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1993
The first certification received by KMC factories was in accordance with the ISO standard. Since then, KMC has acquired a long list of other certifications, including ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 14001, HACCP and AIB.		  
   
 
 
1994
Plans were made for introducing quotas for potato starch production in the EU, applying from 1995 onwards. In response to this, the KMC management adopted a radically changed strategy. Production of native starch continued to be the mainstay, but the new strategy also made provision for production outside Denmark, increased efforts in the field of modified starches, and the development of both starch specialties and completely new products.		    
   
 
 
1995
Trials were conducted with growing potatoes, as well as production and sales, in Poland. Although these trials turned out to be a total flop, this did not prevent KMC from keeping to its strategy of internationalisation with even more determination.		    
   
 
 
1996
The first KMC production company to be actually located outside Denmark was established in China. In collaboration with a Swedish and a Chinese partner, KMC invested in a native potato starch factory that was able to help boost starch quality standards on the Chinese market.		  
   
 
 
1997
KMC had acquired an appetite for expansion, setting up a further joint venture project in China with a Taiwanese partner – this time for modified starch.		  
   
 
 
1998
Sales efforts were improved and expanded in three countries – Russia, China and the UK. This led to KMC opening its own sales offices in those countries. Germany later followed suit with the setting up of its own sales office.
Throughout the rest of the world, KMC uses highly qualified sales agents and local business partners, which means that opening further sales offices is not on the cards.		    
   
 
 
1999
Thirty Danish potato growers (the KMC board of directors and other representatives of the growers who actually own KMC) travelled to China to inspect the company’s facilities there. With one single blow, those potato growers who had not previously been internationally oriented became convinced that such a step was necessary. This study tour was enormously informative – and great fun at the same time.		    
   
 
 
2001
For the first time in the history of the company, the product portfolio was extended to include starches based on products other than just potatoes, when KMC took over an existing tapioca starch factory in Vietnam. New technology was introduced to this company, and the quality of its production was boosted to KMC standards.		  
   
 
 
2003
KMC introduced spray cooked cold water swelling starch – the first European potato starch producer to do so. This meant that KMC’s product portfolio now covers many different areas of application in the food industry, and a wide range of other technical uses in industry.		  
   
 
 
2004
As a company owned by farmers, KMC’s greatest field of expertise lies in growing potatoes. This is the background for KMC now also producing potato granules and potato flakes, once more demonstrating that KMC has the quality and flexibility to ensure its future, using some of the most modern plants in the world.