Taiwan's optoelectronic giant settles in Kunshan

Photoelectric industry giant Taiwan Chi Mei Group settled in Kunshan Optoelectronics Industrial Park - Chi Mei Materials Technology Co., Ltd. officially started construction, the first phase of investment of nearly 300 million US dollars, which is another major cooperation between the two sides of the deepening cooperation. Zhou Naixiang, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor of China, attended the opening ceremony.

According to Xu Chunhua, chairman of Taiwan's Chi Mei Group, the project will fill the gaps in the high-end polarizer field in the mainland. The high-end polarizer is one of the important materials of the liquid crystal display, and can realize high brightness, high contrast and other characteristics of the liquid crystal display, and has a high technical content. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed and put into operation next year. The construction land will be 231 acres, with an investment of 298 million U.S. dollars and a registered capital of 150 million U.S. dollars. Two production lines will be built, with an annual output of 12 million square meters of polarizers and annual sales of 3 billion yuan. Xu Chunhua said that the Kunshan plant is expected to build 12 production lines in the future with a total investment of 1 billion US dollars.

Chi Mei Group and AUO Group are also known as the "double tigers" in Taiwan's panel industry. Today, both "Shuang Hu" have invested and set up factories in the Kunshan Optoelectronics Industrial Park. Since the Kunshan Optoelectronic Industrial Park was started construction in 2004, it has formed a complete optoelectronic industrial chain with the largest domestic industry scale and the highest technical level of “raw materials – equipment – ​​panels – modules – complete machines”.