Welcome to Resins Inc.
Resins Inc. is a Philippine-based group of companies that offers better customer value through innovative ideas, processes and products. Our products and services benefit key industries such as plywood, woodworking, adhesives, coatings, plastics, shipbuilding and repair, insurance, agri-chemicals and construction.The company was founded in 1955 by the late Mr. Meneleo Carlos, Sr., an engineer and entrepreneur, who was committed to the industrialization of the Philippines following its devastation during World War II. His son, Meneleo Carlos, Jr. now sits as president and CEO of the company and continues to pursue that commitment.
Resins Inc has more than 50 years of tradition in manufacturing, with a passion for technology innovations , and driven to deliver high customer value and business value, and its long-term commitment to safeguard the country’s environment and promote the well being of its citizens.
In his speech at the 50th-year anniversary of Resins Inc in 2005, Mr. Carlos said that the corporate values of teamwork, integrity, professionalism, dynamism and candor remain the key anchors in the company’s efforts “ to continue winning amidst the rising global challenges that we now face.” With its main office located in Pasig City, Philippines, Resins Inc. has 500 employees, consultants and contractuals employed with its group of companies.
FOUNDING CHAIRMAN
Meneleo Carlos, Sr. was a Filipino nationalist who aspired to contribute to the reconstruction of the Philippines through industrialization following the devastation the country suffered during World War II.He was a graduate of mechanical engineering at Cornell University, New York, USA in the 50s where he was a champion boxer. As an engineering professor at the University of the Philippines in the 1940s, Mr. Carlos encouraged his students to become entrepreneurs and professionals. MC, as he was fondly called, became one and sowed the seed for the establishment of several business enterprises in the country.
He set up Resins Inc, a chemical plant that manufactured coating resins, Philight Inc., an engineering and electrical company which, after the war, undertook several projects for the reconstruction of post-war Manila, Golden Ribbon Lumber Co. and Polymer Products Inc.
MC enjoyed tinkering with cars and in machine shops. He also enjoyed the outdoors, taking time out for hunting, fishing, boat racing and even flying. He loved his family and inculcated to his children the importance of education.
In all his undertakings, what he valued most were honesty, dedication and fairness.
Our Core Values
Our heritage
1955
Incorporated and registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission of its first office at Philight Inc. building at Tanduay St., Manila.
1957
Entered into licensing agreement with Reichhold Chemicals Inc. (RCI), one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic resins. The agreement last for 25 years.
1958
Started manufacturing operations in Barrio Ugong, Pasig Rizal, with the production of alkyd resins and varnishes in K-1 fo surface coatings, paints and printing inks, and of urea, phenol, and melamine formaldehyde wood adhesives in K-2 for plywood and woodworking.
1959
Pioneered the production in the Philippines of polyvinyl acetate/acrylicemulsions and epoxy resins for paints, adhesives, textile and leather finishing, and of unsaturated polyster resins for fiberglass-reinforced plastics.
1960
Started backward integration into refined glycerine for surface coating resins, textiles, food, cigarettes and pharmaceuticals.
1961
Introduced backward integration into formalydehyde for synthetic resin adhesives. This was a pioneering undertaking in Southeast Asia.
1962
Started the production of foundry resins for shell molding, brake and clutch linings
1964
- tarted the production of sulfuric acid for detergents, textiles, steel, batteries and others.
- Established the Davao depot for the manufacture of plywood adhesives.
1965
Started the production of aluminum sulfate for water purification, pulp and paper, and others
1969
- Completed the installation of the manufacturing facilities in barrio Nahalinan, Jasaan, Misamis Oriental, which produced urea and formaldehyde wood adhesives for the Mindanao plywood industry
- Obtained pioneer status from the Philippine Board of Investments for the production of methanol, the first such incentive granted by the BOI to the chemical industry.
- Obtained pioneer status from the Philippine Board of Investments for the production of phthalic anhydride
1970
- Established the Philippine Construction & Marine Works (PICMW) as a wholly-owned subsidiary to merge the mechanical engineering groups of Philight Inc and Resins Inc. to further engage in plant design, equipment fabrication, construction, shipbuilding and repair of tugboats and barges for the bulk delivery of plywood adhesives
- Started the commercial production in Pasig of dioctyl phthalate plasticizer for PVC fabrication
1972
Set-up a caustic soda plant in Pasig, using soda ash and lime as raw materials
1973
- Started the production in Pasig of phthalic anhydride for surface coating resins, unsaturated polyster resins and dioctyl phthalate plasticizers, and exports to Asia, Australia and the USA.
- Started up the methanol plant in Jasaan, Misamis Oriental
1974
Obtained BOI export producer status for alkyd resins
1975
Obtained BOI export producer status for plywood adhesives
1976
- Appointed by Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha Ltd. Of Japan as the exclusive distributor of Tipaque Titanium dioxide in the Philippines
- Established Chemserve Inc. as a wholy-owned subsidiary for packaging and specialty adhesives, and other specialty chemicals
1977
- Established Cheminsurance Brokers & Services Inc. as a wholly- owned subsidiary
- Started the production of the second phthalic anhydride unit in Pasig
1980
Set up the Integrated Microelectronics Inc (IMI) in joint venture with the Ayala Corporation for the assembly of microchips for the semi-conductors, exports to electronic industries
1981
- Began the productionin Pasig of the hot melt adhesives for the wood and packaging industries
- Started up the 3rd 110 TPD formaldehyde plant in Jasaan, Misamis Oriental
1985
Established the AVC Chemical Corporation as a majority-owned subsidiary, in joint venture with ISK, to market agricultural pesticides and herbicides for vegetable, pineapple and banana plantations
1988
- Established the Phil-Sea Food Enterprises Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, to raise and process prawns in Jasaan, Misamis Oriental, for export to Japan and the USA. The plant was closed down in ______
- Established the Pro-Tex products Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary to produce centrifuged rubber latex in Jasaan, Misamis Oriental, and to manufacture latex emination gloves for export in Carmona, Cavite.
- Established Progenerix Inc. (later Progen Pharma Inc.), a majority-owned subsidiary that markets generic drugs.
1990
Established Pigmentex Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary that manufactures aluminum paste, calcium sulphate, and toll-manufactures synthetic resins in Carmona, Cavite.
1991
Set up MC Shipping Corporation as a wholly owned subsidiary of PICMW, to provide charter-hire vessels for the bulk transport of plywood adhesives
1996
Established RI Chemicals Corp. as a wholly owned subsidiary to assume the manufacturing and marketing activities of Resins Ins, and transform the latter purely into a holding company.
1998
Established Pacific Resins Inc as a wholly-owned subsidiary to acquire the synthetic resin and trading businesses and assets of Pacific Products Inc
2005
Celebrated 50 years of service to the Philippine industry.
2006
CTNI was established in April 2006 to operate nurseries for the propagation of seedlings by cloning and other means of seedling production from well-selected stocks of various fast growing tree species.