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.
Initiated by Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade and organized jointly by Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), a semi-official trade promoter, and Taiwan Industrial Fastener Institute (TIFI), the Taiwan International Fastener Show (TIFS) will see its third anniversary April 14-15, 2014 in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, as the world’s third-largest fastener trade fair by booth number. ...
Flexible production with inventory control is one way to stay ahead
Jan 16, 2013In recent years, Taiwan-made fluid conveyance and power control systems and parts have been widely applied as critical components in industries including machine tools, metalworking, industrial, engineering machinery, and semiconductor, with makers focusing on high-value-added products and broadening business scope to stay ahead of competitors in low-cost countries, especially mainland China....
At a recent press conference held Dec. 14, 2010 in mainland China, Kenneth Yen, CEO of the Yulon Group, the largest automobile manufacturing conglomerate in Taiwan, announced the formal establishment of the Dongfeng Yulon Motor Co. Yen said that the new Taiwan-China joint venture is expected to kick off production and sales in 2011, and to start making money in 2012. Yen added that Yulon plans...
While record wintry temps have been set in northeastern China, with recent snow storms disrupting air traffic in Europe and the eastern USA, sales of new cars worldwide have been hot, according to different institutions and research firms' estimates, totaling some 70 million vehicles in 2010. China, the world's largest car market, will post record sales exceeding 17 million vehicles when all the ...
Oct. 2009 event part of Rotary International e
Oct 01, 2009Reality generally forces businesses to be profit-driven; however some believe ethics in business is equally important, including being socially-responsible corporate citizens—like helping Rotary International (RI) to protect children from polio infection. RI’s involvement in polio eradication began in 1979 when it vowed to help immunize six million children in the Philippines as its first proj...
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), Hong Kong's leading trade-fair organizer, took a chance amid the global downturn to lend more specialization to the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (spring edition) 2009 and International ICT Expo 2009, by setting aside a hall in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center specially for the first spring edition of the Hong Kong International Lighting...
With lighting burning around 20% of the total electricity consumed globally, LED (light emitting diode), due to smaller size, energy efficiency, longer lifespan and quicker activation than traditional lighting sources, is regarded as the answer to future lighting needs of the 21st century, especially with the growing awareness of the importance of environmental protection. The lighting industr...
With the LED industrial chain in Taiwan having developed to considerable scale and sophistication, and the government working on a plan to replace traditional lamps with LED ones in four years islandwide, the time has come for Taiwan to set up quality inspection standards for LED lighting products. Representatives from the government, LED industry and R&D institutes on the island recently gat...
LED lighting fixtures have accounted for fully half of all Underwriters Laboratories (UL) approvals in Taiwan, reports the Taiwan branch of the safety certification organization. Worldwide, the ratio averages 30%. Taiwan's UL branch recently worked with the government-supported Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to certify ITRI's alternating current (AC) LED light source modules a...
LED lamp manufacturers in Taiwan have been working hard to make brighter and longer lasting products, and on both measures they have certainly come a long way. One of the main ingredients in achieving these gains has been more efficient thermal dissipation in LED packaging and thermal modules. An LED lamp converts only 15 to 20% of electrical input into light, turning the remainder into heat. ...
