[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] Lemon is soaring. It appears that the development of the company's mass production equipment for nanofilters has had an impact.
As of 9:16 AM on the 9th, Lemon was trading at 10,200 KRW, up 12.09% (1,100 KRW) compared to the previous trading day.
On the 6th, Professor Iksoo Kim of Shinshu University in Japan, who developed Lemon's mass production equipment for nanofilters, emphasized in an interview with an economic media outlet that "KF94 masks can be sufficiently made with nanofilters instead of Chinese-made melt-blown (MB) filters," and highlighted that this could solve the current problem of mask production disruptions due to filter shortages.
He explained, "I was upset to see articles reporting that mask production is disrupted due to a lack of filters, even though KF94 masks can be sufficiently made with nanofilters instead of MB filters," and added, "There is a way to solve the mask crisis at once with Korean technology, but it is frustrating that not only companies but also the government are focusing policies solely on MB filters."
Founded in 2012, Lemon produces high-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding components and heat dissipation sheets using nanotechnology, as well as nanomembrane materials with ultra-fine pores. It has supplied materials to various smartphones including the Galaxy S series, Note series, and 5G series. It has also entered the outdoor market by exclusively supplying materials to The North Face. Recently, it has gained attention for its quarantine masks applying nanomaterial membrane technology.
At the end of last year, it launched its own brand Air Queen Yellow Dust Mask and Air Queen Quarantine Mask. While conventional respiratory masks use nonwoven fabric charged with static electricity (Charging) to filter out fine dust particles of 20,000 nm size, nanofiber masks control particles down to approximately 100?200 nm.
Nanofilters are nanomembranes, a nanofiber fabric structure woven precisely and uniformly with fibers at the 100-nanometer scale. Because the mesh is made very small and dense, it is free from moisture problems, allowing nanofilter masks to be used for 2?3 days normally, and up to 7 days with proper care. They are much easier to breathe through than MB filter masks, and experimental results from Japan have evaluated that they capture (do not allow passage of) up to 99% of bacteria.
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