Pohang City and Innovative Institutions like POSTECH Join Forces... Leading the Secondary Battery Supergap

Pohang City, POSTECH, Pohang TP, and POMIA Sign MOU for Next-Generation Battery Super-Gap Technology Development

Securing Super-Gap Technology, Fostering Global Leaders, Enhancing National Advanced Strategic Industry Battery Competitiveness

Pohang City and POSTECH have joined hands with Pohang Technopark and Pohang Metal Materials Industry Promotion Agency to actively engage in the development of next-generation battery breakthrough technologies and the cultivation of specialized research personnel, positioning themselves as a core city leading the global technological gap in South Korea's national advanced strategic industry of secondary batteries.

From the left, Baek In-gyu, Chairman of Pohang City Council; Kim Kwang-jae, Vice President of POSTECH; Kim Nam-il, Vice Mayor of Pohang; Bae Young-ho, Director of Pohang Technopark; Kim Heon-deok, Director of Pohang Metal Materials Industry Promotion Agency; Lee Jae-jin, City Council Member.

On the 15th, Pohang City held a signing ceremony for the 'Secondary Battery Breakthrough Technology Development Agreement' at the city hall's mid-sized conference room, attended by Deputy Mayor Kim Nam-il, City Council Chairman Baek In-gyu, POSTECH Vice President Kim Kwang-jae, Pohang Technopark Director Bae Young-ho, and Pohang Metal Materials Industry Promotion Agency Director Kim Heon-deok.

On this day, the four organizations agreed to proactively secure breakthrough technologies in the secondary battery field and mutually cooperate in nurturing key talents who will lead the national secondary battery industry, aiming to take the lead in global competitive advantage in the rapidly growing secondary battery market.

To this end, POSTECH plans to accelerate the cultivation of global leaders who can contribute to regional and national industrial development through securing breakthrough secondary battery technologies and innovating the secondary battery industry.

Pohang Technopark and Pohang Metal Materials Industry Promotion Agency will actively support the development of the local secondary battery industry by assisting upstream and downstream related companies, developing secondary battery process technologies, and supporting demonstration evaluations, while Pohang City will collaborate with these institutions to strengthen the competitiveness of the secondary battery industry.

Pohang is recognized as an optimal location for specialized complexes capable of leading the secondary battery industry due to its top-tier scientific and technological infrastructure. Centered around POSTECH, specialized research institutions for secondary batteries such as Technopark, Metal Materials Industry Promotion Agency, Accelerator Research Institute, and Industrial Science Research Institute are concentrated here, staffed by excellent researchers.

Established in 1986, POSTECH, Korea's first research-oriented university, has opened a new chapter in Korean science and technology research and is a university and research institution with global competitiveness outside the metropolitan area. To advance the secondary battery industry, POSTECH has significantly strengthened its secondary battery faculty centered on the Graduate School of Steel Energy Materials and is focusing on cultivating specialized research personnel capable of leading the next-generation secondary battery industry through collaboration with domestic companies such as Samsung SDI.

Pohang Technopark and POMIA are also being systematically operated to establish a technology base for the 4th industrial revolution. Pohang Technopark focuses on advancing industrial technology through promoting regional industrial technology innovation and nurturing technology-intensive companies, while POMIA helps local secondary battery parts and materials SMEs specialize and grow into global companies.

Following the signing of the 'Secondary Battery Innovation Industrial Ecosystem Establishment Agreement' in February, attended by over 100 representatives from industry-academia-government institutions in Gyeongbuk, the city has established a mutual cooperation system for talent cultivation through agreements with universities in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region such as Handong University, Kyungpook National University, Yeungnam University, Yeungjin College, and Kyungil University. Furthermore, this recent agreement aims to accelerate the training of research and process personnel and the acquisition of new technologies.

Deputy Mayor Kim Nam-il stated, "Securing breakthrough secondary battery technologies and nurturing talent are key to gaining a global competitive edge in secondary batteries. Building on this agreement, we will lead the global technological gap beyond just leading K-battery together with POSTECH, Pohang Technopark, and Pohang Metal Materials Industry Promotion Agency."

Pohang City has attracted major anchor companies in the domestic and international secondary battery sector, including POSCO Future M, centered around Yeongilman Industrial Complex and Blue Valley Industrial Complex. Not only has it succeeded in attracting large-scale investments of about 5 trillion won in the first half of this year, but it has also proactively established core infrastructure such as the designation of a next-generation battery recycling regulatory free zone and a comprehensive secondary battery management center.

With continuous large-scale additional expansions and new investments by companies, the future investment amount is expected to reach 12 trillion won, and by 2030, production of 1 million tons of cathode materials is projected, with sales reaching 70 trillion won.

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