Hotline Tracking: FEMCO, the Hidden Champion of Machine Tools

Source: YouTube, TTV News, 2023-06-19
Reporter: Huang Hsiu-wen
Camera/editing: Chen Shih-chung

2023.06.19 [Hotline Tracking] Taiwan’s high-value machine tools are specified by international brands as “MIT”, and the industry has produced many impressive hidden champions. Taiwan’s longest-established machine tool maker is in Chiayi. In 1949, when goods were scarce and Taiwan was still agricultural, most people got around by bicycle, and this Chiayi company started out making bicycle rims. It later diversified into pipe for harbor works and has now embraced Industry 4.0, creating the world’s first smart aluminum wheel production line and exporting its MIT wheel machining equipment to five continents.