SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Engineering & Construction Co., the construction arm of South Korea’s leading steelmaker, POSCO, said Tuesday it has developed an eco-friendly concrete mold made with plastic scraps and slag. The mold was created jointly with Iomtek, a POSCO E&C subsidiary, and comes in the shape of a board that [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO and Indonesia’s state-run steelmaker Krakatau agreed on Thursday to spend US$3.5 billion over the next five years on building a second furnace in the Southeast Asian country to meeting growing demand. POSCO and Krakatau already run PT.KRAKATAU-POSCO, their joint venture located in the major industrial city of Cilegon [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Chemical Co. will supply a key electric vehicle (EV) battery component to General Motors Co. for three years starting 2023, in an additional US$10.8 billion deal expected to give a boost to the South Korean firm’s pivot to the battery materials sector. POSCO Chemical will supply high-nickel cathodes [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday its second-quarter net income shrank 54.1 percent from a year earlier, dented by higher oil prices, global inflation and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns. Net income came to 718.3 billion won (US$547 million) in the April-June period, compared with 1.56 trillion won the previous year, the [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Chemical Corp., a unit of South Korean retail giant Lotte Group, said Wednesday it is building its first cathode foil production facility in the United States, as it pushes to bolster its battery components business. Lotte Chemical and Lotte Aluminum, another Lotte affiliate, will invest US$254 million in [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Wednesday it aims to boost annual sales by more than threefold and achieve double-digit operating profit margins in the next five years through active foreign expansion and by securing stable supply. Unveiling the mid-to long-term strategies, the South Korean battery maker said it [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday it has clinched a long-term supply agreement with General Motors Co. to provide the U.S. carmaker with key materials for electric vehicle (EV) battery cells. LG Chem, the country’s leading chemical firm, will supply more than 950,000 tons of cathode materials under the eight-year [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Tuesday it has signed a joint venture agreement with a Chinese mining company to build a battery recycling plant to secure raw materials for lithium-ion battery components. The joint venture deal with Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. will commit the two companies to build [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said Monday it has won a 649.5 billion-won (US$495 million) order to build two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers from Europe. DSME, the world’s No. 4 shipbuilder by order backlog, said it will construct the 174-cubic-meter LNG carriers in [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean steel giant POSCO Group has put itself on an emergency management footing, its holding company said Sunday, as business units across the group brace for weaker profits amid an expected slowdown of the global economy. The decision came in a Thursday meeting of Chairman Choi Jeong-woo and [...]