Company Profile

History

CASTER LIGHTING was established in September of 1988 by five co-founders. These initial founders brought a vast experience / knowledge in professional lighting manufacturing especially metal die casting. For this reason, we named our company "CASTER LIGHTING". We initially selected from the vast varieties of lighting products to specialize in zinc-aluminum alloy die casting outdoor lighting products. Due to early deficiencies in resources, all company members worked very hard in "tough time" to establish our company. We always maintained our direction to provide only the Highest Quality Products backed by good service and customer relations at a competitive price. We appreciate our early customers' faith in us. As their loyalty, allowed us to grow into the Company we are today. To all our long time "old" friends, we would like to say thanks for your support and allowing CASTER LIGHTING to succeed.

Current

In 1992, recognizing an increasing deficiency of labor in Taiwan, CASTER LIGHTING shifted production to Guan Dong, China by creating a "state of the art" manufacturing facility and a Hong Kong coordinating office. We still maintain all R&D, accounting, and sales staff in our enlarged Taiwan office.

This shift to China allowed us to maintain competitive price with our traditional high quality products / services. We also decided to depart from the traditional Taiwan style of manufacturing (assembly only) and establish our China facility as a totally "In House" manufacturing plant. We invested large capital and people resources, so today, we control all phases of manufacturing from raw material through finished products, including all die casting, production processing, stamping, welding, powder paint coating and many electric accessories. Due to this decision and investment, we can stand firmly in a tough business environment.

We also directed our marketing efforts to shift and expand our customer base from North America accounts(85%) - to today, we service customers worldwide, including Europe and Pacific Rim so that our North America business accounts for 50%. This shift has strengthened Caster both financially and professionally with greater experience in dealing with various demands from many places. We today are "truly" an International professional provider of Quality Lighting Products. Also, we can offer, meet and surpass all Government approvals such as: UL / CSA / GS / TUV / CE / NEMKO / SEMKO / SAA, plus many others. We also hold many International Patents of our products.

In 1997, we expanded our manufacturing facilities by 70% and doubled our offices to further allow us to maintain our competitive market position and handle increased sales volume. We also invested in R&D to develop new products to enrich our product family from Halogen Lighting to a broad line of HID Lighting. (High Intensity Discharge)

We also expanded our marketing efforts to add to our business by many OEM and commercial accounts in addition to Home center / DIY products into our customer base. In 1999, we proudly announced the recognition and approval of ISO-9002 system, thus, be able to supply ever better service and quality assurance.

Future

We firmly believe today's worldwide concern for Energy Efficient Products and Environment Protection, and the demand in the future for Energy Saving Lighting will insure a continued growth of our company. Recognizing this demand, we have invested $ 2.5 million in enhancing plants, hardware equipment, machines, facilities and instruments. We also implemented computerized management systems in all our facilities. These investments ensures Caster's continuing business responsibility of providing only the Highest Quality services / products to our clients and will allow us to meet our clients' future expectations. We do believe this direction will keep continuing confidence of our customers.