KOREA FLANGE CO., LTD. (KOFCO)

  • Company Name : Korea Flange Co., Ltd. 
  • CEO : Son, Jinhyun
  • Group : Seohan Group (http://www.seohan.com/company/affiliates_sub01.html)
  • Type of business : Manufacturing of the other new automotive parts
  • Business contents : Manufacturing automotive parts(brake/driving devise), flange(pipe fitting), steel structure, industrial machines
  • Form of company : KOSPI, Middle sized company, external audit corporation, export/import company
  • Established dated : 15th July 1974
  • Number of Employee : 476 (2019)
  • Sales turnover : KRW 540,075,840,000(2018)
  • Business profit : KRW 320,000,000(2018)
  • Capital : 30,450,420,000 KRW (2018)
  • Representative Tel. +82-52-233-5511
  • Web site: http://www.kofco.com/
  • Address : 2, Mipo 1-gil, Dong-gu, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

(Refer to site http://www.saramin.co.kr)

History :
(Copy and past from http://www.kofco.com/english/company/history.htm )

 
       
   
     Establishment of Mexican Corporation Seohan Auto Mexico
       
   
     Redeployment of Seohan R&D Center to Hwaseong
       
       
   
     Acquired OHSAS 18001(Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series)
       
   
     Establishment of American Corporation Seohan Auto USA
       
   
     Achieved ISSMA(International Standard System Management Award) Grand prize
       
   
     The Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merits 
 awarded for quality control at the National Quality 
 Control Competition
     
     Achieved ISSMA(International Standard System
 Management Award) Grand prize in the automobile
 division
 
   
    Recieved ‘one hundred million dollars export tower’
     
    National Quality Award in Value Innovation, Presidential Award
     
    Achieved KS Grand Award (Korea Standards Association Chairman)
     
    Award for National Quality Competitive of top 50 industry (Mister of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy)
     
    Establishment of Joint corporation with NTN in Peking
     
    Achieved ISSMA(International Standard System Management Award) Grand prize in the automobile division
 
   
    Opened 4 new plants (Automobile parts assemble plants)
 
   
    Commentated as exemplary tax payer (By Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of ministry of finance and economy)
 
   
    Acquired quality management system ISO9002 and QS9000(LRQA) certificate in the automobile parts division
       
       
   
    Initiated automobile parts export
     
    Acquired quality management system QS9000(LRQA) certificate in the automobile parts forging division
 
   
    Acquired quality management system ISO9002 and QS9000 certificate in the automobile parts division
 
   
    Achieved 100PPM for automobile parts
     
    Opened SEOHAN R&D center
 
   
    Acquired quality management system ISO 9002 certificate in the flange division
 
       
       
   
    Opened automobile parts plant (The third plant, automobile chassis parts)
     
    Commentated as exemplary tax payer
 
   
    Tin Tower Industrial Award in Excellent Quality Control
     
    Opened company to the public
 
   
    Received ‘twenty hundred million dollars export tower’
 
   
    Initiated automobile parts manufacture (Parts for commercial automobile)
 
   
    Received ‘one hundred million dollars export tower’
     
    Started manufacture of Pressure Vessel and high pressure pipes
 
   
    Commentated as exemplary corporate
 
   
    Opened forging plant (The second plant)
       
       
   
    Initiated manufacture of Industrial machinery
 
   
    Initiated manufacture of Steel structure
 
   
    Changed company name(Korea Flange Co., Ltd)
 
   
    Initiated manufacture of Flange
     
    Established corporate (Ulsan ironworks corporation)

 

About Products, refer to their website : http://www.kofco.com/english/product/autoparts.htm

02 l Outline  

 

 
 
KOFCO has received great remarks as the biggest national Halfshaft manufacturer with its excellent performance and the quality items through the latest automated lines. 

One of our products, AC-TJ is far better than general TJ from other manufactures with its durability and excellent NVH performance and in particular, Shudderless Joint, developed through the technical tie-up with NTN Japan, is the newest product to reduce the shaking of vehicles.
 
 

 

  03 l Characteristics per Each Type  

 

Section T/M shaft Wheel shaft
TJ SFJ DOJ BJ
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Characteristics Possible of sliding on shaft direction 
 Operating angles (20~30) 
 Excellent on NVH sides (less SLID’G resistance)		  Possible of sliding on shaft direction 
 Operating angles (2325) 
Excellent on G.A.F.performance 
 Excellent on NVH sides
Shudder(horizontally shaking) glass		 Possible of sliding on shaft direction 
Operating angles (20~30) 
 Shudder(horizontally shaking) glass		 Impossible of sliding on shaft direction 
Wide operating angles 
(40~ 50)
Applied Vehicles All vehicle kinds JM, NF, CM XD, GK,EF, XG, FO, SM, JM All vehicle kinds
English Title Tripod Joint Shudderless Free-ring Joint Double Offset Joint Birfield Joint