{"id":20076,"date":"2025-03-26T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/steel-byproduct-rail-sleeper\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:55:34","slug":"steel-byproduct-rail-sleeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/steel-byproduct-rail-sleeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Friendly Railway Sleepers Developed Using Steelmaking Byproducts\u2026 A Success Story of POSCO\u2019s In-House Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Combines Byproduct Slag and Waste Plastics<\/strong><br><strong>100% Recyclable, Delivering High Environmental Value<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">POSCO announced on the 24th that its in-house venture company EOMTech has successfully developed a next-generation railway sleeper by combining steelmaking byproduct slag with waste plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A railway sleeper refers to the beam that supports rails on which trains operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 2019 as part of POSCO\u2019s first in-house venture cohort, EOMTech, under the leadership of CEO Young-jun Park, developed a composite material called \u201cSlastic,\u201d which uses slag and waste plastics as its primary components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the process, EOMTech maximized cost reductions by replacing a portion of the expensive glass fiber materials traditionally used in railway sleepers with Slastic&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sisajournal.com\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=328108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u25b6 View All<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combines Byproduct Slag and Waste Plastics100% Recyclable, Delivering High Environmental Value POSCO announced on the 24th that its in-house venture company EOMTech has successfully developed a next-generation railway sleeper by combining steelmaking byproduct slag with waste plastics. A railway sleeper refers to the beam that supports rails on which trains operate. Founded in 2019 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}