I asked Mr. Morinaga of Kyowa Steel Industry Co., Ltd., a diamond wire mesh manufacturing and processing company. Last month “Knit Fence” won the Good Design Award 2019! congratulations! This time I was told about the knit fence. (Sales: Nikken Fence & Metal Co., Ltd.)-What is different from the conventional fence ...? “One is the structure. The knit fence can be wound with the net part integrated with the frame, so when constructing, just lower it like a blind and fix the side with parts. It also leads to a reduction in transportation costs, and the other is the design.Is the wire fence you imagine a solid color? ”Certainly…. Green or silver. There may not be much image with design. “Knit fences can be freely customized in the color of the wire mesh (six colors) and can be designed to be two-tone or bordered.”-Has it been difficult to change the color with conventional technology? “No. There was no“ technical idea ”, not“ technique ”. I did n’t think of it because“ the fence is something like this. ”The wire mesh fence is made by sending out two lines and knitting So if you simply change the two to different colors, the two-tone stripes can be made quite easy.This idea can only be made by a net shop made with this hand, but with a thick border and three colors It would take a lot of time to stop the machine if you try to make it the above borders ... "-But why did you dare to try it? “Because the demand for conventional wire mesh fences has decreased, it was necessary to search for something new. Wire mesh fences are evaluated as being strong, but they are old and have many parts to install. There are also weaknesses that make it difficult, and now, welded mesh fences are the mainstream, and in order to survive, we started thinking about what we could only do with wire mesh fences. Because of this construction method, you can't imitate other fences by doing what you can. ”-It's a challenge to“ design ”in developing new sales channels! “Yes. This is a new sales channel. Wire mesh fences have a strong industrial product color and so far have been mainly proposed to construction companies. However, knitted fences, which are characterized by customizing colors and coloring the landscape, There's no point in not being evaluated by designers and not being included in the design drawings. We are looking forward to seeing the knit fence in the city! " Knit fence born from Kyowa Steel's new idea. To borrow Morinaga's words, “just changed the color of the lines and the direction of the net”. That's certainly true when you know it, but it must have arrived because you've been thinking about challenging other industries, such as the interior industry. Not only new technologies, but new things are born from ideas. There is an idea that comes out only on the spot where we face daily “things”. Kyowa Steel taught me this in this interview!