SEOUL, KOREA - Doosan Infracore, a Doosan Group company specializing in construction machinery such as excavators, has completed on July 30 the construction of an R&D center in Incheon's Hwasu-dong that can accommodate 1,000 research staff members. The company will gather together 800-or-so research workers in the areas of construction machinery and engine to the new R&D center currently scattered around in Songdo, Suji, and Incheon.

 

 

 

On the day's opening ceremony, 200 company officials including Doosan Group chairman Park Yong-man, Doosan Holdings chairman Park Jung-won, Doosan Infracore president Kim Yong-sung were in attendance.

 

The company established a technology headquarters in April 2012 in order to put together its R&D capabilities, followed by the breaking of the ground for the R&D center in June in the same year. The 14-story center on a 26,000-square-meter site cost 56 billion won to build. The building includes space for classrooms for research scientists and a patent corridor to display patents the company has filed so far.

 

The Incheon R&D Center will work closely with overseas R&D organizations in the United States, China, the Czech Republic, and Norway and supervise the global R&D activity for the company.