Taiwan's Top-Three Touch-panel Makers Expand Capacity

Driven by growing sales of smartphones and tablet PCs, along with increasing demand for Win8 touch NBs, the largest two suppliers of touch panels in Taiwan Wintek Corp. and TPK Holding Co Ltd. are both expanding capacity and personnel. Chimei Innolux Corp. (CMI), one of the largest panel makers in Taiwan, is setting up a complete production line of touch panels in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP). 

Besides controlling capital expenditure strictly, CMI is also aggressively expanding capacity of touch panels, targeting active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) and indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), which call for high-end manufacturing process. 

In response to high demand for Win8 tablet PCs and NBs, CMI is not only establishing a full supply chain of touch panels in STSP, but also has added production capacity of 500,000 pieces of windows integration system (WIS) monthly. 

TPK saw consolidated revenues in the first 11 months up 20.28% from 2011 to NT$151.36 billion (US$5.05 billion). 

Wintek cooperates with Quanta Computer to fill orders for Win8 products from brand vendors including HP, Dell, and Lenovo. Along with growing design projects with Nokia, Google, and Asus, Wintek's monthly shipments of one glass solution (OGS) panels exceeded five million pieces as a new historical high. 

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