On the 10th, KCC GLASS Corporation won the IR52 Jang Young-sil Award for its bus flooring material with excellent safety, “SENSTONE,” at the IR52 Jang Young-sil Award Ceremony held at novel Ambassador Seoul Gangnam in Yeoksam-dong, Seoul, South Korea. The IR52 Jang Young-sil Award is given to South Korean companies and workers working in the area of technology development who have shown leadership in industrial technology innovation by developing and commercializing outstanding new technologies and products.

SENSTONE is a functional flooring material for buses designed to facilitate the safe use of buses for bus passengers.

KCC put the focus on safety in the development of SENSTONE so that in the event of a fire on a bus or a safety accident where passengers fall while on a bus boarded by many other passengers, the accident does not develop into a bigger accident.

The results of product performance testing of SENSTONE have shown that the product is excellent in regards to all safety-related items, including non-slip properties, flame retardancy, emissions, of volatile organic compounds(VOCs) and exhaust gas emissions compared to products from KCC’s global competitors.

As for SENSTONE’s non-slip properties in particular, KCC secured the product’s walking safety for passengers by applying a special ultraviolet(UV) coating process technology to the surface of the flooring material, which has endowed the product with a high level of surface friction(nonslipness).

In addition, by obtaining Europe’s rigorous fire safety certification “ECE” for SENSTONE, KCC also proved the excellence of its flame propagation suppression compounding technology, and having also applied to the product and eco-friendly raw material mixing technology that reduces emissions of VOCs, KCC expects the product to help improve the indoor air quality of buses as well as reduce the weight of buses and improve their fuel efficiency.

IR52 Jang Young-sil Award for SENSTONE has great significance in that it proves that it has earned the company a bridgehead into international markets and that the company has contributed to increasing the public safety of South Korea through localization of technology.