SK Chemicals to Participate in Chinaplas 2026, Showcasing Largest-Ever Product Lineup

110 Commercialized Products on Display: Life, Beauty, Move, and Fashion Themes
First Public Showcase of Actual Raw Materials from Each Process of the "FIC" Recycled Plastics Facility

SK Chemicals announced on April 20 that it will participate in Chinaplas 2026, which will be held for four days starting from April 21 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Hongqiao, Shanghai, China.

Chinaplas is considered one of the world’s three largest plastics and rubber exhibitions, alongside the United States’ NPE and Germany’s K Show, and is recognized as the largest in Asia. This year’s exhibition will be held under the themes of transition, collaboration, and sustainability. Around 4,500 companies from approximately 150 countries are expected to participate.

SK Chemicals will participate in Chinaplas 2026, held for four days starting from the 21st at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Hongqiao, Shanghai, China. A bird's-eye view of the SK Chemicals booth. SK Chemicals

At Chinaplas, SK Chemicals will showcase more than 110 finished products—including cosmetic containers, kitchen appliances, automotive interior and exterior materials, and functional clothing and footwear—under the slogan "On-hand solution for sustainable tomorrow." These products utilize SK Chemicals’ materials and have been commercially launched. This marks the largest number of items the company has ever exhibited at a trade show.

For this exhibition, SK Chemicals organized its booth into categories commonly encountered in daily life, with themed zones such as Life, Beauty, Move, and Fashion.

In the Life and Beauty zones, visitors will find wine chilling buckets and makeup products made with the recycled material "Ecotria Claro," as well as cups, airtight containers, blenders, water bottles, and cosmetics utilizing "Ecogen," which boasts excellent transparency and heat resistance.

In the Move zone, themed around automobiles, the company will display car floor mats, headlamp bezels, and actuators made with "SKYPET CR," a circular recycled PET material based on depolymerization technology.

In the Fashion zone, SK Chemicals will present spandex and synthetic leather shoes and bags made with "Ecotrion," a 100% plant-based bio polyol. Additionally, an area will be set up to let visitors experience the elasticity of materials firsthand by comparing the bounce height of balls dropped on Ecotrion versus other materials.

SK Chemicals will also highlight its upcoming “Recycled Material Innovation Center (FIC)” in China, introducing actual raw materials produced from waste items such as discarded blankets and powder through selection, preprocessing, and raw materialization stages. The company will also debut a new zone for “CHDM (Cyclohexanedimethanol),” a key raw material for copolyesters, to emphasize the competitiveness of its main products—including recycled plastics and copolyesters—at the material level.

Ahn Jaehyun, CEO of SK Chemicals, stated, “Through Chinaplas, we aim to reinforce the message that the adoption of recycled plastics is not a distant future solution, but something that can be implemented right now. We will actively promote our achievements in recycled plastics across a wide range of areas, from raw materials to materialization technologies, to further solidify the status of Korea’s circular recycling solutions.”

Meanwhile, SK Chemicals continues to accumulate commercialization cases globally in various industries using circular recycling and bio-based materials. SKYPET CR has been applied in food and beverage containers such as the traditional liquor bottle for Kooksoondang and the sauce bottle for Ottogi, as well as car mats developed in collaboration with European automotive carpet manufacturer DUMONT. Ecotria Claro CR has been used in compact cases for cosmetics in partnership with global cosmetics packaging company Toly, and Ecogen is supplied to the market in actual products such as LocknLock airtight containers.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.