun construction
on its first Styrene Monomer Plant.
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The
first production line was completed in May, 1982 with
an annual capacity of styrene monomer of one hundred
thousand tons; which exceptionally reach one hundred
forty thousand tons capacity in 1985.
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TSMC IPO in 1986
to reinforce the expansion of the company and to meet
the rapid demand growing of styrene in Taiwan market.
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Through
the prosperous demand of styrene, the second one hundred
thousand tons production line started construction in
1987 and was completed in 1990; achieving accumulated
capacity of two hundred forty thousand tons. Benefit
from continuously improvement of operation techniques,
the two hundred sixty thousand tons record was surpassed
in 1997.
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To
complement the growing domestic demand, TSMC launched
De-bottleneck Project in 1995 and achieved annual capacity
of three hundred forty thousand tons.
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While TSMC relentlessly
pursuing higher products quality , we are also continuously
making all possible efforts on environment improvement.
Thus, TSMC proudly received the prestigious ISO 9002
certification in 1995 and ISO 14001 certification in
1997.
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To promote the comprehensive competitiveness, TSMC
launches three terms of five-year-plans starting from
2000 to 2015 in its Koahsiung plant. The SM purity would
be improved to 99.9% from 99.7%. |
