After these achieved some scale, orders from large home appliance or bathroom fixture companies, which needed electroplating work done, poured in from north, central and southern Taiwan; especially busy were towns like Shetou, Homei, Lukang, and Fuhsing, all in neighboring Taichung County. At its peak the number of electroplate factories in the area reached 1,000, second in number only to Taipei County.
衛星工廠一家家出現，形成規模後，來自北、中、南的家電業、衛浴設備業等大公司需要電鍍的訂單湧入，尤其在鄰近台中的鹿港、福興、社頭、和美等鄉鎮，極盛時電鍍廠曾多達一千多家，僅次於台北縣。