Chronicle of Major Events

Won a twA+ from Taiwan Ratings.

Won 2018 CommonWealth Magazine's "Top 100 Corporate Citizen Award" and was ranked in 1st place within the manufacturing industry and 17th place among large enterprises.

The 12 subordinated companies of Taiwan Cement Corporation in mainland China, including TCC (Guigang) Cement Co., Ltd, Jingzhou TCC Cement Co., Ltd, and Luzhou Saide Cement Co., Ltd, have won the prizes of China's nationwide 16th “cement chemical analysis big comparison testing”.

Won 7 prizes of the 2018 Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards, including "Social Inclusion", "Circular Economy ", and "Climate Leadership", etc. It's TCC’s best performance over the years.

Collaborated with Beijing Orient Landscape & Environment Co Ltd to develop its involvement in the Chinese waste market

TCC Board of Directors passed the proposal of the establishment of a "Sustainable Enterprise Development Committee", and the Chairperson of TCC will be the Chairperson of the committee to comprehensively promote the sustainable strategic planning of sustainable development for TCC so as to fulfill the sustainable development of an enterprise.

Launched a new corporate image film, "The Future Is Worth It", to reveal the new milestone of marching towards a "green environmental engineering company focused on the complex relationship between man and nature”.

Has issued US$549m-worth of global depositary receipts (GDRs). It is the first time that TCC has sold GDRs since its listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1962. The GDR sale was the largest by a local cement maker since 2010, as well as the largest by the cement industry in Asia Pacific region since 2017.

Set up a joint venture in the Netherlands with Oyak, Turkey’s largest Cement Group, to expand the company’s presence beyond Asia.

The "Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center", which has been supported by TCC for many years participated in the Taichung World Flora Exposition to showcase more than a thousand rare plant species, as well as demonstrate the important achievements of long-term investment in ecological rehabilitation and seed preservation.

TCC Green Energy stage one solar energy plant in the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park came online. Stage two solar plant is under construction.

Published the carbon cycle "Astaxanthin Red Algae Soba Noodles" and "Astaxanthin Skincare Series". All products are developed by the core technologies of " calcium-looping technology for CO2 capture” and “microalgae carbon fixation systems”, and cultivate the economic value of “astaxanthin extracted from the Haematococcus pluvialis” to practice the circular economy in business and production activities.

Was awarded the "2018 Best Taiwan Global Brands - Rising Star Award"

Has claimed the BS 8001 Circular Economy Certification and become the world's first cement company to obtain the certification.

The Chairperson of TCC, Chang An-ping, was Invited to attend the " Taipei-Shanghai City Forum 2018" and gave a speech on urban sustainability