Chokwang Jotun Ltd.

Chokwang Jotun Ltd. was founded as a joint venture company between Chokwang Paint and Jotun. Since our founding in 1988, we have remained as a leader in the development of innovative coating solutions for supporting marine, offshore, buildings and plant industry.
Marine Coatings:
Chokwang Jotun supplies the world-class marine coatings for newbuilding, dry-dock, maintenance & repair, and plant industry. In excess of 20,000 vessels throughout the world are protected by Jotun.
Protective Coating:
We provide protective coatings for offshore and subsea structures, support vessels, drillship, drilling rigs and FPSOs. The field of onshore activity includes structures in the industries of Oil&Gas, Power, Infrastructure, and Industrial.
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Chokwang Jotun
Chokwang Jotun Ltd.
Chokwang Jotun Ltd. was founded as a joint venture company between Chokwang Paint and Jotun. Since our founding in 1988, we have remained as a leader in the development of innovative coating solutions for supporting marine, offshore, buildings and plant industry.
Marine Coatings:
Chokwang Jotun supplies the world-class marine coatings for newbuilding, dry-dock, maintenance & repair, and plant industry. In excess of 20,000 vessels throughout the world are protected by Jotun.
Protective Coating:
We provide protective coatings for offshore and subsea structures, support vessels, drillship, drilling rigs and FPSOs. The field of onshore activity includes structures in the industries of Oil&Gas, Power, Infrastructure, and Industrial.Location
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Vision & Mission
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Vision Jotun Protects Property
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Mission Provide customers with quality products and technical service
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Partnership management We build up a long-term relationship and grow with our customers
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Green Focus The ISO 14001 certificate has enabled us to plan environmentally
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Jotun Penguins We need open-minded New Penguins
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President Message
Thank you for visiting Chokwang Jotun’s website.
Chokwang Jotun Ltd is a joint venture company between Cho Kwang Paints and Jotun AS.
From a small sales company in 1988, there are by 2020 more than 336 employees in South Korea of which more than 60% are in field operation serving our customers while the balance in supporting functions. Close to 1,650 different types of vessels and numerous numbers of different Offshore and Onshore structures constructed in South Korea are protected with Jotun paints. In addition, major Korean Shipowners and Facilities Owners have entrusted their assets to Jotun’s products and services.
Key factors for our success are:- Strong Corporate culture based on the four basic values of Loyalty, Respect, Care, Boldness.
- Innovative Spirit and the ability to adapt to the highly competitive and changing business environment.
- Great Products and Solutions in the field of corrosion and fouling protection.
- A Global network of more than 10,000 dedicated Penguins from 100 companies.
- Strong and committed Korean Penguins.
The name Jotun comes from Nordic mythology where it means ‘giant’. And one of Norway’s highest mountain range is called Jotunheimen ( home of the giants).
In addition to being strong and tough, all Penguins of Chokwang Jotun demonstrates our value of Care to making a better world in more ways than one. From smaller projects like cleaning the stream of litter and debris four times a year to donating a portion of monthly salary to support various charitable causes. Penguins in Korea are also encouraged to perform 10 hours of community service a year. Finally our success would not have been possible without the trust and confidence from our customers. We thank our customers for the opportunity to serve them. And we will continue to work towards developing long term relationship with all our customers so as to achieve our vision of Jotun Protects Property.
Thank you.
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Our business
Our business
Meet Chokwang Jotun’s quality products and cost effective solutions meeting environmentally requirements and professional technical service.
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History
History
1988 Foundation of Chokwang Jotun Ltd. – A joint venture corporation 1992 Purchase of manufacture unit and production started 1996 Awarded the $10 million Export Tower Prize 1997 Acquired ISO 9002 Certificate 1998 Established the R&D center 1999 Established the Jotun F.E Regional laboratory 2003 Acquired ISO 9001 Certificate 2005 Acquired ISO 14001 Certificate 2006 Awarded the $50 million Export Tower Prize 2009 Opened Chokwang Jotun Busan factory 2010 Acquired OHSAS 18001 Certificate 2011 Awarded the $100 million Export Tower Prize 2014 Research & Development
Chokwang Jotun’s R&D Center is in charge of developing marine coatings, protective coatings and tank coatings (tank lining) of Asia.
There is a close co-operation with new product developments between us and the R&D headquater in Norway. - Find a Store