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BACKGROUND HISTORY:

March 1982, Mr. Peter C. Wu founded Skardin Industrial Corp., and started in the production of Audio products, CTV SKD chassis, and Satellite Receivers.
In January 1993, Skardin started a cooperation with Enterprise Electronics Ltd. in the UK. Enterprise, managed by Mr. Michael Milne, for the design of CTV and satellite receivers for Skardin. Today this company has been incorporated in the group and forms Skardin UK Ltd.
Skardin has four offices. Two in Taiwan, one in China and one in the UK. In Taiwan, Skardin Taipei is the head office where all marketing, shipping and engineering procedures are handled. The office in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, monitors stocks as and supervises the production in our Taiwan factory. The China Office, was established in 1996 to ensure a better communication between our Taiwan Office and our China factory. A number of qualified engineers, divided into three groups work hand in hand with our R&D team in the UK. The UK office provides a convenient liaison office with European customers as it operates in their same time of day. With this new set-up, the productivity of Skardin was improved and vastly increased. The resultant high quality of the Skardin products has been appreciated by customers worldwide.
Another company involved in the Skardin group was Corda Enterprise, based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It joined Skardin in January 1993 for the production of quality CTV SKD chassis and satellite receivers. This factory eventually became Skardin’s first digital production site.
In February 1995, Skardin started investing in equipment for the setting up of a factory in China due to an expanding business and rapid increase of demand from both old and new customers. Presently, we have factories in Dong Guan and Shenzhen, China.
Working together, the whole Skardin group has created an over all high quality product. Skardin products are built with key parts from the best components and mechanism suppliers in the world namely Philips, Nokia, Siemens, SGS/Thomson, Telefunken, Sony, Alps, Samsung, Capetronic, Toshiba and many others has helped in forming our quality image for Skardin products.
In the past few years, the market for satellite receivers has proven to be more viable than that for Audio and CTV. Today Skardin only concentrates on the satellite product.
SKARDIN CURRENT:
Today, the Skardin group is quite extensive;
Skardin Taipei. Head office, mechanical / cosmetic design and administration.

Skardin Koahsuing, 2K square meters facility. Materials procurement. Specialist sub contract assembly for airport security CCTV. Production of specialist low volume Skardin products.

Skardin UK. R & D, European marketing.

Skardin do Brazil. Skardin has developed a market in Brazil over the past five years. Analogue satellite receiver sales are now some 16K per month. We have recently supplied digital satellite receiver for the Brazilian Government Escola education project to equip each of their 75K schools with an education channel.

China Factory 1, Dong Guan, 8K sq meters, 550 people, 2 SMD lines, 5 A/I machines.

China factory 2, Shenzhen, 5K sq meters, 350 people, 2 SMD lines, 6 A/I machines.

Current monthly production rates, 120K analogue sat, 30K digital sat, 20K 2.4GHz video link, 2K Scart router.

Total monthly capacity, 140K Analogue sat, 70K digital sat, 40K video link and 5K Scart router.

Turnover, 2001 $ 38M, 2002 $ 45M, 2003 projected $ 60M.

Current products. Analogue satellite, Digital FTA, Digital dual C/I, 2.4 GHz video link, Scart router, an audio/video signal hub.

Current developments. Three terrestrial DVB_T receivers, Further enhancements to the Digital satellite product. Embedded C/A for Scandinavia, Conax. Proposed Irdeto embedded solution for the Brazilian market."