Toyoshima & Co., Ltd. of a trading company specializing in textiles (President & CEO: Hanshichi Toyoshima, Nagoya City Naka-ku Nishiki 2-15-15) has underwritten a third-party allotment of shares to Xenoma Co., Ltd. (Xenoma, Representative Director: Ichiro Ami, 4-6-15 Omori Minami, Ota-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter referred to as "Xenoma") through the CVC fund managed by the company. In addition, the two companies agreed to work together to develop smart apparel applications and businesses.
Xenoma Products e-skin Developer's Kit
Xenoma is a venture company that aims to commercialize and commercialize deformable and stretchable electronic circuits called printed circuit fabrics (PCFs), the result of research by Professor Takao Someya of the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. PCF is characterized by high tensile durability and washability, and the company's product e-skin that applies PCF can measure various biological information and movements of various parts of the body in real time.
Smart apparel, which has new functions that cannot be obtained with existing textile materials, is about to enter the stage of full-fledged application development, incorporating material technology, processing technology, and the evolution of electronics. TOYOSHIMA promotes cross-industrial collaboration to develop various uses for smart apparel, and aims to commercialize applications and services through prototyping and functional verification.
Improving the added value of textile products is an important initiative to revitalize the textile industry. TOYOSHIMA will continue to create new value in fashion by incorporating cutting-edge technology into the knowledge it has accumulated as a trading company specializing in textiles.
In addition to being used in the fitness and healthcare fields, we believe that smart apparel has the potential to contribute to solving social issues, such as labor shortages in childcare and nursing care sites and ensuring safety and security in various workplaces. I'm here.
- What is smart apparel?
Smart apparel is a clothing-type device that utilizes ICT (information and communication technology) such as sensors. A general term for apparel that uses textile materials with new functions that cannot be obtained with general textile materials, and textiles that obtain existing functions with new technology, developed by incorporating small sensors and conductive fibers into the fabric. It is said It is expected to help solve various social issues.
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< About Xenoma>
■Company Name: Xenoma Inc. http://xenoma.com
■Location: 303 Techno FRONT Morigasaki, 4-6-15 Omori Minami, Ota-ku, Tokyo
■Established: November 2015
<TOYOSHIMA About CVC>
One of the initiatives to improve the ability to make proposals to business partners in Toyoshima & Co., Ltd. and to expand the proposal area. The fund was established in January 2017. In order to greatly incorporate the creativity and vitality of venture companies into the development of products, we invest in domestic and overseas Fashion Tech companies with which we can collaborate.
