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Most of the inventions are motivated to help and improve the inconveniences in our daily life. For instance, Ermal Fraze invented “pull tab” cans when he struggled to open a bottle of soda at a picnic with friends and family, Washington Sheffield was a dentist who invented toothpaste in a collapsible tube because he thought it was unsanitary to share the toothpaste in one jar with others, and Wayne Fromm thought of the idea of a selfie stick and commercialized it when he couldn’t find anybody to ask to take a picture for him because no one around him spoke English while traveling in Europe. The way straw was invented was the same. In 1888, Marvin Chesster Stone enjoyed drinking a cup of whiskey after working all day at a cigarette factory at Washington D.C. One day, he tried using natural ryegrass straw to sip his whiskey since he did not like how the taste of the whiskey changes with the warmth of his hands. However, he was not satisfied with the undesirable grassy flavor from the s...

Introducing the new look of eco-friendly cold cups from rePAPER! We all have experienced, in summertime, when the temperature goes unbearably high and so does the discomfort index, but just with a sip of cup of ice cold drink, all the tiredness and stress wash away. Those who are surviving the heat would shout “Iced Coffee!” and praise iced Americano as their “summertime besties.” This summer, rePAPER is proudly introducing you to ‘STAY COOL’ and ‘FESTIVAL,’ cold cups that let you enjoy ice full of cold drinks, yet still eco-friendly. Hot cups and cold cups, what’s so different? To solve the inconvenience of condensation forms on the outer wall of the cold cup due to the difference in temperature between the inside and outside of the cup, cold cups are coated on both sides; once on the inside for waterproofing and once on the outside for water repellency. Whereas hot drink cups are coated inside only for waterproofing. To prevent the cup from getting soggy and starting to fall apart...

Songle, rePAPER’s cold cup, has been renewed! Songle is an eco-friendly cold cup exclusively for iced drinks, developed by rePAPER, with a cool and sophisticated design.   Eco-friendly collaboration between Colorlab Jeju and rePAPER This specific cold cup by rePAPER was developed under collaboration with Colorlab Jeju, a company that documents and researches Jeju’s natural colors. It was launched as ‘JejurangReparang’. Colorlab Jeju is an art studio run by Kim MyungEun, who majored in industrial design and counseling. The studio observes and researches the many colors of Jeju’s oceans and Oreums, parasitic volcanoes' Jeju dialect, and various plants, and shows us the everyday life of Jeju.   < JejurangReparang cold cup >   | “Rape flowers, Spring in Jeju”, represents the yellow rape flowers blossoming in Jeju during spring |   “Basalt, the rock of Jeju”, represents the charcoal-colored holey rock that can be found all over Jeju | “Gardens of Jej...

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...

S uwon is a city where it cherishes and preserves its historical background while showing a refined beauty as a new town with the biggest scale of a lake in a city in Korea. The city is harmonized with the past, the present, and the future and it has been keen to accomplish citizen ’ s sustainable life. As a part of it, they started a project titled ‘ GREEN TAG TOGETHER ’ to manage trees properly in the city this year. More importantly, this GREEN TAG project is the collaboration work with rePAPER ’ s environment-friendly technology. Lets ’ find out the details! Public Plant Management with rePAPER ’ s Eco-friendly Biodegradable Paper! Suwon city decided to introduce eco-friendly GREEN TAG to manage the trees planted throughout the city in a more efficient way. They first considered using a regular tree tag, but its high cost and heavyweight were not approved to be effective. Therefore, they looked for a material that would be harmless to the environment and ensure easy and continuou...

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...

  rePAPER developed RP-series, the patented environmentally friendly paper coating solution, and produces the coated board REPA COAT, and food packaging as its application. rePAPER’s products are proven to be truly environment-sound with its superior material and organic recyclability as well as to be food-contact safe. This time, we will introduce the certificates rePAPER owns and what features each of them refers to. 1. Recyclability (Material Recycling) The post-consumer products can be entirely repulped and used as a raw material for another paper-based product. 2. Compostability (organic recycling) : rePAPER’s products planted in the garden are degraded by microbes and become fertile compost. 3. Food contact safety : The products are safe to be in contact with foods as primary packaging.  With the objective and clear data achieved in accordance with the international standards, rePAPER has proven the environmentally friendly and harmless properties of the products. ...

rePAPER’s environmentally friendly coated paper, REPA COAT, is a product certified for having a home compostable property under natural conditions. rePAPER achieved the certificate by DIN CERTCO for proving that the intermediate product is both suitable for industrial composting which requires a bit higher temperature and humidity and home composting with much more harsh conditions. In order to see the extraordinary compostability of the product, we did a simple experiment in our front yard. Normally, a product made of unkraft paper is recognized to be environmentally friendly for its earth-like color. PLA-coated products also have been introduced to be easily composted in the soil. Would these be true? What outcome could we see if we actually plant the products in the garden? Let’s find out the result from rePAPER’s second composting experiment!

  Each time rePAPER achieves a certificate for each of the product’s environmentally friendly properties, we have been asked how a certificate is different from others and what difference they have. So, we will study and compare the certificates that rePAPER holds today. rePAPER’s Certificates for Environment-Friendly Properties Recyclability: Korean Eco Label EL606, UL_UL2485, PTS _ PTS-RH:021/97 Compostability: Industrial Compostable, Home Compostable by DIN CERTCO   Let’s find out their distinctive features!   1.1 Recyclable Certificates 1) Korean Eco Label EL606 Korean Eco Label EL606 is issued for a product that is paper, pulp, or synthetic resin-based with definite supportive evidence for its eco-friendliness such as contribution to improve the resource circulation or to reduce the environmental pollution. Such performance is proven by repulpability analysis. However, did you know that EL606 standard was initially limited to a product that contains s...