The New Excellent Product (NEP) certification is a program designed to evaluate newly developed products using innovative technology and certifies the nation¡¯s top products in order to encourage technology development and help companies commercialize and market high-quality techno-centric products.

As Korea entered the 1970s, the nation began to invest heavily in heavy and chemical industries in order to boost its national industrial structure.

This effort paid off in the 1980s with remarkable growth in the machinery, automobile, shipbuilding, electronics, steel and petrochemical industries.

While this rapid growth greatly expanded the external economic scale of the nation, it also led to a rise in technology imports from industrialized nations around the world. As a result, a large part of the foreign exchange painstakingly earned through exports flowed out as royalty payments.

In order to alleviate this chronic pressure on the national trade balance and achieve technological independence, the government began exploring ways to localize capital goods including machines, parts and materials.

As a part of these efforts, the government discovered a new way of certifying new technology in order to assuage lingering distrust of Korean products and technologies.

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (today¡¯s Ministry of Knowledge Economy) spearheaded this program for certifying new products and technologies, followed by separate programs by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Information-Communication, Ministry of Construction and Transportation, and the Ministry of Environment.

KG Cranes is a global leading company specializing in a variety of industrial cranes including heavy duty process cranes and shipyard cranes, hoistsand related parts.

KOCAT supply unique and appropriate technology for removing VOCs (VolatileOrganic Compounds) produced from various kinds of industrial activities such as petrochemicals, generation of electric power, painting and food manufacturing etc. It further provides absolute solutions for odor removal systems with respect to actual site conditions and applications.

Kntec¡¯s silica analyzer is used for the quality monitoring of pure water, boiler water in power plant and for making pure water in the semiconductor industry. Online hardness analyzer is used for water quality monitoring and automatic control in industrial boiler/cooling water in order to prevent scale forming and corrosion.

KNet specializes in making polyethylene pipes for communication and civilengineering has done its best to provide the products of the best quality management ideology of "the company oriented to respecting humans and satisfying customers" since the establishment in 2002.

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G&G Technology¡¯s Pocket Clean Max is a closed-type upper protection structure that utilizes the most advanced and newest technology. When there is any breakdown in the flowmeter or its components, there is no need to use any equipment.

Ilsintech has made the purchasing cost of splice-on connectors and installation costs lower than the mechanical connectors and has developed and been supplying a semi-permanent FTTH solution ensuring that the use of FTTH connectors and transmission equipment connectors will spread in near future.

Energy Korea¡¯s Sunjoy Radiant-Heating System is a perfect heating system:it creates no dirt, noise, odor, or humidity. Most of all, Sunjoy Radiant-Heating System incurs considerably low installation and maintenance costs compared to other methods, and requires little repair or maintenance, such as changing the filters and cleaning the burner or pipe.

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