Origin

Written by Peter Li-Chang Kuo ( Chinese ) I—Li-Chang Kuo (aka Peter Kuo) — founded the " Cheng Kuang Metal Works " in 1966 at the age of 13, after my father (A-Kun) was imprisoned, leaving me responsible for supporting a family of nine. I took on the extremely demanding requirements of Avnet Taiwan Ltd., outperforming competitors from the United States , Japan , and Germany , and helped secure NASA’s PTH orders. By the age of 14, I was nicknamed the “ Dr. Blacksmith ,” becoming a key component supplier in the " Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone " (KEPZ). Fig 1: The 14-year-old Dr. Blacksmith and Products In 1974, when Chiang Ching-Kuo visited my company, Cheng Kuang Precision Industry Co., Ltd., the combined facilities of my affiliated enterprises had already expanded to over 3 hectares. Owing to our achievements in automated precision manufacturing, he referred to me as the “ Father of Taiwan ’s Precision Industry ”—I was only 21 years old at the time. Fig 2: At 21,...