Evolving towards the future
Evolving towards the future
Based on the themes of Health and Environment, Kowa aims to develop human and environmentally-friendly fiber materials.
Our attention turned towards silk-producing insects such as silkworms.
Could we apply our cutting-edge technology to the development of new fiber materials that have the advantages of those made naturally by insects?
Establishing a base in Tsukuba City, where Japan’s largest agricultural research institute for basic life sciences is located, we started research.
「クモ糸を超えるミノムシの糸、強さの秘密を科学的に解明」(農研機構/豊田工業大学)
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興和先端科学研究所 ホームページ開設
Kowa Company, Ltd. and the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization recently discovered that bagworm silk is even more useful than spider silk, and pursued this discovery to develop cutting-edge technologies for using bagworm silk in industrial