{"id":17442,"date":"2026-02-18T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=17442"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:23:33","slug":"taiwan-eighty-one-firms-apply-for-factory-upgrade-subsidy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/taiwan-eighty-one-firms-apply-for-factory-upgrade-subsidy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"TAIWAN\u2026 Eighty-One Firms Apply for Factory Upgrade Subsidy Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of Economic Affairs said 81 companies have applied for a factory upgrade subsidy program offering up to US$95,000 per applicant to support operational transformation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The program, launched under a special statute aimed at strengthening economic resilience, is designed to help small and mid-sized manufacturers enhance research and development, modernize facilities, and integrate into formal industrial policy frameworks. The ministry estimates the initiative could generate about US$28.5 million in related investment and assist roughly 300 firms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Many of the eligible \u201cspecial-registered\u201d factories trace their origins to Taiwan\u2019s early industrialization and historically faced land-use and regulatory constraints. Following legal amendments in 2019, the government has accelerated efforts to formalize and upgrade these operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Officials said firms leveraging public resources amid currency volatility and global competition would be better positioned to improve productivity and competitiveness. One Taoyuan-based machinery maker reported cutting production changeover time from two days to 15 minutes after adopting smart automation, enabling entry into a European supply chain.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of Economic Affairs said 81 companies have applied for a factory upgrade subsidy program offering up to US$95,000 per applicant to support operational transformation. The program, launched under&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17462,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17442\/revisions\/17462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}