Middle East plant construction
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Batteries
Citibank Korea provides $412 mn to POSCO for Argentine business
Citibank Korea signed on Jan. 25 a financial contract with POSCO Argentina, a subsidiary of South Korea's steel and secondary battery raw material g...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Lotte Ineos Chemical to expand vinyl acetate monomer plant
Lotte Ineos Chemical, South Korea's lone maker of acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), on Monday said it will expand its VAM output capacity...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
Toray Korea to boost PPS resin production with expansion plan
Toray Advanced Materials Korea (TAK) has announced plans to increase its annual production capacity of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin by 5,000 to...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Lotte Construction develops eco-friendly concrete
Lotte Engineering & Construction has developed eco-friendly concrete that can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 90%. In collaboration wit...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
SeAH begins construction on stainless steel pipe plant in Saudi Arabia
SeAH Gulf Special Steel Industries (SGSI), a joint venture between South Korea's SeAH CSS and Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco, has broken ground on a...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO Chemical breaks ground on second anode material plant
POSCO Chemical Co., a battery material unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., on Jan. 31 broke ground on its second plant to p...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Taihan Cable begins construction of optical cable plant in Kuwait
Taihan Cable & Solution Co. said on Monday that it held a groundbreaking ceremony for its optical cable production unit Taihan Kuwait in the Mid...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO gets nod for battery technology transfer to overseas plants
POSCO Chemical Co., a unit of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Co., on Thursday won government approval to transfer technology to its overseas...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
KT Submarine to buy cable laying barge from key shareholder
South Korea’s undersea cable company KT Submarine Co. plans to buy a cable laying barge from LS Cable & System Ltd., its major shareholder...
Jan 26, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Kolmar Korea to establish new cosmetics production base in Sejong City
South Korea's cosmetic original design manufacturer Kolmar Korea said Wednesday that it would establish a cosmetics production base equipped with ar...
Jan 25, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Beauty & Cosmetics
Cosmax to make inroads into Japanese market in earnest
Cosmax Inc., South Korea's cosmetics original design manufacturing (ODM) company, said on Thursday that it would start targeting the Japanese market...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Chemical Industry
CJ HDC Biosol completes plant for green biodegradable materials
South Korea's CJ HDC Biosol on Thursday said it held a completion ceremony for its biodegradable material compounding plant at Gwanghyewon Industria...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate restructuring
Hyundai Doosan Infracore unveils new construction equipment brand
South Korea's Hyundai Doosan Infracore Co. on Wednesday said that in a news conference in Las Vegas on the day before, it unveiled its new construct...
Jan 19, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hyundai's four models selected among Car & Driver's best 10 Trucks & SUVs
Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday that Hyundai IONIQ5, Kia EV6, Kia Telluride, and Genesis GV70 were selected as the 2023 Best 10 Trucks & S...
Jan 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Food & Beverage
Lotte to invest $55 mn in Indian ice cream subsidiary for 5 years
South Korea-based Lotte Confectionery Co. will invest 4.5 billion rupees ($55.1 million) in its Indian unit Havmor Ice Cream in the next five ...
Jan 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Daewoong accelerates investment in CDMO business
Daewoong, the holding company of South Korea's pharmaceutical-oriented Daewoong Group, is speeding up its pace to beef up its contract development a...
Jan 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Samsung Eng. wins ADNOC’s $80.7 mn joint project
South Korea’s Samsung Engineering Co. has won a $80.7 million joint project from Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) for multi-billion-dollar g...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Bio & Pharma
Medytox to build plant for finished toxin products in Dubai
South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Medytox Inc. will build a plant for finished products containing botulinum toxin in the United Arab Emirates...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Cryptocurrencies
WeMade sets up blockchain corporation in UAE
WeMade Co., South Korea's game developer and publisher and the issuer of cryptocurrency WeMix, set up WeMix MENA Ltd. in the United Arab Emirates (U...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Tech, Media & Telecom
Korea internet data center construction faces health issue
South Korea’s information technology industry hit a snag with building new internet data centers (IDCs) due to controversies over the potentia...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electric vehicles
Kia to break ground on new Korean EV plant in March
Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is set to break ground in March on a domestic factory to produce electric purpose-built vehicles (PB...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction
Kolon Global secures patent for Kankan Smart Space technology
South Korea's construction engineering company Kolon Global Corp. said on Monday that it has obtained a technology patent for the multi-purpose syst...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean chipmakers
Samsung CEO says construction of Taylor foundry on track
A US road in Taylor, Taxas, where global chip giant Samsung Electronics Co. is building a $17 billion fabrication plant on a scale of about 5 millio...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Electronics
LG Elec's Tennessee plant named Lighthouse Factory by WEF
LG Electronics Inc.'s home appliance factory in Tennessee, the US, has been selected as a "Lighthouse Factory" by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for...
Jan 16, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
SK-Ford JV likely to raise $4 bn via US loan program
Glendale, Kentucky -- A battery joint venture between South Korea’s SK On Co. and Ford Motor Co. is likely to raise about $4 billion in a US g...
Jan 15, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
LG Energy, Honda to build $4.4 billion battery plant in Ohio
LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. have launched their first US joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio, LG said o...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
3 HD Hyundai affiliates to help ESG management of biz partners
Three construction machinery affiliates of South Korea's HD Hyundai will support environmental, social and governance (ESG) management of their part...
Jan 12, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dong Yang Steel Pipe signs contract with Japanese EPC company
DongYangSteelPipe, a steel pipe unit of KBI Group, said on Tuesday that it had signed on the previous day an agreement with a Japanese EPC (engineer...
Jan 11, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Construction & Planning
Hyundai Eng. acquires certifications for nuclear power plant construction
Hyundai Engineering Co. said on Tuesday it has obtained both domestic and foreign quality certifications to start the nuclear power plant EPC (desig...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Ford in talks with LG Energy for Turkey EV battery plant
Ford Motor Co. is in talks with LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, to build a cell factory in...
Jan 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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