Hwacheon Machine Tool was founded in 1952. With 60 years of experience and technology behind it, the company has led the industrial development of South Korea in terms of machinery.

Hwacheon has been making machinery to the highest standards for over 60 years. The company also produces and sells motor blocks, cylinder heads, crankshafts and other essential components in various areas of engineering. These automotive industry parts are made on its own Hwacheon machine-tools, for the highest standards of precision and quality.

It makes the following CNC machines:

• Inclined bed & slide lathes
• Inclined bed & prism guided lathes
• Vertical machining centres
• Gantry machining centres
• Horizontal machining centres
• 5-axis machining centres

Key machine-tool components, including machine beds, heads, gearings, chucks, cylinders and Curvic couplings, are made by Hwacheon with particular attention to quality, given that they are essential elements in ensuring excellence in performance and long life for machine-tools.

Facts and Figures

• HWACHEON was founded in Korea in 1952.
• 3 machine-tool production plants in South Korea.
• Managed by the second generation of the founding family, with the third generation also currently involved.
• Approx. 1400 employees
• Approx. 1800 machines per year
• Own foundry
• R&D&i department staffed by over 60 fully-dedicated engineers
• Offices devoted solely to sales and service in Asia, the USA and Germany
• High-rigidity, long-lasting machining and turning centres of the highest quality, used for high-precision production in all sectors