CHF honors Westlake Chemical's Chao.Ting Tsung Chao, founder and former chairman of Westlake Chemical, received the ninth annual Petrochemical Heritage Award. This award was established by the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Founders Club to recognize outstanding contributions to the petrochemical community. With a career spanning more than 50 years, Chao founded and built several successful businesses in a number of countries around the world. In the mid-1950s, he was cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found of Taiwan's first polyvinyl chloride polyvinyl chloride (PVC), thermoplastic that is a polymer of vinyl chloride. Resins of polyvinyl chloride are hard, but with the addition of plasticizers a flexible, elastic plastic can be made. business, and he founded China General Plastics Group a decade later. After thirty years of experience and success in Asia, he entered the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. petrochemical industry in the 1980s with the acquisition of a polyethylene plant in Sulphur, LA, and the creation of Westlake Polymers. In the late 1980s, he founded the Titan Group in Malaysia. He now serves as chairman emeritus e·mer·i·tus adj. Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement: a professor emeritus. n. pl. and founder of Titan Group and founder of Westlake Chemical. |
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