Our company imported the most advanced and high safety standard -type hydrogen spheroidizing furnace from the U.S.A., which has recently entered the production phase. The new equipment will provide customers with more diversified materials for the spheroidization process and quality requirements.

Our Yangmei Plant and Nantou Plant were respectively registered with ISO 9002 International Quality Assurance Certification by the Commodity Inspection Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs on August 13, 1983 and January 21, 1984.

Planning, designing and preparing for the construction of a welded steel mesh factory and a light-weight partition wall panel factory, which will enable the company to enter the high-value-added construction-related building products industry.

The new office building was inaugurated in September.

Imported 13 sets of drawing machine to increase the production capacity of Taichung factory and set up new imported spheroidizing furnace equipment in Nantou factory to produce high value-added products.

Expansion of the pickling plant, increasing the capitalization to $540 million.

Add new steel source and purchase two sets of polishing rod equipment from Italy.

Three sets of Spheroidizing furnace equipment and nine sets of high-speed extraction equipment were added.

Expansion of a special-line factory for polishing rods and special-shaped rods in Nantou Plant. We also set up a waste water treatment plant to comply with the government's pollution prevention policy and to protect the environment and employees' health.

Expansion of the Nantou plant to more than 8,000 square meters.

In September, a 5,000-square-meter Nantou factory was built in Mingjian Township, Nantou County, with a total of 300 employees.

Started production of spot welded steel wire mesh for the domestic market, expanded production of spring washer, rigid wire, transport belts, high-temperature industrial mesh and five types of processing.

Established TAH CHUNG STEEL CORPORATION and started wire production at its present location near the Caohu Bridge on Zhongxing Road in Dali City, Taichung County.