Company infrastructure & global alliance
About YG Group:
YG-1 continues to create greater values for all its stakeholders with “One Mind and One Spirit.” YG-1 strives to achieve the best performances in various areas. Going forward, we will become a recognized global player in the world market, by continuously growing, developing, & creating collaborations through encouraging autonomy and cooperation with our affiliates. YG-1 has more than 30 subsidiaries, joint ventures & associate companies, globally.
Business area:
YG-1 is amongst the Top 5 companies globally in the End Mill manufacturing and sales industry. It is the largest, in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) based on its 30 years of know-how. YG-1 is expanding its range of products and items.
YG-1 is the No.1 End mills maker (in round tools) in the world with 30 million pieces, 72 million pieces a year of Drill, 24 million pieces a year of Taps, being produced in 23 Production facilities worldwide and being sold in more than 75 countries. YG-1 has more than 5,000 employees working globally across various functions of R&D, Production, Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, etc., creating value for all the stakeholders.
R&D Center
YG-1 has 2 R&D centers operating in Republic of Korea. The Songdo R&D Center is developing new technologies for YG-1 with ‘creative thinking and innovation’. It focuses on expansion of conversion research through vibrant inter-department communication. The Chungju R&D Center is equipped with high tech facilities to produce new materials and products. It focuses on internalizing and upgrading YG-1’s key technologies while working on R&D and production. YG-1 will be setting a R&D Center in India very soon. This will be especially focus on the requirements of Indian market.
Key technology your products representing
Milling:
YG-1 Milling tools are recognized to be one of the most cost efficient cutting tools, coming with unique geometry and special coating, in the world, satisfying many users by providing a mass increase in productivity. This is amongst the primary reason; YG-1 has become the largest manufacturer (round tools) of End Mills across the globe.
Drilling:
YG-1 Drilling tools are well known for its high precision and high technology, continuously impressing various manufacturers around the world.
Threading:
YG-1 Threading tools are highly acclaimed for their excellent quality and unique design, constantly remaining as the First choice amongst the customers. YG-1 also exposes itself in the Die & Mold and Aerospace industries, on one hand, enhancing each industry manager for each sector giving out technical support and resolving application problems, running trials / tests with customers, support exhibitions, seminars, perform trainings for pursuing proper use of our tools. On the other hand, YG-1 keeps introducing for each industry dedicated tools with high performance, reducing cycle time, increasing predictability and profitability gains for its customers.
Key application areas of products
YG-1 products find applications across sectors & industries, viz., Aerospace,Die Mould, Automobile, Oil & Gas, Power, Information Technology, Electonics, General Engineering, Medical Equipment, etc.
YG-1 is focusing on High-end products giving Better Performance to customers with various products.
- End Mills: V7 Plus, TitanNox-Power, 4G-Mills, X5070, Only One & Modular End Mills
- Hole Making: Dream drill high-feed, Flat-bottom, General, Inox, & i-ONE drill.
- Threading Tools: Synchro Tap, Prime Tap, & Combo Tap.
- Inserts: Milling, Drilling & Turning
Future trend of your product
YG-1 is aggressively expanding its business areas, and now creating foot prints in the Indexable inserts sector. It has started humbly with basic inserts, but this is just a start. We are targeting to equip as many as possible fields viz., Milling, Drilling, Turning, Threading as well as Boring.
By having in-house coating technology and machines, YG-1 will more firmly guarantee high quality products. We have recently introduced Milling & Drilling inserts. PVD-coated Turning is also available, and are planning to launch the CVD-coated Drilling & Turning inserts in 2017.
As we continue to march ahead, YG-1 has introduced E-Catalogue & Smart Tool Recommendation pages on its website www.yg1.kr to support the customers.
- Smart Tool Recommendation: http://www.yg1.kr/finder/main/index.asp
- E-Catalogue: http://www.yg1.co.kr/toolselection/main/index.asp
The customers or the users can access these pages and get proper recommendation of tooling required for their particular applications.
