Steel
Steel
POSCO to spend $830 mn to build lithium plant in Argentina
Dec 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO to quadruple steel sheet production for eco-friendly cars
South Korean steelmaking giant POSCO Co. is slated to quadruple its production of non-grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, a key material in the t...
Nov 15, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dongkuk eyes $1.7 billion sales from color steel business in 2030
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea’s third-largest steelmaker, said on Monday that it aims to grow its color coated steel business to 2 trilli...
Nov 08, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Steel scrap in high demand in steelmakers' push to cut emissions
Steel scrap, once derided as trash, is emerging as a national strategic resource as steelmakers are increasingly recycling metal scrap to reduce reli...
Nov 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
SeAH set for record earnings on steel supercycle, offshore wind projects
SeAH Group, a South Korean mid-size special steel conglomerate, is set to post record earnings this year on the back of the global steel supercycle a...
Oct 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO reaps rewards from Australia’s Roy Hill investment
POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, has reaped the rewards of a $1.1 billion investment it made in Australia’s Roy Hil...
Oct 24, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Earnings
POSCO emerges from pandemic blues with record third-quarter profit
South Korea’s largest steelmaker POSCO is returning even stronger from the pandemic-caused economic slowdown, with an all-time high quarterly p...
Oct 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
POSCO to transfer hydrogen steel tech to industry peers for shared growth
The Hydrogen Iron & Steel Making (HyIS) Forum led by the steelmaker POSCO officially opened Oct. 6 in Seoul with more than 1,200 industry partici...
Oct 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Hydrogen economy
POSCO to lead global forum on next-generation steelmaking technology
POSCO will host an international forum next month with the world’s major steel and mining companies to develop greener steelmaking processes ba...
Sep 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO hires ex-US envoy on N.Korea Stephen Biegun as adviser
South Korean steel giant POSCO has hired Stephen Biegun, former US deputy secretary of state, as its adviser for its American business.POSCO America ...
Sep 29, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dongkuk Steel adds another production line of color coated steel
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., the world’s leading manufacturer of color coated steel, has expanded its production capacity even further. The company ...
Sep 28, 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)
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Steel
Steel stocks rally on iron ore price falls, Q3 outlook
Shares in South Korean steelmakers rose sharply in active trade on Tuesday, on the prospect that the declining iron ore price and Chinese rivals' out...
Sep 07, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Korea’s steel stocks make big rebound with rosy H2 outlook
The share prices of South Korea’s major steelmakers, which observed a period of a downturn over the last two months, is making a rebound amid g...
Jul 28, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Korean shipbuilders baffled by steelmakers’ offer to hike prices by 64%
South Korea’s major steelmakers are demanding a sharp price hike for steel plates used in ships, adding to difficulties faced by domestic shipb...
Jul 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
China’s heavy imports of copper, steel scrap hurt Korean SMEs
South Korea’s massive exports of scrap steel and scrap copper to China are hurting its domestic companies that are struggling to secure the ste...
May 26, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Color coated steel shines in style on Samsung, LG home appliances
At Dongkuk Steel Mill Co.’s main plant in Busan, some 430 km southeast of Seoul, huge rollers churning out colorful sheets never stop except wh...
May 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dongkuk Steel’s Brazil plant: From ugly duckling to golden swan
For Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., South Korea’s third-largest steelmaker, Companhia Siderurgica do Pecem steel mill in Brazil, commonly known as CSP,...
Apr 09, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Batteries
POSCO agrees on joint graphene cluster development
The steelmaker POSCO will lead in the creation of a graphene industry cluster in the city of Pohang, about 300km southeast of Seoul, where the compan...
Mar 31, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
S.Korean mold makers target global leadership with record exports
South Korea’s die and mold industry reported another year of export growth last year, fueled by record-high volume to North America, and mainta...
Mar 16, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO CEO enters 2nd term with focus on eco-friendly markets
South Korean steelmaker POSCO Co. will put its efforts into gaining dominance in new growth markets such as eco-friendly vehicles and steel bars used...
Mar 12, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
POSCO may see Q1 operating profit reach $900 mn
South Korea's largest steelmaker POSCO may see its operating profit climb to the 1 trillion won ($906 million) range as domestic steel companies exp...
Jan 17, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Dongkuk Steel wows industry with color steel plates, earnings surprise
GAMMANDONG, BUSAN -- The global steel industry underwent an unprecedented slump in 2020, with demand from the shipbuilding and automobile industries ...
Jan 13, 2021 (Gmt+09:00)
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Steel
Korean steel majors positioned as 2021 market darlings
Corporate earnings generally come in line with estimates from market analysts, who closely monitor industry conditions. But this year, one sector anal...
Nov 18, 2020 (Gmt+09:00)
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