Lu's first catch was Sheico, a global leader in watersports apparel manufacturing that has been investing overseas for ten years and currently employs 8,000 people worldwide. Headquartered in Yilan, the company recently elected to expand its spandex production in Taiwan rather than Haining, Zhejiang Province.
2007 年底，佈局海外 10 年、全球員工 8,000 名、總部設在老板故鄉宜蘭的全球潛水衣龍頭「薛長興工業」，將事業第二波重頭戲──彈性纖維廠──的擴建，從浙江海寧全數移回台灣，就是呂國華的輝煌「戰果」之一。