These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
Micro-projector to open new application market
Feb 05, 2010IDC Taiwan, the local subsidiary of the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology (IT), telecom, and consumer technology markets, recently publicized its top-10 predictions for the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in Taiwan for 2010. The global economy is gradually recovering, and enterprises are expe...
Student designers in Taiwan also
Jan 12, 2010The Taiwan Design Center (TDC), a national design center on the island, recently announced the winners of the 2009 Taiwan International Design Competition (TIDC), which once again showed Taiwanese designers' prowess by winning the top-three-gold, silver, bronze awards-in the "Open Group," with the student designers also scoring the highest honors in the product and visual communication design cat...
Hoping to establish a well-known brand for Taiwan's rapidly emerging design industry, the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced the first Golden Pin Design Award (GPDA) in mid-2009, replacing the Taiwan Design Award (TDA) as the highest profile national design competition on the island. Like the TDA before it, the GPDA provides a key platform for fos...
Environmental consciousness is a prominent trend of the
Nov 10, 2009Once again the long-awaited results of a highly regarded design promoter-Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO)-have been announced in October. The 2009 Good Design Awards honors some of the brightest minds worldwide in the design profession. In 2009, the JIDPO received 2,952 applications worldwide. After being screened twice, 1,034 entries from 558 enterprises received the Good D...
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) has decided to end Taiwan's 40-year absence from the World Expo (it last participated in the Osaka World Expo in 1970) by organizing a "Taiwan Pavilion" for next year's Shanghai World Expo, scheduled for May 1 to Oct. 31. TAITRA chairman Wang Chi-kang reports that Shanghai Expo officials expressed their welcome to Taiwan during a visit ...
Devoting years of effort to develop vehicular technologies in Taiwan to realize urban transport solutions based on need has paid off again, besides playing a role to launch an LEV in 2007, for James Wang, a familiar figure at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the largest and most important industrial technology development hub on the island: he has been promoted as the deputy d...
The current global economic crisis has battered exports out of Taiwan. Charged with its official duty to help local exporters weather the downturn, the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT), under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), has set in motion the four-year "Global Market Expansion Plan" or "New Zheng-Hoeh Plan" with a budget of about NT$8.53 billion (US$266.56 million at US$1 = NT$32), with...
A movie played on a flexible screen as thin as a candy wrapper is no longer just a dream. The Display Technology Center (DTC) of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) recently introduced a series of flexible display products, including active matrix (AM) OLED displays, roll-to-roll cholesterol liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and electro-wetting displays. One of the products...
The 2008 Taipei International Plastics & Rubber Industry Show (Taipei Plas 2008), held September 18-22 at the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall (TWTC Nangang), gathered specialized manufacturers of plastic processing machines and relevant auxiliary equipment to showcase advanced machines, especially the most popular energy-saving models. This year's exhibition concentrated ...
The results of the "2008 Global Taiwan Brand-value Survey" were announced Sept. 30. TrendMicro, a globally famous anti-virus software brand, unseated last year's champ, ASUS, by a narrow margin of US$2 million in brand value to retake the lead among the other brands polled this year. Reassuring news is that, of all the Taiwan-based brands who have achieved some degree of global reputat...
