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| Apr. 1979 |
Samyang General Research Institute established. |
| Oct. 1981 |
Granted recognition by Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) |
| Jan. 1986 |
Awarded government's Gold Tower Industrial Order of Merit |
| Oct. 1986 |
Selected as research institute able to host military conscripts. |
| May 1991 |
Construction begins on new building in the Daedeok Science Town. |
| Sep. 1992 |
Name changed to Samyang Central R&D, Pharmaceutical Research Center established. |
| Aug. 1993 |
Relocated to Daedeok Science Town |
| Oct. 1994 |
Medical suture won Patent Technology Award. |
| Feb. 1995 |
Hosted international academic symposium. |
| May 1997 |
Earned the Jang Yeongsil Award for the biodegradeable surgical suture TRISORB. |
| Oct. 1997 |
Earned the Jang Eun Award for PET-based high elasticity yarn |
| May 2000 |
First Annual GEOGRID Technology Seminar held. Pharmaceutical Research Center integrated into the Samyang Central Research Center, which is organized as an independent business unit. |
| Oct. 2000 |
Name changed to Samyang Central R&D Center. |
| Jun. 2001 |
Plastic optical fiber joint
venture R&D company, Digital Optronics Corp.
established in Florida, USA. |
| Mar. 2002 |
Insoluble Drug Delivery System
won Ji Seogyeong Award from KIPO |
| Apr. 2002 |
Samyang Research Corporation
established in Utah, USA. |
| Jun. 2002 |
Samyang's Geogrid selected as one of the country's Top 100 Superior Products by KIPO and Han'guk Ilbo. |
| May. 2003 |
Reorganization to establish
R&D Planning and IP team, and Biology &
Clinical
Pharmacology Lab. |
| Jun. 2004 |
GEOGRID certified for ‘Reliability
Mark’ by MOICE (Korea, government) |
| Nov. 2004 |
Seminar held celebrating Samyang’s
80th anniversary |
| Jan. 2006 |
Samyang Central R&D Center
divided into Pharmaceutical R&D, Advanced Polymeric
Materials R&D, and Industrial Materials R&D.
TRIGRID® EX certified for GCI-PCP assurance
(Industrial Materials R&D) |
| Nov. 2006 |
Hosted Society of Polymer Engineering,
Korea (Advanced Polymeric Materials R&D),
Certified
by MOHC (Korea, government) as Medicluster Research
Group with Asan Medical Center (Pharmaceutical R&D) |
| Jan. 2007 |
TRIGRID® EX Plant certified
as ISO9001 complaint (Industrial Materials R&D) |
| Feb. 2007 |
GENEXOL-PM™ (next generation
anti-cancer agent using Paclitaxel, injection) marketed
(Pharma R&D, Pharma BU) |
| Feb. 2007 |
PC, PC/ABS, TPEE assured as
General Motors (US) global automobile components
(Advanced Polymeric Materials R&D) |
| Mar. 2007 |
CVJB material for automobile
subunits developed
(Advanced Polymeric Materials R&D) |
| Apr. 2007 |
Received CE Certificate for TRIGRID¢ē EX
(Industrial Materials R&D)
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| Dec. 2007 |
ISO/TS 16949 Certified
(Advanced Polymeric Materials R&D)
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