These are in-depth pre- and post-show reports on major international trade fairs, held in Taiwan and other countries with significant participation by Taiwanese manufacturers and exporters. They are offered to help global buyers and other readers better understand what is going on at the fairs and the latest offerings by Taiwanese exhibitors.
With robotic technologies continuously advancing, Taiwan’s major companies in local manufacturing industries have actively moved to introduce robots to production lines as a means to cope with chronic manpower shortages and continuously rising labor costs. Among these companies, Hota Industrial Mfg. Co., Ltd., one of the largest precision auto transmission component makers by size, confirmed i...
A joint venture founded by five Taiwanese companies from different industries, AMIT is set to help boost the development of intelligent motors and the electrical engineering industry in Taiwan. The five founding companies of AMIT are Taya Group, a conglomerate of electric wire and cable businesses; Mobiletron, a major supplier of spare parts for engine management and vehicle safety system prod...
Among the plastic processing machines makers in Taiwan, those making plastic inflation and blown film machines have been struggling with the same challenge facing other manufacturers and suffering downtrend, with the number of operators having decreased over the past years due mainly to rivalry against emerging competitors. There are over 2,000 plastic inflation and blown film machine makers i...
The Netherlands-based Lightweight Containers is opening a new production plant in Grossbreitenbach, Germany. The fully automated production line has a capacity of 400 KeyKeg® Slimlines per hour and will be operational in the third quarter of this year. The line can produce all the members of the KeyKeg® Slimline family of kegs. PET-Verpackungen Deutschland is the production partner and will manag...
After signing a strategic partnership with the global additive manufacturing (AM) technology leader EOS, headquartered in Krailling, Germany one year ago, GF Machining Solutions, the Switzerland-based, globally prestigious builder of precision machines, has just launched the latest AM S 290 Tooling system, to demonstrate the payoff of the partnership designed to advance AM as a leading technology...
High performance, excellent energy efficiency and low requirements for manpower and space are growing trends in the global market for machinery. And lots of Taiwanese extrusion machine makers have followed well those trends by developing top-caliber models and solutions that can help its users achieve high profits and low costs. Yean Horng A blooming extrusion equipment supplier in Tainan C...
After a 15-month declining streak as of the end of June, Taiwan’s overall export orders are likely to show growth in July at the earliest to end this worst downturn in history, given some of local industries have seen export orders recover as reported by Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). According to MOEA, overall export orders received in June totaled US$35.7 billion, dropping by 2.7 perce...
To help Taiwanese machine tool suppliers better compete against rivals from Europe and Japan in the global market, the Metal Industries Research & Development Centre (MIRDC), a government-funded R&D institute, has just finished constructing a grey cast iron FC250 prosperities database for insiders to improve turret’s dimensional precision and lifespan. MIRDC is inspired to take on the job main...
The packaging machine industry has developed into one of Taiwan’s export contributors over the past decades after local companies began production using skills and know-how absorbed from abroad to reduce the industry’s dependence on imports, and many insiders have built reputations in the global market by taking advantage of division of labor and R&D to achieve flexible, efficient production and ...
To further boost global competitiveness of Taiwan’s machinery industry, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) is going to join hands with Taiwan Venture Capital Association (TVCA) to assist 30 local machinery makers to go public in the next five years, with an aim of brining the number of listed machinery companies on the Taiwan Stock Exchange to 50, according to Alex Ko, TAMI chairman....
