BUSAN — Busan will help local air-conditioning companies meet global testing and certification standards and expand their push into overseas markets. Kim Dong-hyun, head of the city's AI Industry Innovation Bureau, said on the 19th that the city plans "to raise companies' ability to meet global standards and broaden technology exchanges with testing and certification bodies at home and abroad, laying a foundation for local firms to expand overseas."
The support measures build on the Korea-China-Japan Global Air Industry Forum, held from the 15th to the 16th at the Homers Hotel in Suyeong District and at Busan TechnoPark in Gangseo District, and on a memorandum of understanding signed there. The city will link the program to the air-conditioning component testing and evaluation infrastructure that Busan TechnoPark is building, while supporting the installation of performance testing equipment, technology commercialization and the formation of global networks through an AI-based project to upgrade performance evaluation infrastructure for air-conditioning components for global markets, a program selected through a Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy competition. The city will invest a total of 10.8 billion won ($7.4 million) in the project from this year through 2028.
Signatories to the agreement include Busan TechnoPark, the Korea Air Cleaning Association (KACA), the Air Purification Industry Association of China (APIAC) and SGS, a global testing and certification firm. The organizations plan to expand exchanges and cooperation in testing and evaluation technology and in certification, and to strengthen a joint framework to address testing and certification difficulties Korean companies face when entering overseas markets.
At the forum, air industry organizations and experts from Korea, China and Japan shared developments in technology and changes to testing and certification systems. Presentations covered the management of new indoor air pollutants, technology trends in China's air purification industry and Korea-China cooperation, Japan's revision of the JEM 1467 standard and its air purifier certification system, and advances in air purification technology and the industry's outlook. Korean companies reviewed technology and certification trends in major overseas markets and widened their international cooperation networks.
"This Korea-China-Japan Global Air Industry Forum and the agreement are significant in that Busan's air-conditioning industry has broadened its basis for cooperation by linking up with the global testing and certification field," Kim said. "We will continue to strengthen testing and certification infrastructure and international cooperation networks so that local companies can respond effectively to overseas certification requirements and technical regulations and expand into global markets."