SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Geocentric Co., a South Korean chemical company, said Wednesday it has signed an initial agreement with a British firm to build a plastic pyrolysis plant here, as it accelerates the push for advanced plastic waste recycling. The head of agreement, signed with the London-based Plastic Energy Ltd., commits [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Signet Inc., a South Korean manufacturer of electric vehicle chargers, said Wednesday it plans to build an electric vehicle (EV) charger-manufacturing plant in the U.S. with an aim to start operations in the second half of next year. SK Signet, a unit under the country’s No. 2 conglomerate [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Geocentric Co., a South Korean plastic waste recycling company, said Tuesday it has secured 475 billion won (US$358.3 million) through a loan backed by its low emissions goals. The sustainability-linked loan (SLL) commits SK Geocentric to increase its plastic recycling capacity to as much as 900,000 tons and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run gas company Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) announced on Monday that it had started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the Coral gas field in Mozambique, and the first shipment had been completed. The project uses a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility to extract gas from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. said Friday its net losses deepened in the third quarter from a year earlier on higher fuel costs and limited electricity rate hikes. The consolidated net losses widened to 7.53 trillion won (US$5.66 billion) in the July-September period, compared with a loss of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – GS Caltex Corp., a major South Korean refiner, said Friday it has completed the construction of a new olefin cracking facility on the country’s southwest coast, as it seeks to expand the petrochemical business. The new mixed feed cracker (MFC), built in Yeosu, about 320 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. said Friday it has signed a binding agreement with a U.S. minerals provider for a long-term supply of a key lithium product used in electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion batteries. The offtake agreement with Compass Minerals Inc. is for 40 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea vowed Wednesday to significantly boost the use and production of clean hydrogen by extending support for securing advanced technologies and building infrastructures with a goal to achieve zero-emission goals and become the world’s No. 1 hydrogen industry powerhouse. The government announced the comprehensive roadmap during a hydrogen [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), a subholding company of shipbuilding, oil refining and machinery conglomerate HD Hyundai, has announced the signing of a US$30 million investment deal with TerraPower, a U.S. nuclear power venture founded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The small modular reactor (SMR) technology owned by [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — SK On, a South Korean car battery maker, said Sunday it has signed a deal to purchase lithium from Chilean firm SQM in its import diversification strategy. Under the deal, SQM will supply a total of 57,000 tons of lithium to SK On for five years starting 2023. The [...]