KANEDA Co., Ltd

Kaneda aims to become a company that is highly rated and trusted by customers based on its mission of providing products for food, health, beauty, and the environment, thereby contributing to the development of society together with customers.

Kaneda’s features

• Aggregation of Specialty Trading Companies

The Sales Department consists of separate units that handle food and oils, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, chemicals, and industrial materials. Each unit endeavors to win the trust of customers by providing information, suggestions, and services that meet their needs.

• Stringent Quality Control

As a trading company that handles pharmaceuticals, Kaneda has acquired marketing authorization for pharmaceutical products based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and markets products responsibly using stringent quality assurance controls. Kaneda established a quality control building based on GMP for pharmaceuticals, as well as for food and cosmetics, ensuring customers are able to feel safe using our products.

• Manufacturing Activities

To satisfy the further needs of customers, we possess and use equipment for the contract production of high-mix, low-volume materials and products. We also possess a variety of grades of Hicall® liquid paraffin for different industries, thereby contributing to customer requests as a general marketer.

Management philosophy
The industrial society continues to rapidly change and progress. Kaneda was originally established in 1905 as an oil store.
Taking pride in its 116-year history, we will pursue future business under our management philosophy of promoting the creation of new value as the best partner for customers based on a culture nourished through oil trading.

Our Business

• Oil and Fat

The application of oils and fats, which have been Kaneda’s mainstay since its foundation, have expanded greatly alongside social change, now playing an important role in a host of different fields.

• Food

We sell a wide range of food ingredients including edible fats and oils, oil and food crops, oil and fat intermediates, food additives and seasonings mainly to processed food manufacturers. 

• Cosmetics

Based on our safe and expansive product range of roughly 4,000 various items available both at home and abroad, we strive to be beneficial for all as a partner pursuing beauty and health.

• Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products

Relating to our vision of oil, we sell in-house products such as the officially recognized white mineral oil (HICALL® M series), petrolatum and vegetable oils as pharmaceuticals.
Giving added value to oil, the major pharmaceutical companies are using these pharmaceutical materials for injections and external preparations.

• Electronics packaging, Distribution Materials Resin & Raw Resin Materials

We provide the best materials and systems indispensable for production lines and processes in consideration of the environment. 

• Product Planning

As a trading company we have a network of many sales channels among numerous manufacturers, including suppliers overseas. Not only do we design products together with our clients, but we also propose to develop sales channels for products brought in by our clients.

• Paint Ink Adhesives

We are engaged in sales of environmentally friendly raw materials, mainly of industrial fats and oils, and oleo-chemicals.
We provide excellent materials and valuable information both domestically and overseas to better serve our clients.

• lubricannt,Fuel & Lubricant Additives

As a wholesale petroleum dealer, import trading company, and manufacturer, we have established a sales network to offer lubricants for food factories, precision component factories, and ship engines etc.
In particular, we are arranging a maintenance network system for such things as oil degradation analysis, and oil changes of private power generators.
As an importer, we sell white mineral oil and alpha-olefin from the United States in Japan, and stock and sell adipic acid from China.

• Contract & OEM

From the more than 100 years of cultivated knowledge and experience of oil and through our unique manufacturing equipment specialized for blending and filling, we have become specialists in the vegetable oil OEM business.
And in cooperation with the quality control departments, we implement strict quality controls which conform to GMP, food sanitation law, and ISO 9001 standards.

• Global Kaneda Shanghai

As a basis for the expansion of sales in China we established our first overseas company in August, 2011.
By utilizing the strengths of this local company and taking advantage of its trading potential, enables us to provide an even better level of service.