Business Overview
Advancing Core Technologies to Drive Future Growth
Since its establishment in 1986, the GS Caltex R&D Center has been developing core technologies across a range of fields to strengthen our competitiveness and identify new growth opportunities.
The R&D Center also focuses on enhancing the performance of existing businesses, including petroleum, petrochemicals, and polymers, by creating high-value-added products and improving production efficiency. Additionally, it provides company-wide analytical services to support stable operations.
To reinforce the MFC business for olefin production, the R&D Center is actively advancing key technologies in catalyst synthesis, polymerization, and polymer processing.
Continued investment in bio-research alongside existing business areas has enabled the development of core technologies across diverse fields.
Going forward, the GS Caltex R&D Center will continue to pursue sustainable growth through differentiated technologies and product development.
Research Overview
Energy·Petroleum Technology R&D
Based on technology accumulated in the refinery and petrochemical sectors, GS Caltex R&D Center is carrying out R&D to reinforce the current energy business and discover lower carbon product. Its efforts are being directed to develop various crude oil processing techniques, improve energy efficiency & reliability in refinery process, enhance quality of petroleum products, and develop lower carbon, high performance asphalt & lubricants. Also, we aim to pursue sustainable growth in the energy sector by strengthening capabilities such as core technologies in biofuel production, hydrogen value chain and CCU (Carbon Capture & Utilization) to respond to changes in low carbon energy policies and secure company's future growth engines.
