- CEO
- Chang-shik Hong
- Full Time Employees
- 776
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: major diversified
- Address
- 464 Anyang-ro Ansan-si GY South Korea 13967
- IPO Date
- Sep 25, 1989
- Business
- Miwon Commercial Co., Ltd. Miwon Commercial Co., Ltd. manufactures and markets specialty fine chemicals for personal care, electronics, and polymer applications in South Korea and internationally. The company offers personal care ingredients including anionic, cationic, nonionic, and amphoteric surfactants; hair fixative and conditioning polymers; styling resins; household surfactants; plasticizers; and cosmeceutical active ingredients such as amino acid surfactants, PQ10, cationic guar, and ester oils; electronic chemicals encompassing photo active compounds for semiconductor circuits and LCD thin film transistors, polymer acryl binders, novolak resins, positive photoresists, functional chemicals for photoresist processes like strippers, functional resins for PCBs and high-refractive optical films; and polymer additives such as antioxidants including amine, phenol, phosphorus, and sulfur types, UV stabilizers comprising benzophenone, benzotriazole, nickel quenchers, and HALS, as well as thiourethane lens monomers. Founded in 1959 and headquartered in Anyang, South Korea, with prior operations referenced in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Miwon Commercial operates three main divisions: Personal Care Ingredients Business Unit (PIBU), Electronic Chemicals Business Unit (ECBU), and Polymer Additives Business Unit (PABU), serving target markets in cosmetics, semiconductors, displays (LCD, PDP, OLED), secondary batteries, and plastics globally including Taiwan, Japan, China, and expanding opportunities in the US. In recent developments, the company pursues portfolio diversification into OLED displays and battery sectors through strategic partnerships with cell makers and tier-one suppliers; maintains organic growth via prior acquisitions like Dongnam Chemical and Taekwang Fine Chemical; and capitalized on 2009 and 2011 spin-offs of business units into affiliates Miwon Specialty Chemical and Miwon Chemicals to enhance flexibility amid global market shifts.