SAI wins big-ticket aluminum-wheel order from GM

Taipei, Aug. 18, 2004 (CENS)--Taiwan's Super Alloy Industrial Co., Ltd. (SAI), one of the top-three aluminum-alloy wheel suppliers to General Motors (GM) of the U.S., predicted its annual revenue growth rate to exceed 100% in the next three years due to big orders from the world's No. 1 auto maker.

SAI currently owns the largest close-die forging capacity in Taiwan. The company is also a global leader in terms of non-steel metal (aluminum and titanium etc.) forging. After a long-term certification and plant-inspection period by GM, the Taiwan company has become a qualified original equipment (OE) aluminum-wheel supplier to GM.

SAI President Lee claimed that his company owns the largest forging equipment among all local counterparts, the most comprehensive capability of handling various metal-forging works, and the most advanced techniques in related fields. In addition to high-level forged wheels, SAI also produces many other products such as auto parts (connecting rods, transmission parts, and suspension system parts etc.), golf club heads, top-end bicycle parts, aircraft passenger seats, missile heads, valves used in semiconductor equipment, and artificial joints and surgery tools etc.

SAI is ISO 9001-, ISO 14001- and TS16949-approved maker. With strong development capability, the company owns several patented manufacturing techniques, including the titanium/copper alloy forging for high-level golf heads.

Lee said that the aluminum-wheel business currently accounts for about 90% of SAI's revenue but his company would gradually elevate its production of golf-head products in the coming few years.

Lee claimed that GM's orders are expected to last till 2011 and SAI will continue expanding its capacity at new plants in central Taiwan's Yunlin Technology Industrial Park to meet the orders.