History Of Yuh Shiuans
Yuh Shiuans’s Early Years
Yuh Shiuans’ journey begins with a theatrical story and an ambitious dream. In 1983, our founder enters the plastic injection business industry with a zealous desire to speed up the production lead time of quartz clock movement plastic parts. We succeed in this innovation, which results in enhanced manufacturing lead time that is revolutionary at the time in that industry. We become the market leader and our success sets the foundation for our expansion in the plastic injection industry.
1983: Quartz clock movement plastic parts are developed.
In 1985, we join the plastic bicycle parts business. We develop machinery and begin manufacturing plastic parts for bicycle transmissions and bicycle head lights. Our ability to compose and create our own molding machinery opens doors for us to the field of electronic devices.
1985: Mass production of bicycle transmission and headlight plastic parts begins.
In 1987, we enter the electronic device plastic parts business. We OEM for well-known publicly listed companies. Our ability to provide reliable OEM services in the plastic injection industry allows us to shift our focus to the development of our ODM services.
1987: OEM for electronic devices for publicly listed companies.
In 1989, we open a new manufacturing facility. We continue to provide OEM services to publicly listed companies in the electronic device and automobile business. We develop complete sets of plastic injection machinery for our production line: from molds, tooling, painting, and assembly, to final product packaging.
1989: New manufacturing facility is built.
Yuh Shiuans Establishes R&D Team & Enters the Oral Care Product Business
In 1990, with success and expansion in providing OEM services to large scale corporations, Yuh Shiuans establishes 62 Feng Company, a team of 100 staff specialized in 5 areas, particularly in R&D. Soon after, we begin ODM for electronic language translators. As a result of continuous innovation and growth in our manufacturing capabilities, we begin diversifying.
1990: ODM production of electronic language translators
That same year, thanks to our exceptional expertise in plastic injection, a Taiwanese business associate of our founder introduces us to the dental product business. We develop our first production line for dental floss picks. It takes us only 30 days from design development to mass product production. During this time, we become capable of producing 3 million counts of dental floss picks on a monthly basis.
1990: Our first dental floss pick is launched.
In 1995, we design our first toothpick and toothbrush in collaboration with one of our Japanese clients. With high demand for the production of dental products, we see opportunity in creating a similar cleaning device that would be portable and convenient for our customers.
1995: Our first toothpick and toothbrush are launched.
1996 witnesses the birth of our first interdental brush. In order to provide better brushes, we decide to make the brush head on our own. We purchase our very first brush head machine from a machinery company in Belgium that specializes in making equipment that produces brushes for painting. At the time, expertise in manufacturing fine bristles for interdental cleaning purposes is scarce, so we collaborate with the Belgian company to design our own interdental brush head equipment.
1996: Our first interdental brush is launched.
With our continuous commitment to designing production machinery that produces clean and safe oral care products, we shift our attention to semi-automated machinery with a focus on developing a complete production line for oral care product injection. By 1999, we have acquired 19 patents for our oral care products and machinery, including mold tooling, figure design, appearance design, and function design.
1999: Our oral care product patents and certificates.
Our Golden Era: Expanding Our Oral Care Product Collection
In 2000, Yuh Shiuans establishes a professional manufacturing facility dedicated to oral hygiene care products. The ISO 9001:2015, and 13486 were granted to all our manufacturing facilities in Taiwan and China. With high capabilities of compliance and conformance to meet international standards, Yuh Shiuans begins to work directly with some of the world’s largest beauty and personal care retail store brands. In order to fulfill the nature of retail store brands’ demands in supplying a diverse range of products, we begin entering our golden era of developing and expanding a holistic range of personal oral hygiene products.
In 2000, Yuh Shiuans becomes the first company to introduce the eminent German toothbrush bristle brand Pedex GmbH to the Chinese market. We introduce our first set of personal oral hygiene collection to Careffour.
2000: Introducing the German brand Pedex brushes to China.
In 2003, With the mentality to provide and serve wholesome and reliable products, again we set our experts on developing a production line for blister, plastic film, and plastic container packaging.
2003: Our packaging production lines are launched.
In 2005, With the establishment of our own packaging material manufacturing lines, we gain further quality control over hygiene and safety managements. Experiences in packaging lead us to the development of toothpaste and mouthwash products. We collaborate with dentists and local chemical production sites in developing formulas for our toothpastes and mouthwashes.
2005: Our first toothpaste is introduced.
Following several new product launches, we use our background in the electronic device industry to introduce water picks and electronic toothbrushes in 2008.
2009 marks two decades for Yuh Shiuans in dedicating and contributing in the field of personal oral hygiene care products.
2008: A holistic range of oral care products is being sold in Asia.
Towards Further Growth and Enhancement in Automated Manufacturing & Expanded Market Penetration of Our Services and Products
By 2010, Yuh Shiuans starts to experience rapid growth in supplying retail brand name clients. Yuh Shiuans acquires top ODM market share, with 80% coverage in retail store brands and name brands in China. By 2011, we obtain market share of 70% coverage in Japan’s retail market. By 2012, we obtain 30% of the retail market share in North America and Europe.
2010: 80% coverage of retail store brands and name brands in China.
Soon after in 2011, we introduce our first night guards to Plackers. With continued success and growth in supplying Taiwan, China, Japan, South East Asia, North America, and Europe’s personal oral hygiene product market, Yuh Shiuans works on enhancing production capacity lead time by developing advanced automated machinery.
2011: OEM night guards for Plackers.
We aim to transform our production sites into over 80% automated facilities. We break down our plan into two stages: the injection production lines, and the packaging production lines. By 2014, we achieve our vision by decreasing over 40% of our manual labor needs in our injection lines. By 2017, we decrease the
demand of manual labor for our packaging lines by over 40%. With our approach to automated manufacturing, we are able to enhance our capacity utilization rates.
2014: Over 40% decreasing of our manual labor needs in our injection lines.
We introduce our first inter-dental rubber picks. We hope to bring more awareness to oral hygiene care and contribute to our communities. We collaborate with local dentistry in providing free dental checkups in Taiwan, China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, and Philippines.
Our first interdental rubber pick is introduced.
In 2018, following business demand, we establish an office in Shanghai, China in order to serve our clients in the metropolitan areas.
2018: Shanghai office is opened.
In 2019, Yuh Shiuans relocates headquarters to a new building. The same year, a new manufacturing site is opened in China.
2019: New headquarters building in Taiwan.
2019: New production site in China.
In 2020, Yuh Shiuans continues to be dedicated to developing innovative manufacturing skills, particularly in the areas of sustainable resources. With the global demand for plastic reduction, Yuh Shiuans collaborates with organizations and raw material suppliers to develop 100% biodegradable plastic materials for our products and for our packaging.
2020: Set on a mission to develop 100% biodegradable products.
In 2021, Yuh Shiuans announced our Covid-19 measures to help prevent the spread of Covid-19 and provide a safe environment for our employees. Yuh Shiuans has donated medical grade masks to suppliers and at-risk groups in affected areas.
As we proceed into 2023, our mission is grounded more than ever in the health and well-being of our customers and in providing a more sustainable approach in manufacturing oral care products by producing 100% biodegradable products, and by further enhancing our automated production.
2023: amid the current rise in Covid-19 cases, Yuh Shiuans remains vigilant and proactive.
