MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

12.10.2012

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

TUEBINGEN  CHEMICALS  CO.  LTD.

 

 

 

 

Registered Office :

Room 1711, 17/F., Cheung Fung Industrial Building, 23-39 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New Territories

 

 

 

 

Country :

Hong Kong.

 

 

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

31.10.1986

 

 

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

10617306

 

 

 

 

Legal Form :

Private Limited Company.

 

 

 

 

Line of Business :

Importer, Distributor and Wholesaler of all kinds of chemicals.

 

 

 

 

No. of Employees :

10

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Ba

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

Satisfactory

 

Status :

Satisfactory

Payment Behaviour :

No Complaints

Litigation :

Clear

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – June 30th, 2012

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.03.2011)

Current Rating

(30.06.2012)

Hong Kong

A2

A2

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 

HONG KONG - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of re-exports, is about four times GDP. Hong Kong's open economy left it exposed to the global economic slowdown that began in 2008. Although increasing integration with China, through trade, tourism, and financial links, helped it to make an initial recovery more quickly than many observers anticipated, it again faces a possible slowdown as exports to the Euro zone and US slump. The Hong Kong government is promoting the Special Administrative Region (SAR) as the site for Chinese renminbi (RMB) internationalization. Hong Kong residents are allowed to establish RMB-denominated savings accounts; RMB-denominated corporate and Chinese government bonds have been issued in Hong Kong; and RMB trade settlement is allowed. The territory far exceeded the RMB conversion quota set by Beijing for trade settlements in 2010 due to the growth of earnings from exports to the mainland. RMB deposits grew to roughly 7.8% of total system deposits in Hong Kong by the end of 2011, an increase of over 59% since the beginning of the year. The government is pursuing efforts to introduce additional use of RMB in Hong Kong financial markets and is seeking to expand the RMB quota. The mainland has long been Hong Kong's largest trading partner, accounting for about half of Hong Kong's exports by value. Hong Kong's natural resources are limited, and food and raw materials must be imported. As a result of China's easing of travel restrictions, the number of mainland tourists to the territory has surged from 4.5 million in 2001 to 28 million in 2011, outnumbering visitors from all other countries combined. Hong Kong has also established itself as the premier stock market for Chinese firms seeking to list abroad. In 2011 mainland Chinese companies constituted about 43% of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and accounted for about 56% of the Exchange's market capitalization. During the past decade, as Hong Kong's manufacturing industry moved to the mainland, its service industry has grown rapidly. Growth slowed to 5% in 2011. Credit expansion and tight housing supply conditions caused Hong Kong property prices to rise rapidly in 2010 and inflation to rise 5.3% in 2011. Lower and middle income segments of the population are increasingly unable to afford adequate housing. Hong Kong continues to link its currency closely to the US dollar, maintaining an arrangement established in 1983.

Source : CIA


Company name and address

 

TUEBINGEN  CHEMICALS  CO.  LTD.

 

 

ADDRESS:       Room 1711, 17/F., Cheung Fung Industrial Building, 23-39 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong.

 

PHONE:            2413 1698,  2413 1620,  2417 2865

 

FAX:                 2415 2433

 

E-MAIL:            info@chthk.com

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:         Dr. Kwok Wang Fun

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Incorporated on:             31st October, 1986.

 

Organization:                 Private Limited Company.

 

Capital:                         Nominal:           HK$28,000,000.00

Issued:              HK$28,000,000.00

 

Business Category:        Chemical Merchant.

 

Employees:                   10.

 

Main Dealing Banker:     DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt AM Main, Hong Kong Branch.

 

Banking Relation:           Good.


ADDRESS

 

Registered Head Office:-

Room 1711, 17/F., Cheung Fung Industrial Building, 23-39 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong.

 

Holding Company:-

RB Beitlich Industriebeteiligungen GmbH

Bismarckstrasse 102, D-72072 Tuebingen, Germany.

 

Ultimate Holding Company:-

CHT. R. Beitlich GmbH

Bismarckstrasse 102, D-72072 Tuebingen, Germany.

 

Associated/Affiliated Companies:-

Bezema AG, Switzerland.

Chemische Fabrik Tubingen (UK) Ltd., UK.

CHT (India) Pvt. Ltd., India.

CHT Australia Pty. Ltd., Australla.

CHT Belgium N.V., Belgium.

CHT Brasil Quimica Ltda, Brasil.

CHT Colombiana Ltda., Colombia.

CHT France S.A.R.L., France.

CHT Italia s.r.l., Italy.

CHT Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd., Palostan.

CHT Peruana S.A., Peru.

CHT Takstil Kimya San Tic A.S., Turkey.

Dongguan Kaiwoo Chemical Factory Ltd., China.

Shanghai Tuebingen Chemical Factory Co. Ltd., China.

 

 

BUSINESS REGISTRATION NUMBER 

 

10617306

 

 

COMPANY FILE NUMBER

 

0177270

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

Managing Director:  Dr. Kwok Wang Fun

 


CAPITAL

 

Nominal Share Capital: HK$28,000,000.00 (Divided into 140,000 shares of HK$200.00 each)

 

Issued Share Capital: HK$28,000,000.00

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS

(As per registry dated 31-10-2011)

 

Name

 

No. of shares

RB Beitlich Industriebeteiligungen GmbH

Bismarckstrasse 102, D-72072 Tuebingen, Germany.

 

91,000

KWOK Wang Fun

 

49,000

 

 

–––––––

 

Total:

140,000

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DIRECTORS

(As per registry dated 31-10-2011)

 

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

KWOK Wang Fun

38A, Broadview Villa, 20 Broadwood Road, Hong Kong.

 

Erich MECHEL

Im Kugelbrettle 12, 73734 Esslingen, Germany.

 

Dr. Bernhard Josef HETTICH

Im Brennofen 10, 72135 Dettenhausen, Germany.

 

KWOK Alan Yik Lun

Flat A, 38/F., Broadview Villa, 20 Broadwood Road, happy Valley, Hong Kong.

 

 

SECRETARY

(As per registry dated 31-10-2011)

 

Name

(Nationality)

 

Address

LI Shun Ying

38A, Broadview Villa, 20 Broadwood Road, Hong Kong.

 

 


HISTORY

 

The subject was incorporated on 31st October, 1986 as a private limited liability company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.

Apart from these, neither material change nor amendment has been ever traced and noted.

 

 

OPERATIONS

 

Activities:                      Importer, Distributor and Wholesaler.

 

Lines:                           All kinds of chemicals.

 

Employees:                   10.

 

Commodities Imported:   Mainly imported from Germany.

 

Markets:                       Hong Kong and other Asian countries.

 

Terms/Sales:                 Various terms.

 

Terms/Buying:               As per contracted.

 

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Nominal Share Capital:   HK$28,000,000.00 (Divided into 140,000 shares of HK$200.00 each)

 

Issued Share Capital:     HK$28,000,000.00

 

Mortgage or Charge:-

Date of Mortgage:  17-03-1990

Amount:            To secure all moneys in respect of general banking facilities

Property:           (1) 10,386/905,336th parts or shares of and in The Remaining Portion of Tsuen Wan Town Lot No. 313 and (2) 10,386/779,537th parts or shares of and in High Block of Cheung Fung Industrial Building [the Building] [(1) Unit 10 & 11 on 17/F. of the Building and (2) Car Park No. P23 on 1/F. of the Building]

Mortgagee:        Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank, Hong Kong Branch.  [Renamed to DG Bank Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank AG and further to DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt AM Main]

 

Profit & Loss:                Business is profitable.

 

Condition:                      Keeping in an active and satisfactory manner.

 

Facilities:                      Making active use of general banking facilities.

 

Payment:                      Regularly met.

 

Commercial Morality:     Good.

 

Banker:                         DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt AM Main, Hong Kong Branch.

 

Standing:                      Very Good.

 

 

GENERAL

 

Tuebingen Chemicals Co. Ltd. is a private limited company formerly jointly owned by a German merchant Mr. Ulrich Hambrecht holding 65%, and a local Chinese with Australian nationality Dr. Kwok Wang-Fun, holding 35%.  On 13th December, 1999, Mr. Ulrich Hambrecht transferred all his shares to CHT. R. Beitlich GmbH [CHT Group/CHT], a Germany-based firm while Dr. Kwok is still holding 35% of the subject’s stakes.  In recent years, CHT has transferred all its shares to its subsidiary RB Beitlich Industrie-beteiligungen GmbH, also a Germany-based firm.  After the transference, CHT has become the ultimate holding company of the subject.

The subject is a chemical trader engaged in importing, re-exporting and wholesaling of various kinds of chemicals, chemical raw materials which are mainly imported from Germany.  Its prime markets are Hong Kong and other Asian countries.  Most of its Hong Kong buyers have got affiliated factories in China.

The subject’s German shareholder and other German directors are in Germany responsible for acquiring chemicals for the subject.  Business has been good and distribution channels have been well developed.

Operation started in 1987 and current financial standing is rather satisfactory, the subject is mainly controlled by Dr. Kwok and his spouse, Ms. Li Shun Ying and their family member.

CHT Group started to produce chemical additives in Tübingen on Neckar on 18th October, 1953.  In the very first year of business, the company had 13 employees – and a turnover of around €235,000.

CHT has been engaged in the development, production and sale of additives for the textile processing industry for more than 50 years.  Its products are chiefly for the entire textile chain and provides additives for fibre production, pre-treatment, dyeing processes and textile printing and also for finishing and coating.  In addition, CHT develops intelligent system solutions and products for the new business areas of garment finishing and textile care.

CHT’s product range also includes textile dyes which are processed and sold world-wide under the brand name “BEZEMA” by the CHT company of the same name in Switzerland.

Besides, CHT also distributes silicone oil which is used in cleaning and care agents and it “performance chemicals” are used in areas as diverse as paper manufacturing, the construction materials industry, leather production and in pet food.

Now, CHT and its affiliated companies and representatives are active in more than 50 countries.  Besides the subject, main subsidiaries of CHT are in China, Italy, Pakistan, Brazil, Turkey, India, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Peru, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Pakistan, Colombia, and North America.

The annual sales turnover of CHT is very significant.

The subject is fully supported by CHT.

On the whole, having a history of about 26 years, the subject is considered good for normal business engagements.

 

 


REMARKS

 

            Property information of the company:-

            Property Location:          Unit 10 & 11 on 17/F. and Car Park No. P23 on 1/F.,
Cheung Fung Industrial Building, 23-39 Pak Tin Par Street, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Owner:  Tuebingen Chemicals Co. Ltd.

Date of Purchase:  n.a.

Purchased Price:  n.a.

Incumbrances:-

Date of Mortgage

Amount Consideration

Mortgagee

Nature

17-03-1990

-

Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank, Hong Kong Branch.  [Renamed to DG Bank Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank AG and further to DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt AM Main]

Mortgage to secure general banking facilities

 


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.53.07

UK Pound

1

Rs.84.95

Euro

1

Rs.68.24

 

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

PRL

 

 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

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NB

New Business

 

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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 

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