battery raw materials

While the recent urea crisis laid bare South Korea’s heavy dependence on China for the basic raw material, concerns are growing that the count...

South Korean battery manufacturers are suffering from the growing dominance of their Chinese competitors in the world’s electric vehicle marke...

Rechargeable battery shares in Korea are continuing their slide, hit by global supply shortages. In addition to the companies that produce completed b...

Chey Jae-won, the younger brother to SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, returned to the conglomerate’s leadership on Dec. 17, after an eight-year...

South Korea’s top chemical manufacturer LG Chem Ltd. and its battery affiliate LG Energy Solution Ltd. have acquired a combined 2.6% stake in ...

South Korea’s exports have reached an all-time high thanks to strong overseas demand for key products such as semiconductors amid the global e...

South Korea’s POSCO Co. is set to split off the company to launch an investment holding firm, 21 years after its privatization. The move aims ...

EcoPro BM Co., South Korea’s top cathode materials producer, has decided to set up its first overseas plant in Hungary.EcoPro BM on Dec. 9 ann...

South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank Co. is set to produce eco-friendly materials for construction and paper with by-products of refining as it seek...

South Korea’s POSCO Chemical Co. said on Thursday it is forming a new joint venture with US top automaker General Motors Co. to produce cathod...

SK Inc., the investment and holding company of South Korea’s conglomerate SK Group, completed the merger with SK Materials Co. with aim to exp...

LG Energy Solution Ltd. is set to secure $1.36 billion to expand US battery output capacity, joining the fundraising race among South Korean battery...

SK On Co., one of South Korea's top three rechargeable battery makers, plans to raise around 3 trillion won ($2.5 billion) in a pre-IPO share sale n...

Korea Zinc Inc., the world’s top lead and zinc smelter, plans to double its production capacity of nickel sulfate, a key raw material for cath...

South Korean stocks related to secondary batteries, especially shares in cathode and anode materials producers, have rallied on strong growth in the...

South Korea’s top petrochemical maker LG Chem Ltd. and the No. 2 refiner GS Caltex Corp. have agreed to jointly produce a biodegradable plasti...

Hyundai Engineering Co., Hyundai Motor Group’s construction arm, has joined the race to buy a South Korean garbage treatment company as the gr...

SK Inc., the holding and investment company of South Korea’s SK Group, and Beijing Easpring Material Technology Co., a major Chinese cathode m...

South Korean steelmaking giant POSCO Co. is slated to quadruple its production of non-grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, a key material in the...

POHANG, South Korea - When POSCO Chemical Co., better known as a refractory brick manufacturer until the early 1990s, announced its entry into the a...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., a leading South Korean battery maker, has signed a deal to supply batteries to Nikola Corp., a US hydrogen fuel cell electr...

SES Holdings Pte. Ltd., one of the world’s top solid-state battery makers, unveiled a hybrid lithium-metal rechargeable battery with better pe...

SEOUL—North Korea has the capacity to make more base ingredients for nuclear bombs than previously believed, according to new research, sugg...

Sartorius AG, German laboratory equipment and raw material maker, is slated to invest $300 million in the next three years to build a plant in South...

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has vowed to spend $26 billion, or half of the group’s planned investment in the US by 2030, on electric vehicl...

South Korea’s SKC Co. is set to invest $33 million in Nexeon Ltd., a British battery materials maker, for the silicon anode materials business...

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Co. last week raised 1.3 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in a rights issue to existing shareholders as planned, a...

SK Innovation Co., S-Oil Corp. and Hyundai Oilbank were among the preliminary bidders for South Korea’s top biodiesel material maker DK O&...

Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. invested in US solid-state battery startup Factorial Energy in a move to secure various technologies for the next-ge...

Global automakers and battery producers are accelerating the development of a next-generation electric vehicle battery, called an all-solid-state ba...