Taiwan machine tools shaping the world at Metalex 2017

The Taiwan-Thailand Auto Manufacturing Industry Event has successfully curtained on the afternoon of 24^th November, held in concurrently with the largest metalworking trade show in ASEAN, Metalex 2017. Held at the Maple Hotel that is near the exhibition venue BITEC, the event was supported by the Bureau of Foreign Trade, organized by the Corporate Synergy Development Center and Taiwan External Trade Development Council. The event was aimed to drag closer the relations of automotive parts manufacturers from Thailand with the machine tools / equipment providers of Taiwan. The organizer invited 3 selected Taiwan machine tool, press, and grinder companies who are Tongtai, SEYI and Jainnher, respectively to be presented at the auto manufacturing industry event and further introduce their companies and products.

Event recognized by key institutions

While company to company relations are fundamental for practical cooperation, the governmental and associations have also shown their strong support to this event. The director of economic division at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand Jason Hsu, and the first economic secretary Benjamin Lin attended the event, while associations (Thailand Auto Parts Manufacturing Association –TAMPA, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry- TAMI) from both countries sent representatives to attend. In the opening speech, The director of economic division at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand Jason Hsu highlighted Thailand’s high-flying position as an industrial production base in Southeast Asia. He stressed that the fact that Thailand has become major offshore manufacturing bases for global auto manufacturing, and that the nation is valued for exceptionally talented labor force. Therefore, as the fifth biggest export destination for Taiwan-made machine tools, Director Hsu expressed his confidence that the two parties will “establish an even closer partnership in building an even more competitive Thai auto parts industry”.

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first economic secretary  Benjamin Lin, Allen Chen (Tongtai) Mrs. Achana Limpaitoon, Director Jason Hsu, Steven Lee (SEYI), William Lee (Jainnher)

 Jason Hsu, Director of economic division at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand giving opening speech

The president of TAMPA Mrs. Achana Limpaitoon for the first time attended the Taiwan Thailand Automotive Industry Event, and gave her sincere encouragement to the organizers. She talked about their role as an association on studying different FTA regulations and DUI regulations, TW’s world competitiveness is ranked 14 out of 63 countries according to the report from the International Institute for Management Development. In the company of her own, she often tells employees if they cannot find machines locally they should look for Taiwan machines due to several characteristics - includes reasonable price, fine quality, and that Taiwan’s expertise in engineering is comparable to that of Japan. She also shared her opinion about how the two countries could work together in focusing on smart devices, accessories and electronic parts. “If we join hand in hand together, the industry will be sustainable, because we are only partners in machinery, but in tourism, labor market, and culture” Mrs. Achana Limpaitoon remarked. She believes that these are the things that Thai and Taiwanese people can share together.

President of TAMPA Mrs. Achana Limpaitoon giving an opening remark

The attendees were from local Thai manufacturing companies – who are PCS holding machine company (engine and transmission manufacturer), TOACS (sealing systems, exterior trim, electric parts manufacturer), ISUZU’s Thai production base and Saitama (automotive components supplier ).

Keynotes addressed the particular demands that are imminent in the Thai market

In the keynote speeches from the manager of overseas sales department Mr. Allen Chen of Tongtai Group, he focused on the capacity of Tongtai in producing a wide ranges of machineries that include vertical/horizontal CNC lathes, multi-tasking machining centers, ultrasonic-assisted machining center, transfer center, additive manufacturing equipment, PCB machines and laser machines. He also emphasized on the Metal Powder Direct Energy Deposition and Subtractive Manufacturing Machine, in which the technology the technology is a combination of Laser cladding plus CNC 5-axis machining plus Laser surface treatment that are extremely beneficial to the new generation automotive manufacturing industry. Finally, Mr. Allen Chen highlighted Tongtai’s ability in providing total solution. With diverse production lines with advanced technical applications in machining, “we have proven to be successful in a number of industries but particularly in the automotive manufacturing sector as it is where we was established on since the early days and still remains the biggest demands of Tongtai’s equipment today”, Allen Chen remarked.

manager of overseas sales dept. Allen Chen from Tongtai Group

The second keynote speech was delivered by SEYI’s vice president of sales and service division Mr. Steven Lee, in his passionate speech Steven Lee first used a number of solid statistics to explain the efficient, intelligent and environmental-friendly servo press tandem lines they supply. It was clearly presented to the audience that with SEYI’s equipment clients are able to reduce the number of machines needed traditionally down to one single station, and with better qualities in terms of spring back control. Steven Lee used case-study videos and photos to explain how their press lines integrate into clients’ factory –SEYI shown great dedication from innovating the presses’ frame and structural design, refining the energy saving motor drive, as well as user-friendly interface. “All of these attempts are aimed to practically and instantly generate improvements in the clients’ factory, the value that clients will see from using our tandem lines will only escalate in time – in other words, this will be a cash printing machine for your factory!” Steven Lee exclaimed. Having numerous successful cases and big name clients in automobile, home appliance and consumer electronics sectors, it is definitely a prosperous picture for local Thai companies to discuss further collaboration with SEYI.

SEYI’s vice president of sales and service division Mr. Steven Lee

The final presentation of the event was delivered by the sales manager of export department Mr. William Lee. He proceeded his keynote speeches with abundant videos of real-time machining examples, particularly to underscore that the company provides solutions that target each part of automotive components and system machining. William Lee gave a comprehensive review on what internal grinders, cylindrical grinders center hole, double spindle, vertical grinding machine, and centerless grinders could contribute to transmission gears, oil pumps, universal joints, engine valves, shock absorber, and so on. The full automatic loading and unloading system, and in-house developed software system will be suitable for Thailand, where intelligent 4.0 and upgrading have just begun. Apart from automotive manufacturing, Willian Lee emphasized that the company is also active in supplying other industries such as electronics, medical, recreation, home appliances industries and so on.

William Lee, sales manager of export department Jainnher

With informative speeches that filled up the afternoon, the audience was invited to after-event cocktail party. Following the successfully closure of the event, it is to be expected that the effort to foster tighter business opportunities for Taiwan and Thailand will be achieved one step forward, and that at the next auto-parts industry event more Thai manufacturers will be attracted from positive feedbacks of their fellow counterparts.