【브레이크뉴스 포항】박영재 기자=포스코홀딩스는 12일 포스코센터에서 약 2조원 규모의 자사주 소각을 포함한 그룹 ‘기업가치 제고 전략방향’과 ‘이차전지소재사업 고도화전략’을 소개하는 ‘제3회 포스코그룹 이차전지소재사업 Value Day(밸류데이)’를 개최했다.
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POSCO Group holds secondary battery material business value day... Announcement of shareholder return worth 2 trillion won
On the 12th, POSCO Holdings held the 3rd POSCO Group Secondary Battery Materials Business Value Day (POSCO Group Secondary Battery Materials Business Value Day) at the POSCO Center to introduce the group's 'strategic direction for improving corporate value' and 'strategy for upgrading secondary battery material business', including the cancellation of treasury stock worth approximately KRW 2 trillion. Value Day) was held.
About 200 people attended the event, including POSCO Holdings Strategic Planning Manager Jeong Ki-seop (CSO, CEO), Kim Jun-hyung, Secondary Battery Materials Manager (Vice President), Hong Young-jun, Head of Secondary Battery Materials Research Institute (Vice President), domestic and foreign institutional investors, and securities company analysts.
In his welcoming speech, CEO Jeong Ki-seop emphasized that “the group’s resources and capabilities will be focused on the steel and secondary battery material business” as a strategic direction to increase POSCO Group’s corporate value, and added, “We will improve capital efficiency such as growth investment and adjustment of low-profit assets over the next three years.” “We will continue our strong shareholder return policy, including canceling all of our treasury stock, excluding exchangeable bond deposits,” he said.
POSCO Group plans to promote upstream investment in India and the United States in the steel business sector and at the same time improve asset management efficiency through restructuring of low-profit assets. In addition, the secondary battery materials industry aims to become a global top-tier raw materials and materials company by strengthening fundamental competitiveness by actively utilizing the market growth slowdown (chasm) period to secure quality resources and establish an efficient mass production system.
In addition, in order to improve capital efficiency, 120 restructuring plans were finalized, including those that were not aligned with strategy, low-profit businesses, and unused assets. POSCO Group expects a cash inflow of approximately 2.6 trillion won by completing more than 97% of the restructuring targets through speedy implementation by 2026, and plans to use the inflowed cash to reinvest in core businesses for growth and return to shareholders.
We also continue to have a strong shareholder return policy. POSCO Holdings will cancel all 6% (5.25 million shares, approximately KRW 1.9 trillion) of the 10% of its current treasury stocks by 2026, excluding the 4% (3.45 million shares) required for the issuance of exchangeable bonds, and an additional KRW 100 billion in reserves. The board of directors decided to purchase new treasury stocks and cancel them immediately. In addition, the company announced a basic policy of immediately incinerating all newly acquired treasury stock for the purpose of enhancing shareholder value in the future, in addition to using it for executives and employees.
Next, Vice President Kim Jun-hyung introduced the group's 'strategy to advance the secondary battery material business' and said, “POSCO Group will break through the chasm by ▲ completing the full value chain, ▲ strengthening business competitiveness, and ▲ dominating the next-generation battery material market, and will achieve secondary battery materials by 2026. “We will achieve group sales of approximately 11 trillion won in business,” he said.
This year marks the first year in which all secondary battery material supply systems owned by POSCO Group will be fully operational, and we will pursue the provision of customized, integrated solutions through ‘Completion of the Full Value Chain.’ In addition, the know-how of the steel business's No. 1 global competitiveness will be shared with the group's secondary battery material business to enhance operational and operational competitiveness, and the group's synergy will be created by mobilizing all industry-academia-research capabilities in connection with the Future Technology Research Institute, POSTECH, and POSCO FutureM. The plan is to drive full-scale growth in the materials business.
In order to strengthen business competitiveness, POSCO Group's strategy is to use Chasm as an opportunity to secure excellent lithium resources such as salt lakes and mines, and to produce IRA-eligible nickel products that have been smelted/refined domestically in preparation for global trade regulations. For cathode materials, we plan to diversify our customers and product portfolio, and for cathode materials, we plan to strengthen our full line-up of cathode materials, including natural/artificial/silicon-based, as the world's only IRA-qualified, non-FEOC producer. In addition, in order to dominate the next-generation battery material market, POSCO Group plans to supply all three core components of all-solid-state batteries, anode materials, solid electrolytes, and lithium metal anode materials, in connection with customers' all-solid-state battery commercialization plans.
In the future, POSCO Group will continue to invest in the secondary battery material business, aiming to expand to 96,000 tons of lithium, 48,000 tons of nickel, 395,000 tons of cathode materials, and 114,000 tons of cathode materials by 2026. In addition, Vice President Hong Young-jun announced the current status of global secondary battery materials and next-generation battery development by automobile companies, and development strategies such as next-generation materials that the group is focusing on and securing patents to strengthen future competitiveness.
Meanwhile, POSCO Group announced its new management vision of <Materials that open the future, innovation toward the best> and achieved the global highest corporate value in the materials field, with the goal of reaching a market capitalization of KRW 200 trillion by 2030, focusing on steel, secondary batteries, and new materials. I said I would do it. <저작권자 ⓒ 브레이크뉴스 대구경북 무단전재 및 재배포 금지>
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