Tokyo’s Kaneka Corporation completes construction of medical device plant in Hokkaido

Kaneka Corporation opened its Tomatoh Manufacturing Site in the Tomakomai Tobu Area of Hokkaido for the purpose of portfolio transformation and business expansion. The medical device plant completed at Tomatoh Manufacturing Site will produce adsorption type blood purification devices "Rheocarna" and adsorption type plasma purification devices "Liposorber", designed for patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans (ASO).

The plant has full automation of its production lines as a "smart factory" utilizing robot technology and plans to realize a "zero energy factory" that will reduce the primary energy consumption of the factory building to zero by using our photovoltaic modules, thereby promoting sustainable manufacturing.

In the future, Tomatoh Manufacturing Site will be actively utilized as a new production base for each business, as well as for further expansion of the medical business.