Taiwanese industrial valve maker Jiehliu (捷流閥業) is riding the AI factory building boom, with chip-related orders up 15% from a year ago — good news for suppliers feeding the semiconductor buildout.

• Orders tied to semiconductors and high-tech electronics are up 15% year over year.
• Big chip foundries have more than doubled their pace of expansion as they raise spending on new plants.
• Memory, advanced packaging, and circuit board makers are also expanding, and those projects are now moving from planning into actual construction and equipment installation.
• Each large chip plant needs 30,000 to 40,000 valves to control water, gas, and cooling systems, so every new fab is a large order.
• Shipping is a second growth area, as demand rises for LNG carriers and dual-fuel vessels tied to the global energy shift.

Outlook: More orders should follow as chipmakers keep spending on new AI-driven capacity through the coming year.