Taiwan Takisawa Lands Orders from Japanese Parent

Taipei, April 2, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan Takisawa Technology Co., Ltd., a maker in Taiwan of CNC (computerized numerically controlled) lathes and PCB (printed circuit board) drilling machines, recently landed orders from parent company—the Japan-based Takisawa Machine Tools Co.—which is trying to offset the impact of appreciating Japanese yen against the U.S. greenback.

The Japanese parent holds 51% of Taiwan Takisawa. Deriving core manufacturing technologies from the parent, over the past several years Taiwan Takisawa has been selling boxway machine tools back to Japan on the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) basis, while the Japanese parent focuses on high-value-added products, whose manufacturing is being outsourced to Taiwan Takisawa.

With expertise in developing medium- and small-sized CNC machine tools for automotive and motorcycle industries, Taiwan Takisawa has complementary operations with the parent, says general manager C.Y. Dai; while technological transfer from the parent enables Taiwan Takisawa to develop and produce compound lathe/milling machines at reasonable prices.

Taiwan Takisawa has three plants, one each in Yangmei (PCB drilling machines) and Pingzhen of Taoyuan (CNC lathes, compound lathe/milling machines) and Shanghai of China (CNC lathes), claiming to see annual capacity reach 300 CNC lathes beginning the second quarter of this year.

Dai says the company has between NT$500 million and NT$600 million of orders backlogged, with order visibility through the end of May.