Recom has opened a power converter production facility in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The power firm has invested $3m in the facility and there is space for further expansion.
With a floor space of 1500m², Recom plans to manufacture 15 million converters this year, increasing by 40% to 50% in the following year.
According to the company, its pre-built modules will benefit from the economies of scale from mass production and so will be 25% to 30% cheaper than standard models.
100% automated production
”The ultimate goal of this new factory is the 100% automatically manufactured converter,” said Recom.
So far, the difficulty of winding toroidal transformers with very small diameters has prevented this. In cooperation with an external machine tool manufacturer, Recom have succeeded in developing a special machine to overcome this problem.
So coils with an internal diameter as small as 2.5mm can be fully automatically wound.
