Saraya. Co. Ltd Ghodbunder Road, Thane, Maharashtra

Connect Through Life
Innovation, firmly grounded in an idea, has the potential to create unique opportunities and inspire an endless string of results from the original idea. SARAYA was founded on the premise of creating new hygiene solutions for protecting the health of our users while maintaining a harmonious relation with the environment. Our founder, Shota Saraya, believed in the connection between wellbeing and a healthy environment. It is our vision, duty and inspiration to create products that sustain and improve health, environment and sanitation worldwide.
Throughout our company's history, we have seen technology, economy and the environment experience drastic changes. These past few years, we have seen the lasting effect of our growing population on the environment. It is too clear to ignore. Our oceans are reacting to rising temperatures from climate change, leaving us wondering how rising seas, migrating fish and shrinking ice caps will ever return to the state we have always known. As a company, it is our responsibility to respond to these changes through innovation for the future of our company and the environment. Every step of our journey since the start has been an ever progressing road of innovation based on the vision our company was founded on.
We must take responsibility to enact a reverse change on our habit of generously using the earth's precious resources. While development of cheap and accessible energy speeds ahead, without knowing it, sustainable business and lifestyles have become further from reality. We owe everything to nature, but we continue to develop more waste and more problems in order to utilize our natural resources. To realize a sustainable environment out of these problems requires the challenge to innovate and network from our current model of life and industry into a new model of sustainability. This will truly put business to the test.
Fortunately, the innovation and creation behind all of modern earth's amenities came from companies and thinkers who imagined a better world. This genuine expression of human ingenuity can lead the world on a path to sustainability and generations of harmony.
It is vital that businesses work together with NGOs to create a world that will last as we have always known it. SARAYA is making the challenge to utilize innovation, even for the smallest change, as a central player in the promotion of biodiversity and the improvement of hygiene and sanitation in countries from all levels of economic standing to realize a sustainable world. Renewing our pledge, we will drive to do our part in realizing a sustainable world.
Company Name Saraya Co., Ltd.
President Yusuke Saraya
Headquarters Address 2-2-8 Yuzato, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 546-0013 Japan
Date Founded April 1, 1952
Capital 45 Million Yen
Line of Business Development, manufacturing and sales of health and hygiene products and services.
Consultation of food and environmental sanitation.
Development, manufacturing and sales of food products.
Number of Employees (Consolidated) 1,311 employees (as of October 31, 2014)
Sales (Consolidated) 30.3 billion yen (as of October 31, 2014)
Business Sites • Domestic Sales Offices: 51
• Overseas Offices: 1 Branch, 1 Representative Office
• Domestic Factories: 2
• Laboratories: 2
• Overseas Subsidiaries: 16
• Overseas Factories: 6
Affiliated Companies • Tokyo Saraya Co., Ltd.
• Smile Sangyo Co., Ltd.
• Kumano Herb Gardens Inc.
• Kansai Saisigen Network Co., Ltd.
• Office Japan Co., Ltd.
• Saraya Environmental Design Co., Ltd.
• Vegeble Kitchen Co., Ltd.
Research and Development
SARAYA's own technologies are being developed at our biochemical laboratory everyday. The lab has a long history with the company and has provided the research for hundreds of products. It has strong relationship with various research institutes including universities and hospitals, participates in academic conferences and publishes papers for the scientific community. All in-house research allows SARAYA to focus on creating innovative products exactly to our requirements for quality and environmental friendliness.
Product Planning
Product Planning department has individual units for sanitation (including food sanitation as well as public health and hygiene), healthcare hygiene, and global chemicals to develop the products most suitable for each business segment. The Consumer Product department has its own product planning team to enable quick response to the needs of our consumers. Our products are developed carefully by conducting thorough design review meetings with members from various departments.
Graphic Design
Design is a key factor in presenting the concept and image of our products and brands to the customer. A full team of in-house designers stationed in Japan and Malaysia allows SARAYA to create thoughtful designs that covey a message that stays with the user. They work closely with the Product Planning department to ensure designs follow the concept in both form and feeling. From industrial design such as bottles and dispensers to packaging, store displays, catalogs, and websites, all designs are created in-house.
Manufacturing
SARAYA manufactures its multitude of consumer and professional products in 8 factories worldwide. Each facility ensures the utmost in product quality and worker safety at Japanese and global standards including ISO. SARAYA actively diminishes its impact on the environment by reducing emissions and curbing waste production. The most recent additions are Guilin factory in China for the manufacture of Luo Han Guo (monk fruit) extract and Goodmaid factory in Malaysia
Quality Control
The QC (Quality Control) department conducts thorough quality checks from raw material procurement to finished product delivery. The central QC department at the headquarters works in cooperation with the quality management teams in each factory as well as outsourcing quality specialists from the SCM (Supply Chain Management) department to improve quality of both products manufactured in our own factories and at outsourcing partners.