- CEO
- Young-Joon Song
- Full Time Employees
- 201
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: major diversified
- Address
- Siheung-si South Korea
- IPO Date
- Dec 20, 2010
- Business
- Daejung Chemicals & Metals Co., Ltd. is a South Korea-based specialty chemical company primarily engaged in the development, manufacturing, purification, and distribution of high-purity laboratory reagents, raw pharmaceutical materials, and electronic-grade specialty chemicals. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Siheung-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, the company operates advanced manufacturing and research facilities and serves academic institutions, government research centers, pharmaceutical enterprises, healthcare diagnostics laboratories, and semiconductor manufacturers across domestic and international markets.
The company's core product and service portfolio is systematically categorized into: high-purity laboratory reagents, including analytical grade chemicals, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) solvents, pesticide residue analysis solvents, biological buffers, standard volumetric solutions, and diagnostic reagent formulations; raw pharmaceutical materials and health functional chemicals, encompassing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), pharmaceutical intermediates, pharmacopeial-grade excipients complying with KP, USP, and EP compendia, and food-grade chemical additives; electronic and industrial process chemicals, consisting of ultra-high purity etching agents, photoresist strippers, precision cleaning solvents, and surface treatment formulations for semiconductor, flat panel display, and printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing; secondary battery and advanced materials, comprising high-purity chemical precursors and functional additives for energy storage and lithium-ion battery processing; and custom chemical services, offering contract synthesis, toll manufacturing, custom chemical blending, precision purification, and private-label packaging solutions.
In recent operations, Daejung Chemicals & Metals Co., Ltd. has accelerated strategic initiatives to expand its footprint in high-value electronic materials and bio-health sectors. The company has upgraded and expanded its cGMP-compliant manufacturing facilities to increase output capacity for pharmaceutical-grade raw materials and custom-synthesized active ingredients. Concurrently, the company has enhanced its product offerings for next-generation semiconductor fabrication and secondary battery material processing by deploying high-efficiency fractional distillation systems and advanced micro-contamination control technologies. Daejung Chemicals & Metals Co., Ltd. has also broadened its international distribution partnerships across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and the Americas, while modernizing facility automation and adopting environmentally conscious chemical synthesis processes to improve operational sustainability and fulfill global regulatory requirements.