Tianshi Calcium Carbonate, Zhejing province, an important member of Carbonate Association of China, is one of the leading producer and seller of precipitated calcium carbonate in inorganic salt field. The company, near the 320 State Highway, is located at the bank of Xin`an Jiang River with lovely scenery, and is eleven kilometers away from the Xin`an Jiang Railway Station. It is convenient for water and land transportation. Founded in the Ching Dynasty, our company has a history of more then 180 years. Our enterprise turned to be the limited liability company from public ownership in 1997. Now it has more than 300 staff members and workers including engineering and technical personnel of 56, shareholder of 45.

Making good use of the resources of high quality limestone and water, our company with the SHANJIAO BRAND serial products, such as toothpaste PCC, edible PCC, medicinal PCC, activated ultra fine PCC, coating PCC, serves the industries of rubber, plastic, paper, electric wire and cable, building materials, biochemistry engineering, toothpaste, food-processing, pharmacy etc. The toothpaste precipitated calcium carbonate, the leading product, is a high-tech product co-developed successfully with the help of COLGATE COMPANY. We began to develop this kind of product in 1996. By 1998, the quantity we supplied to COLGATE COMPANY (GUANG ZHOU) with PCC was 20 percent of their raw material PCC. (The other 80 percent was imported from Brazil. ) By 1999, the quantity accounted for 50 percent. By the November of 2000, we became the exclusive supplier. So far the toothpaste PCC runs first among similar products. At the same time, we also supplied PCC to the other Asian subsidiaries of COLGATE COMPANY, which is in Pakistan, Vietnam, India, etc. We won warm praises from customers. According to the report by Zhejiang scientific and technical information research institute, the reported lowest content of lead in medicinal PCC is 1ppm, while our medicinal PCC is less than or equal to 0.25ppm. Recent years, many cigarette factory imported PCC, owing to the quality at home could not meet their demands. We developed the special cigarette paper in 2001, and we succeeded. Now the PCC used to be imported can be replaced by domestic product.

Since 2000, because we pay more attention to develop new product, our company grew fast. Our company was awarded very import enterprise, excellent enterprise of tax and profit by the municipal government for successive 3 years. The output of our company has risen from 5 thousand tons in 1994 to 30 thousand tons in 2002. In October, 2002, the new and high-tech products, namely medicinal and edible PCC, wear examined by Zhejiang Province government and approved as provincial high technology product.

To meet the market demands, we invested 8 million RMB in 2002 to build a new production plant, the annual capacity of the plant will be 50 thousand tons. At the first step, in May this year, we will finish a new line of 25 thousand annual line.

The special-type medicinal PCC is the raw material of the healthy food and calcium sonic, it is classified as Zhejiang Provincial Excellent Product of science and technology in 1999, and is recommended to the wider market. In 2003, our company is awarded zhejiang provincial hi-tech enterprise. Will pass ISO9001 and ISO14001 quality system authentication in 2004.

Our company undertaks ISO9000 and carries on total control of products from raw material, production process, check acceptance, after-sale service in order to guarantee the good quality of product. The special-type medical and food PCC is classified as Excellent Product of Zhejiang Province, and recommended to the wider market in 1999. Well sold are serial products all over the world for its reliable quality, remarkable performance and good service. Customers all over the world are welcome to contact with us. We are looking forward to your cooperation both in technology and business.