03Company
Etat'H Solide (에타솔리드) is a Korean lightweighting company founded in 2023, with a U.S. parent in Delaware and a U.S. base in Michigan. It turns decades of plastics and molding know-how into two process modules.
Etat'H Solide (에타솔리드)01Our story
Etat'H Solide grew out of more than 40 years of inherited plastics and factory know-how, passed from father to son and rebuilt after COVID.
The named inventor on the granted patents has filed on rapid heat/cool molds and foam molding since 2010.
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Inherited plastics and factory know-how. The figure refers to that know-how, not the age of the company.
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Molding experience passed from one generation to the next.
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The development line was rebuilt after the pandemic.
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System and process engineering for both modules is done in-house.
02In-house validation
Etat'H Solide controls the equipment, facility and process recipes it uses to validate parts before production.
EcoFoamEcoMold
393 m²
Registered manufacturing facility (leased)
200 bar
High-pressure N₂ validation range
3 modules
Injection, gas and mold control
KRW 92M
Validation infrastructure, acquisition value
03Track record
Since 2023, Etat'H Solide has moved from Korean startup programs and U.S. accelerators to a paid automotive proof-of-concept order and a packaging proof-of-concept selection.
KRW 384M
Cumulative non-dilutive government support, 2023–2026
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Global proofs of concept: an automotive order and a packaging selection
POSCO IMP
Advanced to final due diligence
Government support KRW 70M
Government support KRW 75M
Government support KRW 209M
Government support KRW 30M · global commercialization
04Team
Etat'H Solide's team pairs a core technical team in Korea with U.S. partners for Tier-1 access, investment and operations.
강재욱
Founder & CEO
LinkedIn (LinkedIn profile of Jhea-Uhg “Damian” Kang, opens in a new tab)Leads technology development and U.S. commercialization. Co-inventor on the company's granted Korean foam-molding patent.
Programs
Alchemist Chicago · Polsky Center (UChicago) · Plug and Play
전지성
CTO
Former R&D leader at a global injection-machine maker, covering injection machines from 50 to 4,300 tonnes.
Past affiliation
Woojin Plaimm
강명호
Plastics expert & patent inventor
More than 40 years in plastics and polymers. Named inventor on the granted patents in the U.S., Korea, Japan and China.
Past affiliations
Soonchunhyang University · emold Technology (Nada Innovation)
U.S. market development
LinkedIn (LinkedIn profile of Pete Kaha, opens in a new tab)More than 40 years of access to U.S. Tier-1 suppliers. Supports U.S. sales and market development as an external partner.
Past affiliations
Triple S Plastics · Rotational Safety LLC
U.S. strategy & operations partner
LinkedIn (LinkedIn profile of Jack Wu, opens in a new tab)Supports U.S. go-to-market, investment and operating scale-up as an external partner.
Past affiliations
Chicago Booth · Chrysler · AWS
Productization & execution partner
LinkedIn (LinkedIn profile of Cindy Jinhee Park, opens in a new tab)Coordinates manufacturing, bill of materials, cost and FMEA work for productization, as part of the external execution network.
Past affiliations
University of Toronto · Tesla
Fundraising & business development
LinkedIn (LinkedIn profile of Romain Gillet, opens in a new tab)Supports fundraising activities and business development initiatives to drive the company's growth.
Past affiliation
NEOMA Business School
05AI harness partner
With FlowOS as its AI harness development partner, Etat'H Solide is developing an AI layer over its trial data, where models suggest, code checks and engineers approve. Every trial produces gas, temperature and pressure data.
An AI harness is everything around the model: the data it may see, the tools it may use, the checks on its output and the people who approve.
The planned design uses read-only data access, and nothing in the process changes without an engineer's sign-off.
06Corporate structure
ETAT'H SOLIDE, INC., a Delaware corporation, holds 100% of the Korean operating company and runs the U.S. business from Michigan.
Domestic and international · SAFE or equity
Delaware C-Corp · fundraising and North American contracts
Etat'H Solide Co., Ltd.
100% Korean subsidiary · R&D, equipment development and production
U.S. business base · customer validation, sales and field support
Investors participate through the U.S. parent in the growth of the Korean subsidiary and the U.S. business.
For trials, partnerships or investor materials, write to the founder directly.
Damian Kang, Founder & CEO
