By STEVE CHUANG Wise Center Appliance Precision Co., Ltd. has worked hard in recent edge to pull ahead of its competition by sharpening its operational efficiency and worker training, and by enhancing its product development and marketing. The results of this effort are already being realized. Ever since its founding in 1991 in the central Taiwanese city of Taichung, Wise Center has special...

By KEN LIU Beginning on July 1 this year, nine types of institution—colleges, libraries, medical organizations, social welfare institutes, government offices, railway stations, civilian airports, mass rapid transit stations, and shopping centers—became subject to the provisions of Taiwan's Indoor Air Quality Act. The new law imposes strict requirements for air quality inside buildings to ke...

The third Taiwan International Fastener Show (TIFS), to be held April 14-15, 2014 in the newly constructed Kaohsiung Exhibition Center, is expected to further buoy Taiwan’s fastener suppliers, after the sector’s annual exports hit a record high in volume last year. Despite average prices drifting down due largely to a sluggish steel market, Taiwan’s fastener exports totaled some 1.43 million t...

With graying population increasingly a problem that forces global governments to revive and reform domestic healthcare systems to ensure sustainable economic and social development, the international market for medical alloys and related products shows great growth potential, and is gradually opening to small and medium-sized players, according to Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (M...

With decades of hard work, Chang Loon Industrial Co., Ltd. is today a notable wrench maker in Taiwan known for investing sizably in R&D as means to innovate, build sales and profile. Chang Loon started out making low-end hand tools on an OEM (original equipment manufacturing) basis in 1978 in Taiwan’s central county of Changhua, having gathered ample manufacturing and metalworking skills. Ba...

Chang Loon Industrial Co., which was founded in the central Taiwan county of Changhua in 1978, has sharpened its focus on R&D in the hope of finding a new growth engine in its ProRatchet® brand. Chang Loon has specialized in making wrenches meeting GeprUfte Sicherheit (GS) standards for over three decades. The company supplies two major lines of products, ratchet wrenches and bolt cutters, mai...

Taiwan’s Indoor Air Quality Act took effect in November 2012, bringing more stringent rules for indoor air quality and giving a boost to the island’s green building materials industry. The new law imposes strict requirements for air quality inside houses to keep residents from inhaling hazardous particles such as carbon monoxide, volatile organic chemicals (VOCs), formaldehyde, fungi, carbon ...

Focused on improvement of products and manufacturing, the Taiwanese bathroom and kitchen fitting industry has come a long way since originating in Taiwan’s central county of Changhua more than a half century ago, also helping to drive exports on the island. Uncertain economic growth in 2013 motivates operators to keep following this strategy. Taiwan’s faucet and bathroom fittings production b...

Soft power has been a buzzword in Taiwan, whose export-driven economy is gradually changing and needs sustainable development when cost cutting is no longer sufficient, and when knowledge is essential to stay ahead; and accordingly, traditional manufacturers are eagerly looking to upgrade into value-added production in the face of increasing competition from emerging economies. To promote...

Security has always been a background concern over the years, but has been catapulted to the foreground with the 911 terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center towers in New York, thus propelling a steadily-growing market for security-related products and services. Today, security monitoring products and services are literally built into residential. commercial and public buildings. The I...