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Victor Taichung Established in 1954, the company headquarters, with manufacturing and R&D;, is in Taichung. A production facility in Shanghai serves the China market while eight other international sales and service centers serve other parts of the world. It is represented in the U.S. by Fortune International in Somerset, New Jersey. Victor Taichung offers horizontal and vertical turning machines, multitasking, wheel machining, and horizontal and vertical machining centers, along with factory automa- tion systems and injection molding machines. e company offers more than 60 lathe variations with chuck sizes from 6 inches to 24 inches on the horizontal lathes and from 12 to 40 inches on the verticals. ey are available with optional live tooling, subspindle, Y-axis and large spindle bore models. All models can be integrated with a gantry robot, free-standing robot or Easyway robot system for factory automation. Goodway Group Goodway Group is represented by Goodway Machine Corp. (specializing in multi-axis turning, vertical and horizontal turning, Swiss, wheel turning, tapping, grinding and automation for turning applications), Awea Mechantronic Co. (machining centers), Yama Seiki USA Inc. (turning centers and machining centers) and Yih Chuan Machinery Inc. (machining centers). Established in 1975, Goodway Machine Corp. is headquartered in Taichung and has representation in more than 30 countries around the world. e company ships more than 1,500 CNC turning centers per year and states 20-percent growth per year. It is currently building an additional 400,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Chiayi, Taiwan, with an expected annual production value of $32.2 million (sched- uled for completion at the end of October 2017). With an expanding sales network in China and the U.S., Goodway is targeting to be in the top 20 of worldwide machine tool builders. It boasts its top-level personnel, with 90 percent of shopfloor workers having bachelor's degrees and 50 percent with master's degrees. Everising With 35 years of bandsaw manufacturing experience, Everising Machine Co. is the largest bandsaw manufac- turer in Southeast Asia. e company has 300,000 square feet of production space in its Taichung facility, where 200 employees build saws for three product categories: automatic/semi-automatic saws, circular saws and band saws. Typical applications for the company's products include automotive, aerospace, defense/military and construction. A new European warehouse now houses inventory to reduce delivery times by as much as 80 percent for many of the export customers. U.S. distribu- tion is through Marvel Manufacturing Co. in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Taiwan faces similar labor challenges as the U.S. Everising has attacked the issue head on by incorporating an internship program within the company, which has grown from five participants in its early years to 16 this year. Femco Far East Machinery Co. (Femco) began in 1967 with industrial equipment and has grown to more than 1,000 employees, with branches in Chiayi, Taiwan, as well as :: Tongtai's VU-5 machining center uses ultrasonic control technology to ensure the stability of long-term machining. The ultrasonic machining technology not only reduces chipping, but also has the ability to process micro-hole machining on hard and brittle materials. :: Goodway's G.Linc 350 is the company's second-generation HMI. It includes a 2.7 GHz processor and 21" touchscreen LCD with wireless interface to simplify data transmission and promote integration to Industry 4.0. 32 PRODUCTION MACHINING :: SEPTEMBER 2017 SPECIAL REPORT