President Steven Lin of Yah Juang Lighting Technology Co., Ltd. was elected chairman of the Taiwan Lighting Fixture Export Association (TLFEA) early this year, and since taking office he has been pushing a number of tasks which he hopes to complete within his three-year term. The tasks the new chairman has set for himself are to work together with other local associations in combining their s...

Interview with Jack Chen, Chairman of New Taipei City Lighting Association In Taiwan's lighting industry, Jack Chen, General Manager of the LVD International Light & Energy Corp., is something of an anomaly. LVD International, which he established in 2007, is the first Taiwan-based company to specialize in the design, production, and marketing of induction lamps. Compared to peers who have...

Maybe the most important driver of transformation in the local automotive industry, the Taiwan Telematics Industry Alliance (TTIA) was established in late 2010 with the mission to expedite development of the Taiwan telematics industry and strengthen global competitiveness. To such end, the TTIA has been committed to integrating resources, creating added value and business opportunities, and pro...

One well-defined trend in the automotive industry today is the trend toward telematics, and Taiwan is well positions to ride the telematics wave. With a well-developed information and communication technology (ICT) industry and strong support from the government, the island’s telematics industry is struggling to find the niche it needs to become a major player in the global market. Dr. Fran...

Crispin Wu, president of Tong Yang Industrial Co., Ltd., a leading auto-parts manufacturing conglomerate engaged in both original equipment (OE) and aftermarket (AM) parts production and sales globally, recently said the Chinese market will present many lucrative opportunities to both OE and AM parts suppliers, whose opportunities will rise further by increasingly higher market shares of Japane...

Mostly clustered in Taiwan’s central counties of Taichung and Changhua, Taiwanese furniture parts makers saw their heyday as the island’s export-driven economy took off in the 1960s, with the prosperity being relatively fleeting as labor, land costs rose on the island, coupled with rivalry from emerging nations as China and SE Asia, to force many downstream suppliers to seek greener pasture offsh...

Taiwan’s garden tool manufacturers boast a consummate production capability and an abundance of experience that have given them a prominent status in the global market. Some of them stand out for strong, market-driven R&D efforts that have enabled them to keep growing every year. As consumers’ behavior and preferences have gradually changed along with global economic fluctuations, social c...

Interview with Jack Chen, general manager of LVD International Light & Energy Corp. LVDs and LEDs have many similarities; their initials are different in only one letter, both are members of the new generation of lighting, and both offer green-lighting advantages such as energy conservation, carbon reduction, high power factor, low lumen depreciation, minimal power wastage, flicker-free perf...

Taiwanese lighting manufacturers are competing to introduce eco-friendly products as LED (light emitting diode), electrode-less and Internet-controlled ones to attract orders when the green cause continues to gain ever rising importance. Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd., world’s No.1 LED packager by capacity, recently released its 9W SL-SV60A and 15W SL-60...

Lextar Electronics Co., Ltd. recently unveiled an in-house laboratory that has been certified by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America to LM79 and LM80 standards for the testing of solid state lighting (SSL). The new lab is the first of its kind in Taiwan and another landmark in the company’s effort to strengthen its capabilities in the manufacturing of light emitting diode ...