Engineering plants are the backbone of national economic development, utilized in various industries such as energy generation, marine, petrochemical, construction, shipbuilding, pharmaceutical, food, logistics, iron and steel, and environment. In this situation, the role of SYPLANTEC (CEO Kwangjin Shin), as a driving force in the development of the domestic plant industry, has become even more important. Located in Tongjin-eup, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, SYPLANTEC is a plant and engineering services company that was launched in 2019 as an offshoot of engineering design and construction company Ssangyong Youngwol Sanki. The company inherited the technology and know-how of Ssangyong Youngwol Sanki, which has accumulated many achievements over 60 years, starting in 1962 in the Machinery Division of Ssangyong C&E (formerly Ssangyong Yanghoe), where it worked on cement facility renovation and maintenance and plant construction. Based on this, the company develops plant & engineering business optimized for each industry in a differentiated way with specialized technology and systematic business processes for kiln, dryer, and crushing plant facilities.

▲ SYPLANTEC / CEO Kwangjin Shin

Transforming domestic plant technology by partnering with large companies across industries

SYPLANTEC is different from companies that copy competitors’ equipment or simply manufacture plant equipment according to given drawings. When a company receives a request to manufacture equipment, it first carefully understands the customer’s industry characteristics, purpose of building the equipment, production items, and quality conditions. Afterwards, the company designs plants according to customer needs and field conditions and provides an all-in-one engineering solution that covers manufacturing, installation, commissioning, diagnosis, maintenance, repair work. This is SYPLANTEC’s core competitiveness and growth know-how. The company has strengths in total plant engineering as well as maintenance. Based on its accumulated experience and know-how, the company provides maintenance services for kilns, dryers, coolers, and crushing facilities, as well as large reducers and rotating machinery, and provides differentiated services based on its specialized technology for kiln alignment. Recognized for its outstanding technology, the company developed two shaft-type lime kilns with a daily processing capacity of 150 tons in collaboration with Baekkwang Materials, which produces lime products. The company manufactured and installed a 500-ton-per-day lightweight aggregate rotary kiln for South East Power Company and a rotary kiln for POSCO’s Gwangyang plant, manufactured and delivered a PCC Slurry Plant Agitator to Hansol Paper, and manufactured and installed a POSCO coke oven Co2 blowing demonstration facility. In addition, the company built an eco-friendly calcium carbonate demonstration facility for Hyundai Oilbank, remodeled a metal CFRP rebar pultrusion molding machine at the Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology, built a kiln and drying facility related to batteries of a large company, and manufactured and delivered coating plant equipment to a Vietnamese company. The company is leading technological innovation in the domestic plant engineering field by completing numerous projects through collaboration with large companies, including contributing to carbon neutrality through CO2 reduction exhaust gas facilities built at POSCO, Hyundai Oilbank, and Hansol Paper.

Expanding into the fields of ESG management, technological advancement, and eco-friendly resource renewal

As a result, SYPLANTEC, which has acquired a wealth of experience and a large amount of technical data in various industries, is advancing its technology in existing business fields and expanding into the fields of research and development of new business that will lead the future and eco-friendly resource recycling. In order to internalize ESG management, a global trend, the company has recently been working on developing new technologies for plants where the environment and people coexist. The company has developed SCR pilot facilities with the Korea Institute of Limestone & Advanced Materials and is developing technologies to reduce CO2 emissions from steel mills and power plants, and CO2 reaction hardening cement manufacturing technologies in cooperation with various research institutes, including the KITECH. The company also actively invests in research and development of future new technologies and new businesses, such as electrically conductive heating concrete, heating cables and fluorescent concrete, and smart farm facilities with excellent cost performance, utilizing graphene and nanotubes, which have emerged as dream new materials, to remove black ice from roads. SYPLANTEC plans to focus on resource recycling and resource circulation business, also known as urban mining. This is a resource recycling business that separates and reuses rare metals needed for industry from discarded batteries, mobile phones, and electronic products, and is the basis for realizing a circular economy, an eco-friendly economic model that conserves natural resources, reduces energy consumption, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. CEO Kwangjin Shin says “Another goal of ours is to develop an advanced resource recovery system and bring it to the design field.” Meanwhile, the company is carrying out national research projects related to CO2 reduction facilities and national research projects on the development of CO2 reduction cement manufacturing and secondary product production technologies. As a result of these efforts, SYPLANTEC has been awarded patents for a two-stage vertical centrifugal classifier, a sludge supply system for flue gas desulfurization plants, a silo with load cells, a feed pipe with an externally protected insulation structure, a rotary kiln alignment management method, and an AI-based environmental facility and industrial plant management service system for ESG management. The company has been certified as a management innovation type (Main Biz), technology innovation type (Inno Biz) small business, and venture business by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, as well as ISO9001 (Quality Management System) and 14001 (Environmental Management System).

Doubled year-over-year growth due to technical sales focus, quality and service recognition

Focused on technical sales, SYPLANTEC has a reputation in the plant industry for its professionalism, technical capabilities, and high quality of maintenance services, and has been growing rapidly, with sales doubling every year since 2019. The company, which has created various social values through its plant & engineering business, was selected as a ‘Gyeonggi-do Job Excellence Company’ in recognition of its employment, worker welfare, and growth potential. The company is committed to creating jobs, promoting employee welfare, and creating stable working conditions in order to live up to its title as a Job Excellence Company. CEO Shin is a person with a positive mindset and a strong spirit of challenge, with a management philosophy of “everything starts with people.” He is constantly pursuing change and innovation, laying the foundation for SYPLANTEC to become a strong company in the plant industry with the best technology, and fulfilling his corporate social responsibility by participating in sharing.

“We will contribute to reducing the dependence of large corporations on overseas plants and increasing their competitiveness in the global market.”

CEO Shin emphasizes “It is time for domestic conglomerates that are highly dependent on offshore for their plants to change their perception and upgrade. Global overseas companies have their own manufacturing facilities, while domestic conglomerates have a complete separation between manufacturing products and manufacturing facilities, which is the most vulnerable point. In the case of kilns, in the past, people worked according to the set kiln, but now, due to the diversification of industries and advanced quality conditions, a kiln suitable for the production system must be installed. Therefore, working with SYPLANTEC, which has sufficient experience in various industries, engineering design capabilities, and a high understanding of equipment mechanisms, will bring optimal results.”

SYPLANTEC’s ultimate goal is to meet the needs of customers in all industries by continuously accumulating engineering know-how and data for specialized equipment manufacturing such as kilns and material processing equipment, and by advancing its technology, and to play a role in strengthening the foundation of industry. Shin says “We will help large companies reduce their dependence on offshore plant technology and increase their competitiveness in the global market. We will accelerate the realization of NET-ZERO by building eco-plant infrastructure out of awareness of the climate crisis and providing the technologies we have developed to companies that require CO2-reducing plants.”