- CEO
- Mikio Hanai
- Full Time Employees
- 1,393
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Auto parts: OEM
- Address
- 1876 Higashi-machi Hamamatsu SZ Japan 430-8510
- IPO Date
- Sep 1, 1961
- Business
- Kyowa Leather Cloth Co., Ltd. manufactures, processes and sells synthetic resin products, primarily synthetic leather and film materials for automotive interiors, housing applications and fashion/lifestyle uses. The company operates through three main segments: Automotive Interior Materials, featuring urethane, olefin, vinyl chloride and acrylic products for seats, door trims, instrument panels, console boxes, steering wheels, roofs, head linings and shift lever boots; Housing Materials, including wall covering paper or film, wood paneling for furniture, interior doors, walls and steel laminated decorative films; and Fashion and Lifestyle Materials, encompassing polyvinyl chloride products for handbags, shoes and accessories, marketed under the Sobagni brand. A Toyota Group member, Kyowa Leather Cloth maintains factories in Japan including Tenryu, Shinshiro, Fukude and Asaba, with overseas affiliates such as Kyowa-GSK Plastics (Langfang) Co., Ltd. in China, Thai Nam-Kyowa Company Limited in Thailand and Kyowa North America, Inc. in the United States; it serves global automotive original equipment manufacturers and targets markets in Japan, Asia, North America and Europe. Founded in 1935 through the merger of four companies and headquartered in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, the company generated consolidated sales of 56.3 billion yen for the fiscal year ended March 2025. Recent developments include the June 2021 launch of the Sobagni ethical leather e-commerce website expanding into consumer fashion items; the October 2021 establishment of Kyowa North America, Inc. as an equity-method affiliate to bolster U.S. operations; the July 2018 merger of Nankai Technart, Nihon Gravure and Kyowle into Kyowa LifeTechno Co., Ltd.; and the April 2022 transition to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market following exchange reorganization.