TCC Marks 80th Anniversary at HuaShan: Nelson Chang Leads Global Team Across Asia, Europe and Africa to Unveil Vision of "Shaping the Future Civilization"

TCC Group Holdings (TCC) today (May 2) hosted its 80th anniversary celebration, “Shaping the Future Civilization,” at the HuaShan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei. The celebration unveiled the next chapter for a building materials enterprise that has witnessed Taiwan’s journey from postwar reconstruction to the global low-carbon transition. TCC announced the central direction for its next eight decades: extending its long-standing identity from “building cities” to “shaping civilization.”
 

In his keynote address, TCC Chairman Nelson Chang offered the defining note of this mission: “The world today continues to change. Technology accelerates, the climate shifts, and civilization is turning a new page. But one thing has not changed, and never will: civilization always needs a foundation. It needs bridges, roads and cities. It needs clean and stable energy. It needs a way to manage waste. It needs land on which humanity can live in security. What TCC does is to safeguard that foundation. We are not only building cities. We are watching over the tomorrow of civilization.”
 

Nelson Chang emphasized that when history looks back on this era, it may not remember every company. But it will remember those who, at this turning point in civilization, were still paving roads and building bridges for humankind.

The ceremony was attended by a distinguished group of more than three hundred guests, including Daniel Tsai, Chairman of Fubon Group; Thomas Wu, Chairman of Taishin Financial Holdings; Stan Shih, Founder of Acer Group; Bor-feng Lin, Chairman of the Third Wednesday Club; envoys to Taiwan from Türkiye, Canada and the United Kingdom; as well as TCC’s past directors and supervisors.
 

TCC chose Hall West 1 of the HuaShan 1914 Creative Park for its 80th anniversary because the lawn in front of the venue is the former site of the HuaShan freight station, which operated from the late Japanese colonial period through the 1960s and 1970s. In those years, bags of cement from TCC’s Zhudong and Kaohsiung plants were unloaded from DT580 and DT650 steam train at this site, and used to pour the contours of today’s Taipei. Eighty years on, TCC’s return to HuaShan signals its intent to extend the historical mission of “building cities” into the next chapter of “shaping civilization.”
 

On this occasion, Nelson Chang led TCC’s global management team, spanning the cement and green energy businesses, together with employee representatives from across Asia, Europe and Africa working in 11 industries including cement, environmental services, energy storage, shipping and power. This international lineup is the most concrete demonstration of how, since launching its full low-carbon transformation in 2017, TCC has evolved over eight years from a Taiwan cement company into a global green group with operations across Asia, Europe and Africa.
 

The event also marked the world premiere of TCC’s “AI Mining Site Autonomous Mining Truck” system, one of the milestones of the Group’s transformation. The first of its kind in the global cement industry, this all-new technology deeply integrates digital twin and automated control into the mining process. Through 3D naked-eye visualization on site, guests were transported to TCC’s autonomous mining site at one thousand meters above sea level in Hoping, Hualien, experiencing first-hand the impact of a zero-carbon outlook.
The system delivers low-carbon performance, intelligence and operational efficiency at the same time. It is already running stably at TCC’s Hoping Plant in Hualien, the Yingde Plant in Guangdong and the Jurong Plant in Jiangsu ,and will be progressively rolled out to TCC’s cement operations in Europe and Africa, signaling that TCC’s leadership in Industry 4.0 has now entered a stage of global replication.

On May 1, 1946, Taiwan Cement was founded amid the postwar reconstruction effort, taking up the responsibility of rebuilding the nation. In 1978, when Taiwan’s first highway, Freeway No. 1, was opened to traffic, all of the cement was supplied exclusively by TCC, paving the national artery of the island. In 2004, when Taipei 101 became the world’s tallest building of its time, TCC custom-developed earthquake-resistant 10,000 psi concrete for the project, accompanying Taiwan as it stepped onto the world stage.
 

In 2024, TCC’s European subsidiary CIMPOR inaugurated the world’s first cement plant operating without a traditional cement kiln, in Cameroon, Africa, replacing high-carbon raw materials with calcined clay technology. By rewriting a process historically powered by coal smoke, the plant launched a new chapter of low-carbon revolution. In the same year, TCC was named to TIME’s World’s Most Sustainable Companies, and formally adopted the new English name TCC Group Holdings.

TCC, no longer confined to Taiwan, today brings together employees of 58 nationalities, united by a shared belief in serving the future, humanity and the Earth, and rewriting an ancient industry. As Nelson Chang put it, true internationalization is not about drawing the map larger; it is about letting values reach further. A true global enterprise does not merely expand its borders on the map. It builds its coordinates in the conscience.