PKX vs SYNL

POSCO HOLDINGS INC.

POSCO, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells steel rolled products and plates in South Korea and internationally. It operates through four segments: Steel, Construction, Trading, and Others. The company offers hot and cold rolled steel, stainless steel, plates, wire rods, and silicon steel sheets. It also plans, designs, and constructs industrial plants, civil engineering projects, and commercial and residential buildings; exports and imports steel products and raw materials; and generates electricity; produces gas and refuse derived fuel, as well as provides network and system integration, and logistics services. In addition, the company is involved in the engineering and construction; computer hardware and software distribution; economic research and consulting; business facility maintenance; architecture and consulting; investment in venture, energy, and bio tech industries; electronic commerce; intellectual property services and consulting; refractories and quicklime manufacturing and sales; transporting and warehousing; real estate development, rental, sale, and management; house and train manufacturing and management; and education and real estate business. Further, it engages in the resource development; mine development; business facility maintenance; fuel cell; iron ore and coal sales; and cargo handling business, as well as operates housing business agency. Additionally, the company manufactures and sells coated, and anode material. It also engages in loading and unloading; IT service and DVR; electric control engineering; forest resources development; refractory materials sales and furnace maintenance; rice processing; grain sales; packing materials manufacturing; and social enterprise businesses. POSCO was incorporated in 1968 and is headquartered in Pohang, South Korea.

Synalloy Corporation

Synalloy Corporation manufactures and sells metals and specialty chemicals in the United States and internationally. The company's Metals segment offers stainless steel, galvanized, and other alloy pipes and tubes under the BRISMET trade name; liquid storage solutions and separation equipment; and ornamental stainless steel tubes under the ASTI trade name, as well as distributes seamless carbon pipes and tubes. It serves oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, mining, power generation, water and waste-water treatment, liquid natural gas, brewery, food processing, petroleum, pharmaceutical, automotive and commercial transportation, appliance, architectural, and other heavy industries. The company's Specialty Chemicals segment produces lubricants, surfactants, defoamers, reaction intermediaries, sulfated fats and oils for the chemical, pulp and paper, coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers, textile, automotive, household, industrial and institutional, water and waste-water treatment, construction, oil and gas, and other industries. It also provides chemical tolling manufacturing resources to chemical companies. The company was formerly known as Blackman Uhler Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Synalloy Corporation in July 1967. Synalloy Corporation was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.