Chi Mei Corporation

{{Short description|Taiwan-based performance materials company}}

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奇美實業

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| foundation = {{Start date|df=yes|1960|1|11}}

| founder = Shi Wen-long

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| location = Rende, Tainan, Taiwan

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| key_people = Shi Wen-long (Founder)
Hsu Chun-hua (Chairman)
Zhao Lingyu (General Manager)

| industry = Petrochemical

| products = Plastics, Synthetic Rubbers, Electronic Materials, Specialty Chemicals

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CHIMEI Corporation ({{zh|c=奇美實業|p=Qíměi Shíyè|first=t}}; CMC) is a Taiwan-based performance materials company. It has long been known as the world’s largest vendor of ABS resins. It also produces advanced polymer materials, synthetic rubbers, and specialty chemicals. It has factories in Tainan, Zhenjiang, and Zhangzhou.

CHIMEI Corporation is part of a privately held holding company called the CHIMEI Group, which has numerous subsidiaries. One of them is Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), which was founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Chi Mei Corporation. Chi Mei Group was the largest shareholder in publicly listed CMO. The new Chimei Innolux Corporation ({{zh|t=奇美電子}}, CMI) is the world's No. 2 and Taiwan's No. 1 largest maker of TFT-LCD panels{{Cite web |url=http://www.plasticsnews.com/china/english/headlines-arc2.html?id=1124126000 |title=Plastics News - More News |access-date=2007-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508154402/http://www.plasticsnews.com/china/english/headlines-arc2.html?id=1124126000 |archive-date=2009-05-08 |url-status=dead }} and the likely owner of Westinghouse Digital Electronics. Though CEO Douglas Woo has maintained the confidentiality of the ownership of the private Westinghouse licensee, they admit a significant vertically integrated relationship exists between the two.[http://www.emasiamag.com/article-341-consumerelectronicstheclonewars-Asia.html Consumer Electronics: The Clone Wars] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018053223/http://www.emasiamag.com/article-341-consumerelectronicstheclonewars-Asia.html |date=October 18, 2007 }}, Electronics Manufacturing Asia CHIMEI has sold Innolux shares; its stake in Innolux has fallen to 0.83 percent in Oct. 2021.{{Cite web |date=2021-10-05 |title=Chi Mei posts loss after selling Innolux shares |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2021/10/05/2003765517 |access-date=2021-10-08 |website=Taipei Times}}

CHIMEI has a partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Japan.