What about SMC and AirTAC?

Brand comparison\nsmc: R&D, manufacturing and seller of pneumatic components!
SMC CORPORATION was established in 1959 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. SMC has become a world-class R&D, manufacturer and seller of pneumatic components. It also has a huge market network in Japan to provide customers with products and after-sales services. As the world's most famous multinational company in the manufacturing and sales of pneumatic components, SMC has sales networks and production bases all over the world. SMC products are world-famous for their complete variety, high reliability, economy and durability, and their ability to meet the needs of different users in many fields. SMC, which has a market share of more than 60% in Japan, integrates the production and sales of SMC products from all over the world through overseas subsidiaries and distributors in 51 countries around the world, providing users with direct and complete services.
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SMC (China) Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary invested and established by SMC Group in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone in September 1994. It is one of the first batch of high-tech enterprises in Beijing. The investment has reached US$500 million. It has built a R&D center, four processing and logistics factories in China, covering an area of ​​520,000 square meters, with nearly 5,100 employees, and produces pneumatic components for industrial automation. The company adopts the most sophisticated automated production equipment in the same industry in the world today and has introduced a complete modern pneumatic component manufacturing process. After 18 years of rapid development, SMC (China) Co., Ltd. has become one of the world's largest pneumatic component production and export bases, with products sold in 55 countries and regions around the world. At the same time, 64 sales and service branches have been established in major industrial cities across the country.
\nYadeke: An enterprise group that produces pneumatic equipment!
Airtac is a world-renowned large-scale enterprise group specializing in the production of various types of pneumatic equipment. It is committed to providing customers with pneumatic control components, pneumatic actuators, air source processing components, pneumatic auxiliary components and other pneumatic equipment and services that meet their needs. and solutions that create long-term value and potential growth for customers. AirTAC was founded in 1988 and now has three production bases and a marketing center. AirTAC’s production base covers an area of ​​378,000 square meters. It has a total of more than 4,500 employees worldwide and more than 300 professional R&D technicians. With a total investment of US$150 million, the annual production capacity reaches 50 million sets, and its products sell well in China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other countries and regions. Airtac has nearly a hundred direct sales branches/sales departments in mainland China, and thousands of dealers around the world, mainly located in Europe, America and Asia. It has formed a complete sales network and after-sales service system, and can provide customers with services at any time. Provide convenient services.
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Taiwan Airtac Industrial Co., Ltd. (Taiya for short) was established in November 1988. Its predecessor was Jianliang Co., Ltd. and was renamed Taiya in 1990. In the early days, Taiya mainly produced solenoid valves. Since then, it has successively developed and produced cylinders, air source treatment and other products. At present, Taiya's products are mainly special specification cylinders, with more than ten series and hundreds of varieties in seven categories, with an annual output of 200,000 sets. It mainly supplies the local market in Taiwan to meet customer needs and timeliness.
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In July 1998, AirTAC Enterprise Group established its first production base in mainland China - Guangzhou Jianliang Automation Industrial Co., Ltd. In 2000, Guangzhou Jianliang expanded its factory from an initial 3,000 square meter factory to today's huge scale of "a six-story modern standard factory building with a total area of ​​12,000 square meters, more than 300 employees, and an annual output of 3.5 million sets." In 2007, Guangzhou Jianliang changed its name to "Guangzhou Yadeke Automation Industry Co., Ltd." (Guangya for short).
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product comparison
SMC:
Compressed air management system
Directional control element
cylinder
Swing cylinder/air gripper
Electric actuator/electric cylinder
Vacuum components
Air source treatment components
F.R.L Assembly/Pressure Control Element
Lubricating components
Piping & Connectors
speed control valve
Silencer/Exhaust Cleaner/Air Gun/Pressure Gauge
Sensor/Switch
Static electricity countermeasure components (static eliminators)
Industrial communication components/wireless systems
fluid control components
Valves/pipe joints & needle valves/tubes for chemical liquids
diaphragm pump
thermostat
Process gas components (special gas valves)
High vacuum components
Industrial filters/sintered metal filter elements
process control components
Hydraulic components\nYadeke:
1. Control components:
oSolenoid valve (three-port two-position, five-port two-position, five-port three-position