World Class Association Explores 'European Innovative Companies'... "Seeking Breakthroughs in European Market, Launching Global Corporate Collaboration"

The World Class Companies Association announced on the 16th that it completed the 2024 Global Business Cooperation Promotion Program from the 8th to the 16th of this month.

This year's overseas training program was organized to visit innovative technology companies in France and Spain to inspect their technological capabilities, benchmark ESG response cases, check management and working environments, and facilitate technology cooperation and export consultations.

About 20 representatives and executives from member companies participated in the World Class Association's overseas training event.

During the Paris schedule in France, the team visited world-renowned industrial gas company Air Liquide, multinational ship engineering specialist GTT (Gaztransport & Technigaz), energy transition engineering company Technip Energies, and 3D digital software company Dassault Systemes.

Air Liquide supplies various industrial gases used in semiconductors, automobiles, aerospace, food, and medical fields to 80 countries worldwide. The training team had the opportunity to inspect Air Liquide’s industrial gas production technology, innovative technology development, and customer solutions, gaining ideas to apply to domestic companies.

GTT is a multinational company specializing in ship engineering and onshore storage tank technology, providing liquefied natural gas (LNG) related technologies and focusing on the design and engineering solutions of LNG carriers and storage tanks. Given its strength in high-efficiency membrane systems used for LNG storage and transportation, the training team exchanged opinions on ways to improve system efficiency, stability, and economic feasibility through a better understanding of the technology.

Additionally, the team visited Dassault Systemes, a multinational solutions company. They inspected Dassault Systemes’ collaborative design tools, which are used by most of the top 20 global semiconductor companies to enhance productivity, and gained insights applicable to domestic companies in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data analysis, and machine learning.

In Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, the team visited global specialty chemical company Croda, tech-based startup cluster Accio, multinational digital service software IT company INETUM, and engineering technology company AYESA.

Croda is a multinational chemical company providing various raw materials to companies in personal care, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial chemical sectors. The training group had the opportunity to visit Croda’s R&D center, where innovative research and development projects are underway, as well as high value-added chemical product production sites, and directly observe customer-tailored solutions.

Besides company visits, the training schedule included a local meeting with the Korean Ambassador to France (Choi Jae-cheol) to check the European market environment and the overall situation of export companies. Networking sessions were also arranged with the French Trade and Investment Agency and the Spanish Small and Medium Business Federation to discuss sustainable growth strategies for global companies and exchange contacts.

A representative of the World Class Companies Association emphasized, "We hope that domestic mid-sized companies will establish a foundation for active overseas expansion through inspections of advanced technologies, sales solutions, and customer response methods of global companies," adding, "We will continue to discover and provide high-quality educational programs that can benefit our member companies."

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