An unknown buyer agreed to acquire a 2.86% stake in Union Materials Corp. from Union Corporation for KRW 6.1 billion.

Union Materials Corp., formerly Ssangyong Materials Corp. is a Korea-based company engaged in the manufacture of ferrite magnets and fine ceramic products. The Company operates its business through three divisions: ferrite division, ceramic division and compatibility tools division. Its ferrite division engages in the manufacture of ferrite magnets, including arc type magnets and rectangular type magnets mainly used for automobile motors. Its ceramic division engages in the manufacture of fine ceramic products, including cutting tools, such as ceramic cutting tools, cermets cutting tools, polycrystalline cubic boron nitrides (PCBNs) and ploy crystalline diamonds (PCDs), tool holders, milling cutters, end mills and drills, and hydraulic expansion chucks, and industrial ceramics, such as faucet discs, ferrule for fiber optics, metalized parts, bio-ceramics and others. Its compatibility tools division provides special tools.