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rePAPER’s environmentally friendly coatings RP-series are now confirmed to be compliant with GB standards, National Food Safety Standard in China. Now, RP-series’ safety being proven in China along with the EU, the US, and Japan, we are ready to leap high for the Chinese market. First, we will check about the Chinese national standards, GB in more detail?   China’s New National Standards System, GB GB, required for all the products in China, are mandatory national standards. They are the standards to evaluate a product’s safety or suitability for its functions, which is equivalent to Korea Standards(KS). GB are China’s distinctive regulations mainly corresponding to European or the United States’ testing methods and standards and a product is tested at official testing institutions, CNAS or CMA. GB standards are different from internationally used regulations that they act as Technical Barriers to Trade. It is a kind of non-tariff barriers, protectionism, which is the economic poli...

  While the world has been suffering from COVID-19, the year of 2020 has come to an end. Many experts agree that the abnormal climate and the spread of infectious diseases are highly related to the imbalance of the environment. Each country in the world has reviewed the environmental issues and established enforceable and rational policies. China, especially, announced the regulation on disposable plastic products in January this year including the details of how they would proceed the policy over the next 5 years. As the country is the biggest plastic manufacturer and importer, the news excited the environmental groups, surprised the other countries and alerted the relevant industries.   China’s Task to Regulate the Plastic The amount of plastic packaging used by 1.4 billion people in China is more than we could imagine. Furthermore, as the family scale gets smaller with the internet and delivery service developed, the consumption of the relevant products has been soa...

  A giant waste land floating in Pacific ocean called GPGP(Great Pacific Garbage Patch) discovered in 1997 by a yacht player put the world in shock. Spotted the marine creatures suffering from the waste flown into the ocean, it became a wake-up call for the generation. 2020 as a starting point, a ‘Plastic-free Movement’ occurred in every country and industry. Green marketing and practices have been the main issues; hotels replace their amenities to bulk dispensers and encourage their customers to use reusable cups. The fashion industries produce items made of recycled materials.   The food packaging industry also actively started developing and applying environmentally friendly packaging that are recyclable and compostable instead of conventional plastics. The painful video clip of a turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nostril in Costa Rica triggered the plastic-free movement around the world and a plastic straw became the first target to be eliminated. For the busine...

  rePAPER developed RP-series, the aqueous dispersion coatings, and manufactures environmentally friendly coated board that is both material and organic recyclable as well as food-contact safe. For all the environmentally friendly properties and functionality, rePAPER’s products are suggested as the most optimized alternatives for single-use plastics which are blamed for the main cause of pollution. Many from relevant industries have been approaching us to learn and understand our technology better. Here, we present this short video clip to answer your questions including why rePAPER’s products are recyclable and compostable, the process how rePAPER’s coatings obtain barrier properties, and the fields where rePAPER’s technology can be applied!