ChemConnect partners with China Chemical City on the Internet
SAN FRANCISCO, California (July 2, 2001) – ChemConnect (chemconnect.com), a provider of end-to-end e-commerce solutions for buyers and sellers of chemicals and plastics, has partnered with China Chemical City on the Internet (CCCOI), a Chinese online exchange, to establish ChemConnect China.
According to the partnering companies, the agreement will enable ChemConnect’s 40,000 worldwide members to find new business partners, negotiate purchases and sales, and complete their order fulfillment through Envera's automated business processes and systems integration. “Through this agreement, third-party chemical buying and selling opportunities, within, to, and from China will be e-commerce-enabled,” said John Robinson, ChemConnect CEO. "And it took ChemConnect-the only company with the infrastructure, experience, trading models, back-end fulfillment, and liquidity--to get it done." "This partnership will allow our companies to continue successful growth, together," said Li Zhong, CEO of CCCOI. "We will now be able to take full advantage of e-commerce opportunities, and provide our Chinese members with an entry into the worldwide chemicals market with e-commerce capabilities across the entire supply chain." "We expect that our Asian Members will be the first to benefit from this partnership. Intra-Asia trading with Chinese companies from Korea, Japan, and India already account for nearly $19 billion a year," said Brian Selby, ChemConnect Vice President Asia. "And US fine and specialty chemicals manufacturers, who already sell $300 million a year worth of products into the Chinese marketplace, will almost certainly be among the first to get maximum benefits from these new opportunities."
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