Taipei, July 6, 2012 (CENS)--Optimistic about the upcoming Christmas sales booms in the U.S. and Europe, Compal Electronics Inc., the world’s second largest notebook PC maker by shipment now, confidently forecasts its laptop shipments to surge quarter by quarter in the remainder of this year, acco

Taipei, July 3, 2012 (CENS)--U-Tech Technology Corp., an LED startup wholly owned by shipbuilder Ching Fu Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., has been contracted to supply LED lighting equipment to Philips. According to U-Tech’s vice president, A.D. Wu, the company makes the lighting equipment by making m

Taipei, July 3, 2012 (CENS)--Joining the Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership Agreement (TTP) may enable Taiwan to raise its gross domestic product (GDP) by US$11.562 billion or 2.5%, estimates M.S. Chen, deputy director general of the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) under the Ministry of Economic Af

Taipei, July 2, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan's auto-parts production value, a category including exports, imports and domestic demand, hit record high of NT$226.2 billion (US$7.5 billion) in 2011, the second year for the value to outstrip NT$200 billion (US$6.7 billion), according to Automotive Research & T

Taipei, June 28, 2012 (CENS)--Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) Chairman F.R. Chien recently said the company will supply LED devices to LCD TVs and lighting supplied by mainland Chinese manufacturers via its Japanese shareholder Mitsui & Co., Ltd. The company will begin to ship the devices sometim

Taipei, June 26, 2012 (CENS)--Two Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE)-listed auto-parts makers, Ta Yih Industrial Co. and Kian Shen Metal Works Co., Ltd., expressed optimism toward export growth this year, especially to China, at the recent shareholders meeting. Ta Yih is the largest original equipment

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

Taiwanese makers of furniture parts are trying to re-create their “golden age” of explosive export growth in the 1970s and ‘80s by developing improved products. Change is essential, since the island’s suppliers face cutthroat competition from low-cost Chinese and Vietnamese manufacturers wh

Faucet manufacturing is one of the oldest industries in Taiwan. Originating in the town of Lugang, Changhua County, faucet manufacturing on the island has flourished for over half a century, driven by a constant quest for improvement in quality and technology and, most recently, by the pursuit of h

Among the plastic processing machines makers in Taiwan, those making plastic inflation and blown film machines have been struggling with the same challenge facing other manufacturers and suffering downtrend, with the number of operators having decreased over the past years due mainly to rivalry aga

Mainly driven by robust demand, Taiwan’s surface-finishing industry ended 2011 with output of NT$163.5 billion for a 13% increase from a year ago, according to a report by the Metal Industries Research & Development Center (MIRDC), a metal market researcher in Taiwan. The report shows that the i

About 6,000 buyers showed up on the first day of the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) 2012, which was held on Apr. 6-9, a record high since the spring show was made independent from its co-location shows four years ago. A total of 15,220 buyers visited the show this year.

Taipei, May 22, 2012 (CENS)--Tong Yang Industrial Co., Ltd., the largest automotive body-parts maker in Taiwan, reportedly won a three-year, 1-billion-yen order from a Japanese automaker, according to industry sources. The surging Japanese yen against U.S. dollar, coupled with floods in Thailand

Taipei, May 21, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan Winnerstech Machinery Co., Ltd. has effectively marketed its products under its brand name Winner worldwide for years thanks to its consistent dedication to improvements of machine performance. Taiwan Winnerstech’s executives indicated that the company employs

Global tensions and competition take their toll, but a bright future lies ahead Overall production in Taiwan's machinery industry will decrease 4.18% year-on-year to NT$905.8 billion in 2012 due to a slump in orders in the first half of the year. That's the prediction made by Yeh Lih-lun, an ind

Taipei, May 7, 2012 (CENS)--Sales of new cars in the U.S. grew 10% from the same period of last year (YoY), showing a positive sign for that market, as well as good news for major auto-parts suppliers in Taiwan. Industry sources said that major American automakers are optimistic that the U.S. ne

Taipei, April 23, 2012 (CENS)--Tong Yang Industrial Co., Ltd., a maker of automotive body-parts in Taiwan, recently claimed that it will challenge global annual production capacity of 20 million bumpers by 2013 to be the largest maker of its kind in the world. Tong Yang is expanding production c

R. R. Rubber Technology Co., Ltd. is a young company founded by a group of professionals in the auto parts industry with more than 30 years of experiences. The management team utilizes its leader-of-the-pack experiences and know-how in automotive rubber-metal parts to design, develop, and manufactu

Taiwan auto parts exports grew 7.9% in 2011 to a new high of NT$184.8 billion (US$6.16 billion) despite the global recession causing fluctuating uncertainties. In 2010 the island's auto parts export sales increased 22.6%. Auto parts export sales have grown every year in the past eleven years exc

Camco Auto Sangyo Co. has been one of the most leading Taiwanese trading companies focusing on focuses on high-end performance-tuning auto parts and accessories for over 15 years. Though the global tuning-parts market saw ups and downs in recent years due to various reasons, Bruce Liu, Camco's

Mainly buoyed by growing exports, Taiwan’s hand tool industry achieved output of NT$61.3 billion in 2011 for an year-on-year (YoY) growth of 5.15%, according to the report by Dr. Arthur Hsu, an industrial analyst at the Industrial Research Section, Planning & Promotion Department of the Metal Indu

Taipei, April 3, 2012 (CENS)--Yo Jyi Company, Ltd., founded in 1990, specializes in making stamped parts, having over two decades accumulated ample experience in metal-forming and metal-stamping. Committed to trustworthiness, dedicated service and reasonable prices, the company focuses on high-

Jun-En Enterprise Corp., the flagship of the Jun-En Group, is one of Taiwan’s leading manufacturers of metal mesh-making machinery and related products. The company has won the ISO-9001:2000 certification because of its efforts to upgrade product quality, management capability, and international co

Kuei Chuan Machinery Co., Ltd., founded in 1978, specializes in making metal-cutting machines, ranging from conventional models to precision, multi-functional cutting machines that are marketed under its “KCM” brand, claiming to have a well-established research and development team to design stat

Toa Dr Enterprise Co., Ltd. is a major maker in Taiwan of high-precision, high-caliber slitting machines and slitter knives with a history of 40 years, whose products have been sold worldwide, including Brazil, Russia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, etc. Toa Dr currently designs an

Since its founding three decades ago, You Ji Machine Industrial Co., Ltd. has been dedicated to developing a wide range of machines under its own brand “You Ji” that is sold globally, claiming to be Taiwan’s No. 1 brand in vertical lathes which have penetrated advanced markets as Japan and the Euro

Taipei, March 28, 2012 (CENS)--The basic monthly pay of foreign laborers or overseas contract workers (OCWs) in Taiwan averaged NT$18,447 (US$614.9) in 2011, up by NT$684 (US$22.8) or 3.7% year-on-year, according to an investigation by the Employment & Vocational Training Administration (EVTA) unde

Taipei, March 27 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan’s manufacturing industries are poised to grow steadily, as the island’ industrial production index for February rebounded 8.22% yearly to 123.02 and is estimated to keep trending upward month by month this year for a variety of reasons, according to Ministry of

Taiwan’s manufacturers of machining centers enjoyed robust growth in sales in 2011 despite the impact of the European sovereign debt crisis. And through the first half of this year most of them received enough orders to keep their production lines busy. And now they have also called for the inclusi

Taipei, March 15, 2012 (CENS)--Becoming part of Japan’s Pioneer’s supply chain of speakers, the Taiwan-based CX Technology Corp., a large-sized supplier of magnetic induction speaker parts, has secured a new growth drive for its business in the short term. The company now is world’s largest supp