In 2007, Michael Lin learned that the Ministry of Economic Affairs 'Central Region Office was launching a tourist factory support program, and this jibed with Lin's ideas. Soon he began transforming the 30-year-old SL Towel factory into a tourist factory.
96 年，林穎穗得知經濟部中部辦公室正在推動輔導觀光工廠計畫，與自己的理念契合，於是積極投入，將擁有 30 年歷史的興隆毛巾廠轉型發展為觀光工廠。