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  The Ministry of Environment and Korea Waste Association established Resource Circulation Day on September 6 th to remind the importance of limited resources and to think of solutions for resource waste. Greeting the 13th Resource Circulation Day this year, we would like to check the current system for resource circulation and necessary changes for it to be expanded and developed.     Disappearing resource due to continuous development Generally speaking, resource refers to natural resources that are generated from nature. They are categorized into two different groups; renewable resources such as forests, water, wind, solar energy that are repeatedly produced over time, and non-renewable resources such as minerals and fossils fuels that do not exist anymore once they are used up. Going through 4 times of industrial revolution, humans are now facing an ICT merging generation after the era of mechanization and mass production. In the meantime, the innovative manu...

rePAPER concluded an exclusive supply contract on the environmentally friendly coating formulation RP-SERIES with GPI(Graphic Packaging International), a global paper mill in the US on July 22 nd , 2021. GPI is one of the world’s most recognized cardboard and fiber-based food packaging company. The headquarter is located in Atlanta, USA, and with 19,000 employers, the company is a Fortune 500 corporation making annual sales of 64 billion dollars. GPI considered it as rePAPER’s core technology that any paper-based products applied with our environment-friendly coating solution RP-SERIES show over 98% repulpability and that they can be recycled with other regular paper. As the world’s leader in the packaging industry, GPI announced ‘VISION 2025’ to change GPI products to be 100% recyclable by 2025 and finally released Opticycle TM , the single-use, PE-free food packaging lined with the environmentally friendly water-based coatings, RP-SERIES. Opticycle TM is an innovative product li...

COVID-19 has rapidly spread around the world and it made everyone’s 2020 tough and left great regrets. However, the news about vaccines gave the world the hope that the upcoming year would be different. We, rePAPER, would like to take this time to look back the year and get fully ready for 2021. 1. Catch me if you can! rePAPER’s Advanced Technology – PTS, DIN Certificates, GB-Compliance, and Patents Added As rePAPER has been setting the world-leading standards for environmentally friendly packaging, we took the year as well to prove our innovative technology. rePAPER’s coated paper, REPA COAT, is now proven to have 99.9% recyclability by PTS, and to become nutrients in soil without any special facilities by achieving DIN’s home compostable certificate. In December, we finally received a positive result that our product is compliant with GB standards in China as well. What’s more, the production methods of the environmentally friendly coatings and coated paper are now protected by...