In order to boost scale of production and strengthen domestic and foreign market competitiveness, Taiwan Glass Group began collaborating with Britain's Pilkington Plc. in 1980, and acquired "plate float glass" technology. This was a pivotal point in our development. Our scale of production expanded continuously after this, and we established the Taiwan Glass Taichung Plant in an industrial park near Taichung. Ground was broken for this plant in 1981, and mass production got underway in 1983, launching an era in float glass production in Taiwan.

Our Taichung plant established a processing facility in 1984 in order to further boost production efficiency and quality. This facility employs plate glass processing technology to provide glass used in domestic and foreign furniture and architectural building materials. After establishing edge milling, horizontal tempering furnace, and mirror glass production lines, we later added plating, bonding, and hollow glass production lines. We acquired the well-known Leybold offline reflective glass sputtering technology in 1984, and began producing high-performance offline low-E glass in 1999. We offer a wide range of high quality architectural processed glass products.

In order to comply with the current global energy conservation and environmental protection trends, our Taichung plant has begun engaging in high-tech glass product R&D. The plant's "Ultra-white Float Glass for Photovoltaic Batteries" pioneering project obtained funding from the Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA in 2007. In addition, the plant established an optoelectronics department in 2008; this department mass produces ultra-white glass for use in thin-film photovoltaic batteries. During October of the same year, the plant successfully performed trial production of 1.1 mm ultrathin glass for use in touch-control panels.

Looking ahead to the future, our Taichung plant will continue to engage in R&D and make further breakthroughs in glass manufacturing technology. This plant will focus on the development and production of high-quality architectural glass and optoelectronics substrate glass, and will meet the needs of today's environmental protection and green energy trends. Furthermore, the plant will incorporate aesthetic design concepts from around the world in its products, and continue to offer superior-quality, reasonably-priced, highly-competitive products and services custom-tailored to customers' needs.