Gunze’s products and services can be seen virtually everywhere, from your home and town to offices, factories, and many other places.
At home
Innerwear
Because our products directly contact the wearer’s skin, we pursue maximum wearing comfort for our customers. To meet increasingly diversified consumer needs, Gunze offers a wide array of innerwear brands based on individual concepts. YG innerwear serves as a “conditioner” between a dress shirt and the wearer’s skin, using the finest cotton to provide maximum softness. BODY WILD created a new category of boxer briefs, introducing fashionability to men’s underwear. KIREILABO is designed to feel comfortable on women’s skin.
Film for Wallpaper
Gunze’s FUNCRARE film makes it easy to wipe off everyday dirt from wallpaper using a wet cloth or neutral detergent. It also absorbs and deodorizes offensive odors by inhibiting the growth of microorganisms attached on the wallpaper surface. Because this film is so soft, it makes close contact with the wallpaper’s base material, thus accommodating various wall designs.
Pajamas
Comfortable nightwear ensures quality sleep. Gunze’s Kaimin navi is available in various materials, functions, and designs according to the season, thus guaranteeing a good night’s sleep all year round.
Shrink Film
Gunze’s shrink films are used for plastic beverage bottle labels as well as packaging films for toiletry items and other daily-use products. Designed to shrink when heated, the shrink films are versatile enough to accommodate virtually any application that demands resistance to heat, cold weather, solvents, and oil by taking advantage of the raw material’s advanced properties. The film’s softness prevents injury to the user’s fingers when tearing off along a perforation, while snugly fitting containers for high-quality finish.
Landscaping and Greening
(Sales of Flowers and Greenery)
To create comfortable living environments with abundant flowers and greenery, Gunze supplies seedlings and plant materials necessary for greening public spaces. It also sells flowers and trees to enhance any environment. The landscaping business also is designed to create a space for mental and physical relaxation.
In the office
Pantyhose
SABRINA pantyhose is a long-selling product featuring smooth texture, high durability, and attractive appearance. Favored especially by working women, the product is available from plain to premium types, making legs feel comfortable and look attractive.
Thin-walled Fluororesin Tubes
Gunze’s thin-walled fluororesin tubes are employed for the outer layer of fuser rollers used in office equipment. While maintaining the fluororesin’s easy mold release properties and high heat resistance, the tube’s thinner configuration helps enhance thermal efficiency for environmental preservation.
Transfer Belts
Used for color image forming developer units in office equipment, Gunze’s transfer belts are seamless, produced by dispersing conductive material or filler in engineering plastics. This controls the dielectric constant and thermal conductivity of the products. The technology enables high-quality printing for a range of office equipment.
Commercial Facility/Office/Housing Lease
Gunze promotes the use of its properties by leasing commercial facilities, office buildings, and housing. Our goal is to provide comfortable environments for all who live in or use the facilities, while also supporting businesses by enhancing functionality, comfort, and convenience.
Projected Capacitive Touch Screens
(PCAP)
Our projected capacitive touch screens are employed for notebook PCs and tablets. Gunze offers high-quality, high-performance touch screens designed to provide a people-friendly interface that makes personal computing easy and stress-free.
In the park
Biaxially-oriented Composite Nylon Film
Used for balloons, our HEPTAX nylon film draws on Gunze’s proprietary multilayer technology. The result is a thin film with high gas barrier properties, which keeps balloons afloat for long periods of time.
Knitting Yarn for Football Socks
Used for knitting football socks, Gunze yarn resists yellowing even after long periods of use. This makes football socks durable, yet flexible. Thanks to these characteristics, our yarn is employed by the J1, J2 and J3 league teams of Japan professional football.
Sewing Thread for Baseballs
Gunze’s thread is made from DuPont Kevlar® aramid fiber, renowned for its ultrahigh strength, low elongation, flame retardancy, outstanding heat resistance, electrical insulation, and other functional properties. This thread is employed for sewing balls used in batting practice centers.
Landscaping and Greening
(Sales of Trees)
To create comfortable living environments with abundant flowers and greenery, Gunze supplies seedlings and plant materials necessary for greening public spaces. It also sells flowers and trees to enhance any environment. The landscaping business also is designed to create a space for mental and physical relaxation.
In the factory
LED/Fluorescent Lighting Tube Cover
Designed to prevent shattering of an LED/fluorescent light bulb during an earthquake or accident, Gunze’ shrink tube cover for LED/fluorescent lighting is used in food factories and public areas. It is insect-proof and highly resistant to color fading, and it also allows the addition of a UV blocking property, thus proving ideal for semiconductor factories as well. Gunze’s light diffusion tube is the only product of its kind available in the world.
Fluororesin Mesh for Pure Water Precision Filters
The fiber processing and spinning technologies we have cultivated over many years as a textile manufacturer are employed for the production of fluororesin filaments and fiber products. One example is the fluororesin mesh, which is designed for precision filters employed for ultrapure water filtration, to prevent stains and maintain quality in semiconductor manufacturing.
Fluororesin Tube for Ultrapure Water Piping
Our fluororesin tubes are made by extruding heat-meltable fluororesins. By taking advantage of their high level of purity, as well as their superior heat and chemical resistance, these tubes are used for piping and molding materials employed in the manufacture of semiconductors, LCDs, and solar power generation system components.
Touch Screen for Control Applications
Gunze touch screens are used in various products and manufacturing equipment as a human-machine interface to control these devices.
In the supermarket
Nylon Film
Our nylon film has a Gunze proprietary multilayer structure with gas barrier properties and pinhole resistance that protect content from being oxidized and spoiled. It is used in confectionery, dairy products, meat, and other food packaging as well as for retort pouches.
Sewing Thread for Jeans
Our thread is made by covering high-strength, low-elongation polyester filaments with cotton. This combines polyester’s strength with the smooth texture, moisture absorption, and heat resistance of cotton, creating exceptional sewing threads. Polyester’s robust strength withstands hard post-treatment processes for denim jeans, such as blasting and stonewashing, while cotton allows the development of attractive colors to suit a particular type of fabric. A combination of these advantages makes Gunze thread ideal for sewing denim jeans.
OPP Film
Created for universal design, Gunze’s OPP film is a cold-resistant packaging film that can be easily torn to open. Used in the packaging of confectionary and vegetables, OPP films available include a film designed to prevent growth of microorganisms on the film surface and a film with antifogging properties on both of its sides.
Shrink Film
Gunze’s shrink films are used for plastic beverage bottle labels as well as packaging films for toiletry items and other daily-use products. Designed to shrink when heated, the shrink films are versatile enough to accommodate virtually any application that demands resistance to heat, cold weather, solvents, and oil by taking advantage of the raw material’s advanced properties. The film’s softness prevents injury to the user’s fingers when tearing off along a perforation, while snugly fitting containers for high-quality finish.
In the hospital
Bioabsorbable Materials
By drawing on our technological expertise developed over many years, Gunze also manufactures and markets medical materials. Developed with a focus on bioabsorbable properties, a wide selection of medical materials are available, such as suture thread, reinforcement felt, bone fixation devices, and artificial dermis. Our medical material business is expanding globally, with especially high demand in overseas markets.
In the town
Sports Clubs
With the slogan of “the number one club in its region for happiness and well-being,” Gunze operates 20 sports clubs nationwide equipped with workout machines, fitness exercise classes, and junior schools. Our sports clubs are deeply rooted within local communities and provide a large selection of high-quality services and programs to promote physical and mental health.
Sewing Thread for Seatbelts
Gunze threads are also used for seatbelts. Along with airbags, seatbelts are an important factor in ensuring automobile safety. As such, our sewing thread for seatbelts features outstanding strength, while also offering design appeal required for automotive interiors.
Battery Insulation Film for Electric Vehicles
Gunze’s battery insulation film is used for insulation of square car batteries used in plug-in hybrids and other electric vehicles in order to enhance automotive safety. Insulation tubes are color-coded for easy identification.
Sewing Thread for Airbags
Gunze’s thread for airbags, an essential component for automobile safety, offers durability that exceeds the standards of automakers as well as high tensile strength and thickness to maintain a high level of safety.
Shopping and leisure
Gunze Factory Outlet
Gunze has opened its stores in factory outlet malls across Japan. A wide array of Gunze innerwear and legwear are available at attractive prices, including BODY WILD boxer briefs, and Tuché pantyhose and leggings pants popular among women.
Thread for Stringing Pearl Necklaces
Used to string a pearl necklace, Gunze’s ultrahigh-strength thread firmly keeps pearls in place, without compromising its elegant appearance.
Leggings Pants
Gunze leggings pants offer excellent stretchability for maximum wearing comfort. The broad lineup ranges from the basic stretch version to the trendy gaucho type, all combining functionality with a fashionable flair.
YUNOKARO Large-scale Natural Spa Facility
Located within the TSUKASHiN shopping complex in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Gunze’s large-scale natural spa facility, YUNOKARO, is perfect for a single-day trip. Different kinds of baths are offered, including an open-air rock bath, nano-scale carbon dioxide bath, and stone-bed sauna.