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SK Geo Centric (SK Innovation subsidiary)
Korean petrochemical company; wholly-owned subsidiary of SK Innovation (KRX: 096770, HQ Seoul). SK Geo Centric (formerly SK Global Chemical) produces n-hexane at the Ulsan Complex in South Korea — one of the largest integrated petrochemical complexes in Asia. Korea is a significant hexane exporter to Northeast Asian markets including Japan and Southeast Asia. SK Geo Centric's hexane comes from naphtha cracker residue and refinery naphtha fractionation at Ulsan. Korea's refining industry (SK, GS Caltex, S-Oil, HyundaiOilbank) produces hexane as a refinery byproduct — Korea exports hexane to Asian oilseed processing markets as South Korea's own crushing sector is limited.
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Hexane Production
30%Aromatics (Benzene, Toluene, Xylene)
35%Polyolefins & Plastics
25%Specialty Chemicals & Circular Materials
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Did you know2024
SK Geo Centric produces hexane (critical for vegetable oil extraction — a food supply chain input), but it sits within SK Group, which simultaneously operates SK Hynix (world's second-largest DRAM maker — semiconductor supply chain) and SK On (major EV battery manufacturer — clean energy supply chain). The same Korean conglomerate that exports hexane to US soybean crushing plants also manufactures the DRAM that goes into servers and the EV batteries that go into cars. South Korea's second-largest conglomerate has tentacles in food processing, semiconductor manufacturing, and automotive electrification supply chains simultaneously — but its petrochemical hexane operations are rarely mentioned in analyses of either semiconductor or EV supply chains.
SK Hynix / SK Group ↗