Cheol Yoon, C.E.O of rePAPER, Suggested the Standards and Alternatives for Environment-friendly Food Packaging at KCL’s ‘Advisory Seminar with Paper Experts’

 

Korean Conformity Laboratories, KCL, held an Advisory Seminar with Experts in Paper Fields on August 11th at Golden River Hotel. The seminar brought the experts from research institutions, academics, enterprises together and shared the ideas through presentation and discussion in depth.

 

A testing and certification organization KCL is committed to testing, inspection, and certification of construction materials, consumer products, energy and environmental products. Recently, they have been promoting a business to establish bases to standardize specification and tests of fibers and paper products. Especially, this seminar was held to discuss establishing standards to stimulate circular economy of traditional industries and to share innovative technology.

Daehan Paper, Hansol Paper, Jeonju Paper from paper industry, rePAPER, ANPOLY, BiLab of venture companies, university research institutes including Biotechnology of Kookmin University, Changgang institute of Paper Science and Technology of Kangwon University, and KCL Packaging Center participated the seminar.

Professor Kim, Hyung Jin from Kookmin University, explained about ISO standardization and an example of suggesting TC6(paper fields) to be taken for international standards. Professor Ryu, Jeong Yong from Kangwon University presented the current status in distribution of recyclable paper resources in Korea and effective technology for quality analysis. Mr. Noh, Sang Cheol, CEO of ANPOLY and Mr. Gu, Gang, a technology adviser, delivered the development and commercialization of Nano Cellulose (CNF).

Managing director Lee, Byung Jun from Envioneer and Professor Bae, Chang Deuk from BiLab introduced a way of vapor deposition of non-woven fabrics and atomic layer and shared the possibility for technology-intensive industry.


CEO of rePAPER Yoon, Cheol introduced how the global food packaging industry is switching from plastic to paper, each country’s environmental policy and rePAPER’s corresponding certificates and products. In addition, Mr. Yoon suggested solutions and alternatives to overcome the confusion the industry is facing due to not having domestic standards.

KCL developed and proposed the standards of testing method for resource circulation of paper-based packaging. The test allows KCL to evaluate the repulpable amount of paper-based packaging quantitatively which has not been available in Korea. KCL also set a goal to establish testing standards for resource circulation and to suggest the international standards of ISO on material recycling in paper field in Korea through the seminar.

The academy, business, and research institutions will continuously work on the establishment of standardization through the regular seminars and we hope to have integrated standards with consideration on quality of the products as well as ecological issues and a product’s life cycle.

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