Ingredients of Hokkaido

Promoting and providing functional and conventional health food ingredients and cosmetic ingredients produced in Hokkaido. Also, we offer one-stop solutions from commercialization to import and export of health foods and cosmetics.

There are a lot of delicious foods in Hokkaido, because it is the most popular and the biggest area for primary industries such as agriculture and fishery in Japan. Many researchers and bio-venture companies develop various kinds of functional ingredients and products from the rich food materials of Hokkaido, and research institutions like university and a local government agency are supporting their R&D. Thus, those functional ingredients and products of Hokkaido have a great quality and potential.
North Life is founded by the demand of the bio-venture companies. Our experience and expertise bring forth our commitment to provide wonderful products of Hokkaido based on strong relationship with our trusted partners with a vison to enhancing quality of life.

Please feel free to contact us if you are considering using Hokkaido ingredients.

Domestic and Overseas Ingredients

We also carry the functional and conventional ingredients produced in Japan and overseas.

We conduct business and sales for companies that we have become friends with through special connections.

Planning OEM Product

Supporting the development of new products for our customer’s health foods and cosmetics.

North Life helps clients develop new products for their brands. We have solid experience in creating a variety of products, including supplements, cosmetics, perfumes, processed foods, drinks, and soft drinks.

We have a lot of information on various ingredients. The main ingredients are from Hokkaido, but sometimes it is not enough to make a product. We have relationships with many ingredient manufacturers and trading companies in and outside of Hokkaido, so we are able to procure ingredients from outside Hokkaido and overseas as well.

We also collect a lot of information about manufacturing plants. We have transactions and exchanges through the sale of ingredients with factories all over the country that are capable of manufacturing various processes, such as ingredient manufacturing factories, primary processing factories, and OEM manufacturers. Each factory has its strengths and weaknesses in terms of technology and processing, which is difficult to understand just from the website and sales materials. We can plan products according to product characteristics and sales channels, and propose products that are manufactured in the most suitable factory.

In addition, we can provide various assistance in accordance with the concept of the product being developed in the many processes necessary to plan, manufacture, and sell a product, such as packaging, display, photos and stories necessary at the sales site.

We are happy to discuss new product development, so please feel free to contact us.

Planning / Developing Functional Ingredient

To stay competitive in today’s ingredients market, we develop and propose new functional ingredients.

Gathering a lot of information and have many partners, we can procure the materials necessary to manufacture functional ingredients, match people who can take on part of the manufacturing process, etc. We have been involved in the development of new ingredients by working with them to come up with standards that are advantageous for sales. In addition, as we progressed with our ingredient sales transactions, we gradually came to understand what kinds of ingredients and what kinds of clients were looking for it. With this experience, we are able to develop new functional ingredients together with our partners.

Import / Export

Utilizing our network with overseas companies to import and export trusted products and ingredients.

Carrying out import operations using our network with overseas companies. We can also search for new ingredients that our clients would like to import.
When exporting, laws vary depending on the destination country, and there are many complicated rules for trade, such as ingredients that are not problematic in Japan being prohibited, registration unique to the destination country, and arrangements for overseas remittance and transportation.
With our trusted partners who are knowledgeable in their respective fields, we can help your trade matters.

Dried Fruit Products

Importing / wholesaling delicious Vietnamese dried fruit products.

The dried fruits (dried mango and banana chips) we import do not contain any additives such as sugar, coloring agents, preservatives, and fragrances.
Most of the dried mangoes sold in Japan are homogenized by soaking raw mangoes in syrup and then drying them. The raw material for our finish product is only mango and does not contain sugar. We spent a long time working with a local factory in Vietnam to develop a drying method with soft texture and long shelf life that does not use sugar. This product only uses ripe mangoes to make delicious product.
Our banana chips finish product is a product that is simply fried thickly sliced bananas at low temperature and low pressure. The products sold in Japan that are thinly sliced, fried and coated with sugar have a crispy texture, but our products are crunchy and retain the sourness of the banana.
We are happy to discuss Private Brand (PB) products, so please feel free to contact us.