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Taipei Engineering Industrial

"Promoting the general welfare and logistics of future technology."

General

Taipei Engineering Industrial (TEI) is a small subsidiary of Einstein Engines, founded in Taipei, Earth in April of 2418. Today, TEI is the engineering solutions arm of Einstein Engines, focusing on designing and prototyping phoron-free components for use in major Einstein Engines products. These components aim to have parity with today's phoron-based components and often rely upon cryogenics. Success has been variable.

Influence

The primary logo of Taipei Engineering Industrial.

Sol: Headquarters in Taipei, China, Earth; two major equipment manufacturing facilities and four research and development facilities on Earth.

Executives

Chief Executive Officer: Siying Chen, 42, Human

Chief Engineering Officer: Adriana Panganiban, 44, Human

Chief Research Officer: Tingting Huang, 39, Human

Chief Information Officer: Hyosuke Yamanaka-Chen, 57, Human

Chief Data Officer: Yuxuan Tsai-Yang, 49, Human

History

In their early days, Taipei Engineering Industrial was Einstein Engines' subsidiary responsible for research into bluespace drives, aiming to one-up NanoTrasen Corporation's designs. At first, the goal was simply speed, however TEI would later become one of the only companies in the Spur to take heed of the warnings of scientists whom predicted the Phoron Scarcity, and included phoron efficiency as one of their key product goals. With little investment, innovations were few and far between, though the company had some success in designing more phoron-efficient bluespace drives, however at a significant reduction in speed. These drives weren't a great hit at the time and, come the Scarcity, NanoTrasen Corporation's research into phoron efficient bluespace drives would trump TEI's designs.

Taipei Engineering Industrial would falter at the beginning of the Scarcity, having had their niche in the market seized by NanoTrasen Corporation, requiring Einstein Engines to step in to handle TEI's debt restructuring to avoid insolvency towards the end of 2462. The company made it through, however significantly downsized; two manufacturing facilities and one R&D facility were shutdown for sale. The company would have to change course.

Today, Taipei Engineering Industrial is the engineering solutions arm of Einstein Engines, focusing on designing and prototyping phoron-free components for use in major Einstein Engines products. These components aim to have parity with today's phoron-based components, though often fall noticably short or have some feature that renders it difficult to include in consumer products. A common feature that Taipei Engineering Industrial have wholly leant into is cryogenics to achieve superconductivity, which was previously made redundant by phoron, thus where cryogenics is required in engineering, Taipei Engineering Industrial often win the contract.

It continues to prove incredibly difficult to completely eschew phoron in technology sufficiently advanced to keep the Spur afloat as it is today, however Taipei Engineering Industrial is a veteran in this fight, and investment has slowly but surely began to trickle in.

Major Consumer Products

• Taipei CryoCool Energy Storage: An expensive, phoron-free solution to Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES). CryoCool SMES units do not rely on phoron for superconductivity and instead rely on older, metal composite superconductors which require cryogenic temperatures to achieve superconductivity. Both the manufacturing, installation, and continued cryogenic cooling of CryoCool SMES units make this option significantly more expensive than today's phoron-inclusive SMES units. They are an occasional sight in state, megacorporate, and military research facilities or medical vessels that already come prepared for maintaining cryogenics equipment.
• Taipei Helium-cooled Power Transmission: Teased in research journals in 2465, TEI's underground power infrastructure aims to create a phoron-free alternative to transmitting power around the Spur's larger cities, stations and ships, using cryogenically cooled helium to cool a non-phoron metal to superconductivity. The product remains in-development.