R&D Center

In commemoration of our founder's lifetime contributions to the nation's industrial developments, chairman & CEO Douglas Tong Hsu felt that research and developments are required for further improvement. For this reason, we have established the “Far Eastern Group R&D Center” to not only encourage and focus on innovation, but also further improve our core competence and create new values to achieve greater accomplishments and future success.

Date of establishment: 2001.01.01

 

Center Policy

As the leader of domestic textile industry, Far Eastern New Century Corporation (FENC) has been devoted to increasing designing capacity of research. To create higher value in products, the “Far Eastern Group R&D Center”combines researching personnel and resources to expand core technical capacity, innovate product structures, develop high value products which meet market demands and to completely transform Far Eastern New Century Corporation (FENC) into a high-tech industry.

R&D states its short-term goals of research in "Highlights in polyester, environmental protection, energy saving and carbon emission reduction”, using company basic research foundation of PET synthetic technology to develop PET synthesized raw materials and PET products, and to expand the application of PET and rPET in high value-added industries. We integrate research resources and core specialties of related domestic industries, focus on the green energy, carbon reduction, and bio-based materials industry ,develop CO2-based/bio-based feedstock and new materials of PET/rPET products, and expand market toward the most potential industries.

At R&D center, we not only collaborate with internal business divisions (Solid State Polymer, Fiber, and Textile) to create high-value products with high profit margin, but also make a strategic collaboration with external brands to develop new material applications. Furthermore, we assist subsidiary companies of Far Eastern Group to develop strategic and new material/technology for meeting needs from business divisions and applications of future new materials.

Missions and strategies

• To integrate organizational research resources, to enhance development of core technology and new high value-added products, and to strengthen competitive advantages.
• Improvement of communication with domestic and foreign industries, integration of technology for biomedical, optoelectronics and other related fields in order to create new values.
• Human resource investment and research capacity enhancement to achieve excellence as an enterprise.