フジワラテクノアート Company Profile

Fujihara Techno Art Co., Ltd. will be exhibiting at "FOOMA JAPAN 2024" held at Tokyo Big Sight. At our exhibition booth, we will showcase solid culture technology that harnesses the power of microorganisms to enhance the value of food materials and food by-products, along with a practical demonstration of a "small ventilated solid culture device" suitable for test cultivation aimed at industrialization. We will also introduce our comprehensive engineering capabilities based on diverse raw material processing technologies developed in the brewing industry and our plant achievements. Additionally, we will conduct a presentation seminar titled "Sustainable Innovation through Food Tech Using Microorganisms." We sincerely look forward to your visit.

The April 24 and May 1, 2023 issue of the Asian edition of the U.S. news magazine "TIME" features an interview article about our company. The strength of Japanese manufacturing, which endures any changes in social conditions, is once again being recognized, and we are highlighted as one of the companies demonstrating this strength under the title "Fermenting Success To a New Era." The full Japanese translation of the article can be found in the related materials below. We encourage you to read it.

Fujiwara Techno Art has joined the "Upcycle General Incorporated Association" as of April 17, 2023. The "Upcycle General Incorporated Association" is a platform aimed at effectively utilizing resources that are currently discarded but still usable, through collaboration with various companies and organizations. In a society characterized by mass production and mass consumption that leads to large-scale waste, the urgent challenge of transitioning to a sustainable society has emerged, and we believe that the concept of upcycling will be increasingly sought after in the future. Currently, Fujiwara Techno Art is engaged in upcycling using solid culture technology cultivated over many years in the brewing industry. Specifically, we are working on developing agricultural residues and food by-products into more valuable functional feeds, foods, and materials through the power of microorganisms. We will continue our activities to contribute to the realization of a rich, circular society through co-creation with participating companies. *Upcycling: The process of reusing waste as is to create new value. This differs from recycling, which involves returning resources to their original state before turning them back into products. *Solid culture technology: A technique for cultivating microorganisms on solid substances to produce useful materials. It is used in the production of items such as koji, katsuobushi, and natto.