Taiwanese makers urged to partner with more advanced counterparts Over the past several years, Taiwan’s machinery industry has been focusing on developing automated machines by using top-grade fluid transport and power control systems and parts, whose makers in Taiwan have hence been motivated to develop servo-controlled products. Taiwan’s manufacturers of fluid transport and power control ...

Maker’s digital wrenches are calibrated and tested in TAF lab Stand Tools Enterprise Co., Ltd. has been focused on pursuing absolute accuracy and impeccable product quality in building digital torque wrenches over the past few years, efforts that have helped the maker to be Taiwan’s only hand tool maker with a world-caliber inspection lab accredited by TAF (Taiwan Accreditation Foundation) and...

Taking after the success of Taiwan’s A-team, an alliance among leading bicycle brands as Giant, Merida and subcontractors in Taiwan, 14 ambitious hand tool makers formed the “T-team” on July 22, 2009 in Taichung County, central Taiwan, aided by the Corporate Synergy Development Center (CSDC), to sharpen their core competency through closer cooperation, aiming to build synergy to cope with the ev...

Despite recent reports of the EU debt crisis, high unemployment in Spain and the U.S., Taiwan’s fastener industry is bucking the uncertain recovery to show a turnaround from the crippling recession last year, driven by rising production this year, as well as busily enhancing its global competitiveness in cooperation with the MIRDC (Metal Industries Research & Development Centre), aiming to susta...

Commissioned by the Industrial Development Bureau under the Ministry of Economic Affairs to build global status of Taiwan’s faucet industry, the government- funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) launched the Water Ware Project (WWP) in 2007. With a couple of industry insiders’ participation, the WWP has realized positive results from 2007 through 2009, with more work planned this...

It’s debatable if official and private sector efforts over the past few years to enhance development of the island’s green building materials industry is relevant to Taiwan’s second-highest per-capita usage of cement globally, according to a study released by the Architecture and Building Research Institute of the Ministry of the Interior, but curbing carbon-dioxide and toxic emissions amid gr...

The real estate segment in China has been proliferating in recent years, too much so in the eyes of the government, which has even reduced mortgage financing to temper speculation to minimize the bubble that has priced so many buyers out of the market. However, the overheated real estate market benefits downstream sectors, including suppliers of building materials and furnishings as bathroom and...

Just when the global recovery seems to be on-track in 2010, with the financial meltdown but a distant memory, the Greek debt crisis and high unemployment in Spain as well as other shaky European economies as in Italy are rocking the EU market, hence impacting Taiwanese gardening tool makers, whose mid-to-high-end products rely on the EU segment. Furthermore the latest European debt crisis has sof...

Yacht builders in southern Taiwan have in recent years crafted a handful of made-to-order yachts for tycoons, even including a few megayachts or ones measuring bow to stern 80 to 120 feet. Fact is the yacht-building sector in southern Taiwan is one of the celebrated industries with sea of hope, which has also driven its support sector of yacht fittings or hardware suppliers. Over 20 yacht...

CENS continued to participate in global trade fairs in May to promote its services and publications, and help Taiwanese manufacturers explore world markets. The eight fairs on CENS’ May agenda included the National Hardware Show in Las Vegas; Metaltech 2010 in Malaysia; Busworld Asia 2010 in Shanghai; 3P-Plas Print Pack Pakistan 2010; Lightfair Int’l in Las Vegas; China International SME Fair;...