BRIEF HISTORY IRPC PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
IRPC Public Company Limited or IRPC was founded in 1978 as Thai Petrochemical Industry Company Limited or TPI by the Leophairatana family. TPI had been transformed into a public company limited on October 10, 1994 and listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand on March 17, 1995. Started as a producer of plastic resin pellets in 1982, IRPC gradually expanded its line of product and facilities to become a fully-integrated petrochemical complex. The Company was suffered from financial crisis after the Thai government announced the change of the exchange rate system to the Manged Float System in 1997 and went into debt restructuring process in 2000. The debt restructuring had completed successfully on April 26, 2006. IRPC and its subsidiaries Southeast Asia没s first fully-integrated petrochemical complex are located in Rayong on its own industrial park with supported facilities such as a deep sea port, tank farm and a power plant.
ANNUAL REPORT 2007 IRPC PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
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