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Hanwha Engine, previously known as HSD Engine, builds large low-speed and medium-speed diesel engines that power oceangoing ships, producing designs under license from the major global engine developers. Its customers are shipbuilders in Korea and abroad, and its product line increasingly features dual-fuel engines capable of burning LNG and other alternative fuels. The company came under the Hanwha Group as part of the conglomerate's push into shipbuilding and marine industries, aligning it with affiliated shipyard Hanwha Ocean while it continues to supply external yards. Revenue follows engine deliveries scheduled against shipyard construction timetables.

Marine engines are a delayed play on the shipbuilding cycle: orders arrive after shipyards book vessels, so the backlog visibility mirrors, with a lag, the newbuilding market. Investors watch the industry shift toward dual-fuel and low-emission propulsion driven by international maritime decarbonization rules, which favors engine makers with alternative-fuel capability. Customer concentration among a handful of large shipyards, including its own affiliate, is a structural feature, as is competition with the engine operations of the rival HD Hyundai group.

The company was created in 1999, when Korea's heavy-industry groups pooled their marine-engine operations into a single specialist during post-crisis restructuring. It operated as Doosan Engine from 2005 to 2018 under the Doosan Group, was renamed HSD Engine after being sold to a domestic consortium, and then changed hands again when Hanwha agreed in 2023 to acquire control, completing the deal in February 2024 and adopting the Hanwha Engine name. The move paired the engine maker with Hanwha Ocean, the former Daewoo Shipbuilding, inside the group's expanding maritime portfolio. Its manufacturing base is a large coastal works in Changwon on Korea's southern shipbuilding belt.

Like nearly all large marine-engine builders, the company manufactures under license: ship engines are designed by MAN Energy Solutions and WinGD, and licensees compete on production cost, quality, and delivery slots while paying royalties to the designers. Capacity is sold in slots matched to shipyard construction schedules, so pricing power rises when global engine capacity tightens. Dual-fuel engines able to burn LNG or methanol carry premium pricing and now dominate new orders as emissions rules bite. Aftermarket parts and servicing add a steadier income layer. Domestically the market is essentially a two-player affair between Hanwha Engine and the HD Hyundai group's engine operations.

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