The success of TTG has even impressed IKEA's 83-year-old founder Ingvar Kamprad, who came to Taiwan from Sweden in March 2008 to figure out how TTG was able to grow year after year while other Taiwanese traditional industries were surrendering to low-cost mainland competition.
TTG 玻璃團隊的成功，甚至還驚動了 IKEA 的 83 歲創辦人英格瓦。2008 年 3 月，英格瓦從瑞典飛到台灣一探究竟，「他不明白，為何其他業種的台灣供應商一碰到大陸低價競爭就放棄了，TTG 卻可以存活 11 年，而且愈做愈好？」