SKC’s US affiliate Absolics receives $100 million in US R&D grants

Absolics Inc., the US glass substrate affiliate of South Korean chemical materials company SKC Ltd., has been selected to receive up to $100 million...

LG Innotek develops AI for raw material inspection

LG Innotek, a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, said on Wednesday it developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can filter ou...

Samsung, SK, LG vie for glass substrate market in AI era

South Korea’s household names Samsung, SK and LG have entered a new race to win the glass substrate market set to surge in the artificial inte...

LG Innotek begins supplying AI chip substrates to Big Tech

LG Innotek Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, is for the first time supplying high-performance chip substrates for AI devices to g...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics to supply hybrid camera lenses to Hyundai

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a leading South Korean electronics parts maker, plans to begin supplying hybrid lenses for automotive camera modules ...

Samsung, LG go head-to-head in AI components market

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. and LG Innotek Co., two major South Korean suppliers for Apple iPhones, are going head-to-head in the artificial intel...

Samsung, LG, Sony vie for mixed-reality OLED display market

Samsung Display Co., LG Display Co. and Sony Corp. — the world’s three leading display panel makers — are ratcheting up efforts to...

SK Geo Centric, Loop to set up plastic recycling plant in Korea

SK Geo Centric Co., a petrochemical unit within South Korean conglomerate SK Group, said on Wednesday it will set up a joint venture with a Nasdaq-l...

Kolon Industries achieves certification for eco-friendly petroleum resins

Kolon Industries Inc., a Korean manufacturer of chemical and textile products, announced on Monday that it has become the first company in the domes...

Aekyung Chemical's coating resin wins certification from USDA

South Korean consumer goods company Aekyung Chemical Co. announced on Thursday that its plant-based oil coating resin has received certification fro...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics unveils chip substrate for autonomous driving

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. has developed an advanced semiconductor substrate for autonomous driving, which is expected to drive the top South Kor...

SK to build $480 mn recycling plant in France with partners

SK Geo Centric Co. is set to build a 450 million euro ($479.6 million) plastic recycling plant in France with the country’s utility company SU...

LG Innotek targets XR device market with new substrate

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. aims to lead the market for components of the extended reality (XR) device industry, which is expected to surge b...

Toray Korea to boost PPS resin production with expansion plan

Toray Advanced Materials Korea (TAK) has announced plans to increase its annual production capacity of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin by 5,000 to...

LG Innotek gears up for FC-BGA substrate mass production

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. is preparing to mass produce flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) substrates from the fourth quarter of this year, ...

Aekyung Chemical develops first fertilizer coating resin with vegetable oil

Aekyung Chemical on Friday said it has developed South Korea's first eco-friendly fertilizer coating resin using vegetable oil.Aekyung Chemical, a s...

LG Innotek eyes top spot in FC-BGA substrate market

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. will boost the production of its flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packages, or high-density package substrates,...

Applied Materials injects $40 mn in glass substrate maker Absolics

Applied Materials Inc., a global leading equipment and software supplier to semiconductor makers, has invested 51 billion won ($40.2 million) in Abs...

SK C&C to automate production process of SKC's US subsidiary

SK C&C announced on Wednesday that it will start a project to install a full-process automation system based on its smart factory platform I-FAC...

LG Innotek to invest $1.1 bn to ramp up substrate, camera module output

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co. said on Wednesday it will invest 1.4 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in expanding facilities for semiconductor substr...

Samsung to boost chip substrate investment after Apple order

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. will expand its manufacturing facilities for high-performance package substrates in both South Korea and Vietnam, afte...

Samsung to supply chip substrate for Apple’s next-gen M2 processor

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. will supply its semiconductor package substrate to Apple Inc. for the US tech giant’s next-generation M2 process...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics to invest $245 mn more in capex

South Korea’s Samsung Electro-Mechanics will spend more on increasing its semiconductor package substrate production capacity in order to meet...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics to focus on IT, automotive electronics sectors

South Korea’s Samsung Electro-Mechanics is set to focus on information technology and automotive electronics sectors as they are core growth e...

PCB makers in record-setting rally on strong outlook

Shares in South Korea's small and medium-sized printed circuit board (PCB) makers extended their upward run to hit fresh highs this week, bucking th...

LG Innotek’s substrate business becomes a cash cow

Korea’s leading camera module maker LG Innotek Co. is projected to post record earnings this year thanks to its fast-growing integrated circui...

Kolon expands hydrocarbon resins production, becomes global No.2 maker

South Korea’s chemicals and industrial materials maker Kolon Industries Inc. have added another 15,000 tons of annual capacity in its hydrocar...

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...