[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] LG Energy Solution has established a battery recycling joint venture (JV) with Derichebourg (DBG), France's No. 1 metal recycling and environmental service company. It is the first Korea-Europe recycling joint venture in Europe. Construction is expected to begin in 2026 in Bruyères-sur-Oise, in the Val d'Oise region of northern France, and full operation is expected to begin in 2027. It will have the capacity to process more than 20,000 tons of used batteries and scrap per year. The new joint venture is a specialized preprocessing plant that safely crushes an
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Global biopharmaceutical company Medytox (CEO Jeong Hyeon-ho) announced on the 29th that it had carried out various promotional activities, including attending the international academic conference 'ICLAS (International Conference of Laser, Aesthetic medicine and Surgery) 2025' held in Bangkok, Thailand for two days from the 25th to the 26th, and revealing the plan to launch products approved at the end of last year in the first half of the year. 'ICLAS 2025', held for the fifth time this year, is an international academic conference co-hosted by the Korean S
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Infurness (CEO Kwak Seong-moon), which imports and sells the expensive premium bed 'VISPRING (UK)' used by famous celebrities and tycoons, saw its sales decrease last year, operating profit increase, but net profit for the period plummeted by about 70%. Notable changes include the expansion of short-term trading securities valuation losses in 2024, a sharp increase in short-term borrowings, and a reduction in dividends. In particular, exposure of investment assets to market volatility, dependence on CEO transactions, and liquidity management burden are emergi
[News Space=Reporter seungwon lee] Since the pandemic, the number of companies with an interest coverage ratio of 1 or less, which cannot even pay interest with their operating profit, has more than doubled as large corporations' interest expenses have increased 2.4 times due to decreased operating profit and rising interest rates until last year. In particular, the number of "zombie companies" that have recorded an interest coverage ratio of 1 or less for three consecutive years has reached 20. On the 29th, the Corporate Analysis Research Institute Leaders Index (CEO Park Joo-geun) analyzed t