The Small Industry Centre (SIC) is a project Division of SME Corporation. SIC was initially established by the Department of Commerce and Industry, and later transferred to SME Corporation. Its main purpose was to promote the development of cottage industries and appropriate technology transfers under various policies of the Go-PNG. Today it operates as a commercial leather production arm of SME Corporation. At present, the production facility at the SIC is employed in the production and commercialization of leather products within the domestic market to various categories of local clients. The SIC’s current flagship leather products include:
1. Cowboy hats
2. Leather sandals
3. Leather Wallets 
4. leather bags
5. leather belt, and 
6. Leather dog leads and leashes.

At this stage, production is mostly manually based and employs 14 staff. Although, the new shoe making machines were successfully installed in 2015 in a newly built factory in order to produce quality leather products, machines. SME Corporation has been negotiating with the Korean Supplier to have its representative sent to PNG to provide a hands-on training to the staff. To date, the supplier has not favorably responding to our request.