Last updated : 02/19/2024
Kakusan Foods Co., Ltd.
- President
- Tetsuro NAKAMURA (Mr.)
- Year established
- 1967
- Capital
- 67,500,000 yen
- Sales
- 1,610,000,000 yen
- Employees
- 52
- Postal (zip) code
- 733-0833
- Company address
- 7-4-18 Shoko Center, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima-shi
- Phone
- 082-277-2336
- Fax
- 082-277-9820
- E-Mail
- kakusan@kakusanfoods.co.jp
- URL
- http://kakusanfoods.jp/
Company PR
We have concentrated extracts of seafood (such as mussel, clam, scallop, and fish) with a focus on oyster extracts(hot-water extracted type and enzyme-decomposed type) and offer new tastes to make a variety of food delicious throughproduction of liquid seasonings (e.g. seafood extract, soup, and dipping or basting sauce). Our motto is to produceproducts that satisfy our customers, especially healthy tasty food. Although it is needless to say that we honestlyproduce products thinking about customers, we keep the same attitude until the products are delivered to customers.We have the largest market share in oyster extract related product in Japan.
Major Products
- Oyster extracts (oyster juice and oyster extract)
- Fish and shellfish extracts (blue mussel, Shortneck clams, scallops、laminaria、cod roe、fish)
- Soups (ramen, udon, and oden)
- Sauces/gravies [for mozuku seaweed, chili sauce, gyoza (chinese stuffed dumpling), etc.]
- Soups (soba soup, noodle soup, udon soup)
Major Customers
- Seasoning manufacturing companies
Major Facilities/Equipment
- Blending pot 13
2000 L (1 units),1500 L (6 units),1200 L (1 unit),1000 L (1 units),800 L (1 units),600 L (1 units),300 L (1 units),150 L (1 units)
- One-to (18 L) container cooling system 2
Liquid that is at least 90°C when filled in a one-to (18 L) container can be cooled to 40°C in 5 minutes.
- Desalinization system 2 and a set of membrane separation device
High-salinity extract is desalinized using an ion exchange membrane.
- Plate-type sterilization device 2
Sterilization at 127°C for 20-40 seconds to destroy heat-resistant bacteria.
- High-speed filling machine for attached soup 3
(Fill sachets at high speed.)
- Vacuum concentration apparatus 2
- Heating/cooling homogenizer 1, Filter press 1
- Boil tank 2
- Robot palletizer for 18L can 1
Technology Employed
- Food manufacturing industry
- Special-order blends of soups and sauces for products of side-dish manufacturers.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Sensor control of optimal temperature for manufacture of liquid products.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Quickly cools liquid products to their safekeeping temperature.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Effects enzyme decomposition and fermentation of oysters and fish, etc. through protein-decomposing enzymes and self-digestion.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Desalinizes high-salinity extracts and boosts the unique taste of extracts.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Use the sharples and disk centrifuges to separate liquid from solid.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Divides into liquids and solids via shear-press centrifuge.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Plate-type sterilization device provides short-time high-temperature sterilization and cooling.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Separate necessary substances with the membrane separation device.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Concentrate extract according to its caracteristics.
Primary Area of Technical Expertise
As a food manufacturer, we perform quality control at each process from raw material through finished product to producesafe products with stable quality. We take every possible measure especially regarding the bacteria test of products,testing every lot before shipment. We also produce soups, basting sauces, and dipping sources from blending of ingredientsto OEM production on behalf of our customers.
Future Technical Challenges
- Food manufacturing industry
- Kakusan hopes to further expand its current range of activities and to increase the number of raw materials.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Separation and concentration using membrane filtering.
- Food manufacturing industry
- Powderization and granulation of seafood extract.