HD Construction Machinery announced on the 7th that it has signed a supply contract for gas power generation engine long blocks with ERock, a U.S.-based power infrastructure solutions company.
An engine long block is a semi-finished product form of an engine body excluding fuel and ignition systems. The product being supplied this time is in the 22nd-liter class. HD Construction Machinery will supply engine long blocks over a two-year period from 2027 to 2028, with a contract value of approximately 390 billion won.
ERock will utilize these products to build generator set solutions that supply power to hyperscale data centers operated by major U.S. technology companies.
This order is significant as it marks HD Construction Machinery’s success in securing a large-scale, continuous power generation engine long block supply contract in the rapidly growing North American data center market driven by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. In particular, amid surging demand for continuous power generation due to delays in connecting data centers to the electrical grid, the company has demonstrated the technical capability and reliability of its engines required for prolonged continuous operation.
Starting with this order, HD Construction Machinery plans to aggressively target the future power generation engine market for data centers. Centered on its new Gunsan engine plant in North Jeolla Province, which is scheduled for completion at the end of this month, the company will establish a production system for ultra-large power generation engines in the 1st to 3 MW (megawatt) class. Additionally, it plans to sequentially launch ultra-large power generation engines in the 37th-liter class (1.5 MW) in 2027 and the 77th-liter class (3 MW) in 2028 to meet demand for high-output power generation engines.
An official from HD Construction Machinery stated, "This order is a meaningful achievement that recognizes our engine technology in the new growth area of the data center power market," adding, "We will expand our position in the global data center and distributed power markets going forward."
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