The private sector has invested a large proportion of the capital needed to build plants, but not all of them were unqualified successes, at first at any rate. A striking example is provided by the Taiwan VCM Corporation's Toufeng plant in northern Taiwan.
吳澄清的這項成就，也因此獲得行政院蔣院長所頒贈的「六十六年度五大傑出科技人才獎」的殊榮。台灣氯乙烯公司是由六家公民營公司所合資經營的，產品主要項目就是氯乙烯單體，是製造ＰＶＣ的重要原料；副產品則為二氯乙烷與鹽酸。