With its fast-growing economy, Myanmar has seen domestic market demands for aftermarket (AM) parts sharply soar over the past few years. After attending Myanmar International Auto Parts & Accessories Exhibition, a steadily expanding auto parts exhibition in Southeast Asia, several Taiwanese firms feel that exploring the market, without doubt, will be worth the effort, but the tariff issue can be ...

Organized by Department of International Trade Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, Royal Thai Government, Thailand Auto Parts & Accessories exhibition (TAPA), is one of the most influential and professional auto after-market (AM) exhibitions in Southeast Asia. The 8th edition of TAPA is going to take place from April 5 through 8 at Hall 101-104, Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC...

In the era of electric vehicles (EVs), Taiwan’s auto parts industry may have gained better competitive advantages than ever, mainly thanks to the payoff of the R&D efforts by two bellwethers in different fields: Yulon Motor Co., Ltd., a Taiwan-based international automaker, who has actively developed new energy systems for EVs; and Hota Industrial Mfg. Co., Ltd., a high-profile maker of auto tran...

Benefiting from the growing sales of recreational vehicles (RV) and new energy cars, Taiwan’s auto parts suppliers generally look forward to a rosy year in 2018. But still, multiple factors, such as whether or not China’s auto market will continue to grow this year, will directly influence performance by Taiwanese suppliers, especially those engaged in aftermarket (AM) products. According to...

David Shen, chairman and CEO of Taiwan-based Hota Industrial Mfg. Co., Ltd., one of the largest precision auto transmission component makers by size in the global market, confirmed that the company has just won new contract orders for reduction gearboxes from two automobile tycoons in Europe and the U.S., to further pump up its revenues and profits in the coming few years. Responding to the tr...

Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), an institute organized by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), one of the world’s leading technology R&D institutions, with an aim to help businesses in Taiwan meet revolutionary changes in a fast moving knowledge economy, has published the Economic Outlook and Key Issues for Taiwan’s auto industry, forecasting that the industry’s outpu...

Volkswagen, a German automaker founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front and headquartered in Wolfsburg, achieved a new high in its overall automobile sales in 2017, very likely to outperform its Japanese counterpart Toyota again as the world’s largest carmaker for the second consecutive year. On January 17, Volkswagen reported its combined auto sales of 1.074 million units, including sedans...

Taking place at Cobo Center in Detroit of the U.S. for the time being, Michigan North American International Auto Show 2018 (NAIAS 2018), a globally influential auto exhibition running from January 13 through 28, is noted for a greater range of pickup trucks on display than ever, underlining the persistent popularity of such vehicles in the local market. Mainly on a continued downward spiral o...

With its executive vise president, Chin-Lung Ting; and VP & GM of AII Product section, Chu-Hsiang Yang, jointly hosting presentations for the latest results of its R&D at CES 2018, a globally known trade fair for all those who thrive on the business of consumer technologies, InnoLux Corporation of Taiwan, a TFT-LCD supplier to information and consumer electronics product makers worldwide, effecti...

With fuel efficiency already a buzzword in the global automotive industry amid concerns about carbon reduction and responsible energy use, dual-clutch transmission (DCT), and gasoline direct injection (GDI) have been broadly employed in engine systems in modern times, which has brought considerable opportunities to Taiwanese suppliers of auto parts in such applications, according to reports by lo...