Chemicals & MaterialsAug 11, 2026

Kumho Petrochemical

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Year Founded & Workforce

1969-12-31

1,200 Employees

Industry

Chemicals & Materials

Services

Kumho Petrochemical Overview

Company Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea

Founded: 1970

Workforce: ~1,200

Company Working: Kumho Petrochemical is one of the leading manufacturers of synthetic rubber and operates through the synthetic rubber, synthetic resins, and others business segments. The others segment includes specialty chemicals, electronic materials, nanocarbon, and energy business segments. The company has 13 manufacturing plants located in South Korea and China with 12 sales offices across the globe. Kumho Petrochemical has two research centers in South Korea and invested around 0.18 billion in R&D in 2017. It had over 11 subsidiaries and assets worth USD 4.29 billion as of 2017. It offers vulcanization accelerators and antioxidants under its specialty chemicals business. It produces nearly 83,500 MT per year of vulcanization accelerators.

Strategy

Kumho Petrochemical aims at becoming the leading chemicals group by 2020 and manufacturing over 20 synthetic rubber products. The company is focused on registering sales of around USD 0.02 trillion (KRW 20 trillion) by 2020. It is also focused on innovation, with six major developments in the fields of synthetic rubbers, synthetic resins, and electronic materials in 2017.

Company Snapshot

$3.4M

Revenue

1,200

Employees

1969-12-31

Founded

Seoul, South Korea

Headquarters

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

Wide presence and strong R&D base
Held assets worth USD 4.29 billion in 2017

Weaknesses

Net debt of USD 1.48 billion in 2017

Opportunities

Growth of the major end-use industries coupled with strategic initiatives such as expansion and distribution and supply agreements

Threats

Volatile raw material prices
Fluctuations in currency exchange rates

Product Offering

• Vulcanization accelerators
- o KUMAC D (DPG)
- o KUMAC NS (TBBS)
- o KUMAC TS (TMTM)
• Antioxidants
- o KUMANOX 13L
- o KUMANOX 3020
- o KUMANOX 5010L
- o KUMANOX 13P
- o KUMANOX 3C (IPPD)
- o KUMANOX SP
- o KUMANOX SP-N

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Senior Retail Manager, LG Chem

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Management Consultant, Level 21

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Group Product Manager HVAC & Fire Protection GMA, Rockwool

I have been reading the first document or the study, the Global HVAC and FP market report 2021 till 2026. Must say, good info! I have not gone in depth at all parts, but got a good indication of the data inside!

Jason Lee

R&D Director, Seojin

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Akif Moroglu

Strategy & Business Development Director, Dogan Holding

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Kumho Petrochemical

Company Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea Founded: 1970 Workforce: ~1,200 Company Working: Kumho Petrochemical is one of the leading manufacturers of synthetic rubber and operates through the synthetic rubber, synthetic resins, and others business segments. The others segment includes specialty chemicals, electronic materials, nanocarbon, and energy business segments. The company has 13 manufacturing plants located in South Korea and China with 12 sales offices across the globe. Kumho Petrochemical has two research centers in South Korea and invested around 0.18 billion in R&D in 2017. It had over 11 subsidiaries and assets worth USD 4.29 billion as of 2017. It offers vulcanization accelerators and antioxidants under its specialty chemicals business. It produces nearly 83,500 MT per year of vulcanization accelerators.

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