SK Innovation, Korea’s first oil refining company, which has grown into the nation’s top oil refinery and chemical company, has a plan to change its corporate identity “from carbon to green.” The company’s management, shared three key strategies as to how they plan to achieve this: Green Anchoring: Reinforcing aContinue Reading
In 2019, LG Chem filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission against SK Innovation, claiming SKI stole trade secrets from it and used them to create a battery manufacturing business in the US. After 2+ years of legal wrangling, the ITC last week ruled in favor of LGContinue Reading
Lithium batteries are characterized by the chemistry used in the cathode. The first successful lithium batteries used a lithium-cobalt-oxide chemistry, often just called a lithium battery or LiCo. Later, oxides of nickel, manganese, and iron were used. Lithium chemistries are assigned names like NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt), NCA (Nickel CobaltContinue Reading
