Cheil Industries was established on July 15, 1954 as the precursor of Samsung Group. It began with textile businessand has lead Korea’s textile industry. Today, Cheil Industries added men’s apparel and casual clothing businessesin 1983 and has grown into Korea’s greatest total fashion company that extends from textile production to wardrobeproduction.
Cheil Industries has been built upon "business patriotism," "manpower," and "reasonable administration" and has practiced its ideology to “Create the best products and services based on manpower and technologies to contribute to the mankind and the society” since 1993. This is the ambition of Cheil Industries to “produce world-class products and services that contribute to the mankind and the society” with open-minded, global manpower and true technologies. Cheil Industries will serve the people, the society, and the mankind in large by fulfilling its social and ethical responsibilities and sound corporate activities with global and future-oriented spirits.
In 1989, we realized the importance of new materials and established a factory in Yeosu to begin a new business in plastic materials. We have produced various highly functional plastic resins, such as ABS, PS, Engineering Plastics,and artificial marble. Our plastic materials are applied to monitors, TV, mobile phones, notebooks, OA devices,electronic appliances, and automobiles, and our high value-added plastics, such as anti-flame ABS, anti-flame HIPS,protruded ABS, PC, scratch-free resins, etc, are showing high market share throughout the world. Our artificial marble business recently introduced the world’s first transparent artificial marble and is gradually increasing profitability.
With our vision to foresee the potential of IT industry and “create key materials for Samsung’s high-tech products,” we introduced the EMC business for semiconductor packing in 1996. As of 2006, we are supplying various electronic materials, including semiconductor materials such as CMP, SWC, SOH, TOHM, and NSP, packaging materials such as DAF, EMC, and LE, display materials such as CR and PI, optical sheets/films such as polarizer, LGP, and diffuser, and mobile phone module materials such as EMS, FCCL, CR, and electrolyte. By 2015, we will grow into the leading global company in key ubiquitous materials.
Undergoing corporate transformation every 10 years, we have mastered textile and fashion industry and are leading the world’s first and best high technology. Today, we are concentrating on the chemical business for product design and the electronic material business for product innovation and are rapidly pursuing the reputation as world-class global company through innovative business platforms.