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Fiber & Textile
Kolon Ind expands tire cord fabric plant in Vietnam
Kolon Industries Inc. has expanded the capacity of its polyester tire cord fabric plant in Vietnam, the South Korean company said on Wednesday.The f...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire aims to join global top 5 with new EV-only tires
South Korea’s leading tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. is aiming to join the ranks of the global top five tire makers with its lat...
Sep 20, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Seoul pushes for battery recycling to bypass US bill
South Korea will step up policy efforts to promote battery recycling, which might help the country get around the new US bill aimed at keeping elect...
Sep 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire’s focus on foreign factories sets it apart from rivals
South Korea’s leading tire maker Hankook Tire & Technology Co. has one business strategy that sets it apart from its local rivals: Build m...
Sep 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Waste management
SK Ecoplant bets on US battery recycling firm Ascend Elements
South Korea’s SK Ecoplant Co., formerly SK Engineering & Construction Co., signed a stock purchase agreement (SPA) on Aug. 31 to invest $5...
Sep 01, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire to spend $1.6 bn on US plant expansion
Hankook Tire & Technology Co., South Korea’s top tire maker, will invest $1.6 billion to more than double its output in the US, the world&...
Aug 30, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Waste management
SK Chem to build plastic recycling plants in China
SK Chemicals Co. plans to build plastic recycling plants in China in partnership with a Chinese eco-friendly materials supplier as its parent SK Gro...
Jul 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
LG Uplus aims to recycle 100% of industrial waste in 3 years
LG Uplus Corp. announced it will recycle 100% of industrial waste from its plants by 2025.The mobile network arm of LG Corp. published a report titl...
Jul 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Keppel to buy waste disposal firm in its largest Korean deal
Singapore-based Keppel Infrastructure appears set to buy South Korea’s leading waste management and recycling company EMK Co. for around $600 ...
Jul 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Korea Zinc buys US e-waste recycling firm for $332 mn
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...
Jul 12, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
Hyundai Mobis plans battery remanufacturing business
Hyundai Mobis Co., a car parts maker within South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Group, is set to launch an electric vehicle battery rema...
Jul 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Labor union
Hankook Tire sees increasing threat from combative labor union's demands
As a string of sporadic labor union strikes enters its third week, the risk of supply disruption has spread to an unlikely victim – Hankook Ti...
Jun 22, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Corporate investment
SK Innovation to focus on small reactors, batteries, waste recycling
SK Innovation Co., the refinery and chemicals unit of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK, is accelerating a shift toward eco-friendl...
Jun 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Hankook Tire builds Asia’s largest proving ground for future car tires
Hankook Tire & Technology Co., South Korea’s top tire maker, said on Wednesday it has opened Asia’s largest proving ground to test t...
May 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Kumho Tire, labor union in tug of war over international plants
Kumho Tire Co., South Korea’s No. 2 tire maker, struggled to agree with its unionized workers on more overseas plants although the company des...
Apr 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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ESG
SK Geo Centric invests $55 mn in US plastic waste recycling firm
South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. invested $55 million in US plastic waste recycling company PureCycle Technologies Inc. in a move to transform...
Mar 15, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Pre-IPOs
SK Ecoplant raises over $800 mn from Korean PE firms
South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. has raised a total of 1 trillion won ($830 million) from four domestic private equity firms, including 390 billion won...
Feb 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SK Ecoplant buys e-waste recycling firm for $1 bn
South Korea's SK Ecoplant Co. has acquired Singapore-based electronic waste (e-waste) disposal and recycling company TES Envirocorp Pte. Ltd for $1 ...
Feb 21, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Korean startups
Nuvilab uses the latest tech to tackle age-old issue of food waste
South Korea’s food data analysis firm Nuvilab, Inc. is not a household name – at least yet. The startup is rather familiar to investors...
Feb 09, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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IPOs
Hyundai Engineering drops IPO plan on stock market weakness
Hyundai Engineering Co., the plant engineering and construction unit of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, dropped a listing plan to raise up ...
Jan 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Automobiles
Korean tire makers to raise prices on higher costs
South Korea’s three leading tire makers joined the global industry’s plans to raise product prices to maintain profitability amid higher...
Jan 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Carbon neutrality
Hyundai Engineering to make hydrogen from plastic waste
Hyundai Engineering Co., a construction unit of South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group, is spending 400 billion won ($336 million) to build a plant to pr...
Dec 22, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Future mobility
Nexen Tire invests in US urban air mobility startup ANRA Technologies
Nexen Tire Corp., Korea’s third-largest tire maker, has made an undisclosed amount of equity investment in ANRA Technologies, a US urban air m...
Dec 20, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
SK to co-invest $50 mn in US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy
South Korea's SK Inc. on Thursday said it would co-invest $50 million in the US-based Fulcrum BioEnergy with a domestic private equity fund, in a bi...
Dec 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Fiber & Textile
Korea textiles reborn as eco-friendly, high-tech
South Korea’s textile sector is reviving as a high value-added growth business with advanced technology. The business, once a leading industry...
Dec 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hankook Tire buys Canada's self-driving sensor maker
South Korea's Hankook Tire Group has acquired a majority stake worth 204.5 billion won ($173 million) in Canada's Preciseley Microtechnology Corp., ...
Dec 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Energy
Hyundai Oilbank to make naphtha from plastic waste
Hyundai Oilbank Co. is set to produce naphtha by injecting plastic waste pyrolysis oil into the process of refining crude oil, poised to become the ...
Nov 18, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Waste treatment
Hyundai Motor Group seeks to buy Korea waste treatment firm
Hyundai Engineering Co., Hyundai Motor Group’s construction arm, has joined the race to buy a South Korean garbage treatment company as the gr...
Nov 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Petrochemicals
SK becomes first Korean oil producer from plastic waste
SK Group has become South Korea's first company to extract oil from plastic waste and use the eco-friendly oil as a feedstock of oil refining and pe...
Oct 01, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Hyundai Steel, Samsung develop tech to recycle chip waste for steelmaking
Hyundai Steel Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. said on Monday they have developed technology that can recycle the chipmaker’s wastewater sludge...
Sep 27, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)