SK Group $22 billion U.S. funding to create safe provide chains, White Home says

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SK Group $22 billion U.S. funding to create safe provide chains, White Home says

shirishshetty

July 26, 2022

SK Group $22 billion U.S. funding to create safe provide chains, White Home says

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The brand of SK Innovation is seen in entrance of its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photograph/File Photograph

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WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) – New investments by South Korean conglomerate SK Group in the USA introduced on Tuesday replicate profitable efforts by the Biden administration to create extra resilient and safe provide chains, the White Home stated on Tuesday.

South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate was anticipated to announce $22 billion in new investments in U.S. manufacturing, the White Home stated.

SK Group consists of world’s second-largest reminiscence chipmaker SK Hynix (000660.KS) in addition to SK Innovation (096770.KS), the mother or father of South Korea’s largest refiner SK Power and battery maker SK On. SK officers in Seoul didn’t instantly supply particulars of the plan.

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“This announcement by SK Group can be one other proof level of the success of the Administration’s efforts to create extra resilient and safe provide chains and outcompete the remainder of the world within the applied sciences of the long run,” a White Home spokesperson stated.

The SK Group’s battery unit has introduced funding of about $6.2 billion since 2018 to construct two stand-alone factories in Georgia and three crops with Ford Motor Co (F.N) in Tennessee and Kentucky.

SK’s chairman stated final 12 months it deliberate to speculate about $52 billion in the USA by means of 2030.

In Might, SK Group stated it’s going to make investments 247 trillion received ($195.24 billion) within the semiconductor, battery and biopharmaceutical sectors over the following 5 years in South Korea and abroad. [nS6N2WO001]

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet just about on Tuesday with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to debate the corporate’s investments in American manufacturing and jobs, the White Home stated earlier.