Flexoresearch Group is really proud to be selected
as a Technology Pioneer 2011h by the World Economic Forum.
Our innovation is a unique process that can recycle the laminated paper waste.
This kind of laminated paper waste we see everyday, for example,
a sticker backing liner that people will use the front
and then throw away the back or plastic laminated wrapping papers.
Normally, people in paper making industry
don’t want to recycle this kind of paper waste,
why? Because it is really difficult
to separate the paper layer out of the other laminated material
such as plastic or foil.
It has to invest a lot in the machinery to recycle this kind of paper waste.
We have to use a lot of energy, a lot of chemical, a lot of water,
but the yield we got is very low and more than that –
the quality of the paper pulp we got is low, it’s not clean.
So, this is why the paper making industry
does not want to recycle this kind of paper waste.
But at Flexoresearch Group we invent our enzyme technology
that we can not only recover the paper fiber
back from the laminated paper waste, but also can modify the fiber surface
to have a good physical property that can repair the asbestos fiber
that used in the fiber cement manufacturing nowadays.
I have to tell you another thing that why our innovation is so special,
because the waste paper – the laminated waste paper cannot be recycle,
so people who own it, people who made this kind of paper
waste they have to get rid of it, some way, somewhere,
normally what they do – they dump it in the landfills
and it take years to decompose.
Worse than that some people
who own it they want to get rid of it quicker so they burn it.
They put in an incinerator either legally or illegally
and that cause pollutants.
A fume that cause from burning this kind of laminated paper waste –
you harm people.
When people breath and get this fume
they get respiratory disease problem.
So this is not good at all.
So we can convert a problem into a profit like this.
So it is making Flexoresearch group special.
It is really hard to say that which country
should be the best place to facilitate starting
a new technology company.
I used to think that US and other giant industry leader country
should be the best place but on the other hand.
I still can see a small country which is always having a war all the time,
like Israel still have a lot of high tech company starting up over there.
So I would say that in my view I believe that every country
including my Thailand can be the best place to facilitate starting up
a new technology company.
However, the activities to link or to promote to bring
this kind of a new business, new technology company
to the community, to the global,
like what the World Economy Forum is doing right now
is a must to make this happen.
Of course I believe that to be an innovator
one must have a brilliant idea and have the ability
to make his brilliant idea come true but not only that,
I think, to be a successful innovator he must have the ability
to take every risk,
I would say there will be a lot of risk waiting for him.
There are three major benefits that our innovation can state of the world.
By turning the laminated paper waste into a useful fiber.
We will see less pollutants because less laminated paper waste
will be sent to incineration.
So there will be hazardous fume.
Second, in the paper making industry if they can use this recovered paper
there would be less manufacturing cost because no need to use a new tree,
use lots of water, chemicals, power, electricity, so in general,
there will be less production cost.
and last but not least,
there will be less respiratory disease patients who suffers
from breathing the fume – the hazardous fumes
from laminated paper waste burning and also there will be
less respiratory disease patient who suffer from asbestos.