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Upon entering xTrans Creative Inc., a spacious lounge, a bar, and floor-to-ceiling glass panels that overlook hills in the distance come into view. Though the office is located within an industrial park, it is open and accessible just like any startup company. This is Cymking Space, the incubator of label printing pioneer, Cymmetrik. Having emerged as a separate business entity from Cymmetrik, in less than two years after its inception, xTrans Creative Inc. has wowed the world with its innovative AKIMIA microcurrent sheet masks and attracted international agents from Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China. Going from labels to sheet masks, and from OEM to the consumer market, how has xTrans Creative achieved this resounding success? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving new life to existing technologies <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the largest label printing supplier throughout the Greater China Region, Cymmetrik has been operating for 50 years and boasts of a Fortune 500 Global clientele coming from consumer electronics, consumer products, medical and healthcare, and automobile industries. It creates more than 12 billion label sheets per year and has a revenue of US$300 million. It is not difficult to imagine the kind of marvelous label printing technologies hidden within Cymmetrik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ching-Yu Lin, President of xTrans Creative asserted, \u201cOEM was good business, but a company should still look for new possibilities.\u201d Though the team has secured a leadership position, but in a red sea market such as label printing, one must always plan ahead. Therefore, on top of focusing on the R&D for label printing products and technologies to create higher entry barriers, Cymmetrik also actively strategized to find new applications and markets for the company\u2019s patented technologies that were stored away for a lack of good use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ching-Yu Lin, President of xTrans Creative Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hence, Cymmetrik collaborated with industrial designer Jung-Ya Hsieh, who often worked with interdisciplinary companies. After combing through Cymmetrik\u2019s existing technologies, Hsieh, recipient to countless domestic and international awards, thought of a dozen possible applications from various perspectives. As luck would have it, Hsieh was able to connect his conversation with a dermatologist involving the aspiration to introduce water electrodes without using beauty equipment, with Cymmetrik\u2019s technology, and proposed the groundbreaking idea to use \u201celectricity-generating printing technology\u201d on mask cloth. The challenging technical application took three years to overcome, resulting in the world\u2019s first printed microcurrent sheet mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world\u2019s first battery-free, innovative power-generating sheet mask<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBesides the useful ingredients, eighty to ninety percent of a generic sheet mask is composed of water, making it difficult for the ingredients to permeate skin membrane. Therefore, an iontophoresis or beauty equipment is often used to help the skin\u2019s absorption.\u201d Dr. Pei-Chi Lee, in charge of technical applications, explained that it was not difficult to make graphics conductive, but many of the so-called \u201cpower-generating masks\u201d in the market require additional equipment or batteries to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Dr. Pei-Chi Lee, who has years of research experience in the biomedical field.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    Power-generating masks from other brands require additional batteries.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    However, the positive and negative electrodes are reduced to nanometer sizes and created into printed materials in this sheet mask; in other words, the battery is printed directly on the mask, and the microcurrents are created from using the serums as conduit. Hence, power could be generated by the mask itself \u2013 this is an invention exclusive to xTrans Creative Inc.!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Images are printed on the front of the mask cloth; the image needs to be placed against user\u2019s face so that when currents are generated, the currents in opposite direction would repel, thereby pushing the serums into the skin membrane.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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