Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Kamitsue Town also encounters the problem of a shortage of successors for forestry. Our company was founded in November 1990, with the aim of training young successors who will maintain and grow forests, and of maintaining a recycling-based society centered on forests. We are a comprehensive forestry company that conducts forest management, lumber production, wood processing, and sales, and we have integrated distribution channels from mountains to towns. We mainly do business by direct sales from production sites. Our forest management and lumbering department makes use of the properties of sapwood and heartwood to determine the sawing pattern. Our glued laminated lumber processing department then processes lumber selected by determining the sawing pattern according to its use. 


[Industry]
Manufacturing

[Strength of products/technologies]
Our TRY-WOOD panels are decorative panels. They are obtained by strictly selecting straight lumber and heartwood from the raw wood stage and hand-finishing each board while considering the balance of wood grain and heartwood color. Boards are mainly naturally dried and then finished by intermediate-temperature drying so as not to degrade the properties of highly durable heartwood. The boards are then laid side by side and joined together. This is why the area of adhesion can be reduced although they have strength equivalent to general plywood (floor magnification of 3, wall magnification of 2.5). Our panels are manufactured by widthwise jointing of solid boards, so they are characterized by being produced at low cost while retaining the texture of solid wood. 


[Awards and media coverage]
[Media]
Nishinippon Shimbun, “Shin Seihin Happyo” (February 15, 2017); Oita Godo Shimbun, “Kyodo Kumiai Setsuritsu” (March 29, 2016); Oita Godo Shimbun, “Shacho Shunin” (June 30, 2017); Oita Godo Shimbun, “Hisaichi Shien” (April 23, 2016); Oita Godo Shimbun, Nagasaki Shimbun, Nishinippon Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and so on, “Kyudai to no Kyodo Kenkyu” (September 2, 2013); Mainichi Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Oita Godo Shimbun, Nishinippon Shimbun, and so on, “Shin Seihin Happyo” (December 21, 2015 to January 15, 2016); Zaimoku Shimbun, “CFP Kenzai no Ie Zukuri” (April 5, 2016); Oita Godo Shimbun, “PR Seihin” (January 21, 2017); Oita Godo Shimbun, Nishinippon Shimbun, various TV stations, and so on, “Ryuichi Sakamoto Visits the Company” (December 2010); and many other articles in the media.


[Authorization/Certification]
SGEC forest certification (approved business entity for handling certified forest products)
J-Credit certification (0037)
Carbon footprint declaration business entity certification (CR-CC03-16001)
Goho-wood supplier certification (Oita Prefectural Lumber Federation No. 015)
Oita method dried wood production plant certification (No. 023)
JAS factory certification (JPIC-LT 138)
Lumbering enterprise registration certification (Daimokuren No. 1075)


[Intellectual property]
WAKAKE KANSO (Japanese Trademark Registration No. 5166408, September 2008). We possess a Japanese laid-open patent application.


[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
We do business with Calbee, Inc. (now CalNeCo, Inc.) for manufacturing cubic puzzles made of domestically grown natural Japanese cedar timber. 

[Main Clients / Business History (overseas)]
We do business with overseas companies (in Korea and France).