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1. Organisation and principal activities | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Organisation and principal activities | Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited (the “Company”) was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on September 30, 1996. Euro Tech (Far East) Limited (“Far East”) is the principal operating subsidiary of the Company. It 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”). Details of the Company’s significant subsidiaries and affiliates are summarised as follows:
Name |  | Percentage of equity ownership |  | Place of incorporation |  | Principal activities
Subsidiaries: |  |  |  |  |  |
Euro Tech (Far East) Limited |  |  | 100 | % | Hong Kong |  | Marketing and trading of water and waste water related process control, analytical and testing instruments, disinfection equipment, supplies and related automation systems
Euro Tech (China) Limited |  |  | 100 | % | Hong Kong |  | Inactive
ChinaH2O.com Limited*** |  |  | 100 | % | Hong Kong |  | Internet content provider and provision of marketing services for environmental industry to the Company and its subsidiaries
Euro Tech Trading (Shanghai) Limited |  |  | 100 | % | The PRC |  | Marketing and trading of water and waste water related process control, analytical and testing instruments, disinfection equipment, supplies and related automation systems
Shanghai Euro Tech Limited |  |  | 100 | % | The PRC |  | Manufacturing of analytical and testing equipment
Shanghai Euro Tech Environmental Engineering Company Limited |  |  | 100 | % | The PRC |  | Undertaking water and waste-water treatment engineering projects
Chongqing Euro Tech Rizhi Technology Co., Ltd |  |  | 100 | % | The PRC |  | Marketing and trading of water and waste water related process control, analytical and testing instruments, disinfection equipment, supplies and related automation systems
Name |  | Percentage of equity ownership |  | Place of incorporation |  | Principal activities
Rizhi Euro Tech Instrument (Shaanxi) Co., Ltd |  |  | 100 | % | The PRC |  | Marketing and trading of water and waste water related process control, analytical and testing instruments, disinfection equipment, supplies and related automation systems
Guangzhou Euro Tech Environmental Equipment Co., Ltd |  |  | 100 | % | The PRC |  | Marketing and trading of water and waste water related process control, analytical and testing instruments, disinfection equipment, supplies and related automation systems
Yixing Pact Environmental Technology Co., Ltd |  |  | 58 | %* | The PRC |  | Design, manufacture and operation of water and waste water treatment machinery and equipment
Pact Asia Pacific Limited ** |  |  | 58 | %* | The British Virgin Islands |  | Producing and selling of environment protection equipment, undertaking environment protection projects and providing relevant technology advice, training and services
Affiliates: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Zhejiang Tianlan Environmental Protection Technology Co. Ltd. (Formerly known as Zhejiang Tianlan Desulfurization and Dust–Removal Co. Ltd.) |  |  | 20 | % | The PRC |  | Design, general contract, equipment manufacturing, installation, testing and operation management of the treatment of waste gases emitted
Zhejiang Jia Huan Electronic Co. Ltd. |  |  | 20 | % | The PRC |  | Design and manufacturing automatic control systems and electric voltage control equipment for electrostatic precipitators (air purification equipment)
* | In the year 2011, the Company additionally acquired 5% equity interest of these two companies.
| ** | The subsidiary of Pact Asia Pacific Limited, Pact Environmental Equipment Co., Ltd was deregistered on January 11, 2013.
*** The subsidiary was deregistered on February 17, 2012.
ZHEJIANG TIANLAN |
Organisation and principal activities | Zhejiang Tianlan Environmental Protection Technology Company Limited (the “Company”) was incorporated in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the People's Republic of China (“PRC”) on May 18, 2000 as a wholly domestic owned enterprise. On August 6, 2007, Euro Tech (Far East) Limited and Beijing International Trust Investment Company Limited acquired 20% and approximately 3% of the equity interest of the Company. Upon the completion of the transaction, the Company changed from a wholly domestic owned enterprise to a sino-foreign joint venture enterprise with an operating period up to August 5, 2037. On August 30, 2011, the Company changed from a sino-foreign joint venture enterprise to a limited company by shares. The principal activities of the Company are engaged in flue gas desulphurization, dust removal, flue gas denitration and purification of diversified industrial waster gas. Details of the Company’s subsidiaries are summarised as follows:
Name |  | Percentage of equity ownership |  | Place of incorporation | Principal activities
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  |
Hangzhou Tianlan Environmental Engineering and Design Company Limited |  |  | 100 | % |  |  | 100 | % | PRC | Provision of maintenance services of environmental protection equipment
Hangzhou Tianlan Environmental Protection Equipments Company Limited |  |  | 51 | % |  |  | 51 | % | PRC | Manufacturing and installation services of environmental protection equipment
Shihezi Tianlan Environmental Protection Technology Company Limited (石河子市天藍環保技術有限公司) |  |  | 100 | % |  |  | 100 | % | PRC | Provision of maintenance services of environmental protection equipment
Da Tong Tianlan Environmental Protection Technology Service Company Limited (大同天藍環保技術服務有限公司) * |  |  | 100 | % |  |  | - |  | PRC | Provision of maintenance services of environmental protection equipment
* The Company was incorporated on November 10, 2014.
ZHEJIANG JIAHUAN |
Organisation and principal activities | Zhejiang Jiahuan Electronic Company Limited (the “Company”) was established in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) as a limited liability company. The principal activities of the Company are design, manufacturing and sales of automatic control systems and electric voltage control equipment for electrostatic precipitators (air purification equipment). Details of the Company’s subsidiaries are summarised as follows:
Name |  | Percentage of equity ownership |  | Place of incorporation |  | Principal activities
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  |  |
Jinhua Jiahuan Puzhau New Energy Technology Co., Ltd* |  |  | 80 | % |  |  | 80 | % | PRC |  | Dormant
Zhejiang Jiahuan Xinyu Environmental Production Co., Ltd |  |  | 100 | % |  |  | 100 | % | PRC |  | Manufacturing and installation services of environmental production equipment
*The Company ceased its operation but not yet deregistered.

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