Although the LED industry underwent many extraordinary developments worldwide last year, market research organization LEDinside, a subsidiary of the Taiwan-headquartered TrendForce Corp., is upbeat about the industry’s development in 2013 and offers 10 forecasts. Expired patents as rejuvenation LEDinside feels that the industry will see new life as many crucial patents held by internation...

After surviving decades of ups and downs, most recently the global financial turbulence in 2008, First Fu Chin Enterprise Corp., founded in 1979, has achieved stable growth and is setting its sights on becoming the world’s top supplier of pest management products. Established in Taiwan’s central Changhua County, First Fu Chin supplies a variety of mousetraps, wire flyswatters, and pest repelling...

Fastener production is one of the landmark industries of southern Taiwan, where 1,000 manufacturers, related upstream suppliers, and processing service providers clustered in Tainan and Kaohsiung cities form a highly efficient supply chain. To boost the industry’s global presence by exploiting this advantage, the Taiwan Fastener Trading Association (TFTA) is organizing a new trade fair, the Inter...

Once maybe the fastest rising segment in the global auto-parts and -accessory market, performance-tuning items attracted intense attention from global buyers and created a booming sector that nourished a big group of suppliers and traders worldwide. However, such prosperous times have passed since the global meltdown in 2008 that sapped consumer confidence. The global performance-tuning auto...

The booming automobile market in China has been attracting an increasing number of international automakers to invest in the high-potential market, and the capital and technical injection from the major global players have been expanding the production and upgrading technical levels in China's automotive industry, as well as creating a huge demand for automotive-electronic parts and components. ...

China is reportedly considering the possibility of adopting some of Taiwan’s LED lighting certification standards, initially those applicable to LED models which can be immediately applied in the Chinese market, in order to speed up the replacement of traditional lighting with LED alternatives. This is great news for Taiwan’s lighting makers, which are anxious to expand into the mainland. ...

Preliminary results of an ambitious OLED project led by materials scientist Prof. Jwo-huei Jou of the National Tsing-Hua University of Taiwan has been achieved: A small organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel emitting much friendlier correlated color temperature (CCT) than candle’s 1,914 Kelvin with color rendering index (CRI) of 93, narrowly lagging the benchmark of 100 for a candle. ...

Obviously Taiwan’s lighting makers are seeing their investments in R&D to generate innovations pay off, not only in garnering frequent international awards, but also in promoting their global image and breeding potential business opportunities. The “Energy-saving lighting fixture” designed by Chai Yen-hsin, professor at National Taipei University of Technology, for example, won four gold awa...

Cai Yahui is known for being the founder of mainland China’s first LED-lighting tube maker using mechanized production equipment, Shenzhen Pu Sheng Yuan Lighting Co., which now has an annual output of 10 million tubes that are marketed under the “BCX” brand. The firm’s current success, however, came only after an arduous trip over a long and bumpy road. Since establishing its own brand BCX in...

Amanda Radley, International Sales Director of Microlights Ltd., a member of the Aurora Group of the United Kingdom, made her first-ever trade presentations in Taiwan (one each in Taipei and Taichung) in May 2012. Her objective was to make the company’s Taiwanese teams more familiar Aurora’s lighting expertise, so that they would be better able to offer it to the local market. “China, Taiwan,...