SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics announced Monday that its consumer recycling campaign “Battery Return” has collected more than 108 tons of used batteries over the past four years, underscoring its commitment to circular resource practices and rare metal recovery. Since its launch, the program has retrieved over 240,000 batteries, yielding more than 9.6 [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s battery sector surged to the top of domestic stock performance rankings in July, buoyed by rising lithium prices and new U.S. trade actions against China. Yet individual investors are increasingly betting on a market correction, diverging sharply from the bullish stance of foreign institutions. According to data [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Energy Solution, South Korea’s leading battery manufacturer, said Thursday it has signed a deal with Toyota Tsusho Corp., a trading company under Japan’s Toyota Group, to set up a battery recycling joint venture (JV) in the United States. The new company, Green Metals Battery Innovations LLC, will be [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution has commenced mass production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for energy storage systems (ESS) at its plant in Holland, Michigan, becoming the first major global battery manufacturer to operate a large-scale ESS LFP production line in the United States. The new batteries are long-cell-based, pouch-type LFP [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Holdings, South Korea’s leading steelmaker, said Friday it has opened a resource-focused research center in Australia to help secure future growth drivers through local partnerships. The Australia Critical Minerals R&D Lab, the first overseas facility of its kind established by a South Korean steelmaker, aims to enhance technological [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s leading refiner, said Wednesday its net loss widened in the first quarter from a year earlier despite a sharp increase in sales, due to falling oil prices and declining refining margins. Net loss deepened to 125.6 billion won (US$88.4 million) in the three months [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major battery makers are increasingly reliant on U.S. subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as a prolonged slump in electric vehicle (EV) demand—known as the “EV chasm”—drags on, clouding earnings prospects and investment strategies. Now, growing political uncertainty in Washington is further complicating the industry’s outlook. Companies like [...]
SEOUL, April 22, (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics is pulling out of the electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions market just three years after entering the sector, citing prolonged demand stagnation and intensified price competition. The move comes as part of a broader strategic restructuring aimed at concentrating on more resilient and scalable businesses. In a [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean consortium led by LG has decided to withdraw a project worth around 11 trillion won (US$7.7 billion) to establish an electric vehicle (EV) battery supply chain in Indonesia, industry sources said Friday. The consortium, which includes LG Energy Solution, LG Chem, LX International Corp. and other [...]
SEOUL, April 18, (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major battery manufacturers are delaying or scrapping joint ventures with Chinese companies as geopolitical risks, regulatory uncertainty, and market stagnation force a strategic rethink in the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain. According to industry sources on April 17, LG Energy Solution has postponed construction of two planned [...]