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INDUSTRY EVENTS

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Hardware Association Continues Forward amounting to around NTD$2 million in value. The Industrial
Technology Research Institute has also offered expertise in
Taiwan Hand Tool Manufacturers’ Association (THTMA) using AI to analyze metallurgy.
Chairman Huang Hsin-de has told EDN that key values
and vision are crucial factors in the hand tools industry The new instruments and technologies being
development in Taiwan. With the pandemic outbreak’s implemented have infused a new optimism. Huang said
ferocity, hosting international hardware trade fairs became due to the pandemic, the association would be seeing a
much more complicated and led to cancelations, Huang hardware show without international buyers flowing in for the
said. first time. As the saying goes, “amid every crisis lies great
opportunity.”
Whether the same would occur in 2021 remains to
be seen, however much like international trade exhibition
organizers, THTMA continues to work tirelessly. For
instance, in September 2020, the association opened its
second headquarters in Taichung and accepted valuable
donations from notable enterprises to bolster the services
provided for its members.

For example, China Steel Corporation (CSC), experts
and professors from the Taiwan Society for Metal Heat
Treatment (TSMHT) offered heat treatment training sessions
for hand tools, Huang had said. TSMHT Honorary Chairman
and Taiwan Nakazawa General Manager Hung Chou-hung
also donated invaluable instruments for the association.
These instruments range from metallurgical microscopes,
metallurgical cutting machines, and metallurgical mounting
press, metallurgical grinding and polishing machines,

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