MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

16.09.2013

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

Solvay (Zhangjiagang) Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd.

 

 

Registered Office :

No. 1 South Fenghuang Road, Fenghuang Town, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province 215613 Pr China

 

 

Country :

China

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

17.12.2004

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

320582400007095

 

 

Legal Form :

Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise

 

 

Line of Business :

Subject engaged in manufacturing, processing and selling alicyclic amine and fine chemicals

 

 

No. of Employees :

739

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

B

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

Small

 

Status :

Moderate

Payment Behaviour :

Unknown

Litigation :

Clear

 

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31st, 2013

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.12.2012)

Current Rating

(31.03.2013)

 China

                       A2

A2

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 


 

CHINA - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

 

Since the late 1970s China has moved from a closed, centrally planned system to a more market-oriented one that plays a major global role - in 2010 China became the world's largest exporter. Reforms began with the phasing out of collectivized agriculture, and expanded to include the gradual liberalization of prices, fiscal decentralization, increased autonomy for state enterprises, creation of a diversified banking system, development of stock markets, rapid growth of the private sector, and opening to foreign trade and investment. China has implemented reforms in a gradualist fashion. In recent years, China has renewed its support for state-owned enterprises in sectors it considers important to "economic security," explicitly looking to foster globally competitive national champions. After keeping its currency tightly linked to the US dollar for years, in July 2005 China revalued its currency by 2.1% against the US dollar and moved to an exchange rate system that references a basket of currencies. From mid 2005 to late 2008 cumulative appreciation of the renminbi against the US dollar was more than 20%, but the exchange rate remained virtually pegged to the dollar from the onset of the global financial crisis until June 2010, when Beijing allowed resumption of a gradual appreciation. The restructuring of the economy and resulting efficiency gains have contributed to a more than tenfold increase in GDP since 1978. Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis that adjusts for price differences, China in 2012 stood as the second-largest economy in the world after the US, having surpassed Japan in 2001. The dollar values of China's agricultural and industrial output each exceed those of the US; China is second to the US in the value of services it produces. Still, per capita income is below the world average. The Chinese government faces numerous economic challenges, including: (a) reducing its high domestic savings rate and correspondingly low domestic demand; (b) sustaining adequate job growth for tens of millions of migrants and new entrants to the work force; (c) reducing corruption and other economic crimes; and (d) containing environmental damage and social strife related to the economy's rapid transformation. Economic development has progressed further in coastal provinces than in the interior, and by 2011 more than 250 million migrant workers and their dependents had relocated to urban areas to find work. One consequence of population control policy is that China is now one of the most rapidly aging countries in the world. Deterioration in the environment - notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table, especially in the North - is another long-term problem. China continues to lose arable land because of erosion and economic development. The Chinese government is seeking to add energy production capacity from sources other than coal and oil, focusing on nuclear and alternative energy development. In 2010-11, China faced high inflation resulting largely from its credit-fueled stimulus program. Some tightening measures appear to have controlled inflation, but GDP growth consequently slowed to under 8% for 2012. An economic slowdown in Europe contributed to China's, and is expected to further drag Chinese growth in 2013. Debt overhang from the stimulus program, particularly among local governments, and a property price bubble challenge policy makers currently. The government's 12th Five-Year Plan, adopted in March 2011, emphasizes continued economic reforms and the need to increase domestic consumption in order to make the economy less dependent on exports in the future. However, China has made only marginal progress toward these rebalancing goals.

Source : CIA

 

 

Company name & address

 

Solvay (Zhangjiagang) Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd.

 

no. 1 south fenghuang road, fenghuang town, zhangjiagang

JIANGSU PROVINCE 215613 PR CHINA

TEL: 86 (0) 512-58110180/58110111/58110834/58110725

FAX: 86 (0) 512-58110120/58497000

 

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 

Date of Registration                     : December 17, 2004

REGISTRATION NO.                              : 320582400007095

LEGAL FORM                                       : Wholly foreign-owned enterprise

CHIEF EXECUTIVE                                : Michel Ybert (LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE)

REGISTERED CAPITAL                         : SGD 20,000,000

staff                                                  : 739

BUSINESS CATEGORY                         : MANUFACTURING & PROCESSING & TRADING

Revenue                                            : N/A (AS OF DEC. 31, 2012)

EQUITIES                                             : N/A (AS OF DEC. 31, 2012)

WEBSITE                                              : N/A

E-MAIL                                                 : N/A

PAYMENT                                            : AVERAGE

MARKET CONDITION                            : COMPETITIVE

FINANCIAL CONDITION                         : N/A

OPERATIONAL TREND                         : FAIRLY STEADY

GENERAL REPUTATION                       : AVERAGE

EXCHANGE RATE                                : CNY 6.12 = USD 1

 

 

Adopted abbreviations (as follows)

SC - Subject Company (the company inquired by you)

N/A – Not available

CNY – China Yuan Ren Min Bi


 

OPERATIONAL TREND & GENERAL REPUTATION

 

This section aims at indicating the relative positions of SC in respect of its operational trend & general reputation

 

Operational Trend:-                                            General Reputation:-

Upward                                                             Excellent

Steady                                                              Good

Fairly Steady                                                     Fairly Good

Ordinary                                                            Average

Fair                                                                   Fair

Stagnant                                                           Detrimental

Downward                                                         Not known

Not known                                                         Not yet be determined

Not yet be determined

 

 

LEGAL STATUS & HISTORY

 

SC was established as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise of PRC with State Administration of Industry & Commerce (SAIC) under registration No.: 320582400007095 on December 17, 2004.

 

SC’s Organization Code Certificate No.: 76913163-2

SC’s Tax No.: 320582769131632

 

SC’s registered capital: SGD 20,000,000

 

SC’s paid-in capital: SGD 20,000,000

 

Registration Change Record:-

 

Date

Change of Contents

Before the change

After the change

2007-10-18

Shareholder (s) (% of Shareholding)

Feixiang Holdings (Pte.) Limited (Singapore)

(In Chinese Pinyin)

100%

Hwa-An International Limited (HK) 50%

Hwa-Cheng International Limited (HK) 50%

2010-11-15

Company Name

Feixiang Chemicals (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd.

 

Rhodia Feixiang Speciality Chemicals Co., Ltd.

Legal Representative

Xiong Yixin

 

Michel Ybert

Shareholder (s) (% of Shareholding)

Hwa-An International Limited (HK) 50%

Hwa-Cheng International Limited (HK) 50%

Hwa-An International Limited (HK) 12.5%

Rhodia Amines Chemicals Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) 87.5%

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Company Name

Rhodia Feixiang Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd.

 

Solvay (Zhangjiagang) Specialty Chemicals Co., Ltd.

 

Shareholder (s) (% of Shareholding)

Hwa-An International Limited (HK) 12.5%

Rhodia Amines Chemicals Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) 87.5%

Rhodia Amines Chemicals Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) 90%

Solvay Investment Co., Ltd.

10%

 

Current Co search indicates SC’s shareholders & chief executives are as follows:-

 

Name of Shareholder (s)

% of Shareholding

Rhodia Amines Chemicals Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)

90

Solvay Investment Co., Ltd.

 

10

 

SC’s Chief Executives:-

 

Position

Name

Legal Representative and Chairman

Michel Ybert

General Manager

Xiong Yixin

Director

Zhu Mingyue

Chen Pu

Pierre-Franck, Yvcs Valentin

Supervisor

Zhang Ling

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECENT DEVELOPMENT

 

 

No recent development was found during our checks at present.

 

 

SHAREHOLDER CHART & BACKGROUND

 

 

Name                                                                                       % of Shareholding

 

Rhodia Amines Chemicals Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)                                     90

 

Solvay Investment Co., Ltd.                                                                   10

 

 

MANAGEMENT

 

 

Michel Ybert, Legal Representative and Chairman

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Ø  Gender: M

Ø  Age: 62

Ø  Nationality: France

Ø  Passport No.: 07AP49080

Ø  Working experience (s):

 

From 2010 to present, working in SC as legal representative and chairman

Also working in Solvay (Zhenjiang) Chemicals Co., Ltd., Rhodia-Hengchang (Zhangjiagang) Specialty Chemical Co., Ltd. and Solvay Investment Co., Ltd. as legal representative

 

 

Xiong Yixin, General Manager

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Ø  Gender: M

Ø  Age: 48

Ø  ID# 320582196511097312

Ø  Qualification: University

Ø  Working experience (s):

 

From 2010 to present, working in SC as general manager

 

 

Director

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Zhu Mingyue                            ID# 320203194711170317

Chen Pu                                    Passport No.: S2610070D

Pierre-Franck, Yvcs Valentin       Passport No.: 12AL79691

 

 

Supervisor

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Zhang Ling        ID# 320404197108120420

 

 

 

BUSINESS OPERATION

 

SC’s registered business scope includes certified business items: manufacturing, processing and selling propane diamine, methylethanolamine, aminomethane, cationic surfactant. Normal operating projects: manufacturing, processing and selling of fatty amine series (including but not limited fatty primary amines, fatty secondary amines, fatty tertiary amine, aliphatic diamine), surfactants series (including but not limited quaternary ammonium salt, fatty amine(fatty alcohol, fatty acid) polyoxyethylene ether, alkyl ammonium chloride series, 209 detergent) and fine chemicals (including but not limited N,N-two amino propylamine, B oxygen radical amine, octyl pyrrolidone and organic synthesis intermediates) (in accordance with license); after-sale service and R&D of the above products; good and technology import and export (excluding distribution business, excluding the approved items)

 

SC is mainly engaged in manufacturing, processing and selling alicyclic amine and fine chemicals, etc.

Brand: Flying

 

SC’s products mainly include: primary amine series, secondary amine series, diamine series, alkyl dimethyl amine series, softener series, biocides series, monomers series, polyquaternium series, and imidazoline series.

 

SC sources its materials 80% from domestic market, and 20% from overseas market, mainly U.S.A. and Europe. SC sells 30% of its products in domestic market, and 70% to overseas market, mainly Southeast Asian market.

 

The buying terms of SC include Check, T/T, L/C and Credit of 30-60 days. The payment terms of SC include Check, T/T, L/C and Credit of 30-60 days.

 

*Major Customers:

==============

Zhangjiagang Kudos Chemical Co., Ltd.

Cosphatech, Llc

Mason Chemical Co.

 

Staff & Office:

--------------------------

SC is known to have approx. 739 staff at present.

 

SC owns an area as its operating office & factory of approx. 223,847 sq. meters at the heading address.

 

 

 

 

RELATED COMPANY

 

n  Solvay (Zhenjiang) Chemicals Co., Ltd.

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Registration No.: 321100400013122

Legal Representative: Michel Ybert

 

n  Rhodia-Hengchang (Zhangjiagang) Specialty Chemical Co., Ltd.

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Registration No.: 320000400002380

Legal Representative: Michel Ybert

 

Etc.

 

PAYMENT

 

Overall payment appraisal:

( ) Excellent      ( ) Good      (X) Average      ( ) Fair      ( ) Poor      ( ) Not yet be determined

The appraisal serves as a reference to reveal SC's payments habits and ability to pay.  It is based on the 3 weighed factors: Trade payment experience (through current enquiry with SC's suppliers), our delinquent payment and our debt collection record concerning SC.

 

Trade payment experience: SC did not provide any name of trade/service suppliers and we have no other sources to conduct the enquiry at present.

 

Delinquent payment record: None in our database.

 

Debt collection record: No overdue amount owed by SC was placed to us for collection within the last 6 years.

 

 

BANKING

 

 

Basic Bank:

 

Bank of China Zhangjiagang Fenghuang Sub-branch

 

AC#: 545658213058 (CNY)

AC#: 479358215112 (USD)

AC#: 502758216135 (EUR)

 

 

 

FINANCIALS

 

The financials of SC is not available in local SAIC, and SC also refused to release the details.

 

 

CONCLUSIONS

 

SC is considered medium-sized in its line with a development history of 9 years. Taking into consideration of SC’s operating size as well as background

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.63.78

UK Pound

1

Rs.100.70

Euro

1

Rs.84.66

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

NLM

 

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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