Toward Social Implementation of Solutions to “Make it Real”

After establishing Kaneka Hokkaido Co., Ltd. in 2017, which oversees the business of Hokkaido, we have been developing unique businesses that take advantage of regional characteristics, such as developing a recycling-oriented organic dairy business and deciding to establish a new advanced medical base.
We will work on the “Hokkaido Initiative”, a new wave in Hokkaido, and the development of a second new frontier. "There are things that we can only accomplish here. From our business site in Hokkaido, we're going to make the world's dreams come true. We're completely confident in our convictions, and we're about to go into action."

Initiatives for Creating Attractive Dairy Farming and Dairy Products

Japan’s dairy farming faces a difficult environment due to the lack of successors and labor.
Kaneka works together with dairy farmers with the business philosophy of promoting attractive and sustainable dairy farming. We work to raise productivity, improve the workplace environment, and address environmental issues, using our food production support business and production know-how.
Betsukai Wellness Farm Co., Ltd., which was established in June 2020, is engaged in grass and high nutritional feed cultivation, and in December 2020, organic JAS certification (*1) for fields (grazing lands, pasture lands, and corn fields) was acquired. A new barn was completed in May 2021, and we are promoting the breeding of cattle.
In the future, we aim to acquire organic JAS certification for raw milk in 2022 and launch organic dairy products in 2023.

*1 An organic food inspection certification system prescribed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. It certifies agricultural and livestock products that are produced without the aid of artificial chemical substances.

New Cattle Barn in Betsukai Wellness Farm（Betsukai-cho, Notsuke-gun, Hokkaido）

For Sustainable Recycling-Oriented Organic Dairy Farming

We work to produce high-value-added organic raw milk and raise productivity through labor saving and home growing of feed, aiming for sustainable and recycling-oriented organic dairy farming considerate of people, dairy cattle, and the environment.

Embarking on a New Stage of Medical SV “Kamuy Project”

We have decided to build a new factory of medical device that are being expanded both domestically and internationally in Medical SV, in the eastern Tomakomai industrial area of Hokkaido, which is one of Japan’s leading industrial complexes with various infrastructures and is located at a highly convenient logistics hub by land, sea, and air. We are aiming to make a highly productive smart factory by automating the manufacturing process and “zero energy factory” equipped with photovoltaic modules.
The factory will manufacture the medical device Liposorber™, which selectively removes LDL cholesterol from the bloodstream, along with the new product Rheocarna™, which applies that technology and has been attracting attention as a new method for treating severe arteriosclerosis obliterans (ASO) (*2).
We will expand the supply base of the medical device business and accelerate global business development to meet the strong demand of the world.
With Hokkaido Initiative, this will be start of a new stage of activity.

*2 A disease that causes arteriosclerosis where stenosis and occlusion of lower limbs artery occurred, leading to impaired blood flow (ischemia).