SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading chemicals maker LG Chem Ltd. said Friday it has issued global green bonds worth US$300 million to help bolster the competitiveness of its battery materials business and finance more investments in eco-friendly businesses. The parent company of major battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. said the [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemical maker, said Thursday it will take the initiative to build a virtuous resource cycle ecosystem using plastic waste with its business partners. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Sampyo Cement, Hyundai Rotem, the Korea Engineers Alliance and the Korea Cement Association [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Monday it is building a hydrogen plant in South Korea to produce clean fuel for use in its key petrochemical processing in line with its long-term low carbon emission goals. The hydrogen plant, to be located in its Daesan complex, about 75 kilometers southwest of [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., a leading South Korean chemical manufacturer, said Tuesday it had signed a heads of agreement with GS EPS Co., a utility affiliate of GS Group, to promote cooperation in the development of biomass-based eco-friendly energy solutions. The two parties plan to use renewable energy fuel made [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., a leading chemical company, said Thursday it is building a battery precursor plant in South Korea with a raw battery materials producer in an effort to secure a stable supply of key components for electric vehicle batteries. The joint venture agreement with Kemco, a nickel sulfate [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., a leading South Korean chemical manufacturer, said Tuesday it will set up a joint venture with a Chinese miner in a bid to strengthen its supply of raw materials for electric vehicle batteries. LG Chem said it will turn its subsidiary, located in the southern South [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd., South Korea’s leading chemical maker, has developed a new process to convert carbon dioxide in the air into a high value-added material needed for plastic production. The company said Monday it had developed an electrochemical reactor in collaboration with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday its first-quarter net profit shrank 43.9 percent from a year earlier, as a recent rise in global crude oil prices deteriorated the profitability in its main petrochemical business. Net income came to 769.2 billion won (US$608 million) in the January-March period, compared with 1.3 [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Monday it has developed a highly heat-resistant plastic material designed to delay thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. The flame-retardant plastic material can prevent the spread of a flame caused by thermal runaway for more than 400 seconds at the temperature of [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. South Korea’s leading chemical company, and CJ Logistics Co., the country’s No. 1 parcel delivery firm, said Wednesday that they will establish a resource circulation system to promote the reuse and recycling of cosmetics containers in collaboration with local reusable packaging startup Innerbottle. Innerbottle will produce [...]