SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Ecoplant Co., the construction arm of South Korea’s chip-to-battery conglomerate SK Group, said Wednesday it has completed its second battery recycling plant in China in an effort to meet rising battery demand in the automobile industry. The second plant, located in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, is capable of processing [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Ecoplant Co., a South Korean builder, said Tuesday it joined hands with a U.S. waste recycling company to form a joint venture and build a battery recycling pretreatment plant in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The factory will be established in Hopkinsville, in partnership with Ascend Elements and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Ecoplant announced on Tuesday that it is teaming up with NETSPA, a startup that specializes in recycling waste fishing nets, for a project in Southeast Asia. This project has been chosen as an initial project for the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Platform ESG Initiative. On September 12, SK Ecoplant [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. said Sunday that the Canadian green hydrogen project Nujio’qonik, in which it holds a stake, has received approval from the Canadian provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador to utilize state-owned land for wind power generation. Canadian firm World Energy GH2 Inc., a leading [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top waste management company SK ecoplant Co. said Monday it had achieved a breakthrough in manufacturing recycled boxes by utilizing discarded paper resources from logistics centers. This achievement was made possible through a collaboration between SK ecoplant, logistics giant CJ Logistics Corp., and local packaging firm Tailim [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK Ecoplant Co. said Thursday it has secured an additional electronic waste and waste battery recycling base in the North American market through its overseas subsidiary. TES Envirocorp, a Singapore-based electronic waste management solution provider acquired by SK ecoplant last year, completed and started operating an [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. said Thursday it has invested US$50 million in Ascend Elements, a U.S.-based lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company, as part of efforts to gain a stronger foothold in the waste battery market. The investment is a part of Ascend Elements’ Series C [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. said Wednesday it had signed a stock purchase agreement with DY Polymer and DY Indus, both specialized in the recycling of plastic waste, and completed the acquisition procedures. DY Polymer has been engaged in the production of pellets, the nation’s first recycled material [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. plans to develop a technology to directly produce hydrogen from organic waste resources under an industry, academia and research institute collaboration system. The company said Wednesday it will jointly carry out the state project “Future Hydrogen Original Technology Development” launched by the National [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. said Thursday it was launching a drive to recycle waste incineration ash as a construction material. The company joined hands with CMD Group, a specialist in the manufacturing of eco-friendly construction materials, to promote technological cooperation and to produce block aggregates made of [...]