Nextin wins $18.8 million SK hynix wafer inspection order
The Korean toolmaker booked a 25.44 billion won deal equal to 38% of its annual sales, expanding domestic optical metrology…
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Mitsubishi Heavy buys shipyard land in Shimonoseki buildout
The 100 billion yen investment will construct a hull-block factory backed by 40 billion yen in Japanese economic security…
LS Eco Energy builds Vietnam samarium hub ahead of defense ban
A 11.6 billion won investment establishes non-Chinese refining in Ho Chi Minh City ahead of a Pentagon ban on Chinese-origin…
Doosan Robotics picks DeepX NPU chips for on-device welding cobotsMembers
A 98.9 billion won government initiative pairs domestic neural processing units with collaborative robots to automate heavy…
EcoPro BM and Samsung SDI agree to co-develop solid-state materials
South Korea's top cathode maker and cell producer sign an agreement to commercialize sulfide-based solid-state batteries by 2027.
Micronex builds $9.5 million chip lead-frame plant in Sanand
The 500 million unit facility marks India's first domestic supplier for packaging backbones as Sanand expands into an outsourced…
FANUC debuts welding and painting robots for FABTECH 2026
The lineup introduces an 11-kilogram collaborative welding arm alongside multi-robot coordinated systems designed to ease…
MP Materials begins shipping non-China magnets to GM plantsMembers
The Fort Worth facility will supply 1,000 metric tons of finished NdFeB magnets annually for 500,000 electric vehicles under a…
Hitachi and FANUC Launch Physical AI Pact to Automate Plants
The partnership integrates Hitachi's HMAX Industry platform and custom edge chips into FANUC robots, targeting commercial…
Samsung Heavy orders GTT tank designs for four LNG ships
The contract equips four 200,000-cubic-meter vessels delivering in 2029 with Mark III Flex+ containment systems, locking South…
Bell Textron vets 17 Korean suppliers for helicopter supply chain
South Korea's trade agency opened talks between the US defense prime and local machinists as global aircraft makers face…
Bell Textron scouts 17 South Korean suppliers for rotorcraft lines
The US helicopter maker completed procurement reviews with South Korean machining firms to diversify manufacturing for global…
U.S.-China Board of Trade sets tariff cuts on corn and beef as raw soybeans stay excluded
The U.S.-China Board of Trade released a 30-for-30 framework on Sept.
Trump Threatens Korea With Tariffs Over $54B Alaska LNG Deal
Washington demands full funding for the Arctic energy corridor while Seoul insists a bilateral agreement covers only preliminary…
Hanwha Ocean Procures 1,800-Ton Goliath Crane as RIEC Starts Build
The Chinese equipment builder broke ground on the 205-meter-span gantry crane to double mega-block lifting capacity at the Okpo…
Rapidus forms 17-firm design alliance to back 2nm chip ramp
The Japanese foundry partnered with Synopsys, Cadence and domestic design houses to build an IP library and reduce client…
SFA and Rainbow Robotics partner on AI manufacturing robots
The South Korean factory equipment supplier deployed two dual-arm humanoids at its Asan center to automate logistics lines by…
Korean chip toolmakers target Musk's $16.8 billion Texas fab
Hanmi Semiconductor and HPSP pursue supply roles in SpaceX and Tesla's planned Grimes County facility as Elon Musk acknowledges…
Kawasaki Heavy advances 2030 target for AI humanoid robots
The machinery maker plans to integrate domestic AI platform Noetra into its 30-kilogram payload Kaleido model, accelerating…
Fanuc previews 11-kg welding cobots for shipyards at Fabtech 2026
The CRX-3iA joins a wave of portable arms entering heavy fabrication, following HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' deployment of 35…
Japan leads India FDI with $5.7 billion as factories expand
Ministry data shows Tokyo supplied 28.8% of New Delhi's $19.81 billion first-quarter equity inflows as automakers and component…
Samsung Heavy secures $494 million deal for two LNG carriers by 2029Members
The 672.2 billion won contract brings the shipbuilder's 2026 commercial backlog to $8 billion, exhausting high-value delivery…
CATL widens global EV battery lead to 39.4% as Korean share slips
Seven Chinese producers took 73.3% of global volume through August, while North American delivery drops dragged LG Energy…
AMD and Intel lift chip prices 10% on higher TSMC wafer fees
The planned markups across client processors and accelerators pass through foundry price hikes of up to 10% as advanced packaging…