rePAPER’s CEO Yoon, Cheol Gave Lecture on New Material At KICET

Jinju, a well-known city for abundant cultural assets and good education, was assigned as an innovative city by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in Korea and became even more vigorous with public institutions such as Korea Land and Housing Corporation, Korea SMEs and Startups Agency, Korea Testing Laboratory, and many others settled in the region.

KICET, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology, is also one of them, located in Nam River in the city. As one of the government-funded research institutes, KICET was established for research development, test analysis, education of human resource of cutting-edge ceramic technology and covers a diverse range of fields including life, environment, energy, bio, medical, contributing to the improvement on the competitiveness of the ceramic industry.

On May 3rd, there was a ‘Training Business for Science and Engineering Expertise’ held at an auditorium of KICET and rePAPER’s CEO, Yoon Cheol, gave a lecture on new material.

He was talking under the themes of ‘Environment-friendly global packaging industry’ and ‘Plastic-free technology’. Began the lecture with the real state of marine pollution due to plastic waste and its environmental effects, he continued to explain each country’s packaging waste policy and the importance of expanding circular economy by sustainable new material development.

He also emphasized how sustainable new material development could help preserve the environment and ecosystem and introduced rePAPER’s recyclable and compostable materials. Mr. Yoon explained that the environmentally friendly coating materials RP-series allow paper to retain its natural environment-friendly properties and are applicable to various food packaging as well as industrial packaging so that they can replace conventional packaging while there is a great potentiality to expand its application even further by fusion with other materials.

After his lecture, many experts showed great interest in new materials and came up with in-depth questions. Not only did they find rePAPER’s sustainable coatings RP-series interesting, but they also asked about PHA, which is a biopolymer accumulated intracellularly by many bacteria and is known to be marine biodegradable. Their keen questions included its current development level and the possibility to be used as an alternative for plastic packaging.

Some of the participants were interested in joining rePAPER and Mr. Yoon had a delightful conversation with them saying “As rePAPER is a fruit of integrated intelligence and experience, we are open to everyone who has a spirit of adventure and passion.”

It was great and useful time to go through the global situation in a relevant field and share how it is important to consider environmental factors when developing new material. Based on more of these platforms, rePAPER hopes that Korea can be one of the leading countries for environment-caring technology through fostering essential experts and R&D on innovative materials.

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