SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Thursday its second-quarter profit sank 30 percent from a year earlier as global demand for petrochemicals remained sluggish. Operating income reached 615.6 billion won (US$484 million) in the April-June period, compared with 878.4 billion won the previous year, the company said in a regulatory filing. [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday it has raised US$2 billion by selling exchangeable bonds (EB) that can be converted to shares of its battery-making subsidiary, LG Energy Solution Ltd. The bond sale came in two tranches worth $1 billion each, with the coupon for five-year EBs set at 1.25 [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Monday it has begun mass production of a next-generation high-nickel cathode material made with a single crystal structure that enhances the power of electric vehicle batteries. The first output of the single-crystal cathodes will be delivered to clients from its Cheongju plant, starting in July, [...]
SEOUL, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., a major South Korean chemicals firm, said Sunday it has signed an agreement with cosmetics company Cosmax Co. to enhance collaboration in developing and marketing eco-friendly cosmetics containers. Cosmax is an original design manufacturer (ODM) with a customer base of some 1,000 global cosmetics companies including [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday it broke ground for its fourth carbon nanotube (CNT) plant in South Korea, to more than double output of the key industrial material in the next few years. The CNT 4 plant, to be located in LG Chem’s Daesan complex, in Seosan, about 83 [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Thursday it has won a contract to exclusively supply its key filter membrane product for a large-scale water desalination project in Israel. LG Chem will supply some 30,000 reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to a joint desalination plant led by two Israeli companies — Shapir Engineering [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Thursday its first operating quarter profit shrank 22.8 percent from a year earlier as a global economic slowdown dampened petrochemical demand in major industries. Operating profit reached 791 billion won (US$592 million) in the January-March period, compared with 1.02 trillion won the previous year, the [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Monday it is joining hands with a Chinese mining company to build a battery precursor factory in South Korea, as it steps up to bolster the supply chains of secondary battery materials. LG Chem plans to sign a preliminary agreement Wednesday with Huayou Cobalt Co., [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) —LG Chem, a South Korean chemical company, and China’s Huayu Cobalt have announced plans to build a joint battery precursor plant in Saemangeum, South Korea. The goal of the partnership is to bolster the domestic supply chain for battery materials in Korea in anticipation of the implementation of the U.S. [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s top chemical company, said Thursday it has entered an agreement with a U.S. renewable chemical firm to develop and commercialize a raw material for bioplastics. LG Chem signed the joint development agreement (JDA) with Gevo Inc., a Colorado-headquartered developer of renewable chemicals and biofuels, [...]