ICP DAS is pleased to announce that it has received approval to trade on the Over the Counter Market in Taiwan under the trading symbol "3577" beginning January 6th, 2009. Striving to programmable automation controllers (PAC), distributed I/O modules, I/O data acquisition boards and related industrial automation products, ICP DAS was established in 1993 and kept on endeavoring in the field of automation control over ten years long. The ICP DAS gross profit keeps on climbing up stage by stage every year and also was accredited as “Asia’s 200 Best Under A Billion” by the Forbes Asia magazine in 2008.

For ICP DAS product construction, distributed I/O modules and PAC possess 78%, I/O data acquisition boards possess 17% and others is 5%. For marketing strategy, ICP DAS promotes its own brand and cooperates with hundreds of distributors all over the world. The percentage of worldwide sale is that Asia plays 36%, Europe plays 23%, North American plays 10% and emerging market, such as Russia and India is around 29%. Therefore, ICP DAS applications could be found in any corner of the world. In the intelligent building part, the world’s highest skyscraper -Taipei 101 uses ICP DAS products to enhance its fire safety system. In traffic management segment, Taiwan Fisheries Administration takes ICP DAS products as travel-recording devices. More applications such as on-line pollution-monitoring systems for JianGsu province and ZheJiang province in China, battery recharging systems for LG in Korea, the piers monitoring of Megami Bridge in Japan, the overall factory monitoring in a well-known automobiles and jets company and so on.

The ICP DAS general manager, Robert Chen, explained, for a long period, ICP DAS insists to focus on specialized automation technology. In this five years, ICP DAS expends over 0.4 billion NT dollars in technical development. Until nowadays, all serial product lines are developed completely. ICP DAS is ready to provide all kinds of fields a total automation solution.

Robert Chen also mentioned that under the trend of emphasizing highly integrated and flexible control system, ICP DAS always listens to customer’s demand. While all industrial automation manufacturers concentrate on PLC or PC based automation controllers, ICP DAS follows international enterprise’s step to introduce the new generation automation controller- PAC. Not only owning plenty of advantages, such as small size, stable system, and low power consumption, PAC is also much easier to expand the system capacity. With ICP DAS best selling product “ remote I/O modules and industrial communication boards”, ICP DAS truly offers a series of complete automation solution from monitoring, data acquisition to HMI.

Faced the instable economic situation, ICP DAS chairman, M.F Chen, illustrates that worldwide infrastructure won’t be affected by temporary economic statement. On the other hand, with the highly relying on science and technology, the demand of automation is growing by multiple rates. ICP DAS keeps plowing in the field of automation control for a long period. Until today, all product lines are getting mature and won highly recognition worldwide. With this growing trend, all ICP DAS colleagues optimistically expect that ICP DAS will pass through this economic recession smoothly and keep moving by stable steps!