The story got started in 1981, when Formosa Plastics Corp., Taiwan's largest private company, began seeking to purchase the technology to build a titanium dioxide plant of its own.
杜邦來台投資二氧化鈦廠事件，也並非一開始就具備「超級巨星」的架勢。早在民國七十年間，國內第一大民營企業台塑集團，就醞釀設立二氧化鈦廠，但台塑自己沒有技術，要向外國買，這一延誤，卻讓得到消息的杜邦搶了先。