Type State-owned enterprise Key people Ren Jianxin (chairman) Headquarters Beijing, China Founded 2004 | Industry Chemicals Revenue 260.3 billion CNY (2015) Founder Ren Jianxin Total assets 372.5 billion CNY (2015) | |
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Operating income Net income (CN¥828.260 million) (2015) Total equity CN¥26.181 billion (2015) Subsidiaries ADAMA Agricultural Solutions, Lishan Bus Parent organization State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council | ||
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China National Chemical Corporation (commonly called ChemChina) is a Chinese state-owned chemical company in the product segments of agrochemicals, rubber products, chemical materials and specialty chemicals, industrial equipment, and petrochemical processing. As of 2015, it is ranked 265th among the Fortune Global 500 companies.
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History
ChemChina began as a small solvents factory called Bluestar Company (Chinese: 蓝星公司), founded by Ren Jianxin in 1984 with a 10,000-yuan loan. Ren created the ChemChina empire by taking control of over 100 troubled state-owned chemical factories across China, with the government retaining ownership. Meanwhile, he avoided laying off excess workers by shifting them to the company's Malan Noodle restaurant chain. He brought in consultants to professionalize the company's management, and it has become one of China's most dynamic state enterprises.
In May 2004, after the State Council of the People's Republic of China approved a merger of companies formerly under the Ministry of Chemical Industry as the China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina), Ren Jianxin became its CEO; in December 2014 he became the chairman of the board of directors.
Business
Within ChemChina's agrochemicals business is a large portfolio of companies including Sanonda Holdings, Cangzhou Dahua, Shandong Dacheng, Jiangsu Anpon, Anhui Petrochemicals, and Huaihe Chemicals. It added Israel-based Makhteshim Agan (renamed to ADAMA Agricultural Solutions ) in 2011 to the division in a 2.4 billion US dollars acquisition of a 60% stake in the company, the largest manufacturer of generic pesticides.
The chemical materials and speciality chemicals group made overseas acquisitions with two deals in 2006, both to acquire French companies. The first one was the Adisseo Group, a global animal nutrition feed firm that specialized in producing methionine, vitamins and biological enzymes. At the time of the purchase, Adisseo had worldwide market share of 30% in methionine. The other company was the organic silicon and sulphide business of Rhodia. With this acquisition the company became the third largest producer in the world of organic silicon.
The petrochemical processing division has been operating refineries including small ones known as teapot plants, giving it an oil processing capacity of about 25 million tonnes (25,000,000 long tons; 28,000,000 short tons) a year or about 500,000 barrels per day. After regulations liberalized the import of crude and fuel products in China, the company opened a trading office in Singapore in October 2013.
In March 2015, it was announced that Pirelli shareholders had accepted a €7.1 billion bid from ChemChina for the world’s fifth-largest tyre maker.
In February 2016, ChemChina agreed a $43 billion bid for Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta, the largest ever foreign purchase by a Chinese firm. The deal was awaiting approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and European government panels, citing food safety and security concerns. In June 2016, both companies refiled the transaction for CFIUS approval, forcing them to restart the application process. In August 2016, the US regulatory body cleared the deal, while the merger still depends on the regulatory review and concessions made towards the European Commission in September of the same year, in particular with regard to divesting itself from agrochemical subsidiary ADAMA Agricultural Solutions (which was planned to sell to ChemChina's associated company Sanonda). Because of the delay due to European antitrust investigations, the deal is expected to close by the end of March 2017.