Former policeman Lin Kuo-lung, together with his wife, who worked at a towel factory, founded SL Towel in 1979. The twin rows of sweetgum trees they planted in front of the factory still stand erect today, having stood with the company through the trials of its three-decade history.
民國 68 年，原擔任警察的林國隆與在毛巾廠工作的老婆，自行創立興隆毛巾廠，迄今已有 30 年歷史，兩排在創廠之初就種下的楓香樹，與工廠一起走過慘澹歲月，如今依然挺立。