SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea’s largest power equipment maker, said Wednesday it is considering asking idle workers to take paid leave as part of efforts to cut costs amid dwindling orders. Doosan Heavy said idle workers can receive 70 percent of their basic monthly wage for [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Doosan Heavy Industries Co., South Korea’s top power equipment maker, said Thursday its first-quarter profit fell 38 percent from a year earlier largely due to foreign exchange loss. Net profit reached 23.1 billion won (US$21.4 million) on a consolidated basis in the January-March period, compared with 37.4 billion won a year earlier, the company said in a regulatory filing. The company said foreign exchange loss and discontinued operation [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea’s top power equipment maker, said Wednesday that it has taken over a U.S. gas turbine service provider in a bid to boost its presence in the U.S. market. In June, Doosan Heavy said it signed a preliminary deal to buy ACT [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea’s top power equipment maker, said Tuesday that it has bagged a 300 billion-won (US$262 million) deal to upgrade an existing power plant in Indonesia. Under the deal with the state-run Indonesian PLN, Doosan Heavy and a state-run Indonesian construction firm will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea’s top power equipment maker, said Monday that it has won an order, potentially worth over 2.7 trillion won (US$2.25 billion), to build two thermal power plants in India. The company has yet to officially sign the deal but said it has [...]