2025-04-11 Semiconductor “Vein” Revolution 2:Recycling waste from TSMC and ASE — Transcene focuses on silicon waste, turning it into high-tech “alchemy”
Transcene Corporation is supported by a professional team from National Cheng Kung University’s Department of Resources Engineering, enabling a comprehensive understanding of the relationships between raw materials and waste across industries. Focusing on non-metallic minerals, the company develops solutions for both upstream and downstream players and contributes to the resource reuse of silicon.
Based at TSMC’s Taichung Zero-Waste Manufacturing Center, Transcene was listed on the Innovation Board in September 2024 and became the first listed company in Taiwan to issue no-par-value shares. Chairman Chen Peng hopes to follow the U.S. model, where investors are willing to invest based on confidence in a company’s technology and future prospects. Transcene’s core technological strength lies in the circular economy.
Chen Peng graduated from NCKU’s Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering (now the Department of Resources Engineering) and the Graduate Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science. Transcene’s general manager, Hsieh Ya-Min, as well as its deputy general manager and chief innovation officer, are also alumni of NCKU’s Department of Resources Engineering. The department’s foundational curriculum covers geology, mineralogy, petroleum engineering, as well as fundamental physics, chemistry, and metallurgical methods, providing Transcene’s team with solid and broad expertise in resource engineering.
Chen Peng noted that Transcene’s strength lies in its holistic grasp of industrial raw materials and waste. “Our way of thinking differs from that of environmental engineering—we start from resources,” he said. To differentiate itself in the market, this group of urban mining specialists has deliberately focused on non-metallic minerals to develop viable business models for recycling and reuse.
▲The process of recycling Transcene’s packaging adhesive strips and manufacturing them
into new products is completed at the Liuying plant. (Photo by Peng Shijie)
Reference website: https://www.wealth.com.tw/articles/30229b0a-82ea-4796-8c49-6fb0c3131e3e
Based at TSMC’s Taichung Zero-Waste Manufacturing Center, Transcene was listed on the Innovation Board in September 2024 and became the first listed company in Taiwan to issue no-par-value shares. Chairman Chen Peng hopes to follow the U.S. model, where investors are willing to invest based on confidence in a company’s technology and future prospects. Transcene’s core technological strength lies in the circular economy.
Chen Peng graduated from NCKU’s Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering (now the Department of Resources Engineering) and the Graduate Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science. Transcene’s general manager, Hsieh Ya-Min, as well as its deputy general manager and chief innovation officer, are also alumni of NCKU’s Department of Resources Engineering. The department’s foundational curriculum covers geology, mineralogy, petroleum engineering, as well as fundamental physics, chemistry, and metallurgical methods, providing Transcene’s team with solid and broad expertise in resource engineering.
Chen Peng noted that Transcene’s strength lies in its holistic grasp of industrial raw materials and waste. “Our way of thinking differs from that of environmental engineering—we start from resources,” he said. To differentiate itself in the market, this group of urban mining specialists has deliberately focused on non-metallic minerals to develop viable business models for recycling and reuse.
▲The process of recycling Transcene’s packaging adhesive strips and manufacturing them
into new products is completed at the Liuying plant. (Photo by Peng Shijie)
Reference website: https://www.wealth.com.tw/articles/30229b0a-82ea-4796-8c49-6fb0c3131e3e