Samsung Heavy Industries
About
About Samsung Heavy Industries
Samsung Heavy Industries was established in 1974 and is headquartered in Seongnam, with major shipbuilding operations at Geoje. The company designs and constructs commercial vessels and offshore facilities, including LNG carriers, floating production systems and drill ships.
Its autonomy programme includes the Samsung Autonomous Ship navigation system and SHIFT-Auto, a purpose-built catamaran for fully autonomous operations research. Samsung Heavy has demonstrated SAS on transpacific routes and uses robotic automation inside its shipyards. PIPE ROBOFAB integrates automated logistics, machining, measurement and welding for pipe-spool production, while a Rainbow Robotics partnership is expanding collaborative and mobile-manipulator applications.
Operations
Production capacity
- Production capacity
2026-03-16 - PIPE ROBOFAB began full-scale operations in a 6,500 m² facility designed to produce about 100,000 pipe spools annually using automated logistics, machining, measurement, alignment, welding and vision AI. - facility - Haman County, South Gyeongsang Province
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Supply
Supply chain relationships
Financials
- 010140.KS - KRX - KRW
Team
- Sung-an Choi - Vice Chairman and CEO - Named CEO at the PIPE ROBOFAB completion ceremony.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-16 - Partnership - Samsung Heavy Industries and KIRO sign shipyard robotics MoU
The agreement was signed at Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje shipyard on September 16 and disclosed September 17. Work is directed at shipyard-specific robots and on-site validation; the announcement does not report a new commercial deployment. The parties have previously collaborated on mobile and autonomous welding robots.
Source - 2026-07-23 - Partnership - Saronic and Samsung Heavy Industries partner on autonomous shipbuilding
The companies plan to explore autonomous vessels, AI-powered digital solutions and next-generation maritime platforms for government and commercial customers. The collaboration covers production infrastructure and robotics-based process automation across Saronic's shipyards. The partnership combines Saronic's maritime autonomy and scalable manufacturing with Samsung Heavy Industries' shipbuilding, vessel-design and production-automation expertise.
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Relations
Relationships
- Korea Institute of Robotics & Technology Convergence
Partner - Samsung Heavy Industries and KIRO jointly develop shipyard work robots and industrial humanoids for field validation at Geoje.
- Saronic
Autonomous Shipbuilding Partner - Saronic and Samsung Heavy Industries are developing autonomous maritime systems and U.S. shipbuilding capacity.