Following its appearance at the Smart City Summit in March 2025, a Ukrainian business delegation has returned to Taiwan to deepen cooperation across four key sectors as part of Ukraine’s national reconstruction efforts.
At the recent PSA Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, CEO Anthony Chiao announced that GLOBAL BRS MANUFACTURE (GBM) has acquired two significant strategic assets: Japan’s PCB manufacturer Lincstech and mechanical parts specialist Silitech Technology, which in turn has invested in FDK, a global leader in nickel-metal hydride batteries. Across its expanded group, annual revenues now exceed NT$150 billion (approx. US$5.1 billion). Chiao highlighted that the company’s next phase will concentrate on integrating internal resources and implementing management succession strategies.
If not for a flurry of tariffs and mounting regulatory pressure under President Donald Trump, Chinese energy storage giants were poised to dominate the American market by 2025, so much so that industry insiders had already narrowed the field to three top contenders for market supremacy.
Taiwan’s government has instructed leading industrial research institutions, such as the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), the Metal Industries Research and Development Centre (MIRDC), and the Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI), to open 50 state-of-the-art AI-equipped production lines for developing innovative products, according to Hsiang-yuan Ting, director at the Department of Industrial Technology (DOIT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). By using these lines for design, trial production, and quality inspection, the goal is to accelerate development and innovation.