Tatung history

In 1939, Tatung Iron Works was established as the company ventured into iron and steel manufacturing.

Following the arrival of the ROC administration in 1945, Tatung Iron Works was renamed to Tatung Steel and Machinery Manufacturing Company.

The company began mass production of electrical motors and appliances 10 years later in 1949.

1970 Revenues exceeded NT$2.2 billion, making Tatung Taiwan's foremost private company.

1972 W. S. Lin, the grandson of Shang-Zhi Lin, was appointed as president of Tatung.

1977 Participated in the Ten Major Construction Projects with the construction of a slag treatment facility for China Steel and provision for Chiang Kai-shek International Airport's power control station

2000 Chunghwa Picture Tubes was listed on the OTC market

2001 Global Management Division set up at the company's headquarters Chunghwa Picture Tubes was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange

2003 Mass production of LCD and PDP TVs Lin Cheng-yuan resigns as head of Chunghwa Picture Tubes.

2004 Set up a new subsidiary Toes Opto-Mechatronics Company Established SeQual Technologies Co. to produce the oxygen generator for clinical therapy and home health care uses Established Tatung Compressors (Zhongshan) Co. in China

2005 Consolidated Tatung's Desktop PC Business Unit with Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), making Tatung the largest shareholder of ECS Established Tatung Wire & Cable Technology (Wujiang) Co. in China

2007 Forward Electronics invested in Apollo Solar Energy Co. to expand its scope into the market of solar cell module

2008 Green Energy Technology was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange on 25 January Established Tatung Electric Technology (Vietnam) Co. for the manufacturing and sales of wires and cables

2012 Lithium iron phosphate cathode material by Tatung Fine Chemicals successfully entered into Japanese market of energy storage

2015 Lin Cheng-yuan indicted in the US on charges of price fixing.

2020 Lin family loses control of the Tatung board of directors.