The weekly brief · Launching 2026

Taiwan industry,
in English.

One short email each week — the companies, decisions, and shifts shaping Taiwan's industrial economy. Read by the people building, buying, and betting on it.

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The Taichung machine-tool capacity squeeze · Section 301 pricing creep · who's actually shipping in Q3

Companies

A Taichung gear-maker takes a third shift onto the floor — what's on the order book this time.

The kind of capacity move U.S. procurement misses until lead times slip. Who's expanding, who's holding, and what the order books say about the next two quarters.

Industries

Why CNC lead times jumped in Q2 — and which Taichung suppliers absorbed the demand.

Machine-tool order books across the cluster are running hot. Who has open slots, who doesn't, and what the second-tier shops are quoting now.

Policy

Section 301 hasn't landed yet, but Taiwan suppliers are already pricing it in.

Four conversations with industrial sales directors on how the U.S. tariff calendar is reshaping 2026 quotes — and which categories are most exposed.

Sample of what we cover — once a week, in your inbox.

What Compass Global Magazine is

The English magazine on Taiwan's industrial story.

Taiwan is one of the most consequential industrial economies on earth. The companies built here make the things the rest of the world buys — semiconductors, precision machinery, the materials and components that flow through every supply chain. The decisions made here shape what gets built, where, and by whom.

The English coverage of all this is split between trade press too narrow to read for context, and geopolitics coverage that treats Taiwan as a chess piece in someone else's story. Compass Global Magazine reports a third position: Taiwan as subject — its companies, its industries, its people, its decisions — for the buyers, investors, and curious readers who need to understand it.

Reporting Taiwan as a subject, not a chess piece. — Compass Global Magazine

What the magazine covers

Three pillars. One Taiwan.

01 · Companies & People

The names behind the chips, machines, and materials.

Profiles, interviews, and longform features on Taiwan's industrial companies and the people running them — from family-run precision shops to publicly traded giants.

02 · Industries & Technology

What gets built, and where it's heading.

Reporting on Taiwan's industrial categories — semiconductors, machinery, materials, automation, energy — and the technologies shaping where each one goes next.

03 · Context & Policy

Why it matters, and what it means.

Trade policy, industrial strategy, geopolitical pressure, and the cultural and historical context that shapes how decisions actually get made.

What we're building behind the brief

Reporting is the front door.
Research is what's behind it.

Alongside the magazine, Compass is building the research and verified-data layer that Taiwan's industrial economy has never had in English — analyst-grade sector work and verified company intelligence for the buyers and investors who need to act on it. More to come.

For now, the brief.

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