At the 2022 Patent Technology Awards organized by the Korean Intellectual Property Office, Yoon Chi-won, a senior researcher at the New Technology Development Team, won the "Hong Dae-yong Award (Patent Commissioner Award). The Patent Technology Award is an award system that bestows awards and prizes for inventions selected as excellent technologies after recommendation by the examiner and review council among inventions registered with the Korean Intellectual Property Office to encourage the inventor's morale and desire to invent.
The winner, Yoon Chi-won (New Technology Development Team), joined the company in 2002 and has continued to carry out research and development related to door trim for 20 years, and has applied for more than 80 patents.
The winning patent is a "natural fiber insert injection molding device and molding process" produced by our company, and "a technology that manufactures molding/trimming/bracket injection/bracket adhesion in a single step when manufacturing interior materials using natural fibers." This technology has been applied to Kia K8/K9 and Hyundai G80/G90 models in Korea, and is under development after receiving orders from global OEMs overseas.

Senior Researcher Yoon Chi-won said, "These cases of application of mass production seem to have played an important role in winning this invention, and I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the related sectors for organically collaborating for mass production application."
With this award, the New Technology Development Team said it will make more efforts in discovering foods of the future and strive for pilot studies and commercialization that can produce results.