The word ¡®Taeyang¡¯ in Taeyang Metal Industry means the ¡®sun¡¯ in Korean. But the automotive part maker, contrary to its name, has been using coldforging method since the 1954 foundation for better material saving, excellent dimensional accuracy and surface quality of cold extruded parts, improvement of mechanical properties of extruded parts and high productivity.
They make products like cylinder head bolts, con rod bolts, ball studs, ball housing, shafts, tie rods, guide rods, input rods, output rods, wheel bolts, cam bolts and so on for some big names such as Hyundai, GM, Chrysler and Bosch. Nowadays, Taeyang supplies over 9,000 types of fasteners and automotive parts from plants in Korea, China and India. They were awarded in 2010 the Hyundai/Kia 5 Star Quality Certificate given only to those companies that can strictly abide by rigorous quality standards and Trophy of One Billion Dollars Export in 2011 after Trophy of 30 Million Dollars Export(2004), Trophy of 50 Million Dollars Export(2006) and Trophy of 70 Million Dollars Export(2008), which shows how fast the company grows.
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