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Fiber & Textile Hansae acquires US textile company Texollini

South Korean garment maker Hansae Co. said on Tuesday that it acquired the US-based textile manufacturer Texollini Inc.Founded in 1989, Texollini is...

Fiber & Textile SK Geo Centric produces sustainable synthetic fiber

South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. will collaborate with global companies in the petrochemical, textile, and apparel sectors from Japan, Finland...

Construction Hyundai L&C targets US, India with premium finishing material

Hyundai L&C, South Korea’s Hyundai Department Store Group’s building materials unit, said on Tuesday that it will increase the propo...

Batteries POSCO Future M to sharply raise synthetic graphite output

South Korea’s POSCO Future M Co. will sharply raise its synthetic graphite production by the end of 2025 as China’s export restrictions ...

Retail Synthetic diamonds with ESG value lure Korean shoppers

Lab-grown diamonds, cultured in laboratories wth advanced technologies, are garnering attention from South Korean consumers as they are produced mor...

Bio & Pharma Korea's ST Pharm completes new R&D hub for gene therapy

ST Pharm Co., a South Korean drug raw material-producing subsidiary of Dong-A Socio Holdings, said on Friday that it has finished building an R&...

Petrochemicals Kumho Petrochem's rubber products win eco-friendly certification

Kumho Petrochemical Co. said on Tuesday that its four synthetic rubber products including SSBR, HBR, LBR, and NdBR have earned International Sustain...

Healthcare Aekyung Industrial acquires green certification for eco-friendly detergent

Aekyung Industrial said on Thursday that it has obtained green technology certification from the Korea Technology Finance Corporation for its eco-fr...

Artificial intelligence Syntekabio launches new drug development platform STB Cloud in US

Syntekabio,Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) drug development company, said on Monday it has launched its cloud-based AI drug develo...

Batteries POSCO Chem's rise from brickworks to EV materials leader

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

Energy Hyundai Oilbank to develop eco-friendly e-fuels with Danish firm

Hyundai Oilbank Co. plans to develop eco-friendly electrofuels, or e-fuels, jointly with Denmark's Haldor Topsoe as the South Korean oil refiner has...

Mergers & Acquisitions Lotte Chem ready to bid for JSR’s synthetic rubber business

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical Corp. has completed due diligence on the synthetic rubber operation of JSR Corp., put up for sale by the Japanese...

Rubber business disposal Japan’s JSR reaches out to Lotte, LG for sale of synthetic rubber business

Japan’s JSR Corp. is reaching out to Korean chemical companies to dispose of its synthetic rubber business and focus instead on semiconductor ...

Biomaterials LG Chem, Neste join forces to make bio-based synthetic resins

LG Chem Ltd. plans to produce synthetic resins such as polyolefin, polycarbonate and polyvinyl chloride, using biomaterials from Finland's diesel prod...