Making rich from paper scraps

Flexoresearch has successfully built a series of synthetic enzyme solutions, extracted from mushrooms, that turn waste paper into useful products.

At a small laboratory on the outskirts of Bangkok, General Manager of Flexoresearch, Paijit Sangchai, put waste paper rolls into a gray solution jar. After that, he took the piece of paper that had been soaked in the wash solution under the faucet. A few minutes later, like a miracle magic, the scroll turned into plastic. Paijit Sangchai said, first, an enzyme attacks the water-repellent surface of the paper and then seeps into the inner paper layers. Finally, depending on the type of enzyme used, these pieces of paper rolls can produce many new products as raw materials for paper production or create construction materials that can replace asbestos. Not only that, this technology can also create clean plastics to make many new products.

The creation of this new construction material helped Flexoresearch be recognized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the 31 pioneering companies in technology. Meanwhile, 'Time' magazine also voted Flexoresearch as one of 10 companies that could change people's lives. This is a great honor for Thailand in general and Flexoresearch in particular because it is very rare for a business in 'dwarf technology' like Thailand to win the honor of the international community.

On the reason why he came up with the initiative, Paijit Sangchai said that in developing countries like Thailand, roll paper is often discarded and most people burn it down, causing a large amount of toxic smoke to be released to the lips. school, great influence on human health. Meanwhile, in countries where roll paper is developed, it is considered a waste and no one is interested in this huge source of material. So, seeing a large amount of roll paper being discarded and incinerated in all countries of the world, Paijit thought that this was going to be a big market and he began to study to regenerate them into Useful material.

Indeed since WEF was honored as a technology pioneer, Paijit has received thousands of e-mails, mostly from capitalist countries, wishing to cooperate and invest with his company. However, Paijit insists that he is not interested in raising more money and selling stocks to investors, he is only interested in finding partners who want to license this technology in their country. Currently, his technology has attracted the attention of many countries including Malaysia, Japan, China, Korea and India. Besides, the founder of Flexoresearch also emphasizes the desire to cooperate with everyone in the world to protect the environment.