SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES), South Korea’s top battery maker, said Sunday that its leadership team had embarked on a trip to the U.S. with the aim of recruiting exceptionally skilled professionals from around the world. The company on Saturday (local time) held its Battery Tech Conference (BTC), a [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will extend 7 trillion won (US$5.31 billion) in financial support to domestic battery makers over the next five years to help them respond to the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and to boost their competitiveness in the sector, the industry ministry said Friday. The government will [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Friday it estimated its operating profit to have grown more than twofold in the first quarter from a year earlier, boosted by the effects of U.S. government subsidies under a new law that promotes electric vehicle (EV) purchases. Operating income reached 633.2 billion [...]
POHANG/SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — EcoPro Co., a leading South Korean producer of secondary battery materials, plans to invest 2 trillion won (US$1.52 billion) to expand its battery components complex in the country’s southeastern industrial city, according to the municipal governments on Thursday. EcoPro is in talks with the municipal governments of North Gyeongsang [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES), the top South Korean electric vehicle (EV) battery maker, said Wednesday it has clinched a preliminary agreement with a Chinese lithium producer for collaboration in the supply of lithium hydroxide in Morocco, as part of stepped-up efforts to source the key battery material. LGES, [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Friday it will invest 7.2 trillion won (US$5.56 billion) to build what will be its second standalone battery manufacturing site in the United States, sticking to its earlier plan after a period of reconsideration. LGES will spend 4.2 trillion won to build a [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery maker SK On Co. said Thursday it is forming a joint venture with two battery component partners to build a precursor manufacturing facility on the country’s southwest coast. SK On will sign an investment agreement with EcoPro Co. and China’s Green Eco-Manufacture (GEM) on Friday, under [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will be able to source 20,000 tons of lithium hydroxide from domestically recycled electric vehicle (EV) batteries by 2045 as EV purchases will increase, an outlook that calls for strategic efforts to promote the emerging industry given supply chain instability, a report showed Thursday. The projection is [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Future M Co., a leading South Korean battery components maker, said Tuesday it is building a new cathode plant in the country’s southeast to meet surging demand after its multibillion-dollar supply deal with Samsung SDI Co. The board recently approved the plan to spend 392 billion won (US$300 [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the European Union’s release of the draft of the Critical Raw Materials Act last week, South Korean industries are busy exploring any possible ripple effects. The Critical Raw Materials Act calls for not more than 65 percent of the EU’s annual consumption of each strategic raw material from [...]