After moving most of its production lines to China, Yung Shing Furniture, a pioneering furniture manufacturer in Tainan, southern Taiwan, found itself at the perfect junction to realize a long-brewing ideal that not only serves the community, but also preserves, chronicles the furniture-making industry in Taiwan: to revamp the idle plant into a museum of furniture making. With years of effort ...

After nearly a decade of hard work, the Taiwan-based furniture manufacturer Jiann Yeh Wood Co. has become expert at making stylish, modern dining tables, end tables, desks, computer workstations, chairs, and cabinets. Unlike most other Taiwanese furniture makers, which have moved their production lines to the opposite side of the Taiwan Straits, Jiann Yeh is committed to keeping its operations...

Taiwan's mature stainless steel sector and advanced electroplating technology have held up manufacturers of kitchenware and bathroom hardware in Taiwan, helping them to not only weather downturns but also prosper, with a handful in Taiwan having even established private brands and become global giants. Likely more a strategy of necessity than savvy target marketing, Taiwan's manufacturers of k...

After their boom years in the 1980s turned to rougher times in the 1990s, many Taiwan-based makers of furniture and furniture parts moved offshore, looking for cheaper manpower and materials in China and Southeast Asia. But a few opted to keep their operations at home; and, after years of effort, they are well on the way to global competitiveness. Taiwan's furniture industry is sustained prima...

Computerization, high-speed and high-precision technologies took center stage at the Taipei International Woodworking Machinery and Supplies Show 2008, or Interwood 2008, which was held from July 4 through 7. At the opening ceremony, Fred Huang, chairman of Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry, noted the impressive technological gains made by Taiwanese woodworking equipment makers. Domesti...

Future Looks Bright for Youth Segment Despite rising fuel costs, other pricing pressures and waning consumer optimism, the future looks bright for the youth industry. Consumer spending for youth bedroom furniture is expected to grow by 23.5% in the next five years, with sales to reach US$6.3 billion by 2012, according to Easy Analytic Software Inc. The 10 largest metro markets for youth bed...

Clearly focused on expansion, LED-lighting maker ColorStar Group, headquartered in Bay City, Michigan, will launch initial public offering (IPO) this year in the U.S. "With infusion of more capital, which is critical to any serious development program, we would be poised to acquire more necessary facilities and technologies to enhance LED manufacturing capabilities," stresses Jimmy Chen, presiden...

Moving to produce epitaxy wafers in September this year, the Neo-Neo Group will be the first Taiwan-based LED-lighting maker to be fully integrated-running manufacturing facilities to handle, from top to bottom, the entire production process in the LED industry. Reportedly the world's No.1 supplier of LED decorative lamps and mini lamps, Neo-Neo turns out half of the mini lamps worldwide. It'...

To keep up to the rising eco-protection trend globally that is increasingly opening new windows of opportunity and generating more demands in areas with significant consumer bases whose priorities are more eco-sensitive than cost-driven, Taiwan's manufacturers of building materials are trying to make the most of such market changes: by increasingly using eco-friendly, sustainable materials in pro...

Furniture makers in China and Vietnam, generally resorting to underselling as more a survival strategy than sensible business decision, have been forcing the hands of rivals in Taiwan to be creative to fend off price-cutting. Specifically the makers of metal and glass furniture have fought off the temptation to migrate offshore, as many peers have done to take advantage of low labor costs in SE A...