{"id":20084,"date":"2025-03-23T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T00:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/slastic-railway-sleeper\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:47:26","slug":"slastic-railway-sleeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/slastic-railway-sleeper\/","title":{"rendered":"POSCO First In-House Venture EOMTech Succeeds in Developing \u201cSlastic\u201d Railway Sleepers Using Steelmaking Byproduct Slag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leads Sustainability by Developing Railway Sleepers Combining Steelmaking Slag and Waste Plastics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EOMTech, a POSCO in-house venture company, is drawing attention for developing an innovative railway sleeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EOMTech has created a new type of railway sleeper\u2014a structural component that supports rails for train operation\u2014by combining steelmaking byproduct slag and waste plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This achievement was realized through POSCO\u2019s Performance-Sharing System, one of its shared-growth programs, and is being recognized as a successful case that delivers two key outcomes simultaneously: environmental problem-solving and cost reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 2019 as part of POSCO\u2019s first in-house venture cohort, EOMTech, led by CEO Young-jun Park, developed a composite material called \u201cSlastic,\u201d which uses steelmaking slag and waste plastics as its core materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this development, EOMTech significantly reduced costs by replacing part of the expensive glass fiber materials traditionally used in railway sleepers with Slastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, sleepers made from Slastic are 100% recyclable, further enhancing their environmental value and reinforcing EOMTech\u2019s contribution to sustainable infrastructure development&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dkilbo.com\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=488547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u25b6 View All<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leads Sustainability by Developing Railway Sleepers Combining Steelmaking Slag and Waste Plastics EOMTech, a POSCO in-house venture company, is drawing attention for developing an innovative railway sleeper. EOMTech has created a new type of railway sleeper\u2014a structural component that supports rails for train operation\u2014by combining steelmaking byproduct slag and waste plastics. This achievement was realized [&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-20084","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\/20084","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=20084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/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=20084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomtek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}