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Oct 25

YKK Group’s Cafe Bonfino to switch to coffee straws made from plant-derived materials

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YKK Group's Cafe Bonfino Co., Ltd. (*1) will switch from plastic straws to straws made from plant-derived materials in consideration of the environment. The coffee straw adopted by the company is an environmentally-friendly natural circulation resin product made from extracted coffee powder and plant-derived polylactic acid resin (*2). After being…

Oct 16

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YKK’s GreenRise™ Zipper Awarded 2019 Good Design Best 100

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YKK’s GreenRise™ zipper has received the “2019 Good Design Best 100” award from the Japan Design Promotion Association. The “Good Design Best 100” recipients are chosen from among all 2019 Good Design Award recipients based on overall product excellence in terms of aesthetics, proposals, and possibilities. GreenRise™ reduces fossil fuel…

Oct 15

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Brittani Bumb: Creating new designs with a touch of vintage flair

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Our women designers series is an on-going project to highlight innovative designers across the world that incorporate YKK® products into their unique creations. Introducing Atlanta-based fashion designer, Brittani Bumb. Brittani's love for vintage fashion has influenced her designs and inspired her to create a clothing line called Untitled Thoughts. We…

Oct 11

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Yoko Katz: Making a difference for breast cancer survivors through fashion

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Our women designers series is an on-going project to highlight innovative designers across the world that incorporate YKK® products into their unique creations. Designer Yoko Katz wearing the Relaxip™ t-shirt, a post-mastectomy op blouse featuring YKK® Zippers. Yoko Katz, a breast cancer survivor of 5 years, is on a mission…

Oct 11

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Top 5 Outdoor Apparel Trends- YKK Experts Series

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With summer coming to an end, we thought this would be a good time to get caught up on some of the current and future trends in the outdoor apparel industry. In this installment of our “Interviews with the Experts” series, we met with outdoor industry expert, Jenni Sanders. Jenni,…

Oct 10

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A journey around YKK global facilities – YKK Rokko

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In 1995, a YKK employee approached the president of YKK with a suggestion to establish a special subsidiary company. As a father to a child with Down Syndrome, he was worried that his son would have a hard time finding a job and building a career in the future. However,…

Oct 09

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YKK Collaborates with Ubuntu Life on New Line of Bags – 100% of profits to support mothers and children in Kenya

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YKK has teamed up with Ubuntu Life on its Fall 2019 line of bags handmade by their Maker Mums in the Maai Mahiu region of Kenya. One hundred percent of Ubuntu Life profits support social impact programs in Kenya that are empowering the communities they work in through job creation.…

Oct 07

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Jim Reed, president YKK Corporation of America, shares 5 things to know about YKK

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To celebrate National Manufacturing Day, we asked Jim Reed, president of YKK Corporation of America, to share with us some of the reasons why YKK is such a unique brand. 1. We are driven by innovation. I recently had the pleasure of accompanying Lee Smith of YKK (U.S.A.) Inc. as…

Oct 02

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Universal Button’s Original Investor’s Family visits YKK

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On September 30, 2019, William Beresford Palmer III and his daughters, Marlene Palmer Lawrence and Valerie Palmer Albright, visited YKK (U.S.A.) Inc.’s Lawrenceburg facility, the company that his grandfather, Dr. Howard W. Longyear, and his uncle, John M. Longyear, originally founded in 1895 in Detroit, Michigan. William Beresford Palmer III…

Sep 27

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YKK Begins Manufacturing Eco-Friendly Zippers in the USA

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NATULON® YZiP® YKK, which has saved millions of plastic bottles from landfills in the past five years with its materially recycled NATULON® zipper, announces that it will begin production of NATULON® in Macon, Georgia, further reducing the environmental impact from sourcing the products overseas and reducing lead time. NATULON® zippers…