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Company - Key Milestones

CCC

1936 Continental Carbon Company (CCC) was organized by R.I. Wishnick, Continental Oil, and Shamrock Oil & Gas and built its first plant in Sunray, Texas.
1954 Second plant started production in Ponca City, OK.
1955 Pilot plant added at Sunray, TX to develop new grades of carbon black.
1958 Ownership changes:  Conoco (50%), Shamrock Oil & Gas (29%), and Witco Chemical (21%).
1960 Expanded Internationally by establishing plants with JV partners in France, Holland, and Italy.
1969 Third plant started at Phenix City, only carbon black plant in southeastern U.S.
1973 License agreements with other companies including China Synthetic Rubber Corporation in Taiwan.
1981 Equities in European and Asian plants sold to JV partners.
1984 After other ownership changes, Conoco sells CCC to Witco Chemical.
1990 Added 75 MLbs. capacity at Ponca City, OK, becoming the first grass-roots expansion in the U.S. carbon black industry since 1967.
1995 Witco sold CCC to China Synthetic Rubber Corporation (two-thirds ownership) and the Taiwan Cement Corporation (one-third).
1998 Phenix City plant doubled in size when 100 MLbs. of new capacity came onstream in December.
2000 CCC purchases the carbon black assets of Oriental Carbon & Chemicals Ltd.

CCIL

OCT-2000 Continental Carbon India Ltd (CCIL) is incorporated.
Nov-2001 First Disbursement of IFC Loan for the CCIL Expansion Project.
Nov-2002 Second Disbursement of IFC Loan for the CCIL Expansion Project.
Feb-2003 Commissioned two 175 TR Tread Reactors.
Jun-2003 Commissioning of new tread reactors & other line equipment.
Mar-2004 Commissioning of new carcass reactor and other line equipment.
Sep-2004 Physical completion of project phase I. involving plant expansion, modernization & technology alignment.
Apr-2005 CCIL achieves designed capacity.
Jun-2006 CCIL achieves financial closure on new loan package from IFC.
Apr-2008 Completion of 15 MW Co-Ge Power Plant.
Jun-2008 Announcement of proposed green field project at Visakhapatnam, A.P, India
Aug-2008 Supply of Electric Power to U.P. Grid Commences.
Jan-2009 New Capital Injection by CSRC making CCIL a subsidiary of CSRC
Mar-2009 CCIL goes live on SAP
Mar-2009 Installation of world's highest temprature APH in Carbon Black Industry
Sep-2009 Installation of Reactor Boiler in both lines for waste heat recovery