With the successful development of PET film, in 1977, based on independent downstream technology, SKC pioneered a new dawn in the domestic film industry. Following the establishment of large-scale plants in Suwon and Georgia, USA, SKC has decided to invest in the Shenzhen plant in China, which will be furnished with a PET film production system capable of producing 300,000 tons by 2015. This bold move will raise the company?s profile as the global industry leader. SKC has also emerged as a global optical film company that produces functional films for LCD thanks to the development of reflective film and optical film for TFT-LCD backlight units. SKC was also the first in the world to mass produces environmentally-friendly, bio-compostable film, thus playing a leading role in realizing environment-friendliness in the film industry.