Over the past decade Taiwan's furniture manufacturers have been striving to cope with price competition from rivals in developing-economy countries-especially mainland China-by shifting from mass-production items with a high manual input to products featuring greater technological input, multiple f

Taipei, Aug. 25, 2004 (CENS)--Kao Hsing Chang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., one of Taiwan's largest producers of cold-rolled steel, has decided to invest NT$1 billion (US$29.32 million at US$1:NT$34.1) to build a galvanized steel production line, with an annual output of 300,00 metric tons, in Pingnan In

Taiwan's two leading makers of stainless-steel products, Yeun Chyang Industrial Co. and Jaung Yuann Enterprise Co., are competing with each other for the right to undertake an NT$70 billion (US$2.07 billion at NT$33.7:US$1) government project to retool old tapwater-pipe systems throughout the islan

Established in 1982, Jang Wuel Steel Machinery Co. is a fast-growing manufacturer of machine tools in Taiwan. In the beginning, the company had only six employees and a plant with an area of merely 600 square meters, but since that time it has continuously invested in R&D and facility expansion.

Taiwanese exhibitors caught the eye of buyers at the International Furniture Fair Singapore/ASEAN Furniture 2004 show, held on Mar. 1-5, with the attractive design, innovative structure, fine craftsmanship, and quality materials of their glass-furniture products. A total of 59 Taiwanese furnitur

Taipei, March 18, 2004 (CENS)--Ensure Co., Ltd., Taiwan's largest manufacturer of aluminum alloy wheels, recently announced it has sold off its stakes in a mainland affiliate--Shanghai Fervent Alloy Wheel Manufacturing Co. to the Taiwan-based Mayer Steel Pipe Corp. and mainland-based Shanghai Autom

Taipei, Feb. 19, 2004 (CENS)--Thanks to the surge in product prices and increased market demand, domestic listed iron and steel firms reaped handsome profits in January. These money-making firms spread over the sectors of integrated steel manufacturing plants, electric arc furnaces, steel sheari

Taiwan's CLD-Taipei recently marked a milestone in its four-year rise up the office-automation (OA) furniture quality ladder with the signing of a technology transfer and production deal with Kusch + Co Sitzmobelwerke GmbH, a renowned German manufacturer of high-end OA chairs. The deal gives CLD

Sun Firm Machinery Ind. Co., Ltd. Specializes in manufacturing computerized numerically controlled (CNC) lathes, high-speed lathes, heavy-duty lathes, and super-large lathes. Although the company is a professional manufacturer in developing a wide range of lathes, its dedication is to product quali

The rising price of iron and steel over the past year has forced domestic manufacturers of office furniture to shift to non-metal materials. In today's competitive market, they explain, there is no room to increase prices to offset the higher material costs. The strengthening of the New Taiwan d

For Taiwan's manufacturers of outdoor furniture, cheap labor and production costs may have been the initial incentives for moving production to mainland China, but increasingly their transplant operations there are proving that low pricing alone cannot always win over demanding overseas customers.

Over the last three decades Taiwan has developed a name for supplying high-quality innovative materials and parts for metal-furniture producers around the world. In their rise to the forefront of the global industry, local producers have benefited from a well-established support network that underl

Taiwan’s makers of bathroom hardware report they are switching their focus to making items serving as fashion statements for the home in order to differentiate their wares and sustain revenue growth. Most manufacturers in the line say constant effort is necessary to keep abreast of fast-changin

In recent years, the competition has become increasingly intensified in the low-price furniture market once dominated by Taiwan. Many producers on the island have sobered to the futility of competing with low-cost producers in these markets, and are instead betting their futures on promising new ma

Building on decades of expertise in making sophisticated molds, Taiwan has become one of the world's preeminent manufacturers of tube and pipe making machinery. Local manufacturers of such equipment are capable of turning out a wide array of products to meet the special requirements of buyers from

In response to intense competition from developing areas such as Southeast Asia and mainland China, Taiwan's manufacturers of conventional and computerized electric-discharge machines (EDMs) have been striving to develop high-added-value products such as computerized numerically controlled (CNC) wi

Taiwan' s makers of bathroom hardware report they are switching their focus to making items serving as fashion statements for the home in order to differentiate their wares and sustain revenue growth. Most manufacturers in the line say constant effort is necessary to keep abreast of fast-changi

Over the last three decades Taiwan's office- furniture makers have come a long way from simply copying the designs of foreign competitors and delivering products at bargain prices. Today innovation, rather than price, is driving the local industry's growth as producers turn their focus to high-qual

Steel makers in Taiwan are gearing up for an expected boom in demand, due mainly to trillions of dollars worth of government construction projects and the ambitious expansion of private-sector flat-panel display production facilities. The Executive Yuan, or Cabinet, has drawn up a plan to spend

Once primarily known for their competitive pricing, Taiwanese manufacturers of plastic- processing machines are now turning heads in the global market with products rivaling and even beating their Japanese counterparts in terms of quality and functions. This has paved the way for Taiwan's rapid ris

For Taiwan's manufacturers of occasional tables, the competitive landscape is becoming tougher by the year, with low-cost rivals chipping away at the commodity side of the market and rising materials costs eroding margins. This dual threat has forced the industry to rethink its strategy for surviva