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TAIWAN Business.EU l industry l business story

Successful Partnership between

a Czech and a Taiwanese Company

COMPUPLAST s.r.o. has a very long and colourful history. It is backed by 25 years of

experience with designing and delivering tools and lines for plastic extrusion.

The company actively collaborates with renown foreign manufacturers. You will find

several tools from various countries in its product catalogue. These are always

top-quality experienced manufacturers from Europe, as well as East Asia and the U.S.

Apart from GMA Machinery from Taiwan, the company also represents LABTECH

Engineering and SCHWING Technologies. It has been a member of the Plastics Cluster

since 2009, which unifies key companies from the plastic industry in the Zlín region

and beyond. Compuplast has long-term experience on the Taiwanese market and that

is why we spoke with the company's General Manager, Jan Král.

You became the official distributor of

GMA Machinery Enterprise for the

Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2017.

How did this collaboration happen? The

GMA website lists, only, your company

and two companies from Korea and

India as official distributors.

The way the collaboration began was

quite interesting and actually happened

by accident. We have been working with

Taiwanese companies since 2007. We

were taking over an extrusion line for

polyester sheets from one company in

2017. Since we had an interest in extrusion T-dies and accessories for the lines,

our Taiwanese partner took us to GMA,

where we spent almost half a day

looking around the company and discusspecial 2019

sing a variety of topics, both having to

do with the company, as well as private

matters. I have to admit that we found

much in common on both the professional and the private level. At the end of

our meeting, the company president

Jesse Hsu offered me the opportunity of

official representation and distribution.

Why did you choose a Taiwanese

partner? What are the advantages of

Taiwanese machines? What are the

strengths of this market, as compared

to production in the rest of the world?

I would probably rephrase that question.

They chose us. I went in to that meeting

with the goal of learning about the

company and how they make T-dies,

ranging from the narrowest 100 mm

heads up to 6 m extrusion dies, with the

option of automated regulation of

foil/sheet thickness. I have to admit that

the company impressed me very much.

It is the largest producer of extrusion

T-dies in Taiwan and certainly belongs to

the largest manufacturers of heads

globally-speaking.

Taiwan is about half the size of the

Czech Republic but the population is

double. Its western coast is heavily