Citation
(2008), "Rohm and Haas Company and SKC Launch “SKC Haas Display Films”", Circuit World, Vol. 34 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.2008.21734aab.004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Rohm and Haas Company and SKC Launch “SKC Haas Display Films”
Rohm and Haas Company and SKC Launch “SKC Haas Display Films”
Joint venture executive leadership named
SKC Haas Display Films, a new joint venture between Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH) and SKC Company, Ltd, began operations in December 2007. Headquartered in South Korea, the company develops, manufactures, and markets advanced optical and functional films used in the flat panel display industry.
The formation of SKC Haas marks a major milestone for Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials and the growth of its Flat Panel Display Technologies business. Throughout 2007, the company has been investing to build a flat panel business that offers a suite of new products for LCDs and plasma displays. Earlier this year, Rohm and Haas acquired Eastman Kodak's Light Management Films business.
“SKC Haas represents a very important step in the growth of our Electronic Materials business,” said Dr Yi Hyon Paik, Vice President and Business Group Director, Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials. “We have been aggressively expanding our presence in the flat panel market, where we believe the combination of our materials expertise, the deep pipeline of technology from the Kodak Light Management Films acquisition, and the manufacturing capability of SKC Haas will position us extremely well in this growing space.”
Related to today's announcement, Rohm and Haas has appointed Dr Dominic Yang as the President and Business Unit Director for the company's Flat Panel Display Technologies business. He is currently the President and Business Unit Director for Rohm and Haas's Microelectronic Technologies business, and brings more than 20 years of technical and commercial experience in the semiconductor industry to this new role. Dr Yang was recently appointed a Vice President of Rohm and Haas Company.
Mr Meoung-Han Kim is the President and CEO of SKC Haas Display Films. He has held senior leadership positions at SKC, Incorporated during his career, and most recently served as the managing director of SKC's Display Division. Mr Kim is a respected leader in the display industry, and brings more than 25 years of film and display industry experience to SKC Haas.
Products developed, manufactured and marketed by SKC Haas Display Films include a suite of advanced specialty display films for liquid crystal (LCD) and plasma displays. The JV also will include dispersions of pigments, key ingredients used to manufacture LCD color filter resists. In addition to these films and materials, Rohm and Haas's Flat Panel Display Technologies business develops and manufactures a variety of products for the display industry, including TFT photoresists and color filter chrome patterning.