Korea is being hollowed out of industry as other developed nations, facing a shift in manufacturing sector from domestic production base to low-cost facilities overseas. Automobile, home appliances and precision machinery manufacturers have required high value added products to handle environmental problems and price competition. Various components used for cars, home appliances, and precision machinery have been diversified (e.g., aluminum alloy) due to environment, safety problems, and so on. At this point, it is necessary to develop equipments with high productivity and precision as well as low-energy consumption. Flexible material supplying apparatus for complicated shapes also need to be developed as well.

Levellers, feeding devices, shuttle robots, and 3D transfer robots are core equipments to cope with technological demands in press production. Above all, levellers eliminate defects in deformed materials and provide flat and optimal materials for precise- press molding. Feeding devices match material-supply with the time of press-processing. These two devices are one of decisive factors of precision and productivity of pressed products.

Due to domestic economic variables, there are growing concerns over the downtrend in sales of existing equipments in our company, especially in the middle of crisis by “hollowing out of manufacturing industry”. Moreover, there are other problems such as shortage of labor, increased prime cost of components, and manufacturing costs. Finally, competition in global market requires business diversification, which makes us launch new businesses like service robots, eco-friendly components business, etc.