An 89-member Czech delegation led by Senate President Miloš Vystrčil made a visit to ITRI today in Hsinchu, where the delegation will learn about ITRI’s accomplishments in biomedical and pandemic prevention technologies, groundbreaking innovation-oriented R&D, and industrialization of research results. ITRI is the only R&D organization that Senate President Vystrčil has visited during his stay, w...

Ministry of Economic Affairs officials regard the concessions on U.S.-imported pork and beef would ease the path towards negotiating future trade agreement pacts. For the signing of trade agreements like a bilateral trade agreement (BTA) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the Economics Minister emphasized the need to allow U.S.-imported pork ...

Discussing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Taiwan’s tool machine industry, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) Chairman Ko Pa-hsi said the “current orders are all effective, just delayed.” Once the pandemic ends, he forecasts a surge of order growth in the latter half of 2020 or next year. Ko stressed that the machinery industry’s future shows the rise of “decentralized production h...

Ever since founded in 1977, Feng Tien Electronic Co., Ltd. has been engaged in production of plastic surface electronic processors and static eliminators, it can target special difficult PE, PP, PET, PS films, paper, and relatively difficult plating films and PP, PS, PE , PET sheet to do effective discharge treatment, according to various plastic machinery design. Following over 40 years of de...

By Wang Cheng-Ching (TAMI Association Affairs Consultant)Translated by Chao Ting-Yu 1. Machinery Equipment Exports In Jan. 2020, Taiwan saw a slump in its machinery exports. Outbound value was reported at USD$2.05 billion, a -15.4% growth compared to the growth in the same period as last year. In Taiwan dollars, export value was at TWD$61.5 billion, a -18% growth compared to the same period...

By Huang Hsiao-Ting (Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builder’s Association) Translated by Chao Ting-Yu The world’s economy saw huge turbulance last year due to the U.S.-China trade war, with tariffs becoming an important negotiation tool, and severely impacted Taiwan, as it is an export-oriented economy. Despite the first-stage talks at the end of 2019 between China and the U.S. that would hav...

By Huang Wei-Shiou Gov’t Successfully Keeps COVID-19 at Bay with Teamwork As news of the COVID-19 virus overwhelms the world, Taiwan’s government acted quickly to increase investment in expanding the country’s mask-producing volume to 60 machines. This mammoth effort was headed by domestic firms – Chang Hong Machinery and NCM Nonwoven Converting Machinery. The goal was to expand production ...

2019 K Show, the leading global trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry, had been held in Düsseldorf on 16-23 October, 2019. There were 3,330 exhibitors from 63 nations proved impressively: plastics continue to be an innovative, indispensable material. But they also unanimously underscored the necessity of having operational circular economies along the complete material chain and to this...

While the nation started lifting lockdowns that allow important businesses to reopen amid Covid-19 , local industries such as manufacturing, need to track their operations to make up for the times when the government-imposed community quarantines temporarily grounded them to a halt and, in the meanwhile, prepare to meet the market demand expected to increase once this crisis is over. “The Covi...

Brazil’s new crown pneumonia epidemic has rapidly increased. Brazil’s Vale, the world’s largest iron ore producer, is facing an out-of-control impact. The market is worried that iron ore production and sales will be affected. new highs. Experts from Sinosteel (2002) evaluated that steel prices will rise steadily under the effect of rising costs, with a promising outlook. According to a legal p...