Ching Hung Machinery & Electric Industries Co., Ltd, or CHMER as the company is popularly known, is an EDM specialist. The company won the Grand Champion Award for the Other NC Machine Tools category with its Q4025L for its high precision gantry type linear motor drive wire cut EDM. Founded in 1975, the company today manufactures 1200 units per annum and has three factories in China, besides manufacturing plants in Taiwan.

Explaining the award winning wire cut EDM, the Director of CHMER, Brad Wang said, the first interference-free lower arm built inside the work-tank that gets rid of the concern of water leakage problem and dealing with sealing parts replacement, after a period time of use. The special wire ejection mechanism can lead the waste wire along the slant in the rear of work-tank instead of going through the lower arm as the previous design does, which is considered as one of the causes for water leakage and inaccuracy related to excessive friction.

By having almost three decades of experience in EDM development and manufacturing, Chmer and its affiliated companies are continuously striving to design and produce the finest quality EDM products. Through in-house R&D department, the company has developed highly reliable and user friendly CNC controller and state-of-the art EDM power supplies, besides EDM specific software to optimise the cutting performance between the power supply and controller plus provide user specific software for special applications.

SEYI has been working in the field of making presses for many years now and has been widely recognised by domestic buyers and worldwide customers. In TIMTOS 2013, the company promoted its complete servo production solutions to international buyers. Since SEYI is leader in the industry by its servo solutions, the products offer high intelligence, green concept, servo motor control technology and innovations for further extensions. The servo solutions improve a manufacture's ability to integrate automated, precision stamping processes, achieving high quality parts and the low cost during production. SEYI's new generation of straight side, direct drive servo presses offer a robust frame designed for high rigidity that produce extremely accurate parts. Also, the press is designed with production line integration with open access to bolster area to enhance tooling installation, maintenance, and production. The pendulum slide motion allows an increase in productivity, up to 100 per cent, by utilising a shorter stroke and higher speed. Furthermore, servo drive capacitors and controls reduce energy consumption by more than 50 per cent. Seamless integration with feeders, robots, and transfer equipment can boost production by 200 per cent. Numerical-controlled servo die cushion offers maximised formability for a wide range of applications.

Fair Friend Group (FFG) a 30 year-old company is now spanning into four major business fields - machine tools, PCB (Printable Circuit Board), industry equipment, and green energy. The Machine Tools Division produces vertical/horizontal machining centres, vertical/horizontal turning centres, double column machining centres, large CNC boring and milling centres, floor type boring centres, five-axis machining centres, double column CNC grinders, etc. The PCB Division provides not only the circuit boards but also the drilling machines made by FFG.

The Industry Equipment Division offers a variety of equipment such as pneumatic tools, construction machinery, forklifts, elevators, construction hardware, transmission components, parking towers, cable cars, air compressors, painting tools and so on. The Green Energy Division was recently established in 2011, specializing in LED illumination, conductive adhesive for solar cells, inspection equipment for touch-sensing display panels and for semi-conductors.

FFG introduced "FNPS" lean production system, aiming at higher productivity per space, increased production, and lower cost. Currently, the average price of FFG general-use machine tools is around US$67,000. In order to offer value-added products, FFG has activated a five-year product upgrade project, which is to be implemented by practices of technology transfer, joint product development and a centralized R&D centre, targeting the higher-end segment with an increased average price at US$135,000. FFG is the only machine tool builder in the world owning production bases in the top eight machine tool manufacturing countries: China, Japan, Germany, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, the US and India. With the help of these manufacturing facilities, FFG has advantages like technology transfer, cost reduction, economies of scale, as well as sales and marketing channels.The Chairman of FFG Jimmy CY CHU told APF that it is planning to set up its manufacturing plant in India in another three years down the line. The company has not finalised the investment plans and continuously studying the Indian market since India is a price sensitive market.

The company also believes in strategic Joint ventures (JV) in order to have a cost-effective approach to create new opportunities with rather lower investment cost. FFG have JV cooperation with Japanese Ryobi (hardware fitting), Anest Iwata (compressor), Takamaz (automated lathe), Nippon Cable (cable car and parking tower) and Mectron (compact lathe). Most of these JV companies had set up plants in China, and been running production. In 2011, the latest JV cooperations were with three Japanese enterprises, Waida (precision grinder), Citizen (machine tools builder) and Marubeni (Japan top five trading company). The JVs will base the factory in Taiwan and furthermore will get involved with joint production upgrade.

Yeong Chin Machinery Industries Co., Ltd (YCM), founded in 1954, manufactures a range of products covering CNC lathes, VMCs/HMCs, horizontal boring milling machines and EDMs (through a sister concern). The company is among the leading manufacturers of machine tools in Taiwan, with over 70 models in production. At TIMTOS 2013, the exhibited its wide range of graphite milling machines like FP66G, a graphite-milling machine, which is designed for the mould industry, and the vertical machine centre FP55LX is designed for rigid material processing.

The company's Chairman &CEO Bryan Chen said, YCM targets aerospace sector and we offers 5-axis machines with BC axes together. There is a multi-task turn mill machine centre NT2000, which carries axis Y and a counter spindle.

Since the aerospace industry needs high technology and precision level, YCM develops its own software in order to be capable of customised duties. The computer industry is also important now, and the DV30T can do more efficient processing in this field, he added. During the event, YCM targeted certain buyers from North America buying machine tools for aerospace and automotive industries, buyers from Mexico, China, and Southeast Asia buying machine tools for automotive industry, and buyers from the EU buying for energy industry are all very important. And EU buyers, though the economy is still stranded, are enthusiastic in the energy industry and they have contacted YCM, so they will also be potential buyers.

Victor Taichung, which started manufacturing conventional lathes in Taiwan from 1954, now manufactures CNC lathes and machining centres, which are developed in the company's R&D centre. Around 65 per cent of the machines are manufactured in-house and the new foundry helps in producing highly reliable Meehanite castings, which offer further machine quality. Insisting on technology innovations and quality superiority, Victor Taichung is continuously devoted in developing new generation of machine tools.

The company had displayed its latest machines like Vturn - Q200, P16, Vcentre AX 350 and H630 HS. Q200 has a unique feature on the 3rd turret on twin spindle lathe for quick and quantitative production. It also minimises the cutting time difference between OP-10 and OP-20 to balance cutting tempo. To enhance the productivity further the company has developed its new machine P16, which has a slant bed with servo turret as standard and higher feed rate and wider LM guides. It also comes with easy turning cell with built-in robot for unmanned operations. The compact VMC - AX350 is equipped with 5-axis machining and is integrated with trunnion table to lower the table surface for loading bigger and heavier parts. it comes with innovative mechanism called 'Roller CAM Driver' inside, which is a non-backlash 5th axis table that guarantees high machining accuracy and reliability.

In catering to the increasing demands of the twin-screw extruder, Sun Lung had developed a series of high performance gearboxes for the twin-screw extruder. The gearboxes of this series have high torque and high-speed output rates. The series of gearboxes are embedded with excellent high dissipation and oil lubrication system in order to perform stable output under heavy-loading forces. The axial thrust is supported by an axial roller-type swivel thrust bearing of the 294e series, coupled with thrust bearings assembled in tandem way.

Sun Lung aims to offer high-tech and reliable product service to customers worldwide. There are other several amazing features, such as the feature that the precision of gear grinding is up to DIN 1-3 grade, while operation noise is kept below 80dB. Forced lubrication and built-in cooling and filter system ensure excellent heat dissipation. High gearbox structure strength ensures minimum rotation vibration, and top-quality SKF or FAG bearings are optional. The product is incorporated with Japanese NOK oil seals, and specially treated seats ensure longer durability. The product is both CE and TUV certified.