ABC Circle
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ABOUT ABC CIRCLE

Company

COMPANY HISTORY

Company History

2026

  • 06Additional development and launch of 4 diagnostic kits (TuMV, PVY, PMMoV, PepMoV)

2025

  • 11Selected for the "KSURE Export Growth Planet" program by the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-SURE)
  • 07First entry into Africa; agricultural material registration and export to Egypt
  • 05Selected as an "Innovation Premier 1000" company by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA)
  • 05Signed MOU with the Chungbuk Agricultural Research and Extension Services for the joint development of diagnostic kits for “fire blight and black shoot blight”
  • 04Established subsidiary "ABC GLS Co., Ltd."
  • 01Registered PCT international patent for diagnostic kits in the U.S.
  • 01Opened Dongtan office (Seoul metropolitan area)

2024

  • 12Plant pest and disease diagnostic kit selected as an "Innovative Product" by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups
  • 07Established subsidiary in India
  • 03Established subsidiary in the UAE

2023

  • 02Relocated corporate R&D center to Dongtan
  • 02Commercialized virus and nematode diagnostic kits

2022

  • 12Relocated headquarters and factory to Jincheon-gun, Chungbuk (expanded facilities)
  • 12Received Governor's Commendation as an Outstanding Enterprise in Chungbuk

2021

  • 11Received Presidential Award (Grand Prize at the 2021 Agri-Food Startup Contest)
  • 07Filed US PCT international patent for diagnostic kits
  • 01Filed patents for and launched two new diagnostic kits (for soft rot and late blight)
  • 01Registered as an eco-friendly organic farming material

2020

  • 09Developed a simultaneous diagnostic method using semi-quantitative lateral flow immunoassay technology for diagnostic kits

2018

  • 07Obtained venture company certification
  • 02Relocated headquarters and factory to Goesan-gun, Chungbuk

2017

  • 10Established "ABC Green Supply" JV in Cambodia

2016

  • 10Received certification for corporate R&D center

2015

  • 07Incorporated “ABC Circle Co., Ltd.”