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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...

Hello! This is rePAPER, an R&D company for environmentally friendly paper coating solutions! We would like to announce that our head office is relocated as of September 2021!   Address: #509, 5F, Industry-Acamedia-Research Cooperation Cluster, 55, Hanyangdaehak-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan-si, Gyoenggi-do, 15588, Republic of Korea Telephone: 82-(0)2-6952-7896 (same as before)   rePAPER will continuously expand our expertise from food packaging to industrial packaging with our world-class coating technology that is completely recyclable, home compostable while having great barrier properties as well as food contact safety. We, all the REPA members, always appreciate your interest. Work and grow with us!

The world is full of heroes such as Iron Man, Spider Man, Super Man, and Bat Man. The hero we would like to introduce today is a bit different from these superheroes. He is a real-life figure who is trying to fight for the environment without a superpower, ‘ No Impact Man ’ . ‘ No Impact Man ’ refers to a person who does not give any impact on the earth. In the documentary film ‘ No Impact Man ’ , the main character Colin is a writer living in Manhattan, New York. He especially describes himself as an activist writer, not just writing a book. Then, how does Colin reflect his spirit on actions? He wants to contribute to the world with his work that is written based on his actual actions and experience. While he was considering a theme of environmental protection for his next book, he came up with an idea for this project called ‘ No Impact Man ’ to live a year in an environment-friendly way and share his and his family ’ s real story. The first thing he removed from his life was TV. T...

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...

rePAPER once again achieved new certificates, ISO 9001 for Quality Management System and ISO 14001 for Environment Management System! First of all, let’s find out what ISO is and how it works. What is ISO? ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization. Since its foundation in 1947, ISO has developed international standards on products and services. Interestingly, the English abbreviation of the organization is not IOS, but ISO. As it is an independent international organization, they adopted the Greek word ‘isos’ which means ‘fair’ to demonstrate that it does not belong to a certain country or its language. ISO is a non-governmental organization with members of 165 countries. While it does not have any legal force, it does have a huge influence in the world that most of the suggested standards from the organization have been institutionalized. Particularly, the Republic of Korea was honored to be a part of non-permanent members for ISO in 2019. As a non-permanent ...

The environment-friendly paper coating solution company, rePAPER’s website has been renewed! rePAPER rearranged the layout and categories to deliver our environmentally friendly technology and features most efficiently to all. The main category of <Sustainability>, <Solution>, and <Blog> respectively shows rePAPER’s paper coating technology and technical data, main products, and the changes and trends of the world’s packaging industry. The hidden secondary categories include <IP> which shows all the certificates and patents rePAPER has and <ABOUT US> that tells how rePAPER has been growing so far. rePAPER’s proud certificates and activities are displayed in them. Now, we would like to invite you to rePAPER’s homepage, filled with all the abundant and useful information in each category!   <Sustainability> Main features of rePAPER’s environment-friendly paper coating technology rePAPER’s outstanding paper coatings RP-series are the produ...

July is a special month to rePAPER, an environment-friendly paper coating solution company, for it is when we made the very first step toward the environmentally friendly packaging industry. rePAPER has been aiming to replace conventional plastic-coated packaging, which disturbs the world’s environment and ecosystem, to recyclable and compostable paper-based packaging. Although we wished to have a proper ceremony with all the REPA members gathered, it did not seem to be appropriate considering the current COVID situation that we decided to celebrate the day from where we normally belong.   rePAPER held a small event titled ‘Making an Acrostic Poem’ with the name of representative for our environment-friendly coating line-ups, RP200. As a gift certificate was promised, every member was trying to come up with the most creative poem until the very last minute. Finally, Mr. Yoon announced the honored winner, who turned out to be Mr. Park from the marketing team. He said Mr. Park’s ...

In general, we think that the environmental concern and movement start from advanced countries. The major issue of plastic waste these days is also considered the same. It sounds reasonable considering how these countries can afford financial support for proper waste treatment systems and for establishing the resource circulation system. They also provide education and campaigns to enhance community awareness for a sustainable society.   However, the consequence of environmental pollution is not limited to a certain area in the world and it is brought up as a global issue to be solved. This urgently led other countries to involve more actively.   Asia Ever since China stopped the import of plastic waste in 2018, many other countries in the continent started their war against plastics, too. After losing a giant waste dump, advanced countries looked for areas to toss theirs and the amount of much more than one could handle. In the end, countries such as Malaysia, the P...