Nobody had done this before in Taiwan, and we wondered if we would succeed, "says Tseng Yu-chi, who heads Kung-Lung's deep-sea water department and is the daughter of company chairman Tseng Hsin-hsiung. To appraise market prospects, they went on about a dozen inspection tours to Japan, learning about pipe-laying, equipment, water allocation, back-end applications and other issues.
「我們觀望了 3 年，遲遲不敢投入，因為台灣沒有人做過，不知會不會成功？」光隆企業董事長曾信雄女兒、負責深層海水部門的曾淯琪說，為了評估市場前景，他們去日本考察了十多次，請教佈管工程、工廠設備、水如何調配、後端應用等相關技術。