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Although we are a young company, we can look back on a long history. Taminco was founded from under the wings of the former mother company, UCB in October 2003.
Since then we have known a steady growth path, which is marked by a number of important milestones:
| July 2007 |
CVC signs Agreement to acquire Taminco
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| June 2007 |
Taminco signs an agreement with Akzo Nobel to acquire its majority share of their Joint Venture in China for the production of choline chloride liquid and choline chloride on carrier at Yixing. |
| May 2007 |
Taminco reaches an agreement with Arkema Inc to acquire its American Alkylalkanolamines, Specialty AAA Deha and Higher Amines business |
| October 2006 |
Acquisition of Air Products' US methylamines and global higher amines business. |
| April 2006 |
Take-over of the contracts and obligations Akzo Nobel due to the closure of their Delftzijl plant. |
| January 2006 |
Successful start-up of our world scale alkylalkanolamines unit |
| September 2005 |
Offical inauguration of a new R&D building at the Ghent site, which emphasizes our focus on Research and Innovation. |
| December 2004 |
Acquisition of Air Products' European methylamines and derivatives business |
| October 2003 |
Foundation of Taminco (carve-out from UCB) |
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