Byeon Jong-oh, Executive Director of KCC Glass, Receives 'Glass Technician Technology Award'

Executive Director Oh Byun-jong of KCC Glass (right) is taking a commemorative photo with Senior Researcher Hwang Jong-hee of the Advanced Materials Convergence Research Division at the Korea Ceramic Technology Institute after receiving the Glass Technology Award. Photo by KCC Glass

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] Byeon Jong-oh, Executive Vice President of Production Technology at KCC Glass, received the 'Glass Technologist Technology Award' in recognition of his significant contributions to the technological advancement of the domestic glass industry.

On the 1st, Byeon was honored as the first recipient of the Glass Technologist Technology Award at the '28th Glass Technology Seminar commemorating the UN-designated International Year of Glass,' held at the Yeouido Hall of the Korea Federation of SMEs in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.

The Glass Technologist Technology Award was newly established this year to commemorate the 2022 UN-designated International Year of Glass by the Glass Division of the Korean Ceramic Society, a leading academic society in the inorganic materials field. The award aims to encourage and recognize the research and technological development activities of professionals in the glass research field. It will be presented biennially starting this year.

As the Executive Vice President of Production Technology at KCC Glass, Byeon has dedicated 38 years to KCC Glass, leading glass research and commercialization efforts. Notably, he successfully established and mass-produced the world's largest 1,200-ton flat glass production line and developed high-performance privacy glass for automobiles, contributing greatly to the technological progress of the domestic glass industry.

A KCC Glass official stated, "We are very pleased that the efforts of Executive Vice President Byeon and the employees in the glass research and production fields at KCC Glass have been recognized through this award," adding, "KCC Glass will continue its efforts to lead the development of the domestic glass industry as a representative glass specialist company in Korea."

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