A showcase of highly competitive machinery

Coming out of last year's economic doldrums, Taiwan's plastic machinery sector has rebounded to reflect a splendid showcase of machinery grounded in the island's bountiful innovation and strong focus on research and development. At least that was the way Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) President Yuen-Chuan Chao aptly put it, referring to an article by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of the World is Flat. He came to the conclusion that the Taiwanese people owed their success to very their own human capital. Quite a sizeable amount of that human capital can be said to rest in the domestic plastics machinery industry which has grown over the years. There was evidence of this importance in the 324 domestic and foreign companies that exhibited in addition to eight international industrial associations and media companies from Japan, India, South Korea, China and Egypt all making for a grand total of 2,111 standard booths. A grand display too of Taiwan strength and expertise in all the latest developments in the field from automatic electric plastic injection moulding machines through microinjection and profile extrusion molding machines to a variety of rubber machines, robotic arms and precision molds. Add to that are exhibitors covering the complete supply chain to provide total solutions. Accordingly, as Mr. Hsiu-Tsang Hsu, chairman of Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) remarked on opening day, his association members leapt at the opportunity to show off their latest high-precision machines. But note of caution was sounded by Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade the Director General Huang Chih -Peng. With Taiwan's machinery industry persistently facing long-term risks that prevent it from entering into free trade agreements in Asia and in other regions around the world, Taiwanese companies are on a competitive disadvantage. There were 14 seminars on industrial trends and technologies featuring speakers from Delta Electronics, German quality certifiers, TUV Rheinland Taiwan, and IDT Systematic Technologies among others. The collective efforts of all these exhibitors added up by the end of November 2009, to a whopping export value of $670 million with markets extending across the globe.

Chyi Yang Industrial Co, Ltd, is the first plastic film extruder manufacturer from Taiwan to receive CE certification from German quality certifier TUV. The company continues to notch up awards for its machinery products with three new products: the WPE-H/ MDP-WPE Series PE Wrapping Film Making Machine for 1-Layer/2-Layer Double Layer Stretch and Cling Film Purpose, the THDP Series 3-layer Co-Extrusion Blown Film Machine and the THDQ Series Water Cooling downstream Co-Extrusion Multilayer Blown Film Machine. "We're optimistic about their prospects on the market place and are moving forward and looking ahead to even more advanced and efficient 5-layer machines," said the Sales Manager for Latin America, Antonio Jo Jui.

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Forwell, the company synonymous with Quick Die Change Systems for mechanical presses, came up with another winner with its Quick Mold Cart System - the most impressive and adaptable from this Taichung based company. After 21 years of solid development, Forwell still insists on the principle of "Give You the Best" to develop and improve products and generate consistently better service and business in future. The new Mold Cart System, according to Sales Manager Victor Lim, could be adopted along with different kinds of mould clamping systems for automatic machines such as punch presses, injection moulding and die casting machines such as with the Quick Mold Cart customise.

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