Since the founders' humble beginnings in the 1960s, traveling from his hometown in Chiayi County to urban Taipei City to learn a trade, he has dedicated the eventually-formed Kuang Shin Enterprise to providing quality products. Kuang Shin offers children's desks and chairs, computer chairs, furn

Since the founders' humble beginnings in the 1960s, traveling from his hometown in Chiayi County to urban Taipei City to learn a trade, he has dedicated the eventually-formed Kuang Shin Enterprise to providing quality products. Kuang Shin offers children's desks and chairs, computer chairs, furn

If there's a keyword that can be used to summarize the past two years, it would be “digitalization.” Across different industries, companies and suppliers are seeking ways to tap into the post-COVID market, and the furniture sector is no different. Here are two trends we've identified that would and

Since the founders' humble beginnings in the 1960s, traveling from his hometown in Chiayi County to urban Taipei City to learn a trade, he has dedicated the eventually-formed Kuang Shin Enterprise to providing quality products. Kuang Shin offers children's desks and chairs, computer chairs, furn

The COVID-19 pandemic has rekindled investment and focus on suitable working spaces at home in times of quarantines and lockdowns. As students have no other choice but to return home, many families have found that existing home spaces often do not have the necessary desks or chairs to provide bette

Since the founders' humble beginnings in the 1960s, traveling from his hometown in Chiayi County to urban Taipei City to learn a trade, he has dedicated the eventually-formed Kuang Shin Enterprise to providing quality products. Kuang Shin offers children's desks and chairs, computer chairs, furn

Taiwan’s furniture making sector, as many other manufacturing industries globally, has had to cope with increasingly strict eco-protection rules and stay with the global trend to become earth-friendly amid more convincing evidence of global warming and the disastrous consequences of extreme weather

Chiao Sen Wooden Industry Co., Ltd. has been engaged in the woodworking industry for over 30 years, specializing in wooden-furnishing manufacturing including mirror or piano finish on contract basis. Its product lineup includes storage boxes, boxes, lamp trays, lamp holders, photo and picture fr

Located in northern China, Lang Fang Forward Furniture Co., Ltd. is successfully operated by a Taiwanese to provide a wide variety of furniture to markets in China and abroad. With efforts on improving manufacturing technologies and production capability, the company has achieved excellent integra

By MICHELLE HSU Whatever you call the space where you work at home--studio, workstation, home office--the furniture you use there is undergoing drastic changes along with the evolution of lifestyles and working habits brought on by the use of PCs and mobile devices. Advances in information, c

By KEN LIU In 1985, the Wenshui Community in northern Taiwan's Miaoli County had over 800 residents and served as a transportation and business hub for the townships of Dahu, Shitan, and Tai'an. The population later plunged and by 1999 there were only 86 people left, most of them oldsters and ch

Lang Fang Forward/CENS Global Pass/JL/2014-08-07 Lang Fang Forward Furniture Co., Ltd. Dining sets, bar counters & stools, TV stands, coffee tables, children’s beds Located in northern China, Lang Fang Forward Furniture Co., Ltd. is successfully operated by a Taiwanese to provide a wide vari

By MICHELLE HSU Ever since the Japanese management scholar Kenichi Ohmae published his book “One-person Economy,” the social trend toward a solitary lifestyle has received widespread attention. Solitary living was already common before the book was published, but Ohmae compiled relevant data sys

By JENNY WU China has more than 300 million people under the age of 16, accounting for a quarter of the country’s entire population, notes Zhu Changling, vice director of the China National Furniture Association. This means, he believes, that the potential for the development of children's furni

By MICHELLE HSU The 2014 Taiwan International Furniture Show (TIFS), organized by the Taiwan Furniture Manufacturers Association (TFMA) and held Feb. 21-24 at the Taipei World Trade Center, is a major global furniture exhibition held in Taiwan. This year, an international seminar was held alongs

Founded in 1975, Chien Ti Enterprise Co., Ltd. is a world-class supplier of mobility scooters, powered chairs and children’s ride-on vehicles with a factory each in Taiwan and China and a subsidiary in the U.S. This company started out by making motorcycle parts and assemblies for globally known

By MICHELLE HSU Dutch designer Florentijn Hofman’s Big Yellow Duck became a hot attraction in all of the three Taiwanese harbor cities where it was displayed, and it aroused heated discussion in the cultural/creative industry. What, people asked, gives a simple-looking duck such a much-see appea

By MICHELLE HSU The Taiwan International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo, organized by the Ministry of Culture since 2010, is now in its 4th iteration. During its short life the expo has strived to turn “creative ideas” into “commercial value” and play the role of a platform for communicatio

Furniture China 2013 chalked up record visitor and exhibitor numbers during its five-day run from Sept. 11-15 at the New International Expo Center and Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center. Visitor turnout was up 18.5% and the number of international exhibitors with foreign brands gain

While the global economic climate has improved a bit in 2013, China’s growth has remained sluggish. This weakness, coupled with the short-term impact of the government’s revision of regulations to cool off the overheated real estate market, has confronted China’s furniture manufacturers with declin

Engaged in the furniture industry for nearly 25 years, Kuang Shin Enterprise Co., Ltd. is a veteran manufacturer of computer desks, OA chairs and children’s furniture, having built an image of quality and innovative products globally. To ensure product quality, the company insists on in-house pr

The Thailand International Furniture Fair (TIFF) 2012, co-organized by the Department of Export Promotion, Furniture Industry Group of the Federation of Thai Industries, and Thai Furniture Industries Association, was held on Mar. 14-18 at BITEC in Bangkok. The five-day event drew more than 120 lead

Taipei, March 8, 2012 (CENS)--Founded in 1979, Iou Jia Industrial Co. initially made machinery parts, mainly chassis, and established a chassis plant in Chiayi in southern Taiwan, then in 1981 expanded product lines to cover metal mechanisms and later office chairs. "Taiwan's economy grew rap

Taiwanese manufacturers are already known around the world for their competence at OEM (original equipment manufacturing), and now the island’s furniture makers are striving to upgrade their positioning in the global supply chain to act as ODM (original design manufacturing) partners. Some are even

Despite the downsizing of Taiwan’s furniture industry resulting from the massive outflow of production capacity to China and Vietnam, a significant number of office furniture manufacturers have chosen to keep their production in Taiwan. The main reason for them to stay on the island is that they fe

The 28th China International Furniture Fair (Guangzhou), or CIFF 2011 Fall, was held concurrently with Homedecor + Hometextiles China 2011 on Sept. 7-10 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, where a multi-functional platform specifically for furniture and furnishings exhibitors

Thirty-two entrants from Taiwan were among the “Best 100” winners in the major design contest of the 2011 iF Concept Award, the world's largest and most important student design award. Two entrants from Taiwan received the highest prize of 5,000 euros, one received 3,000 euros, and two others recei

A truism in business remains that social trends, regardless of short- or long-term miseries created, will always be cradles of opportunities. Graying societies in Japan, Taiwan, China and elsewhere due to decreasing birth rates may alarm policymakers and life insurers, but are actually creating pot

Adjustable desk and movable chair offered by TCT NANOTEC CO., LTD. constitute a dynamic workstation ideal for school children, SOHO people and office workers. Established in 1983, TCT was the first company to set up a large-scale furniture chain in Taiwan and one of the first to introduce melami

Functional breakthrough presents new opportunities Once the domain of mostly high-end furniture, ergonomic design is becoming deeply embedded in the thinking of most office furniture makers in Taiwan today. Many of these manufacturers have been in business for a decade, two decades or longer, gi