SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery maker SK On Co. said Wednesday it has signed a long-term supply agreement for high-purity lithium with an Australian resources developer. Under the agreement signed with Lake Resources on Tuesday, SK On will be provided with 230,000 tons of lithium, a key raw material used in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese firms turned out to have a hefty stake in domestic solar power companies in the Saemangeum reclaimed land on the southwest coast, a renewable energy center for South Korea, a lawmaker said Tuesday. According to the data obtained by Rep. Park Soo-young of the People Power Party from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd., South Korea’s top battery maker, said Friday it racked up a turnaround in the third-quarter of the year from a year earlier on the back of the weakness of the Korean currency against the U.S. dollar and robust sales. Its operating profit reached 522 billion [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Holdings Co., the largest steelmaker in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it had established a battery recycling joint venture with GS Energy Corp., an energy unit of GS Group. Both entities have engaged in talks since September last year on how to promote cooperation in their core [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. said Wednesday it has set up two independent in-house companies to accelerate battery swap and energy management services. It has launched KooRoo to take the lead in battery-as-a-service (BaaS), primarily focusing on the development of electric vehicle battery packs fit for replacement instead of charging, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Youlchon Chemical Co., a South Korean producer of plastic films, said Wednesday it has signed an agreement to supply a key battery component used in electric vehicles to the joint venture company run by LG Energy Solution Ltd. and U.S. General Motors Co. for the next six years. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Friday it has signed supply agreements with three Canadian mineral companies to secure key raw materials used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Under the arrangement with Electra Battery Materials Corp., the Toronto-based battery materials refiner will supply 7,000 tons of cobalt sulfate [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Chemical Co., a South Korean producer of advanced materials, said Wednesday the construction began for a domestic plant to produce a key coating material used in secondary batteries under a joint venture with chemical company OCI Co. The factory, to be located in the central region of South [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDI Co. presented its latest battery technologies and products for commercial vehicles at an international exhibition taking place in Germany this week, the South Korean battery maker said Tuesday. The exhibits at the IAA Transportation Hannover 2022 include the high-nickel prismatic battery cells made with its proprietary silicon [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea aims to raise the rate of recycling by designating scrapped electric vehicle (EV) batteries as a recyclable resource, exempting them from certain restrictions. The Ministry of Environment introduced plans for promoting the circular economy centering on recycling scrapped EV batteries at the Economic Regulation Innovation Task Force [...]