The SJEC Corporation factory has operated in Suzhou Industrial Park (China) since 1992. It makes lifts, escalators, moving walks and vehicle parking systems. We supply SJEC lifts and escalators to order, install them and take them on for maintenance. This section brings together data from the factory's documents: certificates, specifications and the finishes catalogue.
The factory in figures
According to the factory catalogue, the site covers 200,000 m² and the workshops 140,000 m², and the company employs 2,700 people. Annual capacity: 20,000 lifts and 10,000 escalators and moving walks. The factory sells its products in more than a hundred countries.
The catalogue sets out the history year by year. The first workshop started up in 1992, and from 1995 to 2004 a factory operated in Penang (Malaysia). In 2004 component production opened in Suzhou, followed a year later by new buildings with a 66.8 m test tower. A factory in Milan (Italy) appeared in 2008, the 140 m tower in 2009 and a component development and production centre in 2014.
Sheet metal is bent on a Salvagnini line and laser-cut, and the frames are welded by robots. The factory makes the traction machine, controller and doors itself and sources the variable frequency drive from Inovance. The management system is certified by DNV to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, and the factory laboratory is accredited by CNAS.
Among its technological achievements the catalogue lists lifts with speeds of 4 m/s (2005), 8 m/s (2012) and 10 m/s (2015), as well as an escalator with a rise of 33.5 m (2013). Almost half of the technical staff, 47%, work in the development division.
What the factory makes
SJEC builds its passenger lifts on two platforms. The M300 needs no machine room and covers rated loads of 450-2000 kg. The M670 is installed in buildings with a machine room above the shaft; its range is 320-2500 kg. Both run at speeds of up to 2.5 m/s. Tables of cars, shafts and pits are on the "M300 and M670 passenger lifts" page.
Both platforms use the same drive concept: a gearless permanent-magnet synchronous traction machine with variable frequency control. The controller is built as a single unit, with no separate logic board. The catalogue lists 36 standard functions and a further 47 alternative and optional ones, from automatic shaft learning to firefighter mode and remote monitoring.
The factory makes panoramic cars in square, semicircular and hexagonal shapes; they are built on the M300 platform. For people with disabilities the catalogue offers an auxiliary operating panel, a handrail and buttons with tactile markings to EN 81-70.
For shopping centres the factory offers the FES352 escalator with a 600, 800 or 1000 mm step; the parameters and overall dimensions are on the "SJEC escalators" page. The finishes catalogue contains sixteen ready-made car designs, nine ceilings and five car operating panels, which are covered in the "Car finishes" section. For the shaft, power supply and common questions, see "Installation and customer questions".
EU certificates
Both platforms have 2026 EU type-examination certificates under the Lifts Directive 2014/33/EU. M300: No. 10.03.5841, EUROCERT S.A. (notified body 1128), issued on 03.02.2026 and valid from that date, standards EN 81-20:2020, EN 81-50:2020 and EN 81-70:2021+A1:2022. M670: No. F-0640/2/2026, ÉMI-TÜV SÜD (notified body 1417), issued on 12.02.2026. Each comes with a list of safety components and their own certificates. We carry out the Ukrainian conformity assessment under the Technical Regulation on Lifts on site.
Projects from the factory catalogue
In Europe the catalogue names the Nicolinehus and La Tour residential complexes in Denmark, the Wood Hotel and a hotel in Hemsedal in Norway, the Kristian IV building in Sweden, and shopping centres in Hamburg and Zlin. SJEC escalators operate in the metro systems of Cologne, Bonn, Seville and Sofia. The rest of the list: airports, hotels and residential complexes in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
What we do
We start with a free site survey of the shaft, pit, headroom and door openings. Based on its results we select the platform, rated load and car size, prepare the specification and agree the factory's installation drawing with the client. Then come supply, installation, commissioning, conformity assessment and maintenance.
We point out one detail of the specification straight away. In the factory's basic specification, rescue on power failure is gravity-based, whereas we install lifts with a battery-powered automatic rescue device (ARD), so we agree this configuration when the order is placed.
Catalogues
Both documents are in Ukrainian: the "SJEC - LIFTPORTAL" 2026 lift catalogue (PDF, 28 pages, 9 MB) with cars, ceilings, operating panels and a list of functions, and the "SJEC - LIFTPORTAL escalators" 2026 booklet (PDF, 8 pages, 1 MB) with the FES352 parameters.
For a preliminary answer, three numbers are enough: the shaft width, the shaft depth and the number of stops. Leave a request, and we will tell you which of the two platforms fits your shaft.
