Direct Timber Imports Osaka Branch
Expanding our business field on the global arena.
For ASANO, one of our greatest corporate assets is the impressive overseas network carefully cultivated over the years.
We import a rich range of wood products from Asia, Oceania, Europe, South America and other key world regions.
ASANO has perfected a streamlined system for direct delivery to our customers in Japan of a rich range of products imported from around the world. The selections include items built in China from lumber and laminated wood from Finland, Austria and other European nations, planted trees from Chile and other sources.
The Dynamic Core of a Timber General Trading Company
ASANO has made a particularly strong push to mobilize its trading company functions and more fully satisfy our customers needs. This refers specifically to direct import/direct demand sales the importing of high-quality, low-priced wood products processed locally in trading partner countries, for direct shipment to Japan-based users.
Delivery, in other words, of the timber needed in the format required. The tight coordination and control of this dynamic phase of our corporate activities is the role of the Osaka Branch.
Timber Processing and Sales Mihara Factory
Manufacturer functions to serve each customer firm.
At the Mihara factory, the operations focus on the manufacture of pre-cut stairs for use in single-family homes, supported by original processing of plywood, particleboard and other materials to meet the specific needs of each and every customer.
Pooling our innovative know-how and the latest developments in processing equipment, the Mihara factory advances order-based production of a diversified range of high added-value and laborsaving support products.
In doing so, we zero in on the ever-changing needs of the pivotal fields of timber component and materials use, and home materials development.
New proposal for wooden unit stairs, backed by more than half a century track record.
Our wooden unit stairs, a product with a strong following under the genre of ASANO order-made stairs, has been instilled with a new technology enabling each product to be cut to order.
We have christened this exciting breakthrough ASANO Pre-cut System Stairs.
The key to this new approach lies in exquisite and accurate pre-cut processing through computer control.
The result is speedy processing and delivery of non-standard sizes and designs, even when filling an order for a single home.
We pride ourselves on this fine capability, which is geared to reduce the workload at the construction site and help finish up homes with even greater customer satisfaction.
Pioneer base for pre-cut processing Asahikawa Branch
Fastidious devotion to ASANO quality, at the site of our business beginnings.

Asahikawa in Hokkaido is the geographical origin of ASANO as a corporate entity. Our Asahikawa Branch, with its long and illustrious business history, is a sales and production base mobilized to address customer demand throughout this vast northern isle. The operations here are further supported by our Sapporo Sales Office, providing a solid network for advancing the Company's activities.

Mobilizing the innovative technology for which we are renowned, lumber and laminated wood imported from Europe, are channeled through the integrated production facilities here to meet customer needs.

Maintaining a working symbiosis with nature is another vital priority for ASANO, with the Asahikawa Branch actively involved in the planting and nurturing of forests aimed at protecting the rich green mountain realm in this part of Japan.

Vigorously expanding new pre-cut technology the emerging mainstream of wood-constructed homes.
In 1994, ASANO built a pre-cut specialized factory at the Asahikawa Branch, thereby deploying a facility positioned to blaze new pathways in the field of wood-constructed homes.
Backed by the impressive advances in computer control, the processing of structural materials, a genre of work formerly conducted by human hands at the construction sites, was steadily converted to the in-plant fabrication mode.
The shift to high-precision pre-cut processing has generated many important merits reduced construction time, improved and integrated strength and precision, cost cutting, construction site laborsaving and more.
Keyed to the timely launch of this new technology, the Sapporo Sales Office has come to function as a frontlines base vital in bolstering the ASANO development of a nationwide market for the supply of housing structural materials.