Kyowa Steel Industry Co., Ltd., which designs and manufactures diamond wire mesh in Higashi Osaka Currently, as a member of the team “Team Higashi Osaka Open Innovation”, we are creating new things through collaboration with different industries and aiming to cultivate new demand and business partners. Specifically, a team exhibited at KENTEN, a comprehensive exhibition of building materials and housing equipment, and proposed combinations of different materials such as aluminum and wire mesh and wood and wire mesh. ―KENTEN2020 will be the third exhibition by the team. How do you evolve from the previous two? Mr. Morinaga, President of Kyowa Steel Industry “We want to increase the number of participating companies and make the team larger. We have collaborated with 8 companies in 2018 and 2019 to make proposals that combine different materials. We received specific comments such as “I would like to combine it with products”, and there was a tremendous response that we could be happy to create new products and spaces by collaborating. As such, all the teams want to adopt new participating companies, that is, new materials. ”―2020 will be a more surprised space! Mr. Morinaga “Furthermore, in 2020, the goal is to produce concrete finished products. In 2018, which was the first exhibition, corporate collaboration PR was the main focus, and materials from each company were gathered in the same space. The collaboration products that brought together the technologies of each company will be exhibited as prototypes, and next year 2020. Until now, only proposals and exhibitions of “I can do this” were made, but the price was actually used as a place to announce the results of Team Higashi Osaka. I would like to show it as a finished product. ”―You are stepping up steadily. Mr. Morinaga "I would be happy if it was a project to create new spaces and products more and more by proposing a space with newly added materials, then creating a new prototype from the awareness there and making it into a finished product." KENTEN2020 is June Held at INTEX Osaka on the 11th and 12th. The event is still ahead but the team is already moving! Morinaga, who says that there have been exhibitions that were unaccompanied by exhibiting on their own, and that they were not expecting much at first. It seems that his stance has changed because he participated in this project to create something interesting by working together with companies that have no interests. I will also tell you about new developments here. Thank you Morinaga!