| SK Innovation started its EV battery business 38 years ago   Electric vehicle (EV) battery industry is emerging as the next leading business of Korea after the semiconductors business. Much like Korea’s other major industries such as electronics, vehicles, semiconductors and petrochemicals which achieved success after long preparation, the EV battery industry did ...

  “Lightweight” is now among the hottest global trends of the automotive market! With increasing interest in eco-friendliness related matters such as carbon emissions restrictions, people are actively searching for new materials to make lightweight vehicles. We have found a solution by using plastics, but how do they work? What do we have? Let’s find ...

  Magazine SK, the company newsletter of SK Group, has recently published the article, “SK’s Technological Independence achieved in the World market” which discussed the leading technologies currently in possession of SK affiliates.   Among the many technologies of affiliated companies brought by SK Group’s Deep Change strategy, SK ie technology(SKIET), a material business subsidiary ...

  SK Innovation is drawing the industry’s attention as it seeks to become the first company to commercialize the technology to retrieve lithium hydroxide (LiOH)(1) from the cathodes of spent batteries of electric vehicles. (1) Lithium hydroxide is more efficient for high-capacity lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide (NMC) than lithium carbonate, and its supplies and price volatility may increase ...