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The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) posted 59.3 this month, above the expansion threshold for 18 straight months, but increasing costs might weaken companies’ profitability next year, the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER, 中華經濟研究院) said yesterday. The Taipei-based think tank said that its assessment is based on a month-long survey of local firms. PMI readings aim to gauge the health of the manufacturing industry, with scores above 50 indicating expansion and scores below 50 suggesting a contraction. The growth extended across all manuf...

Micro-Star International Co (MSI, 微星科技) yesterday said it has canceled plans to attend next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, possibly making it the first Taiwanese firm to pull out of physically attending the annual event due to concern over COVID-19. MSI became the latest company to join several global brands in scrapping plans to attend the CES show as the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spreads throughout the US. Earlier, Google, Intel Corp, General Motors Co, Amazon.com Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter Inc, Pinterest Inc, Lenovo Group Inc (聯�...

Machinery exports expanded for a 13th straight month last month, but the industry is facing unpredictable challenges relating to China’s power rationing and a stronger New Taiwan dollar, the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI, 台灣機械公會) said yesterday. Exports grew 28.1 percent to US$2.69 billion from a year earlier, but were 9.3 percent lower than the previous month, TAMI statistics showed. For the first nine months of the year, outbound shipments increased 29.2 percent to US$24.21 billion in US dollar terms, but expanded at a more moderate 21.5 percent to NT$679.92 bi...

Manufacturing PMI loses some steam DEEPENED CONCERN: CIER president Chang Chuang-chang said that manufacturers fear component crunches, supply chain delays, and electricity and water shortages By Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) last month lost momentum, while the non-manufacturing index tumbled into the contraction zone as the service sector was hit hard by COVID-19 restrictions that kept people at home, the Chunghua Institution for Economic Research (CIER, 中華經濟研究院) said yest...

The nation’s machinery exports last month rose 30.7 percent from a year earlier to US$2.22 billion on the back of a strong recovery in global demand, despite a hike in raw material prices and tight supply in cargo shipping services, the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI, 台灣機械公會) reported last week. In New Taiwan dollar terms, machinery exports last month increased 22.5 percent to NT$81.92 billion (US$2.89 billion), the association said. Among machinery goods, electronic equipment exports soared 135.2 percent to US$532 million from a year earlier, followed by exports ...