Pursuing food and life science businesses  
that lead to healthy, comfortable lifestyles

The Life Industry Division is expanding two of its business areas: the food business, which handles agricultural and marine products, and the life science business, which mainly deals in materials for pharmaceuticals and consumer goods, such as insect repellents and insecticides, daily goods, and cosmetics.

Our life science business provides comprehensive solutions in the following areas: manufacturing ingredients for pharmaceutical products and cosmetics at our overseas facilities, procurement of pharmaceutical ingredients, sourcing of materials for regenerative medicine and related equipment, custom synthesis, and pharmaceutical logistics services. We also offer broad solutions for household goods, including procurement of materials, planning and development, and contract manufacturing.

In the food business, we not only import and sell safe and reliable agricultural and marine products from around the world but also engage in blueberry cultivation, wakame seaweed farming, and marine product processing in Japan. Overseas, we are engaged in agricultural and seafood processing in Vietnam, across the entire supply chain.

In overseas markets, particularly in Europe and the United States, we offer processed products such as marine products for restaurants, frozen foods including dumplings and fried chicken, and frozen desserts for mass retailers. In Asian markets, we are engaged in trilateral trade of frozen fruits, matcha, and marine products.

Daisuke FuruoyaGeneral Manager,
Life Industry Div.

Products & Services

Life Science Department I

We provide a wide range of solutions to clients including originator and generic pharmaceutical companies, universities and research institutes, and contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs), from raw material procurement for small molecule drugs, nucleic acid and biopharmaceuticals, and regenerative medicine products, to contract manufacturing and logistics services.

  • Active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates
  • Materials and equipment for regenerative medicine
  • Special reagents for chemical synthesis
  • Other fine chemical materials

Life Science Department II

We support clients including daily goods, cosmetics, and insecticide manufacturers in supply chain management and logistics operations by leveraging our global network.

  • Materials and supplies for daily goods
  • Cosmetic substances
  • Active ingredients, solvents and attractants for repellents and insecticides
  • Adhesives
Food Department

From farm to table, we deliver safe and reliable agricultural and marine products to markets around the world.
We also develop new business in a wide range of fields and regions, from primary production and processing to downstream sales. We grow blueberries in Hokkaido, process agricultural and marine products in Japan and Vietnam, and handle frozen desserts and matcha products.

Agricultural products
Frozen fruits:
  • Blueberry
  • Mango
  • Grape
  • Strawberry
    etc.
Frozen vegetables:
  • Spinach
  • Broccoli
  • Kabocha squash
  • Burdock root
    etc.
Dried vegetables:
  • Perilla
  • Nozawana (pickled turnip greens)
  • Coriander
    etc.
Marine products
  • Shrimp
  • Crab (snow crab)
  • Salmon
  • Yellowtail
  • Eel
  • Tuna
  • Whitebait
  • Wakame seaweed
  • Shellfish
    etc.
Processed products
  • Desserts such as frozen cakes
  • Frozen Asian-style foods
  • Matcha
    etc.
Environment related
  • Microbial preparations for drainage facility sludge reduction
  • Food residue treatment equipment
    etc.

Topics

  • Delivering high-quality materials and ingredients by Pharmasynthese Brand

    Pharmasynthese S.A.S. (France), a 100% subsidiary of Inabata, manufactures pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates, materials for cosmetics, and chemicals for electronic materials. Its products - distributed through Inabata France S.A.S. and Inabata Group network - are sold in places like Europe, Japan, and South Korea. Inspection of raw materials, manufacturing, and shipping are all conducted based on high-level Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) management, which is an international quality control standard.

  • Blueberry farming (Hokkaido)
    Wakame seaweed cultivation and processing (Awaji Island)

    One of our priority activities in the food sector is the "Initiatives in the upstream area."
    In Hokkaido's Yoichi Town, a blueberry cultivation business using large-scale Canadian cultivation techniques such as mechanical harvesting is conducted on a farm of about 200,000 square meters, one of the largest in Japan. On Awaji Island, we collaborate with local fishing cooperatives and processors to conduct businesses ranging from seaweed seedling and cultivating to processing.

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