SDI wins contract orders for stationery from U.S., Japan customers

Taipei, Aug. 19, 2004 (CENS)--Taiwan's SDI Corp. is winning more and more contract orders from big hardware and stationary brands in the U.S. and Japan.

SDI Chairman and President Chen Jao-Shyong said that most big international stationary companies are actively outsourcing high-quality and reasonably-priced products from Taiwan in a bid to cut costs and upgrade their competitiveness.

According to Chen, more and more big customers in the U.S. and Japan have switched orders back to Taiwan suppliers from mainland China due to poor quality of low-price products offered by mainland suppliers. "Most big customers have recognized that the top concern for a competitive product lies in quality instead of low price," Chen explained.

Chen said that he visited a big customer in Chicago recently to discuss the supply schedule for the next year. The American customer is quite satisfied with SDI's quality level and prompt delivery, and expressed willingness to close its Mexico plant and transfer orders to SDI. The firm also won an order for 50 million blades from a big foreign cutter-knife brand.

SDI is also actively strengthening its cooperation ties with big Japanese customers, including Plus and Kokuyo, and is scheduled to begin a series of cooperation projects.

Chen said that SDI's second plant in central Taiwan's Nantou County is scheduled to begin mass production of stationary products in the first quarter next year with highly automated equipment. Each new production machine can turn out about 500 blades, compared with about 300 before.

SDI started its business with stationary, but it has successfully diversified product lines to include high-tech lead frames for electronic components.