DK Board, the Only Participant from Honam Region in the ‘Architecture Exhibition Fire Special Exhibition’

The Nation's First Mass Production of 'Sim Jaehyung EPS Semi-Noncombustible Insulation Material' 'DK Board-X'

Competing with LX Hausys PF Board and SH Energy Chemical Duopol

DK Board Co., Ltd., which succeeded in mass-producing Korea's first Shim Jae-hyung EPS semi-noncombustible insulation material 'DK Board-X,' was the only company from Honam to participate in the 'Korea Architecture Industry Exhibition 2021 - Fire Safety Building Materials Special Exhibition' held at COEX, Seoul from the 20th to the 23rd.

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] DK Board Co., Ltd. (CEO Han Gap-ho), which succeeded in mass production of Korea's first core-type EPS semi-noncombustible insulation material ‘DK Board-X’, announced on the 25th that it participated in the ‘Korea Architecture Industry Exhibition 2021’ held at COEX, Seoul from October 20 to 23.

The ‘Korea Architecture Industry Exhibition’ is the best architecture specialized exhibition in Korea, hosted by the Korea Institute of Architects and planned directly by architects.

In particular, at this exhibition, a ‘Fire Safety Building Materials Special Exhibition’ was held in accordance with the strengthened Building Act for fire prevention in buildings. Representative companies of semi-noncombustible insulation materials for construction such as DK Board Co., Ltd.'s ‘DK Board-X’, SH Energy Chemical's ‘Duopol’, and LX Hausys' ‘PF Board’ participated.

In the Honam region, DK Board Co., Ltd. was the only participant and received high praise from architects and construction-related experts.

‘DK Board-X’ is the first core-type semi-noncombustible product in the EPS material field that secured semi-noncombustible performance standards using only the core through joint research and development with HDC Hyundai EP. In June, it received ‘semi-noncombustible material conformity’ certification from the Korea Conformity Laboratories (KCL) and the Korea Testing & Research Institute (KTR), both KOLAS accredited testing institutions.

It also secured eco-friendliness by being certified as an eco-friendly and harmful substance FREE product in harmful substance emission tests. It is a product with economic constructability and has excellent physical properties differentiated from phenolic foam and others, attracting attention in the market.

Lee Seung-chul, Executive Director of DK Board Co., Ltd., said, “As the COVID-19 pandemic prolongs and indoor time increases, ‘healthy and safe building materials’ aligned with healthy indoor environments and eco-friendly trends are expanding in the building materials market. DK Board-X is an ‘eco-friendly water-based’ product that minimizes the emission of formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds generated from organic building finishing materials, and it is an eco-friendly insulation material with formaldehyde emissions below 0.001 mg, making it ‘formaldehyde-free’. We expect it to receive more love in the future.”

In fact, the government has recently been continuously strengthening the ‘flammability performance of building finishing materials and fire spread prevention structure standards’ under the Building Act to enhance fire safety of domestic buildings.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has legislated and administratively announced a revision to introduce full-scale fire tests for building materials to strengthen fire safety of buildings, which is scheduled to be applied from December. Accordingly, from December 23, composite finishing materials made of two or more heterogeneous materials must secure semi-noncombustible or higher performance up to the core.

Meanwhile, DK Board Co., Ltd. will participate in the ‘2021 18th Gwangju Architecture and Urban Culture Festival’ held from the 27th to 30th at the 1st floor Citizen Hall of Gwangju City Hall, hosted by Gwangju City and jointly organized by the Gwangju Architectural Federation, Gwangju-Jeonnam Architects Association, Gwangju Architectural Society, and the Gwangju-Jeonnam branch of the Architectural Institute of Korea.

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