- CEO
- Chi Chao Ho
- Full Time Employees
- 568
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: major diversified
- Address
- No.11, Wenhua Road Hsinchu HSQ Taiwan 303035
- IPO Date
- Dec 14, 2010
- Business
- Coremax Corporation (4739.TW), a Taiwan-based chemical manufacturer founded in 1992 and headquartered at 11 Wenhua Road, Hsinchu Industrial Park, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, specializes in the research, development, production, and marketing of metal-based specialty chemicals and electronic/battery materials; its core products encompass oxidation catalysts in liquid forms such as prime cobalt acetate, prime manganese acetate, prime cobalt manganese acetate, prime cobalt manganese bromide, prime cobalt bromide, prime manganese bromide, and regenerated cobalt manganese bromide solutions, as well as crystalline forms including cobalt acetate and manganese acetate; specialty chemicals for tires, pigments, paints, electronic industry applications like ITO etching, Cr etching, electronic-grade sulfuric acid, electronic-grade sodium carbonate solution, oxalic acid, tin (II) chloride dihydrate, and traditional industry uses; battery materials comprising cobalt sulfate, nickel sulfate, cobalt oxide, cobalt hydroxide, cobalt carbonate, and nickel/cobalt/manganese nitrate; and chemical fertilizers including organic and chemical compound varieties. The company operates production facilities in Taiwan (Hsinchu, Toufen, Taichung), mainland China (Ningbo, Zhangzhou), Thailand (Rayong), and serves global markets particularly in petrochemicals, lithium-ion batteries, electronics, and agriculture, with group subsidiaries such as Uranus Chemicals Co., Ltd. (fully acquired in 2016 for TFT LCD chemicals) and Heng-I Chemical (invested in 2009 for fertilizers and semiconductor materials). In recent developments, Coremax underwent an organizational restructuring in 2023, transferring its cobalt sulfate business to subsidiary Uranus Chemicals via a joint venture; it expanded internationally by launching the Vina CoreMax Vietnam project in Quang Ninh province in 2023 with operations inaugurated in 2025 as a $65.3 million battery materials plant; and continues capacity enhancements for high-demand battery precursors like nickel and cobalt sulfates to support electric vehicle supply chains.