Korea to ease rules for petrochem industry M&As, plant closures

Korea to ease rules for petrochem industry M&As, plant closures

South Korea will ease regulations and offer incentives to facilitate the restructuring of domestic petrochemical makers battling a global suppl...

POSCO Holdings unveils aggressive value-up plan, hike in cash dividends

POSCO Holdings unveils aggressive value-up plan, hike in cash dividends

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group on Monday unveiled a spate of corporate value-up measures, including a highe...

POSCO to raise up to $691 million as next year’s 1st corporate bond issuer

POSCO to raise up to $691 million as next year’s 1st corporate bond issuer

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group plans to raise up to 1 trillion won ($691 million) in the country’s fi...

Lotte to supply advanced copper foil to Doosan for Nvidia’s Blackwell

Lotte to supply advanced copper foil to Doosan for Nvidia’s Blackwell

Lotte Energy Materials Corp., a leading South Korean battery materials maker, said on Tuesday it will supply advanced copper foil to Doosan Corp.'s&...

Samyang Foods to establish overseas plant in China

Samyang Foods to establish overseas plant in China

South Korea's Samyang Foods Co. said on Monday it will build its first overseas plant in China. The company plans to invest 64.7 billion won ($...

POSCO Future M develops technology to make electrode rods

POSCO Future M develops technology to make electrode rods

POSCO Future M Co., a battery material and steel manufacturing equipment supplier, said on Thursday it has developed electrode rod manufacturing tec...

POSCO, Hancock seek to jointly build lithium plant

POSCO, Hancock seek to jointly build lithium plant

POSCO Holdings Inc. on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Hancock Prospecting, an Australian mining company, to build a plant to annu...

Samsung SDS to build AI-focused data center at Samsung Electronics’ plant

Samsung SDS to build AI-focused data center at Samsung Electronics’ plant

Samsung SDS Co., the information technology service unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, plans to build an artificial intelligence data center...

Samsung C&T, Sweden's Karnfull Next to team up for SMR

Samsung C&T, Sweden's Karnfull Next to team up for SMR

South Korea's Samsung C&T Corp. said Friday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Swedish energy company Karnfull Next AB to jointl...

LG Energy set to acquire GM’s $1 bn stake in Ultium JV plant in Michigan

LG Energy set to acquire GM’s $1 bn stake in Ultium JV plant in Michigan

South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. plans to acquire General Motors Co.’s stake in their battery joint venture plant in Lansing, Michi...

POSCO Pilbara completes Gwangyang lithium hydroxide plant

POSCO Pilbara completes Gwangyang lithium hydroxide plant

South Korea's POSCO Pilbara Lithium Solution Co., a subsidiary of POSCO Group, said on Friday the completion of its second rock-based lithium hydrox...

POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business

POSCO to buy Korean robotics firm stake for steel business

South Korea’s steel-to-battery materials conglomerate POSCO Group will invest in the leading domestic robotics company to boost its ailing ste...

Celltrion to break ground on CDMO plant in 2025: Chairman Seo

Celltrion to break ground on CDMO plant in 2025: Chairman Seo

South Korea’s leading biosimilar developer Celltrion Inc. will break ground on its first contract development and manufacturing organization (...

Woori Bank to arrange $3.7 bn for Qatar desalination, power plant

Woori Bank to arrange $3.7 bn for Qatar desalination, power plant

South Korea's Woori Bank said on Tuesday it will arrange the Qatar Ras Abu Fontas desalination and power plant project, estimated to cost $3.7 billi...

POSCO Int'l starts commissioning of Senex Energy gas facility

POSCO Int'l starts commissioning of Senex Energy gas facility

South Korea's POSCO International Corp. said on Monday it has begun commissioning its first gas processing facility at Senex Energy’s Atlas ...

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 9 to be made in US, Korea

Hyundai premieres IONIQ 9 to be made in US, Korea

LOS ANGELES -- Hyundai Motor Co. on Wednesday unveiled the IONIQ 9 with a plan to produce the leading South Korean automaker’s first large ele...

KEPCO wins Saudi Arabia's two gas power plant projects

KEPCO wins Saudi Arabia's two gas power plant projects

Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) announced on Thursday that it was selected as the final successful bidder to build and operate two 1.9GW combined...

S.Korean firms bet big on US LNG market under new Trump gov't

S.Korean firms bet big on US LNG market under new Trump gov't

South Korean energy and shipbuilding companies are gearing up for a swift advance into the US liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, which is expected ...

Binggrae sells plant-based Melona at Costco in Australia

Binggrae sells plant-based Melona at Costco in Australia

South Korean food and beverage company Binggrae said on Wednesday that it sells its plant-based Melona at Costco stores in Australia from November.P...

POSCO shutters wire rod mill in Korea on supply glut

POSCO shutters wire rod mill in Korea on supply glut

POSCO, the world’s seventh-largest steelmaker, said on Tuesday it has shut down a wire rod mill in South Korea as rising exports from China ha...

LG Display to invest extra $1 bn in Vietnam OLED plant

LG Display to invest extra $1 bn in Vietnam OLED plant

LG Display Co. will invest an additional $1 billion in Vietnam over the next five years to ramp up organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel output,...

Samsung E&A wins $214 mn petrochem plant contract in Qatar

Samsung E&A wins $214 mn petrochem plant contract in Qatar

Samsung E&A Co. said on Friday that it won a contract for the RLP ethylene storage plant construction project in Qatar, valued at 300 billion wo...

Korean steel giant POSCO to sell Chinese JV PZSS amid US-China trade war

Korean steel giant POSCO to sell Chinese JV PZSS amid US-China trade war

South Korean steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc. is seeking to sell its entire stake in a Chinese stainless steel joint venture as it faces growing comp...

LG CNS launches AI solution Enerdict for virtual power plant operators

LG CNS launches AI solution Enerdict for virtual power plant operators

LG CNS Co., a leading South Korean IT service provider, has launched Enerdict, an AI-powered solution designed to optimize the operations of virtual...

L&F to supply ultra-high nickel cathodes to Korean, US EV makers

L&F to supply ultra-high nickel cathodes to Korean, US EV makers

South Korea’s leading battery materials maker L&F Co. plans to begin mass production of nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) battery cathodes wit...

Korea’s POSCO, India’s JSW team up to build steel plant in Odisha

Korea’s POSCO, India’s JSW team up to build steel plant in Odisha

South Korea’s POSCO Group joined hands with India’s JSW Group to set up an integrated steel plant in the South Asian country with an est...

S.Korea's Solus mass-produces copper foil in Hungary

S.Korea's Solus mass-produces copper foil in Hungary

Solus Advanced Materials, a South Korean copper foil supplier, said on Tuesday it started mass production at its second plant in Hungary, Europe&rsq...

POSCO completes lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina

POSCO completes lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina

POSCO Holdings Inc. said on Sunday it completed a lithium hydroxide plant in Argentina, boosting its capacity to produce electric vehicle (EV) batte...

POSCO International eyes M&A in US natural gas market

POSCO International eyes M&A in US natural gas market

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., is considering ac...

Daewoo E&C wins Turkmen mineral fertilizer plant project

Daewoo E&C wins Turkmen mineral fertilizer plant project

South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. (Daewoo E&C) said on Monday that it was selected as the winning bidder for a Mineral Fer...

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