When urban planning requirements forced Ta-yu to relocate in 2001, Chen, then nearing 60, considered shutting up shop and retiring. However, the encouragement he received from his friends in the arts community, who reminded him that he was the only ink maker in Taiwan, and his own sense that he should pass on his knowledge, led him to relocate the factory to its current location on Sanchung's Sanho Road.
二○○一年，大有製墨廠因都市計劃被迫遷移，當時已近「耳順之年」的他，原有意就此封廠退休，但在藝文界好友以「全台僅存製墨藝師」的鼓勵，及個人傳承文化的使命感下，才將製墨廠遷到三重市三和路現址。