Issued Date: 2016/10/7
Issued By: iST
The leading brand of electronics verification test service provider, iST announced today (Oct 7), that through signing the share subscription agreement with BTL Inc., iST will spend NTD$ 180 million to obtain 21.05% stock right of BTL at NTD$ 45 per share. This will be the pushing effort for iST enters the mainland China testing market of compulsory certification and regulations.
Established in 1986, BTL entered in the South China Region in 2001. BTL began its business from communication base stations test and gradually expanded its scope of operations, including RF, SAR, Telecom, Safety and International Approval,etc. BTL has developed China market for a long time, and it is the first Taiwan-funded enterprise who obtained the certification of CMA (China Metrology Accreditation) [Note 1]In addition, with its years of effort in mainland, BTL has built a deep partnership with many branding companies, including Huawei, OPPO, Xiaomi and Lenovo, and become the appointed laboratory of compulsory certification and regulations.
The president of BTL, Denny Wu said, communication product function has grown ever more complex, therefore a laboratory should embrace “solutions”, instead of stopping at the “testing” stage. iST, started out as an IC circuit debug and solution provider, its voluntary certification, including compatibility testing of HDMI/MHL/HDCP and OTA test (SISO/MIMO) is conspicuous. This capital introduction of iST will lead in the solution tech team to complete BTL’s lab, and to truly realize the one-stop shopping verification and certification service for the IT products in mainland China.
In the future , all the supply chain of IT products in mainland China can perform compatibility test, regulatory application, OTA test and apply the logo issued by the communication standard association through BTL and iST.
The president of iST, Danny Yu said, with the rich experiences of IT compulsory certification and regulations in China, BTL will not only complete more iST’s signal integrity testing strategy, but assist iST in providing full services to customers of smart phone brand manufacturers in mainland China to cope with the coming of 5G and IoT.
[Note 1] In mainland China, all the product quality inspection associations and other kinds of labs are required to obtain the CMA certification for being permitted to use the CMA logo. A report with CMA logo can be used to product quality evaluation, performance and forensic analyst and has the force of law.
About BTL
Established in 1986, BTL is a professional third party electronics and IT product inspection and certification company. BTL provides services including RF, SAR, Telecom, safety, International Approval and so on. In addition, BTL is the first Taiwan-funded enterprise who obtained the certification of CMA (China Metrology Accreditation).
BTL has developed mainland China market for 15 years with a wide range of customer resources. BTL has been accredited by many national and international official associations, including CBTL of IECEE, CMA and CNAS of China, NVLAP and CTIA of USA, TAF and BSMI of Taiwan. It also plays the role of an independent testing laboratory for multiple high-end electronics and IT brand companies.
http://www.newbtl.com
About Integrated Service Technology
Founded in 1994, iST began its business from IC circuit debugging and modification and gradually expanded its scope of operations, including failure analysis, reliability verification, material analysis and so on. iST has offered full-scope verification and analysis services to the IC engineering industry, its customers cover the whole spectrum of the electronics industry from IC design to end products.
In response to rising Cloud Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Vehicles (IoV), iST not only focuses on its core services but is also expanding its service offerings based on international trends, such as Automotive electronic verification platforms and signal integrity testing services.
http://www.istgroup.com