China Steel Chemical Corporation (CSCC), founded in 1989 and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1998, has a current capital of N.T.$2,369 million. It is built on the coal chemical industry and manufactures multi-purpose specialty chemicals. Based on the concepts of professionalism, quality, and practicality, it has established a coal tar distillation plant and a light oil plant which process the CSC Group’s by-products. After years of research and development and innovation, it established a mass production line for mesocarbon microbeads in 2005 and expanded its scope of business into fine carbon materials.

In terms of certification of quality, environmental protection, energy, and occupational health and safety management systems, CSCC has been granted ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, OHSAS 18001, and ISO/TS16949. Moreover, it was granted the Industrial Sustainable Excellence Award and Outstanding SMEs Award by MOEA, which commended its efforts in various aspects.

CSCC is dedicated to fulfilling its corporate social responsibility for the benefits of customers, employees, and the environment. Over the years, it has upheld good business ethics, paid attention to industrial safety and environmental protection, protected its employees’ labor rights as well as their physical and mental health, reduced energy consumption, and reciprocated to the society. It serves its customers whole-heartedly and cooperates with them, operates with integrity, and guarantees the quality of its products in the hope of creating a win-win situation for both parties.

CSCC is the only company in Taiwan specializing in coal chemicals. Coal tar and light oil are distilled into soft pitch, creosote oil, refined naphthalene, benzene and toluene as chemicals with higher added values. Among them, soft pitch can be used as the raw materials to make aluminum smelter electrodes, lithium battery anodes, ultra-high capacitors, activated carbon, and special anti-rust materials. Creosote oil can be used to produce carbon black, an indispensable additive in making high-quality tires. Refined naphthalene can be used to synthesize dyes and pigment intermediates in the dyeing and finishing industry. Benzene, an important raw material for the consumer goods and chemical industries, is ultimately applied in the computer, consumer electronics, automobile, and agriculture industries. Toluene is mostly used as a solvent.

Most of CSCC’s products are domestically consumed but some are exported to Australia, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan and Southeast Asian countries with well-recognized product quality.

To promote industrial competitiveness by diversified development, CSCC is devoted to establishing a production system for novel fine carbon materials. The soft pitch produced with its self-developed technology is used as the raw material for the production of mesocarbon microbeads as the anodes of lithium batteries, which are used for power storage in smart phones, tablet computers, electric scooters, and electric cars; furthermore, activated carbon materials used in manufacturing ultra-high capacitors with high power have been developed and extensively applied to make components for wind power generation, car batteries with start-stop functionality, light rail trams, etc. in the green energy industry.

CSCC is based on the existing coal chemical industry and strives for the development of fine carbon materials. It hopes to become a leader in the coal chemistry and carbon material industry with the development vision of being a benchmark enterprise which implements energy saving and environmental protection.