President Huh Soo-young of Lotte Chemical.

Lotte Chemical Co. won the $6 billion Export Tower Medal for exporting over $6 billion worth of its products overseas in 2013. The company got the medal during the 50th Trade Day ceremony held at Coex in southern Seoul on Dec. 5 hosted by the Korea International Trade Association as its exports to 152 countries in the world amounts to $6.299,280 billion led by ethylene glycol among a number of its key petrochemical products.  

Since its foundation in 1976, LOTTE CHEMICAL has pioneered the virtually unexplored petrochemical industry in Korea, serving as a comprehensive petrochemical company by contributing to the establishment of an affluent life for humanity through the steady development of higher technologies that enable us to provide its customers with the products and services they love and trust.

The company has played a pivotal role in the development of the key industries of Korea for more than 30 years based on single-minded determination, creative thinking, and burning passion. With its customers’ abiding faith and trust in Lotte Chemical, the company put customer value before everything else and make environmental stewardship and safety its very first priority to fulfill its responsibilities as a first-class company that works for humanity’s well-being and future value by pursuing mutual prosperity 

Our company has played a pivotal role in the development of the key industries of Korea for more than 30 years based on single-minded determination, creative thinking, and burning passion. With its customers’ abiding faith and trust in us, we put customer value before everything else and make environmental stewardship and safety its very first priority to fulfill its responsibilities as a first-class company that works for humanity’s well-being and future value by pursuing mutual prosperity of the nation and society

As a manufacturer of petrochemical products found everywhere in its lives ranging from basic household items to medical products as well as automobile parts materials and cutting-edge aeronautic materials, we are putting all its energies into the production of the best products, placing customer trust above all else.

LOTTE CHEMICAL’s Yeosu, Daesan, and Ulsan plants boast of the largest scale of domestic and international operations. The company has accomplished vertical systematization with respect to raw materials and products through steady plant and business expansion as well as production of basic petrochemical raw materials and products such as olefin and aromatics. Among the high-quality products produced by LOTTE CHEMICAL through its efficient processes are ethylene, HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, PP, functional resin, EG, SM, PIA, PET, etc. Moreover, the LOTTE CHEMICAL Research Institute in Daejeon is establishing a solid foothold in the domestic petrochemical field through the steady development of new products. LOTTE CHEMICAL’s products are being distributed to 152 countries around the world. With the acquisition of Pakistan’s PTA in 2009, Artenius in the UK in 2010 and Titan Chemical Corp., LOTTE CHEMICAL is now able to efficiently supply excellent products to an increasing number of countries.

The company is further accelerating its efforts to strengthen its global competitiveness by establishing overseas branches in Hong Kong, Russia, and USA, along with the sales corporation in China for active sales activities both in domestic and abroad. As Asia’s top chemical company, LOTTE CHEMICAL will become a global chemical company that genuinely cares for the improvement in the quality of humanity and a balance with the environment.  

A view of the Lotte Chemical plant in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province.