SK Innovation

South Korean energy and chemical company

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March 18 2025 SK Innovation released its Annual Report for the Fiscal Year 2024, detailing the company's corporate governance and shareholder structure.
February 2025 SK On merged with SK Enterm, further consolidating the company's organizational structure.
November 2024 SK Innovation and SK E&S completed a merger, creating a new entity with total assets of KRW 105 trillion. Simultaneously, SK On merged with SK Trading International.
January 2024 SK Enthem became the 9th subsidiary of SK Innovation, spinning off from SK Energy to handle import and distribution of crude oil and petroleum products.
2022 SK On ranked fifth in the world with a market share of 7 percent according to SNE research in the first half of the year.
October 1 2021 Remaining two business units—batteries and oil exploration—were spun off into SK On and SK Earthon, respectively.
October 1 2021 SK Innovation officially completed the spin-off of its battery business, creating 'SK On'.
September 2021 Ford and SK Innovation announced a joint venture to manufacture batteries in the Kentucky/Tennessee region for Ford motor vehicles.
2019 LG Chem sued SK Innovation at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) for misappropriation of trade secrets by hiring former employees, requesting an import ban on SK Innovation's lithium-ion batteries and infrastructure technology.
2019 The ITC sided with LG Chem and issued a limited 10-year exclusion order prohibiting imports of certain lithium-ion batteries by SK Innovation into the United States.
2019 SK Innovation agreed to pay LG Chem $1.8 billion in cash and royalties to avert the import ban, resolving the trade secrets dispute.
2019 The company decided to spin off its material division and established SK IE Technology.
March 21 2018 SK Innovation announced the acquisition of U.S. shale oil and gas company Longfellow Nemaha.
March 31 2017 SK Innovation announced the closure of its electric vehicle battery plant in China, which had been closed since January of that year due to joint venture partners halting production.
July 2013 Company restructured into an independent management system, dividing into two business units: E&P (Exploration & Production) and B&I (Batteries and Materials), and establishing five subsidiaries: SK Energy, SK Global Chemical, SK Lubricants, SK Incheon Petrochem, and SK Trading International.
January 2011 SK Innovation system was launched, with oil and chemical businesses being spun off into separate entities.

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