Honor in Former Days-San Ho Paper & Carton Company

7/22
In the afternoon, we visited San Ho Paper & Carton Company, in my personal point of view, which was a epitome of Taiwan's small-and-medium-sized enterprises. We could easily find the specific characteristic we used to describe Taiwan's businessman there: passion, courage, diligence and honesty.

San Ho was established in 1967. At first, they concentrated on high-class corrugated paper box. As time goes by, in order to cope with customer's demand, they started to develop buffer as well. The manager gave us a short introduction about their history and management philosophy then took us to walk around their factory. The scale of plant was much larger than I had expected. The environment there was not so friendly for human-beings. It was so humid and flooded with the flavor of chemical agent. Due to the above reasons, I admired worker there so much. Something surprised me a lot was that they possess their own research and develop department. It broke my original image of traditional industry.
In terms of cross-strait management issue, San Ho extended branches at Shanghai, Xiamen, Suzhou and Dongguan since 1996 in order to maintain their comparative advantage. However, when I asked the manager "Does the signature of ECFA bring up a positive impulse to your company?" , "In the short run, it really helps, but in the long run, the results are still in vague." According to his answer, I think there are still lots of challenges they have to overcome.