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2018.02.26
Mitsufuji as Wearable IoT Manufacturer Received Forbes JAPAN’s SMALL GIANTS for Grand Prix and Cutting-Edge Award.

Mitsufuji Corporation (head office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera) is announcing that we have received Forbes JAPAN’s SMALL GIANTS for Grand Prix and Cutting-Edge Award with its theme of the most beautiful economic magazine. Mitsufuji had started in Nishijin textile factory and has shifted to develop highly conductive silver-metalized fiber known as AGposs®, with considerable experience and expertise inheriting from generation to generation. In this award, we have been acknowledged and evaluated as the potential to change people’s lives since<READ MORE>

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2018.02.22
Mitsufuji as Wearable IoT Manufacturer Received SENKEN Newspaper’s Synthetic Fiber Award for New Frontier Award

Mitsufuji Corporation (head office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera) is announcing to receive SENKEN Newspaper’s Synthetic Fiber Award for New Frontier Award for development and expansion of our highly conductive silver-metalized fiber AGposs®. Its conductivity is not only superior due to the large amount of silver, but it is excellent for electromagnetic interference, antibacterial effect, anti-odor and insulation and electrostatic discharge. With these features, AGposs® can be used as sensor to collect and monitor biometric information. Moreover, a creation of<READ MORE>

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2018.01.05
Mitsufuji known as Wearable IoT Manufacturer of hamon®,Released a New Vision “Weaving health data into greater human understanding”

KYOTO, Japan, Jan. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mitsufuji Corporation (head office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera) is announcing a new vision “Weaving health data into greater human understanding” starting in 2018 to accelerate product development and business expansion, and a new concept video as well. (Visit our website to see the video: https://www.mitsufuji.co.jp/en/) “Heart Signature” featured in the concept video is visualizing electrocardiographic data emotionally in the motif of a flower. It is colorfully formed from one and only<READ MORE>

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2017.10.26
Mitsufuji as A Wearable IoT Manufacturer, Released the Disposal Smart-Wear for the First Time in This Industry.

Mitsufuji Corporation (head office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera) is announcing the developing and launching of disposal smart-wear for the first time in this industry, as a new product of wearable IoT brand hamon® released last year. This new product remains not only comfortable to wear but reasonable product price that can be used as disposal. As specially designed for nursing care, it makes users easy to slip on/off, and is also suitable for bedridden residents. It helps not only<READ MORE>

News Release
2017.10.06
Released the New Silver-Metalized Fiber Product, “AGfit™”

Mitsufuji Corporation (head office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera) is announcing AGfit™, the new product lineup of AGposs® adopted by wearable IoT products and other industrial products. We are going to exhibit AGfit™ at TEXTILE TOKYO [OCTOBER], the trade show specialized in all kinds of textiles/fabrics and materials for fashion items. The exhibition will be held inside Japan’s LARGEST trade show for fashion industry, FASHION WORLD TOKYO 2017 [OCTOBER]. 【Details of Display】 Silver-Metalized Fiber AGposs®, AGfit™ AGfit™ is a stretchable<READ MORE>

News Release
2017.04.13
Conclusion of a Comprehensive Business Alliance Agreement with Japan PC Service Co., Ltd..

 We have concluded a comprehensive business alliance agreement with Japan PC Service Co., Ltd..  (Press release is only available in Japanese)        

News Release
2016.12.12
Mitsufuji Corporation announces the launch of general wareable brand named hamon – Offering IoT solution covering from wearable vital sensors, transmitters to cloud services –

Mitsufuji Corporation (CEO: Ayumu Mitera, Head office: Kyoto) is announcing the launch of general wearable brand named hamonTM (The trademark registration is currently under processing) as of December 12,2016. We, as a fiber manufacturer, have been offering conductive fiber AGposs®, and providing various fiber materials to our customers. From now on, we as a general wearable manufacturer, will focus on in-house development and sales including “wearable vital sensors” in apparel, “transmitters” in electronic products and “algorithm software, clouds” in IT.<READ MORE>

News Release
2016.11.14
Participants to test “AGposs®” wearable device at Asia Pacific Corporate Games in Tokyo 2016

-Experimental Demonstration of Smart Clothing for the Future of Healthcare- Mitsufuji Corporation (Head Office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera) will offer a demonstration experiment of a clothing-type wearable device for healthcare at Asia Pacific Corporate Games in Tokyo 2016 taking place November 5th-6th, 2016. Mitsufuji plans to develop a detection and prediction system for illness and disorders by using clothing type wearable devices made with conducting fiber, “AGposs®“. This system measures electrocardiogram, breathing and electromyogram automatically and analyses heart rate<READ MORE>

News Release
2016.08.05
Mitsufuji announces a capital and business partnership with Artra Corporation

Mitsufuji Corporation (Head office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera)(“Mitsufuji”) signed a contract today with Artra Corporation(Stock code: 6029; head office: Osaka; CEO: Hiroyuki Kyuse)(“Artra”) forming a capital and business partnership. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of its Nishijin-ori factory, Mitsufuji’s conductive “AGposs®” fibers were developed through traditional Kyoto techniques. AGposs® is used by major textile companies, electronics manufacturers, and wearable ventures to create smart wear products both domestically and overseas. With a corporate philosophy of “helping people around the world stay<READ MORE>

News Release
2016.03.31
Mitsufuji introduces AGposs LX® (Transmitters)

Mitsufuji Corporation (Head Office: Seika-cho, Kyoto; CEO: Ayumu Mitera) unveiled its new product, AGposs®-LX, series of transmitters optimized for wearable usage. Connected to smartphones and tablets via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, this product can detect biometric information such as heart-rate, electromyogram, breathing, brain waves and other information, including acceleration, direction, temperature and humidity and send the data to the devices. To meet customers’ request and the spec of each wearable product, it can be combined with various sensors and set up<READ MORE>