Poongsan Corp

Detailed Description

Poongsan Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, exports, and sells fabricated nonferrous metal, defense, and precision forging products in South Korea and internationally. It offers copper and copper alloy sheets, strips, and rods, as well as thin plates, bimetals, and coin blanks; leadframe materials; titanium tubes; stainless steel strips; and copper-based roofing materials. The company's copper and copper alloy sheets and strips are used for interior and exterior applications in commercial and residential real estate, construction, machinery, automobiles, electrical and electronics, semiconductors, telecommunication, and electronic parts industries. It also provides military ammunitions, including small arms, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, howitzers, tank guns, recoilless guns, naval guns, and mid-to large-size weaponries; commercial ammunitions, such as precision made cartridges for recreational hunting and competitive shooting; and semi-finished products and components used in the production of ammunitions, such as primers, fuses, bullet jacket cups, case cups, discs, cones, rotating bands, links, tungsten penetrators, and shell bodies, as well as fuses for use in naval ammunitions, mortar shells, and multiple launch rocket systems. In addition, the company produces chemicals, such as nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine for use in propellants; and precision products, including connector parts for electric and electronic industries, multi-guage copper strips, precision dies, gauges and tools, and metal machinery and facilities. Further, it builds metal processing machineries and other customized equipment for the steel, automobile, and defense industries; and specializes in rolling related products, such as annealing, pickling, degreasing, buffing, tin plating, and slitting machineries, as well as scalping lines and rolling oil coolant systems. Poongsan Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.