Our History


2000

Kai Yen International Trading Corporation was founded in the beautiful Southern California at the beginning of 2000. We started our business as one of the major vendors/suppliers for Chinese state-owned company, more specifically for SINOPEC, SPC (Shanghai Petrochemical Company Ltd), Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Co., Electricity Power Companies, as well as Shanghai Bao Steel Group in Central -East China. We partner with the world's first class manufacturers such as Flowserve Flow Control, Pentair, Emerson, ABB, GE, Parker, MGE, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Japan, Merlin Gerin, Burton Corblin France, Rotork for numerous turn key projects and equipment replacements.


2001

With the fast growing business between China and the US, Kai Yen Shanghai office was established by Mr. Kevin Zhou and his partner Mr. Shaun Qiu. A strong engineering and sales team has been developed to process China and overseas bid projects. Several petrochemical projects in Shanghai, Hai Nan, and Sichuan provinces have been accomplished successfully.


2006

We focus on Yanbu Polymers Unit bid projects which is located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabic. Meanwhile, our maintenance and repair facility for flow control equipment is on the way to build near Shanghai too.


2007

To diversify and extend our product line to private sector, our sales team targets American polyester fiber market. Oil related product like Ethylene, propylene also becomes one of our core businesses.


2009

We started to take part in the coal liquefaction and coal to olefins projects.


2010

Kai Yen became a major distributor of C5, such as Isoprene, DCPD, etc in the North America.


2013

As shale gas booming in USA, KaiYen is targeting the NGL export market as ethane, propane, etc.