0K bbl / day
Lubricant capacity
GS CALTEX BUSINESS — FINAL CHAPTER 06
9,000 barrels a day, 180+ Kixx products —
from cars to industrial sites
GS Caltex produces over 180 lubricant products, from automotive to industrial use, built on our own high-quality base oil and accumulated technology. Since starting lubricant production at the Incheon plant in 1969, we have built business competitiveness for more than 50 years, supplying high-quality lubricants to diverse customers at home and abroad under the Kixx brand.
ORIGIN
The word lubricant comes from the Latin lubricus, meaning "slippery."
A lubricant forms an oil film between two moving surfaces in contact, reducing friction and wear and letting machines and equipment run smoothly.
It is used widely, from a passenger car's engine and transmission to the many machines and equipment found across industrial sites.
01 — FRICTION
However smooth it looks, a metal surface is microscopically jagged. Move it as-is and it scratches, heats and wears away — friction and wear, the problem every moving machine carries.
01 — OIL FILM
When lubricant forms an oil film between two surfaces, metal no longer touches metal. Surfaces that scraped now glide on oil — and this thin film decides an engine's life.
01 — PERFORMANCE
A lubricant is made by blending base oil with additives suited to the use and required performance. Base oil forms the baseline performance, while additives supply what else is needed — wear protection, oxidation stability, cleanliness and dispersancy. Our own high-quality base oil plus accumulated formulation technology make Kixx products optimized for every use.
9K BBL / DAY · KIXX02 — CAPACITY & PRODUCTS
Lubricant capacity
Kixx lubricant products
SINCE · lubricant production begins at Incheon plant
From passenger and commercial engine oils to transmission and axle oils, we supply the lubricants a vehicle's key components need. They reduce friction and wear, helping the engine and drivetrain deliver stable performance.
Machinery and equipment across industrial sites need different lubricating performance depending on operating conditions and use. A range of products — hydraulic fluid, industrial oil and more — reduces friction and wear in machinery and equipment, supporting stable operation.
Beyond existing automotive and industrial lubricants, GS Caltex is developing new products and technologies that respond to changing mobility and industrial environments.
Bio-based engine oil — an engine oil formulated with bio-based feedstock to maintain lubricating performance while reducing the product's environmental impact.
Immersion cooling fluid — used in immersion cooling technology, which submerges electronic equipment such as data center servers directly in a non-conductive fluid to manage heat efficiently. A new fluid solution responding to the growing cooling demand of data centers driven by high-performance computing and AI adoption.
03 — KIXX · BRAND
Kixx launched in 2005 as an automotive lubricant brand and has grown into GS Caltex's flagship lubricant brand, now spanning both automotive and industrial products. Built on high-quality base oil and accumulated product and formulation technology, we supply products matched to diverse operating environments and customer needs.
04 — QUALITY
A lubricant's performance depends not only on the quality of its base oil but also on additive formulation and production and quality-control technology.
GS Caltex uses its own high-quality base oil and applies formulation technology and rigorous quality control matched to each product's required performance to produce our full range of Kixx lubricants.
We continue to develop new products and improve performance to keep pace with evolving technology and standards in automotive and industrial equipment.
05 — INTO EVERYDAY LIFE
FROM ENERGY TO MATERIALS · GS CALTEX BUSINESS
GS Caltex's business starts with crude sourcing and refining, and extends into a range of petrochemical products — aromatics, olefins and polymer. Feedstock from the refinery's upgrading process leads on to base oil, and high-quality base oil in turn becomes the main feedstock of Kixx lubricants. This organic connection across businesses and processes raises the value we extract from feedstock and lets us supply a wide range of products in energy and materials to customers at home and abroad.
A drop of dark crude at the wharf — climbed the column, became a hexagonal ring, was cracked, linked, and clarified — until at last it became the thin oil film inside an engine. A business that began with crude and grew beyond it — GS Caltex's business — completes one full circle here.