SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top steelmaker, POSCO, has restored most of its facilities damaged by a September typhoon and normalized production, the industry ministry said Thursday. The superstrong Typhoon Hinnamnor pounded POSCO’s steel mill in Pohang, 272 kilometers southeast of Seoul, leading to the suspension of its major facilities. All three [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean steelmaker POSCO said Sunday it has resumed operations at a key steel plant after a three-month-long suspension due to a typhoon. On Thursday, POSCO restarted the No. 2 hot-rolled steel production plant in Pohang, 374 kilometers southeast of Seoul, bringing the number of normalized plants to 13 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said Wednesday it has signed a business partnership agreement with top local steelmaker POSCO on the development of new shipbuilding materials. The deal calls for joint efforts to develop new shipbuilding materials and welding technologies that will be applied [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO is expected to fully normalize its facilities damaged by a September typhoon during the first quarter of next year, the industry ministry said Monday. The ministry’s estimate for the full recovery of the typhoon-hit facilities contrasts with POSCO’s own projection that they will be [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO and Samsung Electronics Co. will jointly push for the localization of xenon, a key material gas used for chipmaking. Samsung, the world’s largest memory chip maker, has been importing all of the xenon it uses from overseas. The two parties announced on Thursday that they had signed a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Holdings Inc. on Monday reported a 77-percent drop in its third-quarter net income, in the face of typhoon damage and a fall in prices of key products. Its net profit for the July-September period reached 600 billion won (US$416.8 million) on a consolidated basis, compared with a net [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Group, South Korea’s top steelmaking group, on Friday broke ground for a plant that refines high-purity nickel to be used for electric vehicle batteries in a move to further solidify its secondary battery material business. The facility with an annual production of 20,000 tons of high-purity nickel, a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean steel giant POSCO has participated in an academic-industry research cooperation drive to develop new technology for recycling by-product gases generated during the steel-making process as plastic materials on the basis of existing carbon dioxide capture and utilization technologies. The company on Thursday inaugurated the Center for Low-Carbon [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Holdings Co., the largest steelmaker in South Korea, announced on Thursday that it had established a battery recycling joint venture with GS Energy Corp., an energy unit of GS Group. Both entities have engaged in talks since September last year on how to promote cooperation in their core [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO Group, South Korea’s leading steelmaker, said Wednesday it will actively enter the blue hydrogen business as part of efforts to expand its non-steel business. POSCO Holdings Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with its affiliate POSCO Engineering & Construction Co. and major hydrogen company Approtium Co. to [...]