Kiturami Bumyung Cooling Selected as Quality Competitiveness Excellent Company for 15 Consecutive Years

Active R&D Investment Including Establishment of World's Largest 3500CRT-Class Cooling Tower Laboratory, Global-Level Quality Competitiveness

Exterior view of the 'Gwitdurami Heating and Cooling Technology Research Institute' located in Magok-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. [Photo by Gwitdurami Group]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] Kiturami Group announced on the 24th that its refrigeration and air conditioning subsidiary, Kiturami Beomyang Cooling Co., Ltd., was selected as a Quality Competitiveness Excellent Company for the 15th consecutive year at the 48th National Quality Management Competition hosted by the National Institute of Technology and Standards under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and organized by the Korea Standards Association.

The Quality Competitiveness Excellent Company system selects companies that excel in quality innovation, customer satisfaction, and management performance, supporting continuous quality management activities across the industry. After undergoing the 13-item Quality Competitiveness Assessment System (QCAS), companies that score over 900 points based on on-site evaluations by a panel of quality management experts from industry, academia, and research institutes are selected as Quality Competitiveness Excellent Companies.

Since its founding in 1963, Kiturami Beomyang Cooling has been a leading company driving industrial development by successfully domesticating products in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector such as air conditioners, refrigerators, air handling units, cooling towers, and blowers for over half a century. In the refrigeration and air conditioning field, once considered a barren area in domestic industry, it acquired advanced technologies through steady technical partnerships with leading overseas companies. At the same time, through continuous R&D efforts, it produces high-performance, high-efficiency products that have obtained major domestic and international certifications such as KOLAS certification, AMCA certification, CTI certification, KS standards, AS mark, EM mark, CE mark, ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, KEPIC certification, KARSE certification, and high-efficiency equipment certification.

Kiturami Beomyang Cooling has enhanced product reliability by establishing a 'New Quality Management System' based on various quality innovation activities including cost reduction for productivity improvement, human resource optimization, investment in research and development, and facility investment.

Furthermore, it has secured world-class quality competitiveness by actively investing in R&D, such as establishing a high-precision performance laboratory equivalent to the internationally accredited testing institution KOLAS (Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme) certification and the world's largest comprehensive capacity 3500CRT (cooling ton) class cooling tower laboratory.

Not only domestically but also through continuous overseas market development, it has supplied refrigeration and air conditioning equipment and technology beyond the Asian region including Dubai, Kuwait, Vietnam, and China to Africa, South America, and Europe, winning the industry's first 30 million dollar export tower award in 2013.

Recognizing these efforts and achievements, Kiturami Beomyang Cooling received the 'National Quality Innovation Award Presidential Citation' in 2017 and was inducted into the 'Hall of Fame' in 2018, an honor reserved for companies selected as Quality Competitiveness Excellent Companies more than 11 times.

A Kiturami Group official stated, "We will further develop quality management by focusing on technology investment in R&D and quality innovation, contributing to national industrial development with the best technology and product facilities," adding, "Going forward, Kiturami Group will continue to establish itself as a comprehensive heating and cooling energy group representing Korea beyond boilers through relentless technological and quality innovation."

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