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July 05, 2024
Hanwha Energy makes tender offer as part of group succession plan

Hanwha Energy launched a bid on Friday to acquire shares worth 180 billion won ($130 million) in the group's holding company Hanwha, as part of a succession plan to transfer management control from the current Hanwha Group chairman to his three sons. Hanwha Energy, the renewable energy arm under H...
July 05, 2024
Samsung SDI clinches W1tr energy storage deal with top US electric utility

Samsung SDI is set to supply energy storage solution batteries worth 1 trillion won ($724 million) to NextEra Energy, the largest electric utility in the United States. Industry sources report that Samsung SDI is finalizing a contract to provide batteries with a total capacity of 6.3 gigawatt-hour...
July 04, 2024
SK Square names new CEO to reshape investment portfolio

SK Square, the investment arm of SK Group, is set to reshape its business portfolio to concentrate on the chip industry and divest "non-core" investments, under a new leader. On Wednesday, the company nominated Han Myung-jin, the head of the company's investment support center and former chief str...
July 04, 2024
SK, Canada’s EDC forge partnership on green energy

SK Group said Thursday that it has teamed up with Export Development Canada, the country’s exports credit agency, to boost cooperation in high-tech areas such as renewable energy and batteries. SK Inc., the holding unit of the group, signed a memorandum of understanding with EDC to forge a long-t...
July 03, 2024
LG acquires Dutch smarthome specialist to enhance connectivity

LG Electronics is acquiring Athom, a smart home platform based in the Netherlands as part of its effort to strengthen connectivity for its open smart home ecosystem, the company announced Wednesday. The Korean tech giant said it has acquired an 80 percent stake in the Dutch firm, and plans to purc...
July 03, 2024
Jollibee Foods buys 70 percent of Compose Coffee for $238m

Jollibee Foods Corp. -- a multinational restaurant company based in the Philippines and owner of the country's largest fast food chain Jollibee -- will acquire a 70-percent stake in South Korean coffee chain Compose Coffee for $238 million, as part of its global expansion of coffee and tea business...
July 02, 2024
LG Energy Solution secures mass supply of lithium from Australian firm

LG Energy Solution said Tuesday that it had struck a deal to secure a large-scale lithium supply with Australian mining firm Liontown Resources, bolstering its global supply chain of key raw materials for electric vehicle batteries. According to the Korean firm, the contract guarantees about 1.75 ...
July 02, 2024
LG Energy Solution lands major LFP battery deal with Renault

LG Energy Solution, South Korea's largest electric vehicle battery maker, has secured its first major order for lithium-iron-phosphate batteries from French auto giant Renault Group's EV unit Ampere. The contract, announced in Paris on Monday, will see LG Energy Solution supplying pouch LFP batter...
July 02, 2024
LS Cable wins W1tr submarine cable deal in California

LS Cable & System said Tuesday that it has signed a deal worth 100 billion won ($72 million) with LS Power Grid California, a transmission network operator in the US. LS Power Grid California, a subsidy of LS Power -- a New York-based energy and power infrastructure operation and investment compan...
June 30, 2024
SK hynix pledges W103tr for AI chips by 2028

SK Group said Sunday that it will secure 80 trillion won ($57.9 billion) by 2026 to accelerate its push for two growth drivers: chips and artificial intelligence. SK hynix, its chipmaking unit, alone plans to invest 103 trillion won by 2028, with 80 percent of the new funding focusing on AI chips,...
June 26, 2024
Parties rush to roll out competing chip bills with heftier incentives

Lawmakers of the ruling People Power Party also announced proposal bills for the chip industry, largely focused on offering direct subsidies to chipmakers. Rep. Koh Dong-jin of the ruling People Power Party, who was formerly president of Samsung Electronics, introduced his first proposal bill on J...
June 25, 2024
Kang Sue-jin's ballet meets public procurement in PPS' new promotional video

South Korea’s government procurement agency said Monday that it has unveiled the emotionally evocative promotional video titled “K-Public Procurement, The Next Stage,” starring the nation's famed ballerina Kang Sue-jin. The video, now available on the Public Procurement Service's official YouTu...
June 24, 2024
LS Cable to power NextStar battery plant in Canada

LS Cable & System, one of the world’s leading cable manufacturers, said Monday that it will provide high-capacity power distribution bus ducts for NextStar Energy’s new battery plant in the Canadian province of Ontario. NextStar Energy, a partnership between LG Energy Solution and Stellantis, is...
May 10, 2024
Naver Cloud, Philippines' Converge team up for DX innotation

Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Korea's IT giant Naver, said Friday it has teamed up with Philippine fiber optic internet provider Converge ICT Solutions to speed up digital transformation in the Southeast Asian country. Under the deal, the two sides agreed to collaborate to discuss ways t...
April 24, 2024
Hyundai Mobis breaks ground for W170b Spain plant

Hyundai Mobis, the auto parts manufacturer under Hyundai Motor Group, said Wednesday it held a ground-breaking ceremony for its first factory in Western Europe, which will manufacture battery systems, particularly focusing on supplying the Volkswagen Group. The new factory in Navarre, Spain, will ...

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