HD Hyundai Electric boosts capacity 70% with new automated Cheongju power distribution

CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong Province — HD Hyundai Electric has expanded its production capacity for power distribution equipment by 70 percent with the recent launch of its automated Cheongju power distribution campus, as the company bets on capturing surging global demand from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers and power‐infrastructure investment. The 116.1 billion won ($75.5 million) Cheongju campus in North Chungcheong Province, which was completed last November, consolidates manufacturing, engineering and logistics functions that had previously been spread across three facilities. The campus produces more than 50,000 types of low and medium-voltage circuit breakers, ranging from air circuit breakers (ACB) and vacuum circuit breakers (VCB) used in power plants and industrial facilities to molded case circuit breakers (MCCB) widely installed in residential and commercial buildings. The facility automates logistics from material receiving and warehousing to production and shipping through a network of 12 autonomous mobile robots, 10 autonomous case-handling robots and 20 log