LG Chem
APAC
Seoul
,
South Korea
Multinational
FOUNDED
1947
HEADCOUNT
10000+
FUNDING
Public
Keywords:
fermentation, organic_acids, bioplastics, metabolic_engineering, commodity_chemicals, specialty_chemicals, therapeutics, vaccines
BUSINESS
Global chemical company producing petrochemicals, advanced battery and electronic materials, and life sciences products including pharmaceuticals.
BIOTECH INVOLVEMENT
Partial; Korean chemicals major (petrochemicals, batteries, advanced materials). Industrial-biotech footprint concentrated in the Life Sciences division (biologics including the Euvichol oral cholera vaccine and biosimilars from microbial/cell-culture platforms) and the bio-plastics JVs with ADM at Decatur (GreenWise Lactic for corn-fed lactic-acid fermentation, LG Chem Illinois Biochem for PLA polymerization).
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
Pharmaceuticals; bio-plastics; petrochemical products