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Housing Materials

Housing Materials

Wood Materials

Wood Materials

Wood Products

Wood Products

Construction Materials and Construction Work

Construction Materials
and Construction Work

Housing Materials

We will provide every material and information regarding “home”.

Strength 1: Top class transaction volume within the construction materials trading companies

We handle every sort of materials related to “home” such as home fixtures like system kitchen and system bathroom, wooden construction materials like flooring, heat insulation materials, external wall materials, roofing materials, etc. All of these have superior functionality and design, and they have the top class transaction volume within the construction material trading companies.

Strength 2: Proposal leading to contributing to spread the eco-friendly home, peace of mind, and safety

Demand of the heat insulation materials and home fixture to make the home more eco-friendly are in rise in the recent years, so we are making proposal together with the supplier manufacturers to contribute to spread the eco-friendly home. Also, we are putting strong effort to propose the peace of mind and safety far-seeing the aging society.

Strength 3: Connection with the customers throughout the country

Our strength is the rigid connection based on the trust with dominant business partners in every regions of the country. We support the customers not only from the distribution of the home materials, but from both sides of hardware and software, such as providing the know-hows and information.
Also, only Itochu Kenzai Corporation can provide the solution to the customers from other industries that are thinking about moving into the home material field. We will create various businesses with “home” as the perspective.

Examples of handled products

Home fixtures and systems for the bathroom

Home fixtures and systems for the bathroom

  • Home fixtures and systems for the bathroomHome fixtures and systems
    for the bathroom
  • Home fixtures and systems<br>for the kitchenHome fixtures and systems
    for the kitchen
  • Wood building materialsWood building materials
  • Thermal insulationThermal insulation
  • Exterior wall materialsExterior wall materials
  • Interior boardsInterior boards

Wood Materials

We deliver high quality plywood and fiberboard considering the environment from Japan and overseas.

Strength 1: Handling of high quality plywood and fiberboard

We have worked hard to expand the sales of the high quality domestic plywood and fiberboard. We have constructed partnership with the suppliers, and working hard to improve the quality further.

Strength 2: There are many eco-friendly products

With the heightening of the environmental awareness, the “Chikyugi” (Earth Tree) brand plywood is expanding the sales.
For the imported plywood that we have handled from the beginning of our company, we are developing the eco-friendly plywood considering the sustainability of the forest, and we also import and provide the FSC-CoC Certification plywood from the manufacturers abroad matching the request from the customer.

Strength 3: To wide range of fields from suppliers to manufacturing

To stably supply the high quality products, we not only construct relationship with the suppliers, but we also place resident staff and local staff in Indonesia and Malaysia for southeast Asia so they can perform technical instruction at the local affiliated plants, and we are working hard to improve the quality in wide range of fields.

Examples of handled products

Plywood

Plywood

  • PlywoodPlywood
  • FiberboardFiberboard
  • “Chikyugi” (Earth Tree) series“Chikyugi” (Earth Tree) series

Wood Products

The wooden products mainly the home structure from around the world are provided in accordance with the needs.

Strength 1: Stably supply various wooden products while maintaining the price and delivery date

We supply wooden products made by North American, European, and Japanese trees to the distributors, house manufacturers, precut manufacturers, power builders, etc. There are wide range of articles such as structural material, construction material, packaging material, etc. We are closely linked with many suppliers by not only in Japan, but travelling to various countries in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and South America to stably supply large varieties of products while maintaining the price and delivery date. We also process and deliver as product overseas to answer the various needs.

Strength 2: Expansion of eco-friendly products

Itochu Kenzai Corporation has acquired the CoC Certification, and promotes distribution of the certified material. We are also contributing to the expansion of the eco-friendly products by developing and selling our original brand, “Chikyugi” (Earth Tree).

Strength 3: Initiative for using made-in-Japan materials

Positive use of domestic forest resources has been promoted in recent years, and under such circumstances, ITOCHU KENZAI has purchased the harvesting rights for timber in Japanese forests and is offering a total service including the sawing of timber into lumber, grading of the lumber, and distribution to customers. We have been selling our products directly to Japanese customers (lumber manufacturers and biomass plants) and exporting a part of our products to overseas customers. We will continue playing our role as an operator in this field by further utilizing made-in-Japan materials, improving our brand power, and sustainably developing forests.

Examples of handled products

Structural material

Structural material

  • Structural materialStructural material
  • Structural materialStaircase material
  • 2x4 Component Factory2x4 Component Factory

Construction Materials and Construction Work

In addition to the construction material, we support construction and solution to further expand the business opportunities.

Strength 1: Providing wide range of products supporting the various needs not only for home

Our range of activities are not exclusive to home. We support the construction needs for the apartment buildings, tenant buildings, factories, hotels, shopping centers, etc., providing wide range of products from Japan and abroad by cooperating with affiliated companies and partners.

Strength 2: Our strength is that we can undertake from dispatching of information to construction as a whole package.

One of our characteristics is that we have the construction function even though we are construction materials trading company due to the cooperation with our affiliate company, IS ENGINEERING Co., Ltd. We are also participating in projects for apartment building and logistics facilities through the alliance with the ITOCHU Group. Provide abundant information and advices on the business opportunities utilizing the advanced construction technology achieved by this, accumulated know-hows, and rigid network with the developers, general construction companies, and construction companies are also our strength.

Strength 3: New product developing power

Our mission is to answer the needs of the customers, and provide product that can contribute to expansion of the customer business. We are developing items leading to good solution by the idea distinctive to trading company through the business involved in the construction of the buildings.

Examples of handled products

Interior material

Interior material

  • Interior materialInterior material
  • VODVOD
  • Store furniture and fixturesStore furniture and fixtures
  • Humidity conditioning construction materialHumidity conditioning construction material
  • Various sports floorsVarious sports floors
  • Toilet boothToilet booth