In 1998, Tatung Coatings completed their new factory in Kunshan, China. Yang Wun-dar, who became president of Tatung Coatings that same year, decided that he was going to take his Taiwan factory on a different trajectory and escape the shadow hanging over this sunset industry.
民國八十七年，尚志在大陸昆山的新廠落成，同一年升任總經理的楊文達卻下定決心，要讓台灣本廠走出一條不一樣的新路，擺脫夕陽工業的陰影。