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Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.
28, Seongju-dong
Changwon, Kyongnam-Do 641-716, South Korea
Tel. +82-2-3467-7000
Fax +82-2-3467-7080

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.samsungtechwin.com
 Employees: 5,311

Samsung Techwin (one of Samsung Electronics three affiliates) offers a wide variety of products and services from helicopter rental and artillery tanks to gas turbine engines and air compressors. Samsung Techwin makes various optical modules, leadframes, and semiconductor assembly and inspection products. The company is the only maker of gas turbine engines, as well as general ground forces equipment, in South Korea. It has alliances with aircraft engine makers including GE, Pratt &Whitney, and Rolls Royce. Samsung Techwin spun off its camera business as Samsung Digital Imaging in early 2009 and entered the world of surveillance and closed-circuit television manufacturing.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $3,567.5M

Officers:
President and CEO: Lee Joong-Koo
Executive Director Finance and Administration: Aerospace & Defense Parts Manufacturing

Competitors:
Hitachi
Mirae
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

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Samsung Techwin (Korean: 삼성테크윈) is a South Korean aeronautics, optoelectronics, automations and defense company. It is currently the world's third largest digital camera manufacturer.[1] It is one of the subsidiaries of Samsung Group.

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History

Founded in 1977, the company established precision instrument laboratory in 1978. It started making cameras in 1979 and is still a world leader today. By technical cooperations with General Electric, it started manufacturing jet engines for Korean aircraft in 1980. Manufacture of 155mm Self-propelled artillery began in 1984.

It changed its name to Samsung Aerospace Industries in 1987, and started to make helicopters. It acquired Rollei, a German camera manufacturer, and Union Optics of Japan, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipments. Co-developed SB427(helicopter) with Bell in 1996 and began selling digital cameras under the brand of Samsung Kenox in 1997. On the same year, it made the first KF-16 fighter jet in Korea.

It handed over the firm's aircraft business to Korea Aerospace Industries in 1999 and changed its name to Samsung Techwin (used currently) in 2000.

It exported the K-9 155mm self-propelled artillery to Turkey. In 2005, the company marked first place in Korean digital cameras market share and started a technical co-operation with Pentax.[2]

It will now be a conjoined partnership with Samsung Electrics. Where its latest CCTV Cameras and Digital Imaging technology is then passed on for further products.

Samsung Techwin directly entered the North American CCTV/Surveillance market in 2008, under its own name, featuring a line of true Day/Night cameras and Digital Video Recorders (DVRs). In 2009, the company introduced a new series of Digital IP Based cameras and Network Video Recorders.

Products

  • Optics and Digital Imagings: Digital Cameras including DSLRs, CCTV (Surveillance) Systems, modules, etc.
  • Semiconductor Systems: SMTs and Wire bonders
  • Semiconductor Components: Lead frames, LOCs, Metal CSPs, FPCs, etc.
  • Power Systems: Gas Turbines, Engines for helicopters, Refrigerant Compressors, etc.
  • Defense Industries: K-9 thunder self-propelled artillery, K10 ARV(Ammunition Resupply Vehicle)s, sub-systems for K2 Black Panther
  • Transportations: Samsung Techwin operates a few helicopter routes inside South Korea.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://www.samsung.com/he/presscenter/pressrelease/pressrelease_20061117_0000301398.asp
  2. ^ :::: SamsungTechwin ::::
  3. ^ :::: SamsungTechwin ::::

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