AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), the second-largest maker of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in Taiwan, showcased its latest product innovations, including those for automotive and medical-equipment applications, at the recent Display Week 2014. Organized by SID (Society for I

By STEVE CHUANG Presenting a comprehensive lineup of trend-setting security and safety technologies and products, Secutech 2014 (The 17th International Exhibition and Conference for Electronic Security, Info Security, Fire and Safety), held March 19-21 in the TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taip

By KEN LIU A total of 10,097 buyers from 112 countries and regions eagerly shopped for energy-saving lighting products, especially LED lamps, that were displayed by 1,081 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions at the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair (Spring Edition) 2014, which was held o

The Global TV market has seen major technology transitions in the past few years, and by the end of 2015, some types of TVs are expected to be phased out from the market. Worldwide TV shipments are projected to grow less than 1% in 2014, but LCD TV shipments will rise almost 5%, according to the

By CARMEN LO Although products assembled by retailers still dominate mainland China’s LED-lighting market, branded products supplied by lighting manufacturers are increasingly popular because of disappointment about the poor quality of retailer-assembled lamps. In the LED age, the term "assem

Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS), held March 20-23 at the Nangang Exhibition Hall of the Taipei World Trade Center, a major lighting show in Taiwan, this year for the first time was held jointly with LED Taiwan, an LED manufacturing processes exhibition, to reveal upstream, midstream and d

By QUINCY LIANG The 2014 TAIPEI AMPA (30th Taipei International Auto Parts & Accessories Show) and 2014 AutoTronics Taipei (9th Taipei International Automobile Electronics Show), two of the world's most important auto-parts shows, were held from April 9 to 12 at the TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall

By KEN LIU Of the 15 entries selected from 164 lighting designs submitted by students and designers, six were chosen by the seven judges to be the finalists (three for the Open Group and three for the Student Group) in the 7th Hong Kong Lighting Design Competition, which was themed “Blossom Bloo

To help Taiwanese manufacturers, exporters and traders explore world markets, CENS attended six international trade shows in March, including Malaysian International Furniture Fair (MIFF), LED Next Stage, International Hardware Fair Cologne, International Auto Aftermarket Expo (IAAE) Tokyo, The Ind

AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a top-two maker of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels in Taiwan, recently unveiled new products made with global-leading technologies, including a full series of 42- to 65-inch 4K, or UHD (Ultra High Definition), curved LCD TV panels with wide col

Thanks to increasing shipments of automotive-, cellphone- and tablet-application thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. (CPT) successfully turned profitable in the second half of 2013. This year the firm projects shipments of smartphone panels to

By QUINCY LIANG The Taipei CYCLE d&i Awards returned for its third edition at the 27th Taipei International Cycle Show (Taipei CYCLE 2014), held from March 5 to 8 in Taiwan. The awards were hosted by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taiwan Bicycle Exporters' Associat

Beset by underselling rivals from China to suffer serious downturns last year, Taiwanese touch panel manufacturers are generally pinning hopes of turnaround on the emergence of wearable electronic devices, hence actively developing SNW (silver nano wire) and MM (metal mesh) models to divert custome

Founded in 1963, Sen Fung Rollform Machinery Corp. is recognized as one of Taiwan’s leading suppliers of sheet-metal roll-forming machine and steel-pipe making machine. With 50 years of experience, the company offers quality, durable, and customer-oriented cold roll-forming machines, which can

The global TV market shrank last year for the second year in a row, with total shipments declining by 6% to 225.1 million units from the already soft 2012 level of 238.3 million, according to a new report from IHS Technology. This followed a 7% loss in 2013 following increases of 11% and 1%, respe

Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd. (GSEO) says it has shipped around 40,000 LED streetlights in Taiwan and China combined in 2013, when its LED business could turn a profit for the first time in eight years. Last year the company generated revenue of NT$9.5 billion (US$318.5 million), sinking 1

By QUINCY LIANG The 22 winners of the 2014 International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC 2014) were announced at Taipei CYCLE, held in Taipei on March 5-8, 2014 in Taipei. The 10 best entries were rewarded with prize money amounting to a total of NT$760,000 (approximately US$25,333 or 19,000 eur

This year Nan Ya Photonics Inc., the LED subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), will exhibit a wide range of LED-lighting equipment covering industrial, commercial, and residential applications at the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS). Among its industrial lamps are explosion-pr

The LED Next Stage 2014 of Tokyo, Japan, is estimated to draw around 60,000 visitors and over 300 exhibitors during the four-day run beginning March 4. Approximately 20 Taiwanese manufacturers have signed up for the show with the exhibitor delegation co-organized by China Economic News Service (

Taiwanese suppliers of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels are expected to benefit from Sony of Japan's decision to lower TV-panel outsourcing rate from Samsung of Korean to 35% this year, from 48.5% in 2013, according to industry sources. AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), a maj

Falling prices and advances in display technology will lead to higher shipments of tablet PCs in 2014 and beyond, as users replace notebook PCs with the devices, according to the NPD DisplaySearch, NPD DisplaySearch forecasts that global tablet PC shipments will rise to 315 million in 2014, compri

Sunlike Display Tech Corp. was founded in March 1996 to manufacture twisted nematic (TN), super TN (STN), fast-response STN (FSTN), chip-on-board (COB), tape automatic bonding (TAB), chip-on-glass (COG) LCD modules for contract buyers and others. In recent years, the company has branched out in

Innolux Display Corp. and AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), Taiwan's top two makers of thin film transistor-luquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, both recently announced the receipt of new big-ticket orders. Innolux received orders for 4K2K, or UHD (Ultra High Definition), TV panels from Samsung (50-

The Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute recently warned that the global information and communication technology (ICT) market is showing weak demand in 2014, in which the annual market growth of tablet PCs and smartphones are estimated

Printing has evolved remarkably since the days of manual typesetting decades ago as used in publication and traditional manufacturing industries. Recent breakthroughs have realized 3D printing that would have seemed science fiction even a decade ago, with printed electronics also being a trend exp

By MICHELLE HSU From typhoons and floods to global warming, Mother Nature is making her ire over ecological destruction felt with increasing intensity. Countries around the world are heeding the message with redoubled attention to environmental protection, increasingly in the form of green buildin

Taiwan's flat-panel display (FPD) industry turned out NT$377.05 billion (US$12.57 billion) worth of products in the third quarter of 2013, down 4.2% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) and 2.3% year-on-year (YoY), according to the Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center of the Industry & Technology Intelligen

Guangzhou Longfu Senhai Auto Part Department is a young and innovative company specializing in designing, developing and making a variety of parts and accessories for Mini Cooper. Senhai claims to always pursue high quality and innovation to provide the best products to customers. The company owns

By KEN LIU “Plant factory” has emerged as a theme at the LED Lighting Taiwan trade show during the past two years, and Wei Fang, director of National Taiwan University’s Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering and a specialist in greenhouse horticulture, believes that Taiwan is wel

Low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels accounted for a 37% share of global cellphone display revenues in 2013, surpassing active matrix organic light-emit diode (AMOLED) displays, a-Si (amorphous silicon) TFT-LCD, and oxide TFT-LCD, accordin