Collaboration targets large-scale advanced industrial facility construction

Companies to offer 'total package' through technology cooperation

A brochure for next-generation power infrastructure steel products. [Hyundai Steel]
A brochure for next-generation power infrastructure steel products. [Hyundai Steel]

Hyundai Steel announced Thursday that it signed a mutual cooperation agreement with domestic construction management firm HanmiGlobal on Wednesday at Hyundai Steel's Pangyo office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, aimed at strengthening technical competitiveness in the construction sector.

Under the agreement, the two companies will analyze and apply construction steel products — including fire-resistant steel and high-strength structural steel — from the design stage onward, providing customers with optimized steel-structure models for advanced industrial facility projects such as data centers and semiconductor production facilities.

Data centers have traditionally been designed and built using methods such as precast concrete, in which concrete structures are prefabricated and assembled on-site like building blocks, or post-tensioning, which reinforces load-bearing capacity by inserting and tensioning high-strength steel strands inside concrete structures. Steel-structure construction has more recently drawn growing attention for its advantages in shortening construction timelines and improving cost efficiency.

Against that backdrop, the two companies plan to expand the applicability of steel structures in new data center construction and actively promote Hyundai Steel's "total package" capability spanning its full range of steel grades.

"Through this collaboration with HanmiGlobal, we plan to secure leading technical competitiveness in steel products for advanced industrial facilities such as data centers and generate demand for high-performance steel," a Hyundai Steel official said.

Meanwhile, Hyundai Steel established a "Next-Generation Power Infrastructure Sales Expansion Task Force" in March and has been targeting the steel market for data centers in response to a surge in large-scale data center construction driven by growing AI demand.

The company has already secured orders for steel products destined for seven new data centers, and plans to build on that track record by pursuing integrated orders for the steel materials needed in large-scale data center construction and power infrastructure expansion projects going forward.


eyre@heraldcorp.com