President
Motonobu Suzuki

Yamanaka Industry has its origins in processing for Nishijin obi (kimono sashes), a traditional Kyoto industry passed down unbroken over time. The foundation of our company business as it exists today was built up over time with an unwavering emphasis on textiles.

A traditional industry is passed down while being substantiated by innovations in the technology that define that industry. Similarly, our organization, while being shaped in part by the tides of the times, has continually placed our collective efforts on implementing new initiatives to develop our company business.

Illustrating those efforts are the materials-based transition we have made from traditional tea bags made of paper to those made of synthetic textiles such as woven fabric (gauze), as well as our development of triangular Tetra-style tea bag products. Complementing these is our development of new products bearing a multitude of forms and functions in the coffee bag sector as well., and the cultivation of that market. Collectively, where these efforts are concerned, Yamanaka Industry is a pioneer-like presence.Simultaneously, while we engage in the area of wrapping materials, we also conduct the development of new products that exclude metal from tie straps and other efforts back by the intention to conduct environmentally-friendly products manufacturing. These endeavors have been highly recognized by our customers.

Alongside the transition between eras, Yamanaka Industry has freed itself from the use of limited fossil fuel resources while successfully developing and unveiling to the world the world's first material exclusively for tea bags, "SOIRON." Using materials derived from plants as its base, this, too, is founded in the concept of materials that are considerate of the human body and the environment. This technology proudly created by our organization enforces the idea of carbon neutral, which is based on the curbing of CO2 emissions in the everyday activities of mankind, and environmental protection on a broader scale. In this capacity, "SOIRON" has come to be acknowledged not only by Japanese industries, but widely around the world as well.

Based on these accomplishments, we intend to continue relentlessly in our pursuits related to the protection of resources, preservation of the global environment, and materials which superior recyclability.

Based on the tenet that "New techniques breed new value, and new needs breed new techniques," Yamanaka Industry will continue to reflect the sentiments of our customers in our products manufacturing process going forward. Our wish is to keep building upon our fervent efforts to continue being an enterprise capable of contributing to the realization of the dreams of both our customers and society while ensuring to stay attuned to the needs of the times. We hope to continue benefitting from your guidance and encouragement in this regard.

Motonobu Suzuki
Representative Director and President

• Let us take care to create every products eagerly.
• Let us devise methods to drives us forward.
• Let us become an enterprise whose employees and concerned persons attain happiness.

When our organization was initially founded, each and every one of products was hand-made, and we invested a great deal of ourselves in each of them. That spirit remains in place too this day, and we are continually mindful to put our soul into each individual product that we make. This drives our goal of continually enhancing quality and improving what we do through ingenuity while building upon both our customer satisfaction and societal contribution levels.