GDH Co., LTD. is a leader in making illuminating fabric. The Company is founded in 2005 and a member of the TECO Group. Here, TECO is one of the world-class conglomerates in Taiwan with worldwide business and operations across many industries (such as Industrial Motors, Home Appliances, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Optronics, Infrastructure Construction, Investment, etc.) and in more than 18 countries. Inheriting TECO’s innovation core value, GDH successfully incorporates the latest textile technology to transform the Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) used in the telecommunications into consumer product applications.

GDH business operations cover the R&D, manufacturing, applications, and Marketing & Sales of the optical fiber fabrics. The Company is headquartered in Hsin Chu, Taiwan to leverage the innovation and technology resources of the Hsin Chu Science Park. Currently, the Company’s products cover a wide spectrum of applications such as safety and warning signs, gifts, interior decorations, lighting decorations, fashion apparels, recreation accessories, and advertisement boards, etc.

Product

The optical fiber fabric developed and manufactured by GDH is a high-tech product integrating both textile and fiber optics technologies. The product is developed through a close collaboration with the Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI), a national research organization specialized in textile manufacturing processes technology. It is not only the industry’s leading development in Asia, but also the world’s first optical fiber fabric that can be put into mass production.

The product adopts a patented, Side Lighting, super-thin plastic optical fiber as its weaving material. The uniqueness of such a fiber is that with the light source it illuminates throughout the entire fiber instead of just at the terminals of the fiber. Using traditional weaving techniques and textile yarns, the optical fiber can be woven into various kinds of fabrics. Such fabrics, in the daytime, look similar to other fabrics displaying the pre-determined color of the yarn. However, in the nighttime or at a dark place the fabrics equipped with different color light sources will offer translucent, serene, and vivid neon-like lighting; hence, demonstrate various distinctive visual effects and increase the added-value of the end-products.