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COMMAX, a company specializing in smart home
that creates value and safety of life

COMMAX is a company specializing in smart home that marks 56th anniversary this year,
since established as Central Electronic Industry in 1968.
COMMAX is creating value and safety of life any customers deserve to enjoy,
while leading global market with advanced technical power and differentiated products spanning
from interphone, video phone, smart home system to security solutions.

44 years of globalization, the Global Top Brand
that exports to 130 countries all over the world

COMMAX is a Global Top Brand beloved at all over the world. It completes global standard with full lineup of
products and systems satisfying different local market environments and requirements, as well as providing
standardized products and services by means of glocalization strategy, of which target on the globalization and
localization at the same time, along with accumulated technologies and know-hows.

Creating service-oriented Smart Life from function-oriented

COMMAX is changing concept of living environment to service-oriented smart home, beyond simple function-
oriented home network. COMMAX plans to provide more advanced value of life and safety with smart home total
solution combining Contents, Platform, Network, and Device, spanning from home security area securing safety of
customers and healthcare system considering health of customers to echo-friendly
energy management system realizing saving of energy and nature.

  • MISSION

    A company creating
    value and safety of life

  • VISION

    Global Top Brand

  • 핵심가치(3C)

    Creation
    Challenge
    Communication

MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY

Create value and safety of life for human being by means of creative thinking and new challenges.

  • Creative
    management

    • Strengthening R&D capability

      Developing market leading products consistently

    • Strategies for maximizing profit

      Sustaining value-creative market share

    • Strengthening internal infrastructure

      Consistent internal innovation for maximizing efficiency

  • Ethical management

    • Improving internal-external customer satisfaction

      Promoting customer satisfaction by creating ethical company culture

    • Enhancing company competitiveness

      Enhancing company competitiveness through honest and transparent business

  • Talent-oriented
    management

    • Cultivating talents strategically

      Accompanied growth of company and individuals by way of cultivating best talents

    • Enhancing competitiveness

      Cultivating skill and virtue allowing our employees to compete with anyone all over the world

    • Maximizing profit

      Fair evaluation and reward based on the performance

SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION

Sharing of COMMAX diffuses happy communication.

COMMAX aims to be a company creating value of life, creating value of life and pioneering future technology along with our customers.
Where, our customers include all of members of nation and society, as well as our domestic/overseas customers.
COMMAX fulfills social responsibility of company, while communicating spirit of happy communication and sharing to our society by means of sustained and various social activities.

HISTORY

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Creating Smart Life of Future

Creating service-oriented Smart Life from function-oriented

  • 2015
    • June

      Participated in London Security Exhibition ‘IFSEC’ in the UK

    • May

      Participated in “EXPOSEC’ Security Exhibition in Brazil

    • April

      Participated in ‘MIPS’ Security Exhibition in Russia

    • January

      Participated in ‘INTERSEC’ Security Exhibition in Dubai

  • 2014
    • June

      Participated in London Security Exhibition ‘IFSEC’ in the UK

  • 2013
    • June

      Opens ‘COMMAX Plaza’, the first specialized security shop in Korea

    • April

      45th anniversary of 'COMMAX Gallery'

    • February

      Participated in Gyeonghyang Housing Fair 참가

    • January

      Newly established security business unit

  • 2012
    • September

      Won Prime Minister Citation at National Productivity Award (Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea Productivity Center)

  • 2011
    • January

      Developed world’s first Android OS-based Home Mobile System

2010
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Creating new coinage of “Home Network”.

The ubiquitous opened by fingertip surprises whole world once again.

  • 2009
    • November

      Maintained qualification of world-leading products (video-phone area, 7 consecutive years)Selected as 2009 International Security 50 (A&S Group, 3 consecutive years)

  • 2007
    • June

      Developed TV-PHONE for kitchen for receiving DIGITAL TV

  • 2006
    • October

      Developed wireless interphone using Zigbee for the first time in Korea

  • 2004
    • November

      Won Tower of Fifty-Million Dollars for Trade Day

    • September

      Won Presidential Citation for contributing to Managerial Productivity Innovation (No. 147641)

  • 2003
    • December

      Selected as Certified Company of World-First Class Products (video-phone area, Ministry of Industry and Resource)

  • 2002
    • August

      Selected as one of 50 Excellent Companies having Quality Competitiveness for 4 consecutive years (Ministry of Industry and Resource)

    • July

      Developed Home Network product (CDP-1500)

2000
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Writing down history of Home Automation.

Declaring start of Home Automation, from simple functions to combined functions.

  • 2000
    • September

      Listed on KOSDAQ (Korea Securities Association)

  • 1999
    • September

      Changed company name to COMMAX Co. Ltd.

  • 1994
    • December

      Established Tienjin Central Electronic Corporation as an independent company

    • November

      Won Export Industrial Citation and Export Tower of Ten-Million Dollar (Presidential Award)

    • April

      Established technical laboratory attached

      Developed Home Automation system

  • 1993
    • September

      Obtained world’s first VIDEO-PHONE UL specification

1990
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From voice-centric door phone
to image-centric video phone

Video phone, of which identifying
visitors with eyes, creates safer living.

  • 1990
    • November

      Won Tower of Fifty-Million Dollars (Minister of Commerce and Industry)

  • 1989
    • November

      Unified brand identities into ‘COMMAX’

  • 1987
    • April

      Selected as a Middle-Class Exporting Company

    • February

      Introduced Image Telecommunication System (developed Video Door Phone)

  • 1983
    • September

      Selected as a promising mid-small company (Joongbu Branch of Hanil Bank)

1980
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1968
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Door phone, the first hit product

Beginning of Creativity and Innovation, finding way by means of ‘communication’ with customers.

  • 1977
    • December

      Obtained Korea’s first interphone (W1-1A) UL specification

  • 1976
    • August

      Incorporated Central Electronic Industry Co, Ltd. (capital: 200,000,000 KRW, representative director Byun Bong Deok)

  • 1973
    • April

      Exported interphone for the first time in Korea (US, UK, and Ghana)

  • 1968
    • April

      Established Central Electronic Industry Co, Ltd. (capital: 50,000,000 KRW, founder: Byun Bong Deok)