- Headquarters
- Changwon, South Korea · East Asia
- Value chain
- Hardware & devices(Products); also Components & subsystems
- What that means
- Makes physical products under its own name: computers, robots, vehicles, aircraft, drones, satellites, batteries, solar modules, reactors and medical devices.
- Founded
- 1977
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- KRX:012450 on Google Finance
- Website
- hanwhaaerospace.com
- Relevance
- High at its strongest, in Energetic Materials
Changwon, South KoreaIn 4 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Manufacture · listed #16 of 50
Absorbed Hanwha Corporation's defence business (2022) and produces explosives, propellants and solid rocket motors for Korean missiles and launch vehicles.
Relevance: Major Korean explosives and propellant producer
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #21 of 50
Korea's aero-engine maker (F414 licence production for the KF-21, indigenous engine development), and builder of the Nuri launcher's 75-tonne liquid engines.
Relevance: Korea's aero-engine maker, developing indigenous engines
- Directed Energy TechnologiesModerate
Energy Technologies · Integration · listed #24 of 50
Builds Korea's Block-I 'Skylight' 20 kW-class laser counter-drone weapon, which the Republic of Korea armed forces began deploying in 2024.
Relevance: Builds Korea's fielded laser counter-drone weapon.
- Space Launch & Reusable SystemsModerate
Space Technologies · Integration · listed #26 of 50
System integrator and engine maker for South Korea's Nuri (KSLV-II); it took over Nuri production and is co-developing the next-generation KSLV-III.
Relevance: Nuri integrator; Korea's national launch capability, limited global role