Strong growth in battery copper foil sales has yet to translate into profits, leaving investors to weigh strategic promise against mounting debt and years of losses still to come.
27 July 2026
After six months of neglect as investors piled into semiconductors, solar, wind, and battery stocks are quietly building a case for a comeback.
18 July 2026
South Korea's financial watchdog has blocked EcoPro BM's massive share sale, exposing retail investors to a painful dilemma between dilution risk and lost opportunity.
15 July 2026
The Financial Supervisory Service has demanded amendments to EcoPro BM's securities filing, effectively halting one of the largest share sales ever attempted by a Korean battery-materials company.
15 July 2026
As Chinese manufacturers tighten their grip on nearly 90% of the global battery-separator market, South Korea's SK IE Technology stands alone among non-Chinese suppliers in recording a double-digit decline.
13 July 2026
Chinese manufacturers are tightening their grip on the global electric-vehicle battery separator market, squeezing out Korean and Japanese rivals even as overall demand surges.
13 July 2026
Chinese automakers are rapidly capturing market share in international electric vehicle markets, even as North America's steep decline clouds an otherwise robust global picture.
8 July 2026
Europe and emerging Asian markets are compensating for sharp declines in China and North America, reshaping the global electric vehicle landscape in 2025.
7 July 2026
CATL and BYD are rapidly capturing share in electric-vehicle battery markets outside China, while South Korea's three major cell makers have collectively shed 8.7 percentage points of market share in the first five months of 2025.
6 July 2026
Despite persistent fears of an electric-vehicle demand slump, battery consumption in markets outside China rose 21.8% in the first five months of 2026, underscoring that the global energy transition is proceeding faster than the sceptics suggest.
6 July 2026
A bold capital raise to fund vertical integration in Indonesia and Hungary divides investors, pitting short-term dilution pain against the promise of long-term competitive advantage.
30 June 2026
The South Korean battery materials maker is tapping equity markets to secure nickel supplies in Indonesia and expand cathode production in Hungary.
30 June 2026
Tokyo's massive subsidy push reflects a strategic bid to reclaim dominance in battery technology — and signals that the race to power the electric-vehicle era is becoming a contest between nations.
24 June 2026
The partnership aims to bolster South Korea's domestic battery ecosystem as intensifying competition from Chinese rivals exposes vulnerabilities in the country's supply chain.
24 June 2026
The South Korean battery maker is pushing into the fast-growing data-centre energy market, using Europe's largest storage-technology exhibition to launch an integrated power solution designed for AI infrastructure.
22 June 2026
The South Korean battery giant's milestone reflects a deliberate strategy to build intellectual-property defences as competition in the global battery market intensifies.
22 June 2026