Kolon Industries is a Korean chemical and textile manufacturing company.

[3] In 2015 Kolon Industries opened a shopping mall built with shipping containers, the first of its kind in South Korea.

[5] Kolon Industries was the defendant in the lawsuit DuPont v. Kolon Industries, about the alleged theft of trade secrets concerning Kevlar.

The lawsuit was settled in 2015, with damages of US$275 million being paid to DuPont.

The company also pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to convert trade secrets, for which they will pay $85 million in criminal fines.