As Taiwan’s biggest exporter of high-end ratchet wrenches by volume, Chang Loon Industrial Co., Ltd. attributes its current status to long-term dedication to R&D, a key strategy that helps hand tool makers in Taiwan to keep at bay and stay ahead of rivals from emerging countries, who tend to emula

While Taiwanese makers have come a long way since the 1970s when they mostly filled export orders based on buyer specifications to offer OEM (original equipment manufacturing) service, which later evolved to ODM (original design manufacturing) along with changing market structure and rising technol

With plastics widely applied as affordable, flexible packaging of food, crops, cosmetics and other consumer products in every corner of the world, ever more plastic-processing machinery is developed with advanced technology and components to improve performance and functionality. One supplier of th

Chang Loon Industrial Co., Ltd. is a leading Taiwanese supplier of ratchet wrenches, gear wrenches, 72-tooth ratcheting combination wrenches and bolt cutters, with over 37 years of experience. Today, the firm’s is widely recognized as the island’s largest ratchet wrench supplier by exports. With

Founded in 1981 in central Taiwan, Chumpower Machinery Corp. is recognized as Taiwan’s No.1 manufacturer of precision tooling chucks, with product line covering spindle accessories, drill chucks and tool holders for computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools. The company’s products are noted

The 1988-founded Tang Yi Industrial Co., Ltd. is a maker of building hardware, including door catches, flush bolts, and stops as well as display cabinet and rack hardware designed for upscale consumers. The company’s product category encompasses full and half-vision showcases, jewelry showcases,

With over 20 years of expertise and practice in making plastic processing machinery, Kun Sheng Machine Co., Ltd. has grown into one of Taiwan’s most experienced suppliers of recycling equipment. To pull ahead of the competition, the company invests in R&D and taps its rich store of know-how to d

Kamioka Corp., a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of CNC machining centers, CNC horizontal turning centers, and double-column machining centers, is promoting the VMC-1000 series of high-performance CNC vertical machining center. The VMC-1000, a completely new model to the company’s product line, m

Liouy Hsing Co., Ltd., headquartered in Taichung, central Taiwan, makes a full range of CNC lathes and high-speed lathes. Among the company’s latest CNC lathes include the CNC-500 for heavy-duty purpose, the CNC-10T for budget buyers, and the CNC-20. The CNC-500 delivers superior machining st

Established in 1988, Ho Chun Machinery Co., Ltd. is a machine-tool maker particularly adept at medium-sized, bed-type universal milling machines, vertical milling machines, horizontal milling machines and vertical machining centers for heavy-duty purposes. Its bed-type universal milling machine

Jeng Feng Cutter Manufacture Industry Co., Ltd. makes cutters mostly for machine tools, paper-processing machines, copper foil-cutting machines, steel sheet-cutting machines, and plastics-processing machines. The maker also offers cutters for machine tools, such as computer numerical control (CN

Shenq Fang Yuan Technology Co., Ltd. is promoting the patented 5AX-890 five-axis machining center for high-end production, and several light-duty CNC machining centers, including the TH-98 and TH-150 four-axis machines, the 5FA-120 five-face machines, and HA-5AX2 five-axis synchronized motion machi

Committed to meeting evolving sourcing trends of global manufacturers and buyers who look for industrial parts and related production processes for wide-ranging applications, CENS (China Economic News Service) will soon launch its new buyer guide, Taiwan Industry Suppliers (TIS). TIS will be lau

Cheng Mao Precision Sealing Co., Ltd. is an ISO/TS 16949:2009-certified company specializing in designing, developing and manufacturing all kinds of quality oil seals for a host of applications. The company is very proud of its industry-leading ability in providing technical support, top quality it

Four leading machine-tool makers in Taiwan have recently opened a joint laboratory to develop software that can boost machining precision to more effectively control vibrations transmitted from cutters that typically occur when working on harder metallic workpieces. Aided by the coordination of

Founded in 1989, Grand Forging Industries Co., Ltd. is an ISO 9001:2000- and TS 16949-approved company specializing in forging and processing of parts and components. With solid global reputation for high-efficiency production and processing achieved by top-end and advanced equipment, as wel

Founded around 20 years ago in Taiwan, Jeng Feng Cutter Manufacture Industry Co., Ltd. makes cutters mostly for machine tools, paper-processing machines, copper foil-cutting machines, steel sheet-cutting machines, and plastics-processing machines. The company’s cutters mainly consist of slotter,

Gardening tool production, as other traditional manufacturing sectors, is one of Taiwan’s most globally competitive industries that began and is clustered in the central region covering Taichung and Changhua, but only a handful of operators could rival Wise Center Industrial Group Inc., especially

Since its founding in 1978 in the central Taiwan county of Changhwa, Chang Loon Industrial Co., Ltd. has specialized in making all kinds of hand tools. Having started with manufacturing hand tools meeting GeprUfte Sicherheit (GS) standards, Chang Loon is also one of the most experienced makers i

Driven by a consistent dedication to improving production technology, Taiwan’s OEM (original equipment manufacturing) and ODM (original design manufacturing) sector has built up a solid global reputation, particularly for unparalleled manufacturing flexibility and precision. For the past decade,

By organizing three concurrent exhibitions for different industries in Myanmar, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the semi-official export promoter, continues to try exploring new markets for Taiwanese suppliers, whose sales and market shares are being challenged by mainland C

The four-day Taiwan International Woodworking Machinery Show 2015, or TaiwanWood 2015, wrapped up on July 5 at the TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall to have created an estimated US$50 million plus of business for the exhibitors on-site and in post-show orders, according to surveys conducted by co-organi

Compiled By KEN LIU Mirle Automation Corp. Chairman H. Sun humbly says that although his company, Taiwan’s No.1 automation-system provider, has built solid command of the local market, it will, if limited to playing on home turf, remain in the little league in terms of operational scale rela

Compiled By KEN LIU This year the biennial Taichung Plastic and Rubber Industry & Manufacturing Technology and Facility Show (TPMS), to be staged June 25-29 in the Greater Taichung International Expo Center, Taichung, central Taiwan, will install a new zone dedicated to aircraft-processing equip

Hong Sing Food Machine Co., Ltd. specializes in making food processing machinery with more than 10 years of experience in Taiwan. Its lineup covers a wide spectrum of processing machines, including candy pressers, vegetable cutters, dicers, shredders and slicers, meat mincers, pump-type filters,

Tais T-P Co., Ltd. (TAIS) provides tailor-made and TAIS-branded precision parts for stamping dies and plastic molds, and precision parts finished by CNC lathes. The company has also acted as an agent for mold counters made by Taiwan's Ballsum, accessories for grinding and milling machines made by T

Compiled by STEVE CHUANG After being reported in CENS’s Guidebook to Taiwan Hand Tools 2015 its brand new blow-molded case that highlights unique designs to facilitate storage during work to also underline its steady devotion to creating user-friendliness, Chang Loon Industrial Co., Ltd., a lead

Compiled By KEN LIU Taiwan-made controllers stole the spotlight at the Taipei International Machine Tool Show (TIMTOS) this year, underscoring efforts by the island's machine-tool industry to enhance product value to fend off global challengers. In their drive to tap international markets

Compiled By KEN LIU The biennial 2015 Taipei International Machine Tool Show (TIMTOS), held March 3-8 in the Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1 and Nangang Exhibition Hall, saw notable technologies as multitasking, robotic arms and Industry 4.0 that are touted as crucial to "Smart Manufacturing."

Compiled by STEVE CHUANG Countless mechanics and hand tool suppliers owe a debt of gratitude to Robert Owen, an American from Ohio who in 1913 was granted the patent for his invention the double-acting wrench, which has since been improved. Before such ingenious invention, one can only assume ba