- Business
- SJM Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells automotive and industrial flexible products, including expansion joints, hoses, and couplings, primarily serving the automobile, shipbuilding, power generation, petrochemical, and new energy sectors in South Korea and internationally. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Ansan-si, South Korea, the company, formerly known as Sung Jin Machinery Co., Ltd. until its name change in November 1996, offers a comprehensive range of core products such as welded parts; conventional, self-supporting, thermal compensating, EGR, turbo noise decoupling, truck, and industrial engine flex tubes; LNG carrier, FSRU, FPSO, bunkering, re-gasification unit, dual fuel engine, tank, and terminal expansion joints; gas and steam turbine, HRSG-casing, inlet/outlet non-metal bellows, BFPT-duct, condenser inlet/outlet, cooling water, utility piping-rubber hoses, flexible hoses, and fittings; petrochemical applications including styrene monomer, FCC residue fluid catalytic cracking units, naphtha cracking centers, aromatics, carbon black delayed cokers, propane dehydrogenation, purified terephthalic acid, sulphuric acid regeneration, and heat exchangers; pump connectors, bellows types, slip joints, multi and CB joints; MTU components; water supply and sewage products; new mobility solutions for electric and fuel cell electric vehicles; and high-tech products for aerospace, hyper-speed transportation, and nuclear fusion powerplants. Geographically, SJM operates through subsidiaries and joint ventures including SJM NA Inc. in the United States, SJMFLEX Morocco SARL AU in Morocco, SJM Japan Office in Japan, SJMFLEX de Mexico de RL de CV in Mexico, SJM GmbH in Germany, SJM FLEX (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia, SJM FLEX SA (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa, Shanghai SJM in China, and Changsha and Yantai corporations in China. Recent developments include the acquisition of startup MH Technologies, an electric vehicle cooling solution firm, in December of an earlier year followed by a joint venture SJMH EV in the subsequent May; establishment of a Morocco subsidiary in the same May; a joint venture with MH in January; TISAX certification acquisition in December; AS/EN 9100 certification in June; ISO 45001 certification in August; joining the UN Global Compact in May; IATF 16949 certification in February; CI change in September; independent Mexico subsidiary in March; Japan office in May; and successful localization of LNG carrier expansion joints along with U-Stamp certification from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.