On November 12 and 24, the third and fourth rounds of the Group R&D Committee Meeting 2004 were held at SKIT and headquarters of SK Corporation, respectively. The third round meeting was attended by CTOs including Cho Jung-nam, Chairman of the Committee and Vice Chairman; Park Young-ho, Vice President; Park Sang-hoon, head of SKIT; and Lee Myung-sung, Managing Director of SKT. The CTOs discussed how to improve the R&D management infrastructure.
Before the meeting, the participants made a tour of laboratories at SKIT. They showed a great interest in the Diesel Particulate Filter, Lithium Ion Battery Separator Demo Plant, and patented ATA-11 catalyst technology.
At the fourth round meeting held at headquarters of SK Corporation, Chairman Chey Tae-won said, “Looking back on the history of SK Group, R&D was our growth engine most of the time, except for the M&A period.” He also said that the company’s R&D management infrastructure has been improved compared to the beginning of the year. He emphasized that R&D is an area where significant results can be achieved through the application of the New SKMS and asked each R&D organizaitons to create future growth engines by learning from each other and realizing synergy.