The strategy looked to be quite good and it was carried out very smoothly. Yet it was just then that the big Japanese compressor manufacturer, Toshiba, announced it was going to cooperate with the domestic TECO Electric & Machinery company and a Taiwanese fluorescent lamp company to establish a large-scale compressor factory in Taiwan.
策略看似不錯，進行也很順利，但就在此時，日本的壓縮機大廠東芝企業突然宣佈和國內的東元電機及台灣日光燈公司合作，在台灣設立大型壓縮機工廠。