EcoPro MATERIALS Becomes Global No. 1 Precursor Company EcoPro MATERIALS was founded as a foreign-invested company by ECOPRO and GEM, a Chinese company specializing in metal/battery regeneration. EcoPro MATERIALS specializes in manufacturing cathode material precursors, a core material for lithium secondary cells, for which demand has been rapidly growing recently. It has also developed basic metal/precursor materials with the world’s best quality and price competitiveness. EcoPro MATERIALS will create new 700 jobs by investing a total of KRW 300 billion in the Yeongilman Industrial Complex 1over 5 years.