With the advent of folding smart phones, the competition for the Colorless Polymide (CPI) film industry, the key material for the folding screen, is also getting hotter. SKC subsidiary SKC announced the launch of the CPI Investment Plan, Kolon Industries started a confrontation with South Korean media Heraldcorp reported that SKC recently announced plans to start production of CPI at its Zhencheon plant in Chungcheongbuk-do and has recently moved into new equipment to formally launch the CPI business. The industry forecast that the folding mobile phone Expected to be launched in 2018 and 2019, CPI filmmakers are speeding up mass production in order to seize a new generation of panel markets. In addition to SKC, SKC hi-tech & marketing, which is responsible for film processing such as high-hardness coatings, also started the investment and SKC expects to invest 85 billion won (about 79.685 million US dollars), the target 2021 won the CPI film market accounted for 30% share of the industry. The industry's first CPI Kolon Industries into research and development in 2006, finally leading the global production plan in 2016, Investment 90 billion won to build the production line has been completed and is expected to enter trial production in the first quarter of 2018. Earlier SKC and Kolon Industrial to expand the CPI market size, funded the establishment of SKC Kol on PI, forming a cooperative and competitive relationship. SKC by years of experience in the production of colored film, in a short period of time has successfully developed CPI technology, the current focus on improving the initial mass production yield, SKC pointed out that the CPI process and Similar to the colored film, it is expected to reduce problems in the early stages of production and move quickly to a stable stage. SKC CPI Director Gold Jinjing said SKC will use past production experience to obtain CPI production approval in the shortest time and provide the customer Supply, enter the official mass production will be the first to produce prototype products to confirm the initial market demand. In addition to SKC Kolon PI, SKC and Mitsui Chemicals (Mitsui Chemical) joint venture set up MCNS (Mitsui Chemical & SKC Polyurethanes) performance is not Popular and synchronous drive SKC operating profit growth, SKC in recent years through joint work with different industries, to expand the effectiveness of cooperation at the same time, deepen the layout of different markets.
