Our Home receives the Korea Packaging Technology Society President’s Award at the 2024 Korea Packaging Competition – NSP News

(Seoul = NSP News) Reporter Jeong Ae-kyung = Our Home announced on the 24th that it won the Korea Packaging Technology Society Chairman Award at the 2024 Korea Packaging Competition (Korea Star Awards 2024).

Our Home has been recognized for its capabilities in food packaging technology research by winning the prize for three consecutive years since 2022.

Korea Packaging Daejeon is a representative government award system related to industrial product packaging hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Since 2007, it has evaluated functionality and marketability every year to select excellent companies and products that have contributed to the development of the packaging industry. This year’s awards ceremony was held at KINTEX Exhibition Hall 1 in Ilsan on the 23rd.

Our Home won the Korea Packaging Technology Society Chairman’s Award by submitting the HMR Velcro Bowl Steam Pouch in the corporate category of this packaging competition. The packaging material was recognized for its technological excellence as well as its differentiation in terms of sustainability and design.

The HMR Velcro Ball Steam Pouch has a Velcro zipper so that steam is released through the gap in the Velcro when cooking in a microwave oven, allowing for steam cooking, and is designed in a bowl structure. After cooking, you can eat it without a separate bowl. The Laser Easy Cut function has also been applied to prevent contents such as soup and sauce from spilling out when opening the product after cooking, thereby increasing convenience.

In addition, sustainability was increased by applying eco-friendly packaging materials. While paper cups coated with medium-density polyethylene (MDPE) or polypropylene (PP) are generally used for microwave cooking, the pouch uses a single polypropylene (PP) material to ensure ease of recycling. When applied to actual products, environmental protection effects can be expected by reducing packaging material waste and carbon emissions by up to approximately 70%.

It also received high praise in the expressiveness category. In the case of pouch products, more precise printing is possible than in paper cup packaging, allowing for cleaner and more detailed design expressions. In addition, water or sauce pouring lines are indicated so that consumers can easily adjust the flavor intensity according to their preference.

Our Home plans to first apply the pouch to combination HMR products with separate contents and sauce, such as soup tteokbokki, pocha skewered fish cake, and chicken steak, and gradually expand it. In particular, with the global popularity of K-food, Our Home expects to secure competitiveness in the global market by applying eco-friendly pouches to snack food and Korean food HMR products and exporting them.

NSP News Reporter Jeong Ae-kyung ([email protected])

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