Yichin is Top Supplier of Key Safety and Performance PTW Parts

The Yichin Transportation Equipment Co. is ceaselessly developing new products and upgrading its manufacturing quality in an effort to become a top supplier of a comprehensive range of high-end safety-critical brake parts and performance-critical transmission parts for motorcycles and motor scooters.

Through a well-established division-of-labor manufacturing system, Yichin keeps costs down by contracting its stamping work to an affiliated Taiwanese-managed firm in mainland China, while keeping the processing and assembly of its quality products in Taiwan. All of Yichin's R&D work is also done on the island.

Thanks to its high precision and good quality, Yichin now receives OEM/ODM orders for powered two-wheeler (PTW) spare and performance parts from major international parts brands and PTW makers such as Lucas/TRW, Marzocchi, and Yamaha Philippines.

"Yichin's core competitiveness lies in the integrated strength of our processes from design and development to production, as well as the strong cost-control achieved by our division-of-labor manufacturing scheme that spans the two sides of the Taiwan Straits," comments Joe Lin, the firm's sales manager. "In addition, our manufacturing capability is one of the strongest in the business, and that's why we can win so many orders from internationally famous brands."

Yichin supplies a very wide array of continuous variable transmission (CVT) parts for scooters, both spare and performance items, including primary sliding and fixed sheaves, cams, weights, sliders, clutch carrier assemblies, clutch housings, secondary sheave assemblies, and all other precision parts in scooter CVT systems.

Scooter CVT systems

The firm moved into the production of high-end brake discs for big-displacement motorcycles and scooters in 2007 after a long period of materials research. According to Lin, the company's advanced manufacturing techniques and the unmatched disc flatness that it achieves have helped Yichin to rapidly become one of a small group of world-leading makers of motorcycle brake discs.

At its integrated plant, Yichin carries out in-house die-casting, computerized numerical control (CNC) processing, and advanced quality control and inspection so as to assure the highest level of quality and precision.

Lin says that his company now is capable of producing top-end floating brake discs in diameters up to 330mm. Part of the secret of achieving world-class flatness of brake-disc products, he reveals, is in the self-development of jigs and fixtures.

Thanks to Yichin's increasingly wide product range and its growing renown as a contract supplier to international brands, Lin reports, the company has been winning more and more orders from European customers.

Lin also stresses that the firm specializes in the small-batch, large-variety production mode, which is the best way to produce high-quality spare and performance items. The company also trades in a lot of brake and transmission parts so as to meet customers' needs for one-stop shopping.