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Doosan Corp.Doosan Corp.Doosan Corp.Doosan Corp.Doosan Corp. gear-based and drive-train products fortanks, armoured troop carriers andother army vehicles. It also makes tung-sten-based, armour-piercing penetra-tors and fragmentation parts for anti-tank ammunition.

Building the WBuilding the WBuilding the WBuilding the WBuilding the Wallallallallalland Checkpointand Checkpointand Checkpointand Checkpointand CheckpointsssssDoosan is also deeply complicit in Is-rael’s military occupation of Palestinethrough its subsidiary, Bobcat. TheBobcat Company, being a business ofDoosan Infracore International, a US-based subsidiary of Doosan Infracore,is part of the Doosan Corp. empire. Itmanufactures construction equipmentthat has been used to build Israel’s sepa-ration wall as well as various check-points in the occupied territories.Doosan’s construction machinery is al-most exclusively powered by enginesmade by Kubota Corp. (See table “CPPinvestments,” p.53.)

The “Who Profits from the oc-cupation” website reveals that Bobcat’ssole representative in Israel is Emcol.This Israeli company supplies construc-tion tools and equipment used to buildsettlement infrastructure in the WestBank, including the segregated roadsthat are reserved for Israeli use only andcannot be travelled on by Palestinians.

References2010 Auditor’s Reportwww.doosan.com/en/documents/audit_report/2010_AuditReport_Consolidated%28en%29.pdf

R&D Overviewwww.doosan.com/doosanmottrol/en/development/defense/outline.page?

Establishment and Developmentwww.doosan.com/doosaninfracore/en/aboutus/history.page

Launches Doosan DST, Defense Industry Com-pany, January 05, 2009.www.doosandst.com/index.html?/en/pressRelease.do?cmd=viewPressRelease&no=20100405132850890625

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawken.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-60

Equipment & Machinery List, March 2008.www.ashot.co.il/innerData/pdf/Machinery_List.pdf

Defense Referenceswww.ashot.co.il/Defense_Reference.html

Merkava 4 Main Battle Tank, Israelwww.army-technology.com/projects/merkava4/

Defensewww.ashot.co.il/Defense.html

Bobcat Companywww.whoprofits.org/Company%20Info.php?id=744

Emcolwww.whoprofits.org/Company%20Info.php?id=745

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For four decades, this South Ko-rean holding company, with cur-rent assets of US$14.6 billion,has produced main battle tanks, ar-moured troop carriers, self-propelledhowitzers, ammunition-supply vehi-cles, ground-to-air missiles and numer-ous other weapons used by the armies,navies and air forces of US allies.

WWWWWarplane componentarplane componentarplane componentarplane componentarplane componentsssssIn 1995, one of Doosan’s divisions,Mottrol, developed the “[h]ydraulic[pump] system and electro-hydraulicservo valve for UH-60 helicopter[s].”Doosan had originally entered the aero-space business in 1984 when its Infra-core division began supplying USweapons-maker General Dynamicswith airframe parts for the F-16 fighter/bomber. The US has been transferringUH-60 “Black Hawk” military helicop-ters and F-16 warplanes to the IsraelAir Force for decades. Israel has usedthese aircraft in numerous missions in-cluding the attacks on Lebanon (2006)and Gaza (2008-2009).

Milling harMilling harMilling harMilling harMilling hardwdwdwdwdwararararareeeeeDoosan has also supplied manufactur-ing hardware to Israel’s Ashot AshkelonIndustries (AAI), a subsidiary of weap-ons maker, Israel Military IndustriesLtd. (IMI). AAI website says the com-pany uses Doosan-HM800 HorizontalMilling equipment. AAI is a leadingmanufacturer for Israel’s three govern-ment-owned war contractors: IsraelAerospace Industries, Rafael and IMI.(See “State-owned Israeli War Indus-tries,” pp.48-49.)

AAI’s customers also includeSikorsky, which produced Israel’s UH-60 and CH-53 “Sea Stallion” militaryhelicopters. AAI also supplies parts toRenk (Germany) and Urdan (Israel),which make the transmission systemsand ballistic steel materials, respec-tively, for Israel’s Main Battle Tanks.AAI is itself a leading manufacturer of

In promoting its “Government andMilitary” products, Eaton’s web-page begins with a telling line:“Eaton’s solutions are reliable, safe,innovative, efficient, and environ-mentally sustainable, and providesurvivable, high performance androbust services in Land, Marine andAviation weapons systems.” (Em-phasis added.)

It was, perhaps, Eaton’s “envi-ronmentally sustainable” solutions forland-, sea- and air-based “weapons sys-tems,” that impressed the Ethisphere In-stitute. In 2011, it declared Eaton to beone of the “World’s Most EthicalCompanies.” Ethisphere claims to hon-our firms that “truly go beyond makingstatements about doing business ‘ethi-cally’ and translate those words into ac-tion.” Eaton’s products certainly seelots of action, military action.

With sales of US$13.7 billionin 2010, this US manufacturer is oneof the world’s leading power-manage-ment companies. Eaton makes motors,as well as pneumatic and hydraulic sys-tems for aircraft, land vehicles and in-dustrial equipment. The company isproud to report that its aerospace prod-ucts, including fuel, motion-control,cockpit-interface and propulsion sys-tems, are used in “hundreds of militaryand commercial aircraft.”

Eaton landed US$1.16 billion inUS federal government contracts be-tween 2000 and 2009. Of these, US$1billion (88%) were with military depart-ments and agencies.

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Data obtained by COATfrom the “Government ContractsUSA Defense Department” data-base, show that between 1999 and2009, Eaton and subsidiaries re-ceived 130 contracts worthUS$17.9 million to supply hard-ware for the first three of theseweapons systems.

For instance, Eaton’s F-15contracts, worth US$4.3 million,included weapon system hard-ware, valves, motors, wheel andbrake systems, instruments, en-gines parts, and fuel systems.

Eaton’s contracts for F-16s, worth US$8.2 million, in-cluded weapon system hardware,landing gear parts, valves, tubes,pumps, batteries, motors andpower transmission equipment.

Eaton had US$5.4 millionin contracts for AH-64s, includ-ing switches, valves, fittings, cir-cuit breakers, wheel and brakesystems, ground-servicing equip-ment, airframe structures and fuelsystems.

Eaton says it is “a key sup-plier of hydraulic systems, fuelsystems, fluid conveyance, elec-tromechanical actuation, powerand load management and avion-ics products on the UH-60.” TheUS has transferred UH-60s to Is-rael’s Air Force.

Eaton is also a “key sys-tems supplier” for the F-35 “JointStrike Fighter” which Israel hason order from Lockheed Martin.(See table “CPP Investments,”p.53.) Eaton makes 40 hydraulic,fuel, actuation and control sys-tems for the F-35, and says these con-tracts total US$358 million per year.

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prises. This firm “specialises in the de-velopment, production, assembly andmarketing of armoured vehicles, ar-moured earth moving machines, [and]robotic systems.” Zoko has been theexclusive representative in Israel forCaterpillar Inc. and InternationalTrucks (a subsidiary of Navistar), since1948 and 1987, respectively. (See Cat-erpillar, pp.16-17, and Navistar, in ta-ble “CPP investments,” p.53.)

Zoko’s promotional materialssay that it “has gained many years ofexperience in maintaining vehicles andearth moving machines for the IsraeliDefense Forces (IDF).” The company

also proudly works “with the lead-ing Israeli military industrial [sic],accomplishing various projects forthe IDF.”

Zoko’s website reveals that ituses “Eaton hydraulic steering sys-tems, designed for agricultural trac-tors, earth moving machines andtrucks.” It also uses “vane motors ofthe 25M, 35M, 45M and 50M mod-els from Eaton Vickers,” an Eatonsubsidiary. These Eaton vane mo-tors, says Zoko, “are designed forearth moving, agricultural and infra-structure tasks.”

An online database called “WhoProfits from the Occupation,” notesthat Zoko “[i]mports and marketsheavy mechanical equipment” andthat it represents Eaton in Israel.

ReferencesGovernment & Militarywww.eaton.com/Eaton/ProductsServices/ProductsbyMarket/Government/index.htm

2011 World’s Most Ethical Companiesethisphere.com/past-wme-honorees/wme2011/

Eaton Corporationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton_Corporation

Contracts to Eaton Corp.www.fedspending.org/fpds/search.php

Aerospacewww.eaton.com/Eaton/ProductsServices/ProductsbyCategory/Aerospace/

Government Contracts USA Defense Dep’twww.governmentcontractswon.com

Craig Arnold, “Introduction to Eaton's Aero-space Operations,” May 2006.www.eaton.com/ecm/groups/public/@pub/@eaton/@corp/documents/content/98067157.pdf

UH60 Black Hawkwww.eaton.com/Eaton/ProductsServices/ProductsbyMarket/Government/Aerospace/UH60BlackHawk/index.htm

Heinemann Sales Reps - EMEAwww.eaton.com/EatonCom/Markets/Electrical/Products /CircuitProtection/DCHydraulicMagnetic

CircuitBreakers/SalesRepsEMEA/index.htm

International Distributorswww.eaton.com/Electrical/USA/ProductsandServices/AutomationandControl/VehicleandCommercialControls/InternationalDistributors/index.htm

STG Internationalwww.stggroup.co.il

Defense Products and Worldwide Operationswww.zoko.co.il/english/List.aspx?Item=756

Milestones in the history of Zoko Enterpriseswww.zoko.co.il/english/Article.aspx?Item=727

Zoko Enterpriseswww.whoprofits.org/Company%20Info.php?id=707

Hydraulic Motorswww.zoko.co.il/english/Article.aspx?Item=1083

Hydraulic Steering Systemswww.zoko.co.il/english/Article.aspx?Item=1017

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