| 2000s - |
| 2000.07 |
Developed phosphor for PDP for the first time in Korea |
| 2000.10 |
Completed 90,000 mtpa Ningbo LG-Yongxing Chemical ABS plant
expansion in China |
| 2000.11 |
Acquired Hyundai Petrochemical's PVC business |
| 2001.03 |
Established U.S. based battery research center, Compact Power Inc. |
| 2001.04 |
Demerged into three separate companies: LG Chem Investment,
LG Chem and LG Household & Healthcare |
| 2001.05 |
Spun off powder coatings business |
| 2001.06 |
Developed Korea's first thermal conductive plastic |
| 2001.08 |
Spun off dyestuff business |
| 2001.10 |
Completed 90,000 mtpa Tiangjin LG-Dagu Chemical PVC plant expansion
in China |
| 2002.02 |
Completed Cheongju polarizer plant expansion |
| 2002.04 |
Sold off epoxy business (to Bakelite of Germany) |
| 2002.07 |
Started the operation of ERP system |
| 2002.08 |
Commissioned Guangzhou EP compound plant
Established LG Chemical Trading Co., Ltd. In Shangha |
| 2002.12 |
Started construction of Ochang Techno Park, a complex for Information
& Electronic Materials Completed 150,000 mtpa expansion of Ningbo
LG-Yongxing Chemical ABS plant in China |
| 2003.03 |
Completed Tianjin window profile and door plant in China Artificia
marble business (HI MACS) launched in US market |
| 2003.06 |
Consortium with Honam Petrochemical, partial absorption of Hyundai
Petrochemical |
| 2003.07 |
Completed construction of EP compound facility in Guangzhou, China |
| 2003.08 |
Established LG Chem (Nanjing) Information & Electronic Materials Co.,
Ltd. in China |
| 2003.11 |
Established LG Chem Industrial Materials, Inc. in the USA |
| 2004.03 |
Completed Ochang Techno Park production complex for Information &
Electronic Materials |
| 2004.06 |
Established LG Yongxing Latex in Ningbo, China |
| 2004.11 |
Commissioned Guangzhou ABS plant in China |
| 2005.01 |
Established LG Chem (China) Investment Co., Ltd. In Beijing, China
Completed business split of Hyundai Petrochemicals and established LG
Daesan Petrochemicals |
| 2005.06 |
Established joint R&D lab with Moscow State University |
| 2005.07 |
Established sales subsidiary LG Chem Europe GmbH in Frankfurt,
Germany |
| 2005.10 |
Commissioned Hi-Macs solid acrylic surface plant in the USA |
| 2006.01 |
Merged with LG Daesan Petrochemicals |