Articles from Gunze Limited

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan; President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) (TOKYO:3002) today announced the completion of a newly renovated office building at its Tsuyama Plant in Tsuyama City, Okayama. The project revitalizes the plant’s historic office building, originally constructed in 1928, preserving its heritage while upgrading it to support modern development and collaboration.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan; President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO:3002] is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gunze Medical Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan; President: Shojiro Matsuda) and HistoSonics, Inc. (Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN USA; CEO: Mike Blue) have entered into an agreement to exclusively distribute a noninvasive platform and proprietary sonic beam therapy utilizing the histotripsy technology.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan; President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO:3002] is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gunze Medical Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan; President: Shojiro Matsuda) and HistoSonics, Inc. (Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN USA; CEO: Mike Blue) have entered into an agreement to exclusively distribute a noninvasive platform and proprietary sonic beam therapy utilizing the histotripsy technology. Under this agreement, Gunze Medical will assume exclusive distribution responsibility in Japan for non-invasive ultrasound therapy devices equipped with Histotripsy technology developed by HistoSonics. Moving forward, the company will work to obtain manufacturing and marketing approval and insurance coverage in Japan, while also establishing a support and training system in collaboration with medical institutions. This will contribute to reducing the physical burden on patients through more accurate treatment and improving efficiency and quality in medical settings.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO: 3002] is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gunze Green has developed a calculation method to visualize carbon dioxide absorption quantities from greening projects and quantify their reduction contributions through an industry-academia collaboration research project with the Urban Research Center at Kyushu University. This calculation technology aims to quantify CO2 reduction contributions through not only CO2 absorption from forest management within existing environmental credit frameworks but also business activities, such as supplying trees for greening projects. Furthermore, the methodology is scheduled to be presented at the 14th International Symposium on Eco-Design and Inverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign 2025) in November 2025 and subsequently published in an academic paper. Gunze Green will continue its efforts to promote the concept of carbon credits and advance the visualization and evaluation of environmental value in the urban greening.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO: 3002] is pleased to announce that Gunze has introduced a "recycled hanger" made of 100% *PCR material from plastic waste at the logistics bases of its Group company, Gunze Distribution Co., Ltd. This initiative is part of Gunze's efforts to promote "company-wide waste recycling" and realize a resource-recycling society. The "recycled hangers" will primarily be used for men's underwear "ASEDORON" and "HOT MAGIC" underwear sold at mass merchandisers. The company will use 350,000 hangers annually. *PCR: PCR stands for Post-Consumer Recycled. It means the reuse of materials recovered from the marketplace.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO: 3002] is pleased to announce that a subsidiary Gunze Green has been selected to participate in International Horticultural Expo 2027, Yokohama, Japan.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [Tokyo:3002] is pleased to announce that it has launched "GEOPLAS® HCX1 23 Micron", the lightest hybrid shrink film in Japan, which has now been adopted for use in PET bottled beverages sold by DyDo DRINCO. Gunze continues to promote the use of Japan's lightest shrink film in the market and to increase the proportion of recycled materials, aiming to realize a recycling-oriented society by reducing the amount of plastic used and effectively utilizing resources.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO:3002] is pleased to announce that Gunze, in cooperation with Pietro Co., Ltd and Fuji Seal Inc., will provide GEOPLAS®, a resource recycling (label-to-label) shrink film for some Pietro dressing products. The company will work to realize a sustainable society by creating recycled labels from ink-releasable labels and recycling them horizontally.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [Tokyo:3002] is pleased to announce that the company will launch an eco-friendly "GEOPLAS™ HCX1", the lightest shrink film for automatic sleeve applicators in December 2023. The product is a polystyrene/polyethylene terephthalate multi-layered product that uses 5% of chemical recycled raw materials with the mass balance approach. The new product will first be launched in Japan and then expanded to the U.S., China and ASEAN markets. The product to be launched this time is the second product after our eco-friendly grade GEOPLAS™ HCT3.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO: 3002] is pleased to announce that Gunze has decided to invest in the construction of the third medical plant and to expand its R&D laboratory in Ayabe, Kyoto, where Gunze was founded. Targeted to complete in February 2025, the new plant aims to increase production of "TENALEAF™", an absorbable adhesive barrier sheet used in surgery, for which demand is growing, and to secure the efficient production system. The investment will accelerate the growth of the medical business. The first Ayabe Medical Plant began operations in 1998. As the business grew, the second plant was established in 2016. The expansion of the first plant is underway and will be completed in March 2025. The investment in medical facilities has reached 3.5 billion yen. The main purposes of expanding the medical R&D facility are to strengthen the development capabilities of next-generation products and efficient mass production and to make the working environment more efficient, comfortable, and creative by setting up an open office for technical personnels where they can interact with others more freely and closely. The new third plant will achieve an environmental performance rating of B+ or higher under the Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (*CASBEE) certification as striving to reduce CO2 emissions through the use of high-efficiency air conditioning and solar power generation.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO: 3002] is pleased to announce that Gunze has decided to invest in the expansion of its Konan plant with a target completion date of March 2025 to support the growth of its engineering plastics business. This investment is in response to growing demand in the medical device and semiconductor markets. The Konan Plant began operations in 1990 as the core plant for the engineering plastics business. Since then, the plant has expanded its business by developing and supplying tubes, belts and other components for the office automation market and various industries, utilizing its proprietary processing technologies for fluoropolymers and polyimide resins. The new building will have exterior with high thermal insulation, high-efficiency lighting & air conditioning and photovoltaic power generation to reduce CO2 emissions, and will achieve an environmental performance rating of B+ or higher under the Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (*CASBEE) certification. Gunze promotes company-wide activities to reduce the environmental impact of its business activities, strives for environmentally friendly management, and contributes to the development of the local community by revitalizing the economy and creating new employment opportunities in the local Aichi Prefecture.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [Tokyo:3002] is pleased to announce that it will complete the transformation of its Moriyama Factory, the core of its plastic film business, into a Circular Factory™ (Resource Recycling Factory) on April 18. The factory will not only utilize solar energy and large water resources as energy, but will also consider products and raw materials that were discarded without use in the traditional linear system of "Take (resource extraction), Make (production), and Waste (disposal)" as new resources, creating a manufacturing system that recycles resources without producing waste. The plant will be a high-tech facility with a production system that recycles resources without producing waste.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [Tokyo:3002] is pleased to announce that the company will launch an eco-friendly “GEOPLAS® HCT3” heat-shrinkable film with recycled resin on January 2023. The product is a polystyrene/polyethylene terephthalate multi-layered product that uses 30% of chemical recycled raw materials with the mass balance approach. The new product will first be launched in Japan and then expanded to the U.S. and ASEAN markets. This is the first of a series of recycled heat-shrinkable films that reduce the use of petroleum-derived raw materials and focusing on expanding into global markets. *“GEOPLAS® HCT3” is a brand name in Japan market.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO: 3002] is pleased to announce that Gunze has obtained medical device approval to manufacture and sell TENALEAF™, the first sheet-type absorbable adhesion barrier made in Japan. The company is planning to launch the product in March 2022 through its subsidiary “Gunze Medical Japan” in the Japanese market.

Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) [TOKYO:3002] is pleased to announce the use of Gunze’s biodegradable scaffolds for a meniscal repair clinical trial which will be conducted at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University (hereinafter OMPU) to improve medial meniscal injury patient clinical outcome.