Chairman, Eclat Textile Co., Ltd.
Cheng-Hai Hung is the chairman of the board of Eclat Textile Co. Ltd. since 1985. He established the company in 1977, which developed the first stretch knitted fabric in Taiwan. This made Eclat the king of textile stocks, with its share price once breaking the NTD500 mark.
Hung is also chairman of the board in nine other companies, including Eclat Enterprise, Miaw Shun, E-Top Enterprises, Eclat Textile and Eclat Fabrics Vietnam, and BEST Information Technology Co., Ltd. In 2015, he became an academician of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, responsible for transforming Taiwan’s labor-intensive businesses to innovation-driven enterprises. It caters to brands such as Nike, Lululemon, Costco, Athelta, Decathlon, and The North Face.
Awards
2010
31st Textile Engineering Medal by the Textile Engineering Association of the Republic of China
Did You Know?
Cheng-Hai Hung applies Google’s “Innovation Time Off” to Eclat Textile, allowing engineers to spend 20 per cent of their time working on personal projects unrelated to work.