To help advertisers who are manufacturers, exporters and traders to find potential business opportunities globally, CENS attended 11 overseas trade shows in November, including Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX), SEMA Show, InterLight Moscow, Moscow International Tool Expo (MITEX), METALE

A record number of 2,360 exhibitors from 38 countries took part in the 15th HKTDC Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition), held Oct. 27-30 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (HKCEC), drawing 38,030 buyers from 144 countries and regions. This year, the event featured t

The Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Autumn Edition) 2013, held Oct. 27-30, hosted the first “My Favorite Lighting Products Award,” with nine products voted by buyers as the winners among 87 products sorted into Architectural/Commercial Lighting, Decorative Household Lighting, and Outdoor Lig

Green lighting focusing on LED technology took center stage at the 12th China (Guzhen) International Lighting Fair & LED Application Show, which was held on Oct. 18-21, 2013 at the just-opened Guzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, Guangdong. This year, the show drew a record 550 exhibitors t

C.F. Lin, chairman of the Cross-Strait Lighting Committee of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA), recently brightened up a committee meeting by making such comments as “The lighting business is better in 2013 than in 2012”; “Almost every Taiwanese manufacturer in this line has gr

Anyone traveling along section three of Zhongshan North Road in Taipei recently would certainly have noticed that there is a new addition to the buildings clustered in the flower, art, and culture area which includes Flower Expo Park, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Zhongshan Soccer Stadium. The new a

Taiwan Semiconductor Lighting Co. (TSLC) produces high-power LED emitters for general lighting using a unique chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology based on silicon substrate and aluminum nitride (AlN) substrate, providing customers with high price/performance ratio solutions and tailor-made produc

Yu Kuang Electronics & Energy Co., Ltd. makes a variety of LED lighting fixtures, including high-power streetlights, indoor/outdoor lights, solar-powered landscape lights, fishing lamps, water/explosion-proof lamps, navigation lamps, warning lights, and solar-powered recessed ground lights. The co

President Steven Lin of Yah Juang Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. was elected chairman of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) early this year, and since taking office he has been pushing a number of tasks which he hopes to complete within his three-year term. The tasks the new

Interview with Jack Chen, Chairman of New Taipei City Lighting Association In Taiwan's lighting industry, Jack Chen, General Manager of the LVD International Light & Energy Corp., is something of an anomaly. LVD International, which he established in 2007, is the first Taiwan-based company to sp

The National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute (NTCRDI), located in Nantou County of central Taiwan, is a government-sponsored organization under the Ministry of Culture which was reorganized from its predecessor, the Council for Cultural Affairs (CCA). The Institute supports developm

The Guangzhou International Lighting Fair, which claims to be the most influential show of its kind in Asia, celebrated its 18th run on June 9-12 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou. The event attracted a large number of top-end exhibitors from around the world to showcase cutt

Dr. Jacob Tarn, president of TSMC Solid State Lighting Ltd. (TSMC SSL), is confident that his company will soon achieve to a top position in LED lighting despite its relatively late entry into the industry. It was founded by semiconductor foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. only in

Seventeen winners emerged from a slate of 62 competitors at the second annual Taiwan Machine Tools Industry Award 2013 for Excellence in Research and Innovation contest held during the Taipei International Machine Tool Show (TIMTOS) 2013 in early March. The number of award contenders this year

Reporting a 34% revenue increase year on year in 2012 and expecting sales for the second half of 2013 to climb from the flat first half, L&L Machinery Industry Co., Ltd., a leading heavy-duty-lathe maker in Taiwan, is moving in a new direction that departs from what it had comfortably accustomed to

The Taiwan International Furniture Show (TIFS), organized by the Taiwan Furniture Manufacturers Association (TFMA) and the island’s largest furniture exhibition, shows off the latest offerings by most of Taiwan’s major furniture makers. The products on display at this year’s TIFS indicated that

Since its establishment in 1976 in Changhua County, central Taiwan, Sheng Yih Hardware Enterprise Co., Ltd. has consistently produced gardening tools and related hardware as a time-tested maker. Sheng Yih supplies various gardening tools, including pruners, tree pruners, garden tools, handle too

Wise Center Industrial Group Inc., one of Taiwan’s most globally competitive suppliers of garden tools, has experienced an explosive growth of sales in Southeast Asia, offsetting declines that have afflicted the European market in the wake of the debt crisis there. Founded in 1991 in the ce

A technology-driven manufacturer, E-Thing Industrial Co., Ltd. has developed various metal and plastic parts and accessories for various purposes. E-Thing boasts decades of experience in contract manufacturing, as well as well-honed metal processing capabilities, particularly in deep drawing an

To the uninformed observer, the array of 40 product patents and several industry-standard certificates hanging on the walls of the office of Andy Lai, CEO of plumbing-hardware manufacturer Wen Sheng Fu Co., Ltd., would not seem the type of trophies to brag about. "They are only a part of our creden

Taiwanese lighting manufacturers are competing to introduce eco-friendly products as LED (light emitting diode), electrode-less and Internet-controlled ones to attract orders when the green cause continues to gain ever rising importance. Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. Everlight Electroni

Industry executives believe that after a decade of sizzling development, the output of mainland China’s light emitting diode (LED) lighting industry will skyrocket to RMB50-75 billion (US$8-12 billion at RMB6.2:US$1) One of the major reasons behind this spectacular growth is that an increasing numb

Lextar Electronics Co., Ltd. recently unveiled an in-house laboratory that has been certified by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America to LM79 and LM80 standards for the testing of solid state lighting (SSL). The new lab is the first of its kind in Taiwan and another landmark

The Innovative Product Award this year at the 2013 Taiwan International Lighting Technology Show (TILS) entered its 4th year. If the Taiwan lighting industry aims for sustainable development, it has to come up with practical, innovative designs, says the Taiwan External Trade Development Counci

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 rejuvenati

It seems that eco-conscious consumers in Taiwan have their work cut for them when choosing LED lights. The Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan Optoelectronics Semiconductor Association (TOSIA) and Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) have introduced a user-friendly f

The Taiwan International Lighting Show this year (2013 TILS), held on March 26-29, opened with Vice President Wu Den-yih stressing that the government is marking new-generation lighting for development as one of the six major newly-emerging industries in the official “Green Energy Industry Sunrise

Realizing that long-term success rests with exceeding built-to-order manufacturing, Wise Center Industrial Group Inc., seasoned maker of garden tools, has been working earnestly on competiveness optimization to build a global-caliber brand for more sustainable development. Since its inceptio

Founded in 1971, the ISO 9001:2000-, TS 16949-certified Giantlight Traffic Supplies Instrument Co., Ltd. has been designing and developing customized lighting systems for automotive and motorcycle applications, with products certified to international standards as SAE/DOT, ECE, CCC etc. The

FZTech Inc. will roll out several advantageous LED lamps at the upcoming Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS), including a family of panel lights, flood lights, and T8 light tubes. The panel lights, codenamed PL060-01-52, measure 60cm x 60cm. They are pendant types. The flood lights are av