Midori Suzuki, General Manager, was featured in the series “My Behind Story”, which focuses on women active in various fields and unravels their lives.
From CA to work for the family sock company in Nara, Japan, to the father she connects with through the development of stockings. The first part of the article tells the story of the development of “flight stockings”, which were commercialized at the company founded by her grandfather🛫
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I think no better yarn than this has almost all the functions generally required for the skin. These words encapsulate everything that our president has pursued.
The writer in charge of this project is that “ayu-no-shioyaki” ✨ Please take a look.
The article was published in the SENKEN newspaper on 16 February.
Product design with industry, government, and academia Nara Art Junior College x Miyake-cho x Baseball gloves and socks
Students at Nara Art Junior College took on the challenge of creating products using discarded waste materials under the theme of upcycling. Suzuki Socks provided lint, “rings” from the sock production process, and yarn-molding cones. They were transformed into a variety of unique works of art, and we were made aware of the new possibilities of waste materials.
We hope that you will continue to take an interest in various things and encourage original designs and creations in the future.
Thank you for allowing us to participate in this initiative.
On 13 February, our president appeared in a phone-in interview on tbc radio in the Tohoku region.
Our president appeared in a telephone interview on the ‘Weekly SDGs Recommendations’ corner of the ‘GoGo Hamimikoi Radio Na Mood’ program on 13 February.
The SDGs have 17 goals, and I spoke about Goal 12 “Responsibility to Create, Responsibility to Use”.
Suzuki Socks started by manufacturing children’s socks and later entered the sports socks market.
In the past, the company also manufactured stockings for the Japanese national football team and still produces many football stockings for the J-League through sports manufacturers.
In 2004, the company combined its experience as a farmer with its knowledge of sock production and embarked on the development of ‘rice bran socks’.
Rice bran fiber is made by kneading rice bran components into rayon fiber, which has properties such as moisture retention, antioxidant properties, and deodorant functions.
The development process was driven by our president’s passion for the reuse of rice bran, and after numerous trials and errors, the first socks using rice bran fiber were born.
Today, approximately 200,000 pairs are produced annually, using approximately 900 kg of rice bran annually.
In the future, the company aims further to expand the potential of this unique rice bran fiber and communicate its appeal both domestically and internationally.
Thank you to everyone at tbc radio for listening to the radio.
Yesterday, members of the Nara Chamber of Commerce and Industry Women’s Association visited Suzuki Socks. They had a tour of the factory and watched a video about the president’s passion for rice bran and the story of its development ✨
While holding the products in their hands at the shop, they said, “I want to recommend these products to my acquaintances! We also had a lot of happy comments such as “I want to recommend it to my friends”.
We hope you will feel free to come and visit us again while you are at work or having lunch.