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.

Shinsung Ceramics¡¯ shock-resistant ceramic composite, which is the nation¡¯s officially certified ceramic product rated as a new excellent one, aims to advance into the foreign markets where the use of thermoelectric power plant is still active.

Sonusys¡¯s insulation blocking windows(SCW-50, 60) is installed in the outer walls of buildings and effectively prevents rain, wind, noise, and heat. The applied scientific design helps greatly improve energy efficiency including insulation, etc.

Ever since its founding in 2000, Dongwon Technology has been supplying its flagship auto parts such as door trim, pillar trim, and rear parcel shelf to Renault Samsung Motors based upon its superior capacity including design, development, analysis, and application.

Del Tex, the leading company in the horticulture business as a high-tech industry of the 21st century, has developed the aluminum screen through several years of R&D and on-site experiments. Del Tex¡¯s aluminum screen is a cutting edge curtain for greenhouses that is made from aluminum, polyester thread, polyester film, thermal protection material and other materials.

Since its foundation in 1988, Dukyu Panel has performed top quality item production and perfect construction. The NEOS-Metal panel is the world¡¯s first kind of continuant style panel that can considerably decrease the construction time and cost compared to the existing aluminum and external composite panels.

Since its foundation in 1988, Dukyu Panel has performed good quality item production and perfect construction. The NEOS duct board from the company is made with a special anti-bacterial treatment on its surface so that it boasts of excellent features against germs and mold, meaning that it maintains indoor air of good quality for a given amount of time.

Ever since its establishment in 1975, KIMCO has been making great strides in technical level and company scale. During the past 30 years, it has professionally supplied various types of cooling towers for more than 5,000 projects.

Since its foundation in 1993, Halla Precision Eng. has steadily striven to become the world's best nuclear power, thermal power, and power generation equipment manufacturer based on quality, innovative management, and R&D.

An endoscope is an advanced non-destructive inspection device that enables the user to see inside cavities and inspect without disassembling. Caretek¡¯s latest endoscope model ¡°ACE-Pro¡± is an electronically soft one that has a micro digital camera at the tip. Using this product, one can view a range of 120degrees, with front view, left and right. The user can see freely the inside of objects using a remote, even in narrow spaces.

Established in 1996, Chungwon has been specialized in developing and releasing a special purpose of fire hydrant aiming for prevention of safety-related accidents that could harm ordinary citizens. Placed underground, the fire hydrant can effectively perform its originally planned performance without causing anysafety-related accidents that could endanger pedestrians.

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