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Bumper Taiwanese Photonics Festival Showcases Island's Dominance Of Industry
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) May 12, 2008 With more than 300 international exhibitors signed up to attend, this year's Photonics Festival at the Taipei World Trade Center showcased again Taiwan's dominant position in many sectors of photonic technology and manufacturing. Grouping four exhibitions -- OPTO / LED Lighting / SOLAR/ OPTICS Taiwan -- and held simultaneously with Display Taiwan 2008, the largest FPD trading platform in Asia -- Photonics Festival in Taiwan 2008 (PFT 2008) will also effectively bring down the curtain on the shows current venue in the Taipei World Trade Center's Hall 1 and prelude next year's event in the spacious new Exhibition Halls in Nangang, Taipei. The two paired events now constitute a spectacular that is becoming increasingly specialized and innovative and that is primarily concerned with the promotion of photonics. It was for this reason, said Dr. Peter Shih, the chairman of preparatory committee of PFT 2008, that it had been decided to move the Photonics Festival and its sister event Display Taiwan, to the newly opened Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall next year. The latter is expected to offer 2,400 booths to cater for the upsurge of new exhibitors. It would demonstrate like never before, Shih said, not alone the strong performance by the Taiwan photonics industry, but also offer a perfect promotional platform for global companies. Display Taiwan 2008 is jointly organized and promoted by the Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the Taiwan Computer Association (TCA) and SEMI. With a focus on the optoelectronics parts and components, Photonics Festival in Taiwan was initiated by PIDA in 1984 and is one of the industry's prime events for businee discussion, new technology announcement and spotting future trends. Exhibitors include leading Taiwanese players such as Lite-on, Everlight, KingBright, Asia-optical, Canon Taiwan as well as global key players such as Schott, Dow Corning, Newport, Nihon Garter, ASM, and Seoul semiconductor...etc. Solar Taiwan 2008 groups leading Taiwanese cell makers, such as Motech (World's no. 6 cell maker), E-ton (the London city hall solar cell supplier), Big Sun Energy, Tynsolar, Sinonar Solar (the first thin film maker in Taiwan) as well as oversea equipment suppliers like Ulvac and Fesco. Boom times for the PV market have doubled the size of Solar Taiwan compared to the first exhibition of its kind in 2007. Korea and Germany are the two featured countries at Display Taiwan this year and both will highlight their own successful FPD technology, products and manufacturing machinery in dedicated pavilions. A series of Business and Technology conferences and an Exhibitors' seminar also take place this year under the generic banner of Photonics Festival in Taiwan. PIDA, apart from its own experts, has invited a line-up of keynote speakers from both home and abroad to address various aspects of the local and international industry. Topics range from technology development to market trends, industry dynamism, product design and an application overview with speakers from the LED sector including Liteon, Sony, Philips Lighting, Dow Coring, Matsushita Electric Works, China Solid State Lighting Alliance and ITRI. Photovoltaics is represented by speakers from E-ton, Ulvac, Dupont, GP Solar, Arima Eco Energy, Abacus Solar AG, Taiwan Stock Exchange while optics is covered by Texas Instruments and the display by AUO, CMO, CPT, PVI, LGE, Corning Display and German Organic Electronics. Accounting for 17% in the global market, the Taiwan photonics industry total production in 2007 topped USD 63.3 billion and it is very likely to break USD 90 billion in 2011, according to the statistics from PIDA. The total value of its FPD industry will surpass USD 60 billion mark in 2009. Both in terms of production value and capacity, Taiwan has become the world's largest TFT LCD supplier. The production value has taken 42% of the global TFT-LCD and module packaging market. It ranked second in LED packaging production and fourth in solar cell production in 2007. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Baoding, China (SPX) May 12, 2008Yingli Green Energy Holding has announced that it has signed a third polysilicon supply agreement with DC Chemical, a leading Korean chemicals producer. Under the terms of agreement, DC Chemical will supply polysilicon with a value of approximately US$39 million to Yingli Green Energy. |
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