A Taiwan-based contract manufacturer of cells for regenerative medicine is hoping to expand business with Japanese biotechnology firms with its new factory in northern Taiwan.<\/p>\n
Locus Cell held a ceremony on Thursday to mark the opening of the Hsinchu plant.<\/p>\n
The firm’s chairman, Jiunn-Rong Chiou, said Locus Cell aims to become a strategic manufacturing base like the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker.<\/p>\n
He said Locus Cell is eager to receive more orders from biotech firms in Japan, as well as the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n
The company plans to install cutting-edge equipment to mass-produce cells and help reduce costs. It will use robots that were partially developed by experts from Japan’s Waseda University.<\/p>\n
Katayama Kazuyuki, chief representative of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association’s Taipei office, said he hopes Japan and Taiwan will build a collaborative relationship to complement and support each other in the field of regenerative medicine, and realize a win-win business model.<\/p>\n
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s administration views the biotechnology sector as one of Taiwan’s key growth industries after semiconductors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Taiwan-based contract manufacturer of cells for regenerative medicine is hoping to expand business with Japanese biotechnology firms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,259,8,262,173,261,265,266,267,264,33,258,263,268,260,257],"class_list":{"0":"post-14709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-biz","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nhk","14":"tag-nhk-world","15":"tag-nhk-world-premium","16":"tag-nhk-world-tv","17":"tag-nhkworld","18":"tag-nihon","19":"tag-nuclear","20":"tag-public-broadcaster","21":"tag-radio-japan","22":"tag-tech","23":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}