Today's News

Plastic wallpaper with different patterns was one of the highly appreciated goods at the advanced science and technology and products exhibition-2025 held in November last year.

Its producer is the Pyongyang Plastic Building-materials Factory.

Its various kinds of products are much favoured by customers for their high quality, including different sizes of plastic pipes, wallpaper, plastic sheets, plates for getting freshwater for roof greening and other daily necessities.

Some products and a production process of it were highly appreciated at the 13th Commodity Exhibition at Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 in 2022 and the 37th National Festival of Science and Technology in 2024.

The secret behind the success lies in enhanced role of talents.

The factory categorizes talents into several classes according to the development and introduction of innovations conducive to production growth, sci-tech findings contributing to business management and environment protection and rational proposals capable of improving the quality of products.

It sets such detailed items as the stage of conceiving a good idea and the extent of the realization of the idea and evaluates talents every month according to their contribution to its production and business activities.

Amid the growing enthusiasm of its employees for contributing to its development, the factory has annually produced an increasing number of best technicians, best inventors, best workteam leaders and worker inventors.

Dozens of sci-tech successes have been achieved in recent years through a brisk mass technical innovation movement.

A new-type extruding process was established to boost the production of different sizes of PVC pipes and some devices were introduced into a process for recycling plastic waste to increase production.

A nutrient rice-seedling cold-bed developed by one of its workers in January this year proved effective at different farms in Ryokpho District, Pyongyang.