Euro Tech Holdings Company Ltd. (Hong Kong SAR, China)

The Company is principally engaged in the marketing and trading of water and waste water related process control, analytical and testing instruments, disinfection equipment, supplies and related automation systems in Hong Kong and in the People's Republic of China (the “PRC”).
BUSINESS
The Company is a distributor of a wide range of advanced water treatment equipment, laboratory instruments, analyzers, test kits and related supplies and power generation equipment (including recorders and power quality analyzers). The Company acts as an exclusive and non-exclusive distributor for well-known manufacturers of such equipment, primarily to commercial customers and governmental agencies or instrumentalities in Hong Kong and the PRC.
The Company distributes products through its Hong Kong headquarters, its trading companies and representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Xi´An, Shenyang, and Urumqi. The Company's PRC trading subsidiaries are Chongqing Euro Tech Rizhi Technology Company, Rizhi Euro Tech Investments (Shaanxi) Company Limited and Guangzhou Euro Tech Environmental Equipment Company Limited.
The Company categorises its operations into two business segments: Trading and manufacturing, and Engineering.
1996 The Company was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on September 30, 1996. The Company has one class of securities presently registered: Ordinary Shares. These securities are presently traded on the NASDAQ's Capital Market under the trading symbols “CLWT”.
1997 The Company was organized for the purposes of raising capital and for acquiring all the outstanding capital stock of Euro Tech (Far East) Limited, a Hong Kong corporation involved in the distribution of advanced water treatment equipment (“Far East”). In March 1997, the Company acquired all the issued and outstanding capital stock of Far East and it became a wholly-owned subsidiary and was the primary operational entity of the Company.