Higashi Osaka has about 6,000 factories with excellent expertise. This time, we talked to Kyowa Steel, one of its members, about the efforts of “TEAM HIGASHIOSAKA OPEN INNOVATION” that challenged the development of new sales channels in Higashi-Osaka. Kyowa Steel Industries, which manufactures and sells rhombus wire meshes, has recently been engaged in many interesting efforts to incorporate wire mesh into interior and space designs, not just fences and falling stone wire meshes. The diamond wire mesh itself is often seen on the fence, and it may not be felt as a special unusual scene. However, the booth photo in the photo found Kyowa Steel's wire mesh in various places. This is a photo of the booth at the trade fair “KENTEN” for building materials and housing equipment. A team called “TEAM HIGASHIOSAKA OPEN INNOVATION” was created by six Higashi-Osaka companies and coordinators including Kyowa Steel. In addition to the Kyowa Steel industry, this space is packed with technologies from companies in various fields. The challenge for KENTEN at Team Higashi Osaka was for the first time in 2018, and the photo is from KENTEN2019 (held in June 2019), the second exhibition. This year, “Coworking space” was the theme, but the industrial atmosphere is cool! Because teams are formed by companies that sympathize with the goal of creating new things through collaboration with other industries and finding new sales channels, interesting ideas come out one after another from positive discussions. From the story that only the company in which the president himself is participating as a person in charge, I can feel the seriousness of developing a new path as a company. Higashi Osaka has many specialized factories, so it may be difficult for one company to propose such a space. However, because of the excellent technical skills, it is strong if we work together to become a team !! KENTEN2019 says that it was a great success. He was so busy that he could n’t take a break, and he had fun so much that he did n’t need a break. “I haven't been connected to a specific job yet,” but I didn't feel any negative from it! It is the impression that the progress is steady one by one because the vision is clear. TEAM HIGASHIOSAKA OPEN INNOVATION has already started a meeting for the next KENTEN2020 (held in June 2020)! 2020 is the third challenge for Team Higashi Osaka. I'm looking forward to seeing new things!