Chiayi Mayor Huang Min-hui Leads City Team on a Visit, Praising a Corporate Legend
Founded 75 years ago, FEMCO in Chiayi is Taiwan’s longest-established machine tool maker. The FEMCO Machinery Memorial Museum, which records the group’s development, won a German iF Design Award in 2022 and took part in the iF Chiayi Design Exhibition at the Chiayi Municipal Museum in 2023. Mayor Huang Min-hui led a city government team on a visit and was warmly received by Chairwoman Chuang Hui-mei. The two sides discussed globalization and environmental issues, and the city looked at how FEMCO’s creative use of technology might inform municipal governance.
In the age of Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing, FEMCO’s history is a living textbook of Taiwan’s machinery industry and a microcosm of its industrial development. Through industrial transformation and brand building, its golf shaft subsidiary has become the world’s second-largest maker, and FEMCO is known at home and abroad. Its 2022 iF Design Award continues a legacy handed down from founder and Chairman C. M. Chuang, and the company has become an important engine of Taiwan’s international economy.
Chairwoman Chuang praised Mayor Huang’s dedication to administration and city development. She explained that the museum, Taiwan’s first dedicated to the machinery industry, was founded for the 70th anniversary in memory of founder C. M. Chuang. Created with Feng Chia University’s College of Interdisciplinary Design, it won a German iF Design Award in 2022 and records FEMCO’s journey from humble beginnings to a multinational enterprise.
Mayor Huang tried VR in the industry exhibition area, gathering ideas on applying technology to city projects. The two exchanged gifts: the mayor presented Golden Horse 60th-anniversary co-branded products and a Lin Tsung-ming fish-head casserole sauce gift box, and the chairwoman gave a Koji pottery piece.
The mayor praised FEMCO for becoming a multinational through innovation and brand management, “not only Chiayi’s FEMCO or Taiwan’s FEMCO, but an international FEMCO.” She thanked the chairwoman and team for their hospitality and explanations, noting that FEMCO, which grew from a traditional industry, has kept innovating and transforming to become a new model of a traditional industry moving into high tech.
Huang said FEMCO is a benchmark for the city team, inspiring ideas on using technology for a sustainable environment and policy. The city will apply the “small city, big innovation” spirit to its projects and looks forward to more links and exchanges in the future.
Source: United Daily News
2024-02-01 11:58 · United Daily News, Chiayi