GTEN Ball Screw Technology Co., Ltd.
High-precision rolled ball screws
2008/11/07 | By Ben Shen | GTEN BALL SCREW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Poised as Taiwan's most specialized manufacturer of rolled ball screws, GTEN Ball Screw Technology Co., Ltd. has made a name in the European market for achieving quality on a par to those made in industrialized nations. Since its founding in 2004, GTEN has been concentrating on the development and manufacture of high-precision rolled ball screws. Products made by GTEN meet the C5 class of the Japanese Industrial Standard.
Differing from most domestic manufacturers producing grinding ball screws to meet the needs of the machine-tool industry, GTEN, since its inception, has positioned itself as a specialized manufacturer of precision rolled ball screws by adhering to strict quality control management to boost production efficiency.
Market Distribution
The company exports 80% of its output, with Europe buying some 60%. And all GTEN's products meet European standards as DIN. Compared with peers, GTEN adopts stricter standards in production equipment and manufacturing processes. For instance, it uses a few more manufacturing processes than peers to achieve higher quality and reliability.
Leading With 20-year Expertise
GTEN has a 43,200 square feet factory in Taipei County, northern Taiwan. The company is captained by general manager Levite Lee who has over 20 years of manufacturing experience in developing grinding and rolled ball screws. Backed by a mechanical engineering degree from over two decades ago, Lee studied for a business management degree to raise the corporate management standards to global levels.
Before founding GTEN, Lee had accumulated ample experience via working as president for a domestic firm specializing in the production of ball screws, a career that saw him once achieve 300% growth in sales in only five years.
Lee has shown his management expertise by expanding GTEN considerably over the past three years. Under Lee's leadership, GTEN has achieved outstanding performance over the past several years, with sales increasing annually. In fact, delivering highly reliable products has helped the company to achieve substantial growth in sales since the beginning of this year, despite the global economic slowdown.
All Customers Return
The company boasts it is recognized as Taiwan's most specialized manufacturer of rolled ball screws with expertise in producing precision products regardless of product size and accuracy. The GTEN offers rolled ball screws ranging in external diameter from 6mm to 80mm. The company has delivered its longest rolled ball screws at 8.5 meters, which are installed in large-sized double-column milling machines.
Lee says GTEN products are reliable and very durable, as well as keeping extensive inventory. For instance, customers easily found replacement nuts made by GTEN four years ago to fit rolled ball screws.
To cope with price hike in steel, GTEN did something to reflect the rise in production costs. "We found customers understand well our price increases, knowing our move to reflect the rise in production costs, and know our high quality can help them achieve outstanding performance in the long-term," Lee states.
Designing Production Machinery
Over the past several years, the company has been upgrading production equipment and manufacturing skills, which helps to build brand recognition globally in the rolled ball screws market. GTEN's products are widely employed by the automation, semiconductor, integrated circuit, robotics, automotive, medical care, and solar-energy sectors.
Using a variety of machine tools as production equipment, GTEN has employed a spate of advanced production equipment to boost production efficiency and product precision. In fact, the company participates in developing such machine tools, from design to fabrication processes, to ensure application suitability in its factory.
Cooperation Between Industry and Academia
Believing well-trained staff is the most important corporate asset, Lee always tries to pass on management and manufacturing concepts to workers. Such strategy helps to better prepare GTEN's workers to assume more responsibilities while the company continues to grow rapidly.
To fully realize capacity in its workers, GTEN is engaged in a cooperative project with a college of technology, which has enabled the company to recruit valuable, well-trained workers from local technological and vocational schools. "The cooperative project is very successful because some of the workers hired from the college have filled promising positions in manufacturing and management," Lee says proudly.
To meet fast growth and a flood of orders, GTEN is planning to expand production capacity within the next two years, and says it will definitely keep its production base in Taiwan while keeping an eye on the international arena. The company aims to become one of the world's top professional manufacturers of precision ball screws in the five years to come.