MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Korean SK Chemicals holding company intends to become a resident of the petrochemical cluster in Primorye, as per press release of official site of the Primorsky Territory Administration.
Alexey Starichkov, the Director of the Department of International Cooperation an Tourism Development of the Primorsky Territory had a meeting with Kim Dae-Su, the Managing Director of the Department of SK Chemicals (the Republic of Korea) global business. The parties discussed petrochemical cluster of Primorye forming progress and a possibility of Korean holding company involving.
According to Alexey Starichkov, the anchor project of a future cluster in the Partizansk district will be “EPCC” company. Also, the Administration of Primorye together with the largest world developer – Singaporean Jurong corporation – will create a site near the “EPCC” plant, which will create re-refining products.
Mr. Kim, in his turn, noted that SK Chemicals today intends to expand business building up production in the Far East of Russia, and the petrochemical cluster in Primorye is an appropriate site for this purpose.
He told that SK Chemicals today is one of the biggest South Korean companies of petrochemical industry and film production, and also holds world leading positions in production of polyols, propylene oxides and polyurethane.
In particular, in Primorye SK Chemicals intends to create products required in automobile manufacturing.
Alexey Starichkov noted that on the basis of Sollers company it is planned to manufacture 75 thousand of motor-cars per year by 2016. Also car parts manufacturing will be conducted on the company basis.
In addition to that in 400 kilometers from Primorye it is located the world leader of motor-car production – the Chinese city Changchun. Over one million of motor-cars is manufactured there per a year.
As MRC wrote before, SK Chemicals will launch a joint venture (JV) with Japan's Teijin Chemicals for developing, producing and marketing a super-engineering plastic, polyphenylene sulfide (PPS). The proposed JV will set up PPS resin production plants to manufacture 12,000 tons per year (tpy) of PPS by 2015. The companies are also considering expanding the manufacturing capacity to 20,000tpy during the second phase of the project.
SK Global Chemical Co., Ltd. develops, produces, and supplies olefins, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, MBTE, and butene-1; aromatics. The company also provides polymers, including linear lower, medium, and high density polyethylene products; and home, impact, and random polypropylene products. It serves customers in South Korea and internationally. The company was founded in 1962 and is based in Seoul, South Korea with a sales office in Shanghai, China. SK Global Chemical Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
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