The five Gold Award winners of the COMPUTEX d&i awards 2012 were honored during the official opening of the 2012 COMPUTEX TAIPEI (Taipei International Information Technology Show) held in early June. COMPUTEX TAIPEI is one of the world's largest information and communication technology (ICT) trade

Struck by shrinking sales and global market share, HTC Corp., a Taiwan-based developer and vendor of branded smartphones that may be regarded as the island’s upstart against Apple and Sansung, erstwhile the industry leader who launched the world’s first Android phone two years ago to ignite short-l

Taiwan’s furniture parts industry started from the 1940s by using wooden materials and mostly manual production, which gradually transformed to automation and volume production as Taiwan slowly industrialized during 1960-1980, also the golden era of Taiwan’s furniture parts industry. As the fur

Taipei, Sept. 25, 2012 (CENS)--Some 1.99 million handsets, including 570,000 feature phones and 1.42 million smartphones, were shipped in the second quarter in Taiwan's cellphone market, down about 10% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) from about 2.21 million units in the first quarter and down 0.3% year-on

Amid globally uncertain economy and sliding sales of new powered two-wheelers (PTWs), Taiwan's production value of transportation vehicles and parts, a category including automobiles, auto parts, powered two-wheelers (PTWs) and electric scooters (e-scooters), dropped 2.6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) b

The second Taiwan International Fastener Show held in Kaohsiung from March 13 to March 14, 2012 attracted over 1,500 foreign buyers to see the industry's wide variety of fasteners at a fair considered by many as the most professional of its kind in Asia. The biennial trade fair is the fasten

Taipei, Aug. 1, 2012 (CENS)--The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) revised downward Taiwan’s economic growth forecast this year to 2.08% yesterday (July 31), with exports approaching zero growth. DGBAS expressed that since the European-debt crisis continues to da

Taiwanese makers of furniture parts are trying to re-create their “golden age” of explosive export growth in the 1970s and ‘80s by developing improved products. Change is essential, since the island’s suppliers face cutthroat competition from low-cost Chinese and Vietnamese manufacturers wh

"Think bicycle, think Taiwan" is no longer a promotional slogan, but a fact that the island is the world's most important supply base of high-end bicycles. The industry, as well as the government, however, knows that Taiwan must not rest on its laurels to keep its lead. Interested authorities in

Amid globally uncertain economy and sliding sales of new powered two-wheelers (PTWs), Taiwan's production value of transportation vehicles and parts, a category including automobiles, auto parts, powered two-wheelers (PTWs) and electric scooters (e-scooters), dropped 2.6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) b

Amid globally uncertain economy and sliding sales of new powered two-wheelers (PTWs), Taiwan's production value of transportation vehicles and parts, a category including automobiles, auto parts, powered two-wheelers (PTWs) and electric scooters (e-scooters), dropped 2.6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) b

Amid globally uncertain economy and sliding sales of new powered two-wheelers (PTWs), Taiwan's production value of transportation vehicles and parts, a category including automobiles, auto parts, powered two-wheelers (PTWs) and electric scooters (e-scooters), dropped 2.6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) b

Chanto Air Hydraulics Co., Ltd., established three decades ago, is a maker of pneumatic and hydraulic equipment parts in Taiwan, being TUV Rheinland ISO9001:2008 certified and backed by ample experience in designing pneumatic and hydraulic equipment parts. The maker offers durability, precision

Gin Chan Machinery Co., Ltd., established in 1988, is a specialized manufacturer of precision accessories for grinding machines and milling machines. The company uses ‘GIN’ brand to distribute products the world over. Gin Chan has recently set up a second plant of 3,000 square meters in Sulin of

Bearish outlook due to sluggish American and EU economies and financial woes Despite the European debt crisis, anemic American economic recovery, and disrupted car-making and PC sector after the earthquake in Japan last March, Taiwan’s fastener industry produced NT$33 billion of various items in

Founded in 1978, Shopin Lock Co., Ltd. specializes in developing and making locks and accessories as one of foremost makers in Taiwan. The company’s product range covers a variety of combination padlocks, cam locks hitch locks and attached case locks, combination slide bolts, security bars and k

Taipei, Jan. 11, 2012 (CENS)--Chinese TV vendors procured some 4.89 million and 5.6 million thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) TV panels in November and December, respectively, of 2011, hitting two new straight monthly records, according to DisplaySearch, who said, however, that

The rivalry between woodworking-equipment makers in Taiwan and China echoes a similar story, as that heard in many other sectors, that the rapid rise in the latter is gradually overtaking the former in global ranking and also forcing Taiwan’s counterparts to speed up developing high value-added mac

Taipei, Dec. 19, 2011 (CENS)--Mainly driven by increasing shipments of high-priced laptops, Acer Inc. and Compal Electronics Inc., two of Taiwan’s major PC suppliers, both raked in better-than-expected revenues in November amid a persistently slack market for notebook PCs. Benefiting from the la

Taipei, Dec. 9, 2011 CENS)--Despite high unit prices seeming to compromise ultrabook laptop’s marketability in the short term, Jim Wong, president of Acer Inc., one of the world’s top five PC vendors by market share now, has forecast big price cuts to be seen in 2012 through 2013, when an ultrabook

Taipei, Dec. 8, 2011 (CENS)--Mainly affected by hot sales of Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4S, the Taiwan-based HTC Corp., a globally leading supplier of smartphones, saw its combined revenue hit a 14-month nadir of NT$30.942 billion in October, down 30% from a month earlier or 20% from a year ago, according

Taipei, Dec. 2, 2011 (CENS)--The production value of Taiwan's battery industry is expected to rise 12.4% in 2011, compared to 3% for printed circuit board (PCB) and -4.4% for passive component segments, according to the Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology

Taipei, Nov. 25, 2011 (CENS)--The Cabinet-level Directorate General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) revised downward yesterday (Nov. 24) its forecast for Taiwan’s economic growth rate to 4.51% this year and 4.19% next year, while slashing its forecast for next year’s export growth to

Taipei, Nov. 21, 2011 (CENS)--After carving out a huge success with its Kindle Fire in the tablet PC segment, Amazon has allegedly worked with the Taiwan-headquartered Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. on joint development of smartphones, showing its ambition to further extend its reach to the fa

Founded over 20 years ago as a supplier of furniture fitting and hardware, Feton Ltd. has recently added LED lights to its product lineup. The company’s lights are particularly ideal for cabinets and cater to DIY fans as they are easy to install and powered by batteries. The company has won pat

The recovering global economy over the past year has enabled Taiwan’s leading manufacturers of machining centers to achieve robust sales in the past several months, with the performance expected to continue for the rest of this year and most local makers claiming to have enough orders to fill produ

Chanto Air Hydraulics Co., Ltd., established three decades ago, is one of Taiwan’s most renowned manufacturers of pneumatic and hydraulic products. The TUV Rheinland ISO9001:2008-certified company has ample product development experience and can offer high-quality products. Buyers typically look

Lico Machinery Co., Ltd., established in 1978 by its president Hank Lin, is renowned for manufacturing cam-operated single-spindle automatic lathes to technical CNC turning centers, which are adopted by aviation, vehicle, ITC, plumbing fittings, and optical instrument sectors. Lico lathes are popul

Sun Firm Machinery Ind. Co., Ltd., established in 1992, specializes in manufacturing horizontal heavy-duty CNC (computerized numerically controlled) lathes, high-speed lathes, and super-large lathes, focusing on product quality instead of production capacity. Sun Firm has a wholly owned plant in

Taipei, Aug. 5, 2011 (CENS)--Heavily promoted by its developer Intel, Ultrabook PC, an ultrathin, lightweight laptop, may command a 40% share of the market for traditional notebook models by the end of 2012 to benefit the Taiwanese PC industry, according to market observers of HSBC Securities Taiwa