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516 2007 Korea Pharmaceutical Industry Directory
64. SK Chemicals
1. Company Information
Company SK Chemicals
Representative Kim, Chang-Geun E-mail
Representative
Representative
82-2-2008-2008
Phone No.
Fax No.
82-2-2008-2009
Hompage www.SKchemicals.com
Address 948-1,Daechi3-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-847,Korea
Research
Institute Address
600, Jeongja-dong, Jangan-gu,Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do
Year of
Establishment
1969 Sales (‘06) 256.3 Million$
The Number of
Total
The Number of
Total
Employees (06‘) 819 Researcher (‘06) 73
Contact Person Seo, Dong Jin Contact Phone
Contact E-mail
Contact Fax
Introduction of Company
Since established in 1969, the SK Chemicals, having settled down as a chemical company to
represent Korea, is making the future of happy harmony between human beings and
environments by developing eco-friendly chemical products to make our lives safe and healthy
based on its accumulated technical capability.
SK Chemicals is newly changing by establishing a vision based on specialty chemicals and
life science business since separation of textile business in 2000.
The specialty chemicals business is producing continuous outcomes in polyurethane, biocide,
water treatment chemical products, etc. as well as the high functional PETG resin developed for
the second time in the world, and is recently making an effort to maximize future business values
while positively excavating new business by advancing into a new business field such as
information-electronic materials, functional cosmetics, etc.
The life science business is recording continuous sales expansion such as Sunpla the
domestic new drug No.1 anti-cancer medicine, Trast the arthritis medicine of domestic market
share ranking 1st, Joins the domestic natural new drug No.1, etc. Also in the future, the life
science part of SK Chemicals will be making the best merchandise through the synergy of R&D
and production/ sales networks connected to Marketing, Life Science Research Institute and
Dongshin Pharmaceuticals.
More accelerating the globalization strategy, SK Chemicals is already securing overseas
production bases at Indonesia and China, and is planning to focus the company’s capability on
being furnished with global competitiveness in all business fields in the long term in order to more
expand the business to advance into China along with successful launching of the Poland plant,
which is expected to be completed in 2005.
In the future, SK Chemicals will be reborn as a top-ranking company to lead the changes in
the 21st century by focusing its capability on the specialty chemicals field such as environmental
materials, industrial materials, information communications materials, etc. and the life science field
such as synthetic medicines, natural medicines, biotech, etc. based on the stable profit creation
of petrochemical and resin business, which is its current main business