Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.

Company Description

In the 21st century, the cutting edge of competition in the global arena of steel manufacturing comes from the experience, the technology and the professionalism of the staff and workers firmly supported by its state- of- the-art production equipment. Dongkuk Steel, with unsurpassed experience and with its superb technology accumulated through years of dedication in steel making, is ever innovating and reconditioning itself, thus becoming the focus of attention among the world's leading steel companies. In the year 2000, Dongkuk Steel contracted with the renowned Danieli S.p.A. of Italy to collaborate in their plant equipment business by consulting for them in the area of the steel plate plant construction and the technology for the manufacturing of the steel plate. The signing of this contract is an eloquent proof and proclamation that the know-how and the technology of Dongkuk Steel is the best among the steel makers of world today.The history of steel manufacturing and the steel industry of the Republic of Korea began with Dongkuk Steel.Since Dongkuk started the operation of its first plant at Dangsan-dong, Seoul, Korea, in July 1954, the company's other new steel plants followed in Busan, 1964; in inchon, 1979; and in Pohang, 1991, In these new plants, we have been producing highest quality plates, shapes and bar products, all in the precision range of less than 0.1 mm tolerance, 365 days of the year, and annual production reached up to 5 million and 300 thousand metric tons in the year 2000.