{"id":12269,"date":"2022-12-21T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/?p=12269"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:31:49","slug":"sk-innovation-makes-direct-investment-in-sk-on-to-boost-ev-battery-business-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/12269","title":{"rendered":"SK Innovation makes direct investment in SK On to boost EV battery business growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">\u25a0 SK On\u2019s capital will be raised by KRW 2.8 trillion, of which KRW 2 trillion will be invested by SK Innovation and KRW 0.8 trillion by Korea Investment Private Equity KRW 0.8 trillion<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">\u25a0 SK Innovation views this investment as \u201ca preemptive response to battery business demand secured by customers\u201d and expects \u201cpositive impact on corporate value\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">\u25a0 SK On\u2019s capital raising goes smoothly, including the possibility of attracting additional external investors<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">According to SK Innovation&#8217;s announcement on the 21, SK On has successfully increased a total of KRW 2.8 trillion in paid-in capital. This is the sum of SK Innovation\u2019s investment, which is equal to KRW 2 trillion, and Korea Investment Private Equity\u2019s investment of KRW 0.8 trillion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">SK Innovation plans to invest KRW 1 trillion within this month and proceed with the remaining amount next year. This is SK Innovation\u2019s strategy to enhance SK On\u2019s corporate value by preemptively responding to the increase in demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries in the mid- to long-term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">As SK On is expanding its business by winning orders from big customers such as Ford, Hyundai Motor, and Volkswagen, SK Innovation evaluates that SK On will be able to speed up its growth by securing investment funds without a hitch. In addition, direct investment by the parent company is expected to resolve uncertainty in the battery business-related market and have a positive impact on increasing shareholder value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">On November 30, SK Innovation announced that it could raise KRW 1.3 trillion from financial investors such as Korea Investment PE, and this investment is a follow-up to that previous announcement. Korea Investment PE can add the amount up to KRW 0.5 trillion next year, following its investment of KRW 0.8 trillion in SK On this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">On SK On\u2019s side, the company plans to continue securing investment funds. In addition to Korea Investment PE, SK On also sees the possibility of attracting additional external investors in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\">SK On has been focusing on building global production bases in the United States and Hungary. As recently reported, SK On has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Motor Group for cooperation in supplying EV batteries in North America. This is one example of the company\u2019s moves to quickly preoccupy the future EV battery market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 1180px; border: 2px solid #d5d5d5; padding: 5px 0px; line-height: 26px; font-size: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 10px;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Nanum Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;\"><strong>\u25a0 Related articles <\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/12190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> SK On \u2013 Ford JV breaks ground on EV battery mega campus in Kentucky<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/12147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> SK On signs MOU with Hyundai Motor Group to supply EV battery in North America<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25a0 SK On\u2019s capital will be raised by KRW 2.8 trillion, of which KRW 2 trillion will be invested by SK Innovation and KRW 0.8 trillion by Korea Investment Private Equity KRW 0.8 trillion \u25a0 SK Innovation views this investment as \u201ca preemptive response to battery business demand secured by customers\u201d and expects \u201cpositive impact &#8230; <a title=\"SK Innovation makes direct investment in SK On to boost EV battery business growth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/archives\/12269\" aria-label=\"Read more about SK Innovation makes direct investment in SK On to boost EV battery business growth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,8,56,644],"tags":[35,34,13,472,234,184,15,648],"class_list":["post-12269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporates","category-press-room","category-press-release","category-sk-innovation","category-sk-on","tag-battery","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-ev-battery","tag-ford","tag-hyundai","tag-investment","tag-sk-innovation","tag-sk-on"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13967,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions\/13967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askinno.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}