Inaugurated in 1995 as Taiwan's first website on Taiwan economy and trade, CENS.COM has evolved over the years to become a versatile website which helps global buyers tap quality supply sources for a wide range of products not only in Taiwan but also in Greater China, as well as provide valuable trade information and trade-related services. The website is run by China Economic News Servic...

Tony Chang, CEO of the national Taiwan Design Center (TDC), has a clear vision of how the island can play a more important role on the world's design stage. In fact Taiwan is already No. 2 in Asia in this field, after only Japan. The TDC serves as an integrated platform that offers a comprehensive range of services to the creative design industry. At home, it combines the efforts of academ...

Roger Lin, chief designer at Nova Design in Taipei, recently gave an exclusive interview to Taiwan's China Economics News Service (CENS), a leading trade-oriented media covering various markets and the publisher of DIT (Design & Innovation in Taiwan) magazine. Delivering a savvy combination of globally-sensitive expertise and locally-bred experience, Nova Design Co., Ltd. of Taiwan, the ...

On May 20 the Sweden-based SKF Group, a world-caliber manufacturer of bearings and related technologies, launched a technical press day in Tokyo, Japan aimed at further building its profile worldwide, and helping customers better access state-of-the-art technologies it has developed in recent years. The Tokyo technical press day also saw participation by the group subsidiaries in Taiwan and South...

The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the semi-state-run trade promotion body, announced on May 23rd at a gala ceremony in Taipei the winners' list of Taiwan Excellence, consisting of the eight gold and 21 silver medal winners. Every year since 1993, Taiwan Excellence honors the most innovative and top-quality products developed, designed or produced in Taiwan with the covet...

The 2008 Taipei Int'l Furniture Show (TiFS 2008) attracted a record turnout during its Feb. 28 to March 2 run at the Taipei World Trade Center. A total of 299 domestic and international exhibitors (1,101 booths) displayed their products and services at the show, up 32% from the previous year. Organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taiwan Furniture Manufactu...

The furniture-manufacturing sector in Taiwan achieved consistent and steady growth for some 80 years prior to the 1990s, when rising costs of land and labor on the island forced the operators' hand, with droves relocating their factories to China and later Vietnam. And new challenges have risen in recent years-where globalization and rapidly developing emerging economies have set up new rivalrie...

The reality-forced exodus of Taiwan-based furniture manufacturers over the past decade or two has inevitably sapped the momentum and magnitude from the local sector, especially volume produced wooden furnishings that call for intensive labor input and low labor costs are required. On the other hand, certain segments have retained strength in Taiwan, including metal and glass furniture, design-ori...

It is not surprising that a couple of decades ago Taiwan-based home furnishings and furniture parts makers had already built a considerable reputation worldwide for quality and flexible production; for after all Taiwan has been, since its industrialization, gradually sharpening its plastics and metals manufacturing skills, which have benefited from learning via transferred technology as Japanese...

The Taipei International Woodworking Machinery and Supplies Show (Interwood Taipei) will be held on July 4-7 this year, offering a wide range of exhibits including sawing, molding and planing, boring, drilling, turning, sanding, joining, forming, gluing, and coating machines, along with portable tools, cutters and accessories, raw materials, and other related products. Displays at the triennia...