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LC Fuel Tank is a reputable fuel system maker, widely supported among his workers. In turn, employee
providing over 1,500 molding(s), fuel tanks, fuel filler morale and productivity have both improved.
pipes, gas tank straps, fuel sending units, and oil pans
for the engine system. The company has acquired LC Fuel Tank is also widely known to have the
the strictest quality certifications for OEM automotive world's biggest collection and inventory of molds for
manufacturing and has become one of the world's fuel systems, approximately over 1,500 sets. As these
most competitive fuel tank makers. molds are often huge and heavy to move around, Chan
says they needed a bigger space to accommodate
As the global pandemic, Ukrainian-Russian war, their sizable collection and eventually decided to
and material shortages have impacted logistics and purchase a plot of land behind the new factory to set
raw material prices, General Manager Chan Yu- up a storage facility for the molds. With new equipment
Peng said LC Fuel Tank had used this opportunity to and facilities, Chan hopes to improve mold exchange
increase its competitiveness. For instance, the new times for better production effi ciency.
factory that they had been planning and constructing
for several years has been in operation, which sits on Labor Shortages Heavy on GM's Mind
a 4,000-ping piece of land in the Xiluo Fu Tian Industry
Park in Yunlin County. Similar to many developed countries around
the world, Taiwan is on track to experience labor
shortages due to a lack of talent and low birth rates.
Chan led the entire process of setting up the new
factory, from the planning in the beginning stages Chan said this is especially so in the manufacturing
and ensuring the construction was completed in a industry, and the company has plans to work closely
timely manner. Chan designed new production line with academic institutions to cultivate talents through
equipment into the factory operations capacity to meet relevant channels. This will help elevate unemployment
market changes and buyer needs, passed certifi cation rates and unburden the government, as well as offer
tests, and entered mass production stages. The new an opportunity for LC Fuel Tank to train management
production line has resolved a portion of the company's trainees.
more urgent orders, Chan says, citing improved
capacity and efficiency and better ability to handle The new factory's upgraded equipment is imported
regular clients' orders as well in a timely manner. from Japan. Through 3D and 2D laser cutting, these
new technologies have helped reduce the time to
develop molds and improved their capacity to offer
The new factory has improved production and is
also equipped with amenities for employees, such as low-volume, high-mix orders. In addition, the newly
an employee dormitory, to foster better employee and assembled machinery robotic arms are also now
management trust. Chan says the aim is to treat his online, introducing semi-automated production at the
employees as if they were his own family, which was new factory.