SEOUL, KOREA - Samsung Heavy Industries will put all its offshore plant R&D staff members to a new R&D center in Pangyo in the southern outskirts of Seoul. Ahead of the scheduled merger with Samsung Engineering on December 1, the shipbuilder will try to maximize the synergy effect by moving the R&D workforce. 

 

The company said on November 13 that it would reassign all its employees in the area of offshore plant design and R&D in Seoul's Gangnam and the Geoje shipyard to Pangyo as of November 14. Other employees in sales and other supporting departments will move to the new location.

 

The eight-story (13-story including five basement floors) Pangyo R&D Center, located in a 57,500-square-meter site, can host a total of 1,500 workers. Samsung Heavy expects that the new facility will become the central locale for improving its design and building capabilities for offshore plants.

 

The company also hopes that the new location will create synergies with the R&D staff of Samsung Engineering, whose development center is only 20 minutes away from Pangyo by car. It is estimated as many as 100 Samsung Engineering designers have capabilities in offshore plant top side details.

 

Article provided by The Korea Economic Daily