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Last Nov. 21, one of the leading international packaging and material handling trade fairs, ALL4PACK Emballage Paris 2022, was held at Paris Nord Villepinte. It was an in-person exhibition for the first time after four years of absence due to COVID-19, which both exhibitors and visitors seemed lively and enthusiastic than ever before. At this four-day exhibition, about 4,500 experts and 1,100 exhibitors from 80 countries participated, which 50% of them came from out of France, allowing them to experience various products and materials. (ALL4PACK) With the theme of this year’s ALL4PACK, “Lead the Revolution,” the director of ALL4PACK Emballage Paris, Guillaume Schaeffer, said ‘The 2022 edition of ALL4PACK Emballage Paris will open the era of revolutions for this French trade show, which has become an international benchmark for the entire packaging and intralogistics ecosystem. We want to be the forerunner of new packaging solutions as well as the production chain.” Schaeffer also emph...

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...

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 lectu...

rePAPER obtained Home Compostable Certificate, signifying the highest level of organic recyclability, compostability, of a product. In 2017, rePAPER was granted for Industrial Compostable Certificate by DIN CERTCO, which is given to a product that satisfies strict and thorough global standards to prove its harmlessness by passing chemical analysis, biodegradation test, and ecotoxicity test. Believing in our environmentally friendly technology, rePAPER kept moving forward to achieve home compostable certificate, proving that our products do not require any special facilities but can be composted in a backyard. Consequently, we are now able to present our products as brand-new global standards to environmentally friendly packaging industry, completely distinguishable from the conventional ones.   Food Packaging vs Environment-friendly Food Packaging vs rePAPER’s Food Packaging Acknowledging the food packaging takes up the 2 nd largest portion of the marine waste, consumers in the wo...