POSCO (NYSE: PKX) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
POSCO is a South Korean steel maker focusing on sustainable growth and innovation across various sectors including energy.
POSCO
POSCO is a South Korea-based industrial holding conglomerate specializing in steel production, battery materials, and global infrastructure development. The company manufactures a wide range of crude steel and processed products, including hot-rolled steel, cold-rolled steel, stainless steel, and heavy plates, through primary production complexes in Pohang and Gwangyang. Beyond core steelmaking operations, POSCO develops secondary battery components, such as cathode and anode materials, lithium, and nickel compounds for electric vehicles. Through its major operating subsidiaries, the enterprise also engages in international trading, natural gas exploration, industrial infrastructure engineering, civil construction, and logistics operations worldwide.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of POSCO
- Steel Manufacturing: Primary revenue driver producing hot-rolled, cold-rolled, stainless, and plate steel products across flagship integrated steelworks located in Pohang and Gwangyang, serving automotive, shipbuilding, construction, and industrial machinery sectors worldwide.
- Secondary Battery Materials: Production of cathode and anode materials, lithium hydroxide, and high-purity nickel compounds, supporting global electric vehicle and energy storage supply chains through domestic processing facilities and international resource extraction partnerships.
- Energy and Commodity Trading: Global trade in industrial materials and agricultural commodities alongside natural gas exploration, offshore gas field production, terminal operations, and power generation conducted principally through specialized international trading and energy subsidiaries.
- Construction and Engineering: Civil infrastructure development, industrial plant engineering, commercial property construction, and renewable energy facility construction executed globally, focusing on green architectural design, complex civil works, and heavy manufacturing plant installations.
- Information Technology and Automation: Development and implementation of smart factory systems, industrial automation software, artificial intelligence solutions, logistics platforms, and enterprise IT infrastructure across manufacturing facilities and industrial plant operations.
- Raw Materials and Resource Development: Overseas extraction and supply chain management of critical minerals, including iron ore, coking coal, lithium brine from South American salt flats, and nickel processing assets to feed steelmaking and battery supply chains.
POSCO executive team
- Mr. In-Hwa ChangCEO & Representative Director
- Mr. Byeong-Og YooSenior EVP and Head of Green Materials & Energy Business Team
- Mr. Ju-Tae LeePresident, Head of Corporate Strategy Division & Representative Director
- Mr. Seung-Jun KimHead of Finance & IR Division
- Mr. In-Hwan OhChief Operating Officer
- Mr. Ki-Soo KimSenior EVP, Group CTO, Head of New Experience of Technology Hub & Director
- Ms. Young-Ah HanHead of Investor Relations Office, Executive Officer & Senior VP
- Mr. Sung-Wook LeeHead of Corporate Compliance Division
- Young-Jong KimExecutive Officer & Head of Corporate Legal Team
- Mr. Won-Jun YangExecutive Officer & Head of Communication Division