Wistron will step into production of non-invasive medical examination instruments by establishing a medical business group by the end of 2013 as well as investing in or acquiring relevant businesses, company chairman Simon Lin has said.
While General Electric, Philips and Siemens have dominated the medical equipment and instruments market, Taiwan has the a well developed electronics industries to develop medical inspection instruments, Lin said at a shareholders meeting on June 14.
As clients are conservative about business outlook, Wistron only sees notebook order visibility for only one quarter and therefore is likely to downward adjust its 2013 target notebook shipments, Lin indicated.
Wistron shipped 1.85 million notebooks, 500,000 tablets and 3.1 million smartphones in May 2013 and expects notebook shipments in the second quarter to decrease by 5-10% from 6.5 million units shipped in the first.
Wistron has invested US$21 million to establish a wholly-own subsidiary in Texas, Wistron GreenTech (Texas), for recycling batteries and printed circuit boards (PCBs) to reclaim precious metals, the company indicated.
Wistron GreenTech aims to recycle one million PCBs a month by the end of 2013 and reach break-even operation in May 2014. Wistron GreenTech has signed with US-based non-profit organization Call2Recycle for recycling rechargeable batteries and cell phones collected in western US by the latter.
Wistron has also set up a factory for recycling plastic industrial wastes in Kunshan, eastern China.
Article translated by Adam Hwang
