Fuji Kizai’s products are used by all the fishery related people in the Fishery Association, Federation of Fishery Association and in and outside of Japan. We also endeavor to make products honestly reflecting the field users’ voices. As from these voices, we are able to create ideas that work wonders, to obtain answers from product developing process and to better understand the experience of tool usage from just numerical data.
Since our establishment in 1960, taking advantage of the techniques we developed for the longline fishery, we’ve been producing and selling pole-and-line gears for tuna fishing and squid fishing. We also cover Bonito pole-and-line gears as well as tuna longline fishing equipment, which includes longline fishing ropes. Also, we are expanding our services to general fishery materials like cold gears and various tools.
Fishing crimp sleeves for ‘connecting, swaging and holding’ are required terminal gears for commercial fishing. Our aluminum sleeves called ‘Silver Lock’ (inner diameter 1.35 mm – 5.2 mm) and ‘Mini Lock’ (0.8mm~1.6mm) are resistant to crack as these tubes are made from seamless process. They are widely used by fishing companies, from small coastal fisheries to large-scale fishing outfits such as longline tuna fishing companies. On top of that, we have various types locks including ones made of brass, ‘Fuji Lock‘(1.1㎜~3.4㎜) and ones made of stainless steel, ‘Stainless Steel Lock‘ (1.1㎜~3.2㎜).
Crimping tools are essential items to swage sleeve kinds. ‘Fuji Hand Presses’ are heavy duty crimpers designed as a convenient floor stand type, and they have been loved by the consumers for a long time since they were first launched. Applying the principle of a lever, with just a small constant force, it is easy for anyone to swage. Our Hand Presser is suitable for any size of sleeves and by constantly replacing chip (condition dependence) Hand Presser can easily last forever. Moreover, we have other crimping tools such as a convenient hand type crimpers for the terminal work for delicate nylon lines.
There are two popular FUJI-KIZAI products for nylon fishing lines. They are standard copolymer nylon lines called ‘IKI’ and high-level 12 nylon lines called ‘SUBARU.’ IKI is a conventional standard nylon line and there are three types depending on the preference and the intended use: ‘IKI Standard soft type’ that is popular in Japan and overseas including Taiwan and Australia, ‘IKI Hard type’ that is preferred in the fisheries where the seawater temperature is high like in Italy in Europe and ‘IKI Ultra soft type’ is popular in the cold regions. Also, SUBARU is lined up as a high class line that has an excellent strength and less deterioration and tarnish as the water absorption is small, so that the more it’s used the more familiar it gets and the harder it’s finish becomes. We have a variety of colors for both IKI and SUBARU available.