They hope to meet domestic needs and also to sell their products abroad. One of the important factors deciding the quality of electric wire and cables is the copper "wick." High quality electric wire and cables call for pure and highly malleable copper rod. Manufacturers of electric wire and cables in Taiwan have built automatic plants to produce high quality continuous copper rod.
決定電線電纜品質的關鍵性因素之一，是其中銅芯的品質，一般而言，需要雜質少、展延性高及導電率強，是故如何生產製造品質良好的銅芯、是發展電線電纜工業的重要課題之一。