Taiwan-based Delta Electronics Inc., a globally leading supplier of power supplies, has decided to pay more attention to green business deployment, and invest more than NT$20 billion (US$625 million at US$1: NT$32) in output expansion related to the matter. This is Delta’s biggest investment in capacity expansion in Taiwan in the decade.

Bruce Cheng, chairman of Delta, announced the NT$20-billion output expansion plan when President Ma Ying-jeou paid his visit to the firm last week, and noted that a majority of the budget will be spent on purchases of manufacturing equipment to rev up the firm’s production of green products, including LEDs, solar cells and batteries for electric cars.

Specifically, Cheng noted, capacity expansion to be carried out at its Taoyuan factory of electronic products and another one owned by its subsidiary DelSolar Co., Ltd., a supplier of solar-energy products, will cost around NT$2 billion (US$62.5 million) each. Plus, the firm is also going to increase output of e-paper displays by spending NT$1-2 billion on renting another company’s factory.