LOTTE INEOS Chemical announced plans to build a third vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) plant in Ulsan, South Korea, increasing capacity from 450,000 to 700,000 tonnes per year. The plant is scheduled to start up by the end of 2025.
SMS Group will provide a logistics and storage system for LOTTE Group's $238.7 million aluminium foil plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which will produce 36,000 tonnes per year of cathode foil for EV batteries. The collaboration was announced on November 29, 2022.
Lotte BP Chemical confirmed an 180 billion won expansion at its Ulsan plant to build acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer capacity, with construction from January 2019 to September 2020 and commercial production from January 2021. The project is expected to create 50 direct jobs.