KMEW is a Bronze Partner
helping to prepare the venue for
Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai.
A Message from KMEW
KMEW is an exterior cladding manufacturer that came into being when the exterior cladding departments of Kubota and Matsushita Electric Works (now Panasonic) united in 2003. We are based in Osaka and because of our desire to give something back to our region, we decided to support the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai with our exterior cladding.
Expo 2025 is one of the world's biggest events and an opportunity for people from various countries all around the world to bring together their disparate traditions, cultures, and architectural styles and interact with one another. Our exterior cladding will be found on many of the pavilions that are supporting this amazing event and are helping to achieve venue designs that speak to the desire to build stronger ties across the globe.
At KMEW, we are driven by a philosophy of creating new value to address societal issues and bring about a future of more comfortable ways of living for all. As such, we have long provided exterior cladding that caters to the specific regions, climates, and architectural styles of Japan and other countries.
Going forward, we can see that interest in buildings that offer safety and peace of mind will continue to grow all over the world. Through Expo 2025, we hope to show the world the wonders of the cladding we produce here in Japan, while also developing hopes and possibilities for the years to come and contributing to achieving a Future Society for Our Lives.
Have you heard of siding panels?
Siding panels, a type of cladding, take the form of sheets of material. In Japan, these are most often used on new detached homes, while elsewhere in the world they are more widely used, including on mid- and high-rise buildings.
There are many different categories, depending on the material used. For the siding panels used on facilities at the Expo 2025 venue, we have used ceramic-based siding panels that use recycled cement as their principal ingredient. This material commands an 80% market share for exterior cladding applications on detached homes in Japan, and its ease of installation means it can be installed quickly. Possible design variations are also plentiful.
With our business activities, we are careful to consider environmental concerns.
At KMEW, we pursue activities that range from manufacturing our products to their distribution and on-site installation with consideration for the environment, through measures such as utilizing recycled materials, making use of renewable energy, and reducing our CO2 emissions. Our green procurement ratio (the proportion of materials that we use that are recycled) is growing year in, year out and has reached around 50% for KMEW products overall. To ensure that customers, by using our products, are helping to protect the environment and that we can continue operating into the future, we will continuously review the impact our business as a whole has on society, and work to make society more sustainable.
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FLAT DESIGN PANEL FIERTE
Cladding materials used at the Expo 2025 venueFrom stones and earth to concrete and metals—creative ideas have been rendered in a variety of materials. These can be used for both interiors and exteriors.
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Expo 2025
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