Hanwha Ocean Leads Win-Win Cooperation Through Support Project for Root Industry Specialized Complex

As Part of the Root Industry Specialized Complex Project
Accommodation Remodeling and Community Center Opening

Hanwha Ocean Geoje Plant. Photo by Hanwha Ocean

Hanwha Ocean is taking the lead in mutual growth with its partner companies through the Root Industry Specialized Complex support project.

Hanwha Ocean remodeled 100 units of Neungpo Apartments and opened a community center to improve the living conditions of partner company employees.

The root industry refers to essential technologies that form the foundation of manufacturing, such as welding and painting. Representative root industries include casting, mold, plastic working, welding, surface treatment, and heat treatment.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy selects root industry specialized complexes through evaluations of areas densely populated with root industry companies. Hanwha Ocean supported welding and painting partner companies and was finally selected as a root industry specialized complex in May 2022, participating in the project.

For this root industry specialized complex project, funding was jointly provided by the national government, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, Geoje City, and Hanwha Ocean.

Hanwha Ocean remodeled 100 units of Neungpo Apartments to provide lodging and opened a community center within the Geoje plant for partner company employees to use. The community center will host workshops, competency training, and safety and health education for partner companies.

Through the root industry specialized complex support project, Hanwha Ocean expects to improve workers' settlement conditions, prevent workforce outflow, and increase the influx of new personnel.

In 2024, Hanwha Ocean plans to continuously expand the root industry specialized complex support project to improve settlement conditions for workers in the root industry and provide technical training to help them adapt well to the working environment.

A Hanwha Ocean official stated, "The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Gyeongsangnam-do, Geoje City, and Hanwha Ocean are all united in supporting root industry companies and striving to improve workers' settlement conditions," adding, "We will continue to work hard so that workers who left during the shipbuilding industry downturn can return."

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