- Business
- Wood One Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells wooden interior building materials and residential equipment primarily in Japan. The company produces interior doors including pine solid wood doors, multicolored doors, and protective sheeted doors; storage units such as those with pine solid wood doors, protective sheet-wrapped units, partition systems like erabo, shelf-support rail sets, high-strength shelf boards, entrance storage boxes, and wall-embedded boxes; wood flooring comprising solid wood, premium sawn veneer surface, antibacterial/antiviral, standard, soundproof, Japanese style, and education/retail sector variants; staircases including laminated, LVL, and designer textured types along with handrails; kitchen units featuring solid wood door models, framing kitchens, and small-type solid wood door units; interior walls such as designer textured, pine solid wood ceilings and walls, multicolored, partition units, oak panels, non-combustible designer textured units, and non-combustible panels; and vanity units in open, cabinet, and wide cabinet types. Founded in 1935 and headquartered in Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, the company operates showrooms across Japan including Sendai, Kanazawa, Shinjuku, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Hakata, while maintaining overseas subsidiaries for forest management and production in New Zealand via Juken New Zealand Ltd., the Philippines through Juken Sangyo (Phils.) Corp., Indonesia with PT. Woodone Integra Indonesia, Hong Kong's Woodone International Ltd., and BELKITCHEN Corporation in Japan; it manages approximately 40,000 hectares of forest in New Zealand using a 30-year afforestation cycle and holds FSC CoC certification. Wood One, formerly Juken Sangyo Co., Ltd. until its name change in 2002, sources radiata pine from New Zealand for integrated production minimizing waste across solid wood, laminated veneer lumber, plywood, and pulp-based boards, targeting homebuilders, residential developers, and office fit-outs. In recent developments, the company recorded extraordinary losses and profits leading to upward revisions in its fiscal year net income forecasts, including a raise to Y1.77 billion for the fiscal year and expectations of Y300 million net for another period; it also announced a dividend of 12 JPY per share payable in 2025-2026 and reported first-quarter fiscal year ending March 2026 results reflecting ongoing operational performance in housing materials.