DAEILTEC

What made Baek Won-ok, CEO of Daeil Tech Co., Ltd., stand as a leader in the pitching block industry was his good sense of R&D, not the Japanese products. "What stimulated me, a person running a building material manufacturing company, was the imported Japanese water permeable block products."

About 15 years ago, he judged that Japan's permeable road block products were likely to succeed with curiosity because they are eco-friendly because they have the function of absorbing rainwater. However, there was a desire to witness the failure to meet the needs of the market due to the low strength of the product and to start developing it. The decision is based on the judgment that it can be an alternative if it can produce blocks with good strength and pitching power at the same time.
He ran a building material manufacturing company but did not handle block products, but developed a pitcher block after nearly three years of research. However, when a company that had to produce his product, which was more than 10 times better than other products, repeatedly failed, it jumped into production directly.

After that, in 2009, he applied for a patent for a new permeable block product and moved his headquarters in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, to a factory in Jincheon, Chungcheongbuk-do, the following year. The company that established the production line of the pitcher block has begun full-scale production. Daeil Tech's products are constantly increasing, including Myeongseong Church in Seoul, Songdo Global Campus in Incheon, Seoknamsa Forest Walkway in Ulsan, Cheongnam University Rest Plaza in Chungcheongbuk-do, Cheongju Urban Forest Plaza, and Geumwang-eup, Eumseong. In early November 2017, a four-lane 390m area in front of Jochiwon Station in Sejong City, a major road for buses, was paved with a pitcher block.

Baek, who serves as the executive director of the Korea Block Association, is one of the celebrities in the international block industry as well as in the field of new technology development.

He participated in the Seoul Metropolitan Government's sidewalk block new technology presentation in 2015 and participated in domestic and international related events such as an international seminar on urban eco-friendly rainwater management in 2017. At the International Conference on Concrete Block (ICCBP) held at the Seoul Chamber of Commerce on October 15 last year, he also presented a paper on pitcher block products. "The ultimate goal is to serve the Earth and society through business," Baek said.


Source: Chungcheong Review (http://www.ccreview.co.kr )