16 November 25, 2007

A JARN reporter visited the Siam

Compressor Industry Co.,Ltd.(SCI)
during the Bangkok RHVAC Expo in
September, inquiring the factory.
SCIs factory is located in Chon-
buri province, on the eastern side of
Thailand. The coast line continues
along the Gulf of Thailand and is
120 km east of Bangkok. Nearby, the
factory is at the Port Laem Chabang
which is well known as a trade port,
and the area around the factory is also
famous as an industrial zone. Agricul-
ture, manufacturing and tourism are
also active.
SCI is supplying compressors to
markets in 45 countries across the
world. Established as a joint venture
company between Mitsubishi Electric
Corp. (MELCO) and Siam Cement
Group(SCG) backed by Thailands
royal family.
SCI commenced production of
Thailands 1st rotary compressors,
and since has continued to expand the
business. By constructing the 2nd fac-
tory in 1995, in 2002 SCI constructed
the 3rd factory, starting production of
Frame Compliant Scroll compressors
with highly advanced technologies.
Siam Compressor Industry Co., Ltd.
- Create Next Generation by Advanced
Technology and Customer Orientation -
Siam Compressor Industry
ferentiated from competitors. For this
purpose, we are taking various man-
agement steps. That is, improvement/
innovation for realizing products by
systematically seizing the whole of
corporate activities from development
to procurement, production, sales, ac-
counting and infrastructure, then they
may lead to become Being one.
As a milestone along this corpo-
rate philosophy, it may be cited that,
for the frst time as a compressor man-
ufacturer in Thailand, SCI received
TPM (Total Productive Maintenance)
Award from JIPM (Japan Institute of
Plant Maintenance) in 2006. Recently
Toyota Thailand and the other auto-
mobile concerned manufacturers have
visited SCI to observe the TPM sys-
tem.
Responding to t he sit uation in
which the global warming issue is at-
tracting international attention. SCI is
expanding the high effciency series
and particularly reinforcing the larger
capacity models with high effciency.
Inverter driven compressors, in par-
ticular, will play an important part in
solving problems in the way of ACs
such as crude oil / raw material price
rises and regulations of energy saving.
SCI is producing and shipping the
TNB series twin rotary compressors
covering 2 - 4 hp, and the ANB series
scroll compressors covering 3 - 10 hp
as high-end models. Also, SCI offers
a combination of plural units to meet
applications requiring over 10 hp. The
ANB series scroll compressors are
variable speed units using R410A and
having the worlds highest effciency.
These compressors will be increas-
ingly adopted in various types of AC
equipment which are required to use
alternative refrigerant and realize high
effciency.
SCIs product ion recorded 2.2
million units in 2006. The current
production capacity is 3 million units,
including 0.4 million scroll compres-
sors.
Both energy and global warming
issues are affecting markets in many
countries and regions, and, because
of this, high reliability and effciency
are becoming major requirements for
ACs to survive severe competition.
Since fuctuations of AC markets are
Factory site area: 166,400 m
2

Factory building area: 40,500 m
2

Employees: 1,960 in 2007
Mr. Susumu Kawaguchi, Managing Director
TPM Award
Mr. Shigeru Shida, Marketing Director and
Mr.Panthep Krairiksh, Deputy Marketing Di-
vision Manager (from left)
Mr.Susumu Kawaguchi, Managing
Director, says,We are endeavoring to
further evolve our technologies based
on MELCOs advancing technological
knowhow, so as to offer to our cus-
tomers, compressors which can be dif-
increasing year after year, it is also
required to meet demand timely. SCI
has taken steps to quickly meet mar-
ket fuctuations and changeg by pre-
paring high effciency models using
alternative refrigerant, and also en-
deavoring to improve their application
technologies said Mr.Shigeru Shida,
Marketing Director.
MELCOs Compressor Business
Unit has three production bases.
1. Shizuoka Works in Japan.
Products ; Inverter rotary compres-
sors for R410A,and rotary for CO2 &
R134a.
2. MGC ( Mi t s ubi s hi El ect r i c
Guangzhou Compressor Ltd. ) in
China.
Products ; Rotary compressors for
China domestic market.
3. SCI in Thailand.
Products ; Rotary and scroll com-
pressors for all of the world market.
In the case of development and pro-
duction, MELCO Compressor Business
Unit team activates the improvements
of technologies on MELCOs extensive
range of technologies for artifcial satel-
lites, semiconductors, factory automa-
tion equipments, heavy electrical appli-
ances and home electric appliances.
In the mean time, the joint ven-
ture agreement between MELCO and
SCG was cancelled in 2001,and SCI
became a fully-owned subsidiary of
MELCO. However, corporate culture
of SCG has harmonized with MEL-
COs management based on advancing
technologies, thus continuing to form
the strong foundation of SCI.
SCI, which may be said to form
a Green industrial city, is situated in
an environment rich land, just being
worthy of a factory aiming to manu-
facture environment friendly products.
SCI obtained the ISO 9001 in 1994,
obtained ISO 14001 in 1997, begin-
ning production of compressors for
R407C. In the same year SCI also
opened Southeast Asias 1 st R&D
Center for compressors, further re-
inforcing the capacity for developing
improved compressors and air condi-
tioner (AC) application technologies.
To these activities, SCI had the honor
of receiving the Millennium Business
Award for Environmental Achieve-
ment from the United Nation Environ-
mental Program (UNEP) in Budapest,
Hungary.
R&D Center
Assembly Line
Machining Shop
Rotary compressor
cut
Scroll compressor
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R410A New DC Inverter Scroll Compressor,
ANB33FCMMT
Products:
Rotary Compressor
R, P, N, T series : 7,500 - 44,000 Btu/h
with Inverter : 4,000 -48,000 Btu/h
Refrigerant : R22, R407C, R410A
Scroll Compressor
A, B series : 25,000 - 75,000 Btu/h
with Inverter : 12,000 - 120,000Btu/h
Refrigerant : R22, R407C, R410A
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