Gwangyang Economic Zone Authority Holds Secondary Battery Forum to Commemorate 20th Anniversary of Establishment

Seeking to Revitalize the Secondary Battery Industry in the Gwangyang Bay Area

The Gwangyang Bay Area Free Economic Zone Authority (Commissioner Song Sang-rak, hereinafter Gwangyang Economic Authority) announced that on March 21, it held the ‘Gwangyang Bay Area Secondary Battery Industry Promotion Forum’ at the 3rd-floor conference room of the Gwangyang Economic Authority, attended by about 150 people including secondary battery experts from companies, academia, public institutions, and local residents and entrepreneurs interested in secondary batteries.

Held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its establishment under the theme of ‘Fostering Secondary Battery Material Technology and Next-Generation Recycling Technology,’ this forum brought together experts from various fields related to secondary batteries for keynote presentations and Q&A sessions.

[Photo by Gwangyang Economic Promotion Agency]

Starting with Professor Park Chan-jin of Chonnam National University presenting on the development direction of secondary battery materials in Jeonnam centered on NCM batteries, the presentations included ▲ Metal-salt batteries for mid-term energy storage (Jung Ki-young, Principal Researcher at Pohang Institute of Industrial Science and Technology) ▲ Solid-state battery materials and processes (Park Jun-ho, Team Leader at Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute) ▲ Current status of spent battery resource circulation technology and next-generation recycling technology development (Woo Jung-je, Center Director at Korea Energy Technology Research Institute) ▲ Trends and future prospects of lithium secondary battery cathode materials (Kim Jeong-han, Center Director at POSCO Future M) ▲ Current status of the secondary battery industry and investment attraction (Lee Sang-hoon, Principal Committee Member at Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency), followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Song Sang-rak, Commissioner of the Gwangyang Economic Authority, said, “Experts from various fields gathered in one place to share a wide spectrum of lectures on secondary batteries, from lithium, the raw material for secondary battery materials, to battery recycling, the current status of the secondary battery industry, and investment attraction prospects,” adding, “We will continue to strive to make the Gwangyang Bay Area a mecca of the secondary battery industry through cooperation and communication with related companies, universities, and research institutes.”

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