specialty metals

South Korea is far more dependent than Japan on neodymium permanent magnets from China at 88%, while the rate for Japan, a land devoid of rare earth...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s No. 2 battery maker, and Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., the global refined cobalt leader, have launched a ce...

South Korea’s POSCO Group and SKC will jointly develop a dream lithium metal cathode material for commercialization by 2026 under a strategy t...

South Korea's battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced on Friday that it has signed a lithium concentrate supply contract with Australian c...

Kolon Industries Inc., a leading industrial materials maker in South Korea, announced on Monday that it will invest 24 billion won ($17.94 million) ...

With a hamstrung US Federal Reserve, the global outlook for 2023 is one of cautious optimism for fixed income. As the Fed is unable to readily rescu...

South Korea's steelmaker POSCO and the government-run Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corp. (KOMIR) on Friday announced the first pi...

ATTOMAX golf balls approved by the World Record Committee (WRC) as the longest-flying golf balls in the world finally hit the South Korean market on...

Hyundai Motor Group announced on Friday that the polymer materials analysis lab and the metal component analysis lab in the Basic Materials Research...

South Korea's energy equipment maker Doosan Enerbility Co. has obtained the green light in participating in the domestic nuclear storage cask market...

A new engineering plastic made of the compound material LUCON TX5007 and developed by South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. has been applied to the front fende...

LAS VEGAS -- South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. seeks to ramp up sales 65% in nearly 30 years by increasing production of advanced materials, ...

When severe brain diseases such as cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage occur, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in our body no longer functions p...

Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) on Tuesday said it developed domestic software to boost quality in manufacturing using metal 3D printe...

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. is forming a joint venture with SungEel HiTech Co., a company that recycles discarded batteries, to extract metals f...

BGF EcoMaterials, a materials unit of the BGF Group, said on Friday that it has signed an agreement with Hwaseung Material, a fine chemical company,...

Daesang Welllife on Thursday said it has concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China Sinopharm International, an affiliate of China's l...

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s second-largest foundry company, is set to expand production technology of chips for automobiles, sensors ...

As global investors are seeking ways to protect their investment returns in an inflationary, rising rate environment, some asset managers are eyeing...

Harim Co., South Korea’s top poultry processing company, is seeking to acquire Genofocus Inc., a Kosdaq-listed industrial and pharmaceutical e...

As global investors are seeking ways to protect their investment returns in an inflationary, rising rate environment, some asset managers are eyeing...

South Korean nonferrous metals conglomerate Poongsan Corp. announced it will invest 313 billion won ($238 million) in facilities to manufacture rech...

Korea Zinc, the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter, agreed to buy a majority stake in a US-based electronic waste recycling company for $33...

LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, plans to spend more on global capacity expansion than init...

LS-Nikko Copper Co., the world’s second-largest electrolytic copper maker, is set to sell an 800 billion won ($670 million) stake in a joint v...

South Korea's two non-ferrous metal product leaders Korea Zinc Inc. and Poongsan Corp. are tipped to report their record earnings in 2021, after str...

South Korea’s top chemical maker LG Chem Ltd. will partner with China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. to launch a battery material joint ve...

South Korean steelmakers, led by POSCO Co., are rolling up their sleeves to secure metal scrap as they are shifting into less carbon-intensive steel...

Lotte Chemical Corp. is seeking to acquire major stakes in a few specialty chemical companies in Japan as the South Korean company aims to expand it...

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