▲ Head of SK Innovation Institute of Environmental Science & Technology Lee Seong-jun, (second from left) and Silicon Foundry CEO Neal Hansch (third from left) take a group photo at SK Innovation’s Open Innovation Post opening ceremony held on November 15 (local time) at Silicon Foundry headquarters in San Francisco, U.S.   With the goal ...

■ SKIET signs a business MOU and holds an executive meeting with VinES, the electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer of Vingroup, the largest private corporation in Vietnam ■ VinES aims to expand its EV battery business beyond the borders of Vietnam, with VinFast’s US factory complex in 2024 ■ Roh Jae-sok, CEO of SKIET, said, ...

On July 22 (KST), SK On announced its plans to jointly invest in establishing a cathode material production facility in North America in partnership with global automaker Ford Motor Company and cathode material manufacturer EcoPro BM. The cathode is an essential battery material that crucially affects battery performance.   The three companies recently signed a ...

The joint venture officially established for battery mass-production at three factories in Kentucky, Tennessee, from 2025   BlueOval SK, a joint venture between SK On and global automaker Ford Motor Company for manufacturing electric vehicle (EV) batteries, is poised to move to its next phase. The two companies secured a key bridgehead to preoccupy the ...

▲ A Ford’s F-150 Lightning pickup truck that uses SK On’s NCM9 battery cell (Image source: Ford’s homepage)   After the official launching of Ford’s F-150 Lightning, the electric model of F-150, on April 26 (US local time), the fleet is gaining massive popularity and delivery to customers is currently on the way with great ...

■ Vice Chairman Kim Jun delivered a keynote speech at the “SKI Global Forum,” held in San Jose, the U.S., on June 11 and 12 (local time)   ■ “Pushing forward with the business portfolio in electrification and recycling areas for the future growth”   ■ SK Innovation plans to continue activities to build successful ...

  “In 2021, almost 6.5 million new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered globally, which is about 108% more than the 3.1 million in 2020.” These are the numbers mentioned in the latest report released on Feb 2 by InsideEVs, quoting EV-Volumes data. It is undeniable that the world is taking big shift into electric vehicles ...

▲ COP26 took place in Glascow, Scotland, from Oct 31 to Nov 12, 2021. (Photo: https://ukcop26.org/)   COP, which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’, is a series of United Nations climate change conferences that review progress made by members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to limit climate change 2021 ...

■ CEO of SKGC Na Kyung-soo accelerates global activities to build a carbon-neutral & plastic circular economy – CEO Na and other executives visited three partner companies in North America to speed up securing three major chemical recycling technologies – Conducted due diligence on eco-friendly technologies and factories, and discussed specific cooperative plans with partner executives ...

  Kim Yu-jin: Hello, everyone! Did you enjoy the trip to Singapore with me last time? Today, I am back to bring you to another exciting online tour! Let me introduce today’s panel.   Lee Ye-ttul: Hello. I’m Lee Ye-ttul in the Packaging Biz Strategy Chapter of SK Geo Centric (SKGC).   Kim Yu-jin: Thank ...

Trick or Treat!   Welcome back to the 2nd episode of CoCo’s Vlog, a series of videos recorded by SK Innovation’s Global Communication Coordinators.   CoCo is a nickname combined the two first syllables of Communication and Coordinator, who promote communication to connect SK Innovation’s global business sites and the headquarters.   Through the records ...

■ SK Innovation signed a joint development agreement and memorandum of understanding with Solid Power, a leading US company in all-solid-state battery cell development, on Oct. 28, 2021…Committed to invest USD 30 million into Solid Power ■ Aims to develop all-solid-state batteries with an energy density of at least 930Wh/L – Approximately 33% higher than ...