Hanwha Group
South Korean conglomerate Hanwha, founded in 1952, runs Hanwha Robotics' cobots and AMRs alongside its Hanwha Aerospace rocket-engine business.
Hanwha Group is a South Korean conglomerate founded in 1952 by Kim Chong-hee as Korea Explosives Co., originally built around explosives manufacturing, which the company still counts among its historical foundations. Over seven decades it has diversified into a multi-sector business spanning energy and maritime solutions, aerospace and defense, mechatronics, finance, retail, and lifestyle services. According to its official corporate site, Hanwha operates more than 860 locations worldwide, including 355 in North America, 352 in Europe, 129 in Asia-Pacific, 17 in Latin America, and 8 across the Middle East and Africa.
The group's aerospace and defense arm includes Hanwha Aerospace, which the company describes as South Korea's sole aircraft engine producer and which develops satellites and the Nuri space launch vehicle; Hanwha Ocean, the shipbuilder formerly known as Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, acquired by Hanwha in 2023; Hanwha Philly Shipyard, the former Philadelphia Shipyard in the United States; Hanwha Systems, which includes the Hanwha Vision video-surveillance and AI-platform business; and Hanwha Robotics. Hanwha Robotics, operating under the tagline "Change for tomorrow, chance for people," develops collaborative robots, mobile robots, AGVs, and AMRs, extending the group's automation portfolio into factory and material-handling robotics alongside its heavier defense and energy businesses.
On the energy and maritime side, Hanwha's activities span solar and wind power, hydrogen infrastructure, and advanced maritime vessels, while its finance division offers banking, insurance, and asset-management services, and its retail and services arm covers hospitality and urban-development projects.
In mid-2026, Hanwha featured in two large regional investment announcements tied to its core aerospace, defense, and advanced-manufacturing businesses. In July 2026, Hanwha joined Hyundai in committing to part of a 97 trillion won investment package covering aerospace, defense, and future-mobility projects for South Korea's Yeongnam region. Later that month, Hanwha was named as a key participant in a $10 billion defense-sector investment announcement centered on Pennsylvania in the United States, connected to its Philly Shipyard and broader US defense manufacturing interests.
As a diversified conglomerate rather than a single-product company, Hanwha's robotics activity sits within a much larger industrial base; its scale spans satellite and rocket-engine manufacturing, naval shipbuilding, ammunition and defense systems, solar-cell production, and financial services, with Hanwha Robotics representing its dedicated push into collaborative and mobile robot hardware for manufacturing and logistics customers.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Hanwha HCR-5A Collaborative Robot
6-axis collaborative robot arm with 5kg payload and 915mm reach, weighing 21kg, for factory automation tasks.
Hanwha HCR-12A Collaborative Robot
6-axis collaborative robot arm with 12kg payload and 1300mm reach, weighing 53kg, for heavier-duty automation tasks.
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Contact Hanwha Group
WEBSITE
https://www.hanwha.com/HEADQUARTERS
Korea, Republic of (South)
Company Facts
Founded
1952
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
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Primary Region
Asia-Pacific
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
Subsidiary / Acquired
Funding Total
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