Editor's Note
This editor’s note highlights the key facts and market implications behind “Kato Kanamono EC Site, Trusted by Craftsmen Nati”, with emphasis on sourcing, product fit, fabrication, logistics, or buyer impact.
Kato Kanamono EC Site, Trusted by Craftsmen Nationwide, Announces Top 5 Popular Manufacturers for 2025
Kato Kanamono Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture; President: Takayoshi Kato), a company engaged in the wholesale of architectural hardware and tools, as well as metal construction work, has released its first-ever "Top 5 Popular Manufacturer Ranking" based on the 2025 sales performance data from its own EC site. The company operates an online store boasting approximately 100,000 items as a "hardware store that supports the worksite," receiving high praise from craftsmen nationwide as "reliable" with a satisfaction rate exceeding 90% (according to the company's survey). It responds to the needs of professionals. This release introduces the most chosen manufacturers and representative products in each category of building materials and hardware for 2025, along with this year's trends.
Ranking Overview
Aggregation Period: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 – Sunday, November 30, 2025 Aggregation Method: Sales performance on the Kato Kanamono EC site
Manufacturer Grand Election 2025 | TOP 5 & Featured Products
1st Place: Royal (Royal Co., Ltd.)
Royal products are from a manufacturer widely adopted from stores/commercial facilities to residential storage. Its biggest feature is the "shelf post and shelf bracket system" that allows free and easy adjustment of shelf height. It is used not only in stores where displayed items change frequently but also in general households wanting to change layouts as children grow. Its "excellent usability on-site" led to overwhelming support, securing the top spot.
Featured Product: Movable Storage Shelf Fittings (Schüno 19) These are movable storage fittings that can turn dead space in room corners or walk-in closets into shelves. The shelf posts come in a wide range of sizes (600mm, 1200mm, 1820mm), allowing selection of the optimal size for each site, making this series popular among craftsmen for its high workability. With a rich variety of parts like posts, brackets, and shelves, it allows flexible reconfiguration for purposes like adjusting height as children grow, expanding shoe storage, or adding shelves for hobby spaces.
Its color variations to match wallpaper are also a feature, gaining support from residential users who "want to increase storage without compromising aesthetics." Furthermore, the rust-resistant material processing makes it safe to use even in humid places like entrances and washrooms, another reason for its popularity.
The ability to match the colors of posts and shelves allows for a unified space, earning high marks for its design as "display storage." Its simple structure makes it easy to install, chosen by both craftsmen and residential users.
2nd Place: Sunpole (Sunpole Co., Ltd.)
Sunpole is known as a manufacturer that "creatively enriches external spaces" with products like wheel stops, flagpoles, and parking lot gates. Particularly, its wheel stop "Sun Barrier Car" has many adoption records in public and commercial facilities. The overwhelming number of direct requests from on-site users was a major reason for its 2nd place ranking.
Featured Product: Wheel Stop for Public Spaces (Piccolino Bird Arch)
This is a popular model of "wheel stop" adopted in a wide range of sites like station fronts, parks, and commercial facilities. It enjoys strong support from craftsmen for its ease of installation and high durability, with its stable post-installation structure and robustness for long-term use being highly rated. Not compromising the landscape while ensuring pedestrian visibility is another reason for its on-site selection.
In particular, the "bird motif" symbolizing this product is highly popular in parks, museums, and tourist facilities. It is valued as a design that adds softness and playfulness to often inorganic public spaces, gathering support from the field as a unique entity combining "functionality" and "loveliness." Its contribution to town atmosphere and facility image enhancement is expanding its adoption scenarios.
3rd Place: Wakai Sangyo (Wakai Sangyo Co., Ltd.) A development-oriented manufacturer with a wide range of fastening products like screws, nails, and anchors. With the core technology of "securely fixing objects" essential for buildings and industrial products, it offers a broad lineup from special screws and nails to DIY supplies, architectural hardware, and sealants. Leveraging long-accumulated know-how and unique molding technology, it pursues high-quality product development. The convenience of one-stop procurement where needed items can be gathered at once was also valued, leading to its 3rd place rank. Featured Product: Screw (Stainless Steel Slender Thread) A versatile screw that resists splitting even in thin boards and drives in smoothly with a light feel. Its special thread shape allows smooth penetration even without pilot holes, featuring the ability to suppress material splitting and lifting, maintaining a beautiful finish. Not only treasured on professional sites, its lineup—including deck screws for wood deck construction, flexible types to prevent splitting, and durable stainless steel series for outdoors and wet areas—is exceptionally rich in the industry, allowing detailed selection by application. The fact that users can always find the optimal screw for their intended use has garnered support from DIY users as well. 4th Place: Teikin (Teikin Co., Ltd.)
Teikin is an established manufacturer handling products that enhance urban safety and landscape. Its representative product, the wheel stop pole known as "Barrier Car," is renowned for high durability and a structure resistant to breakage even upon vehicle impact. Adopted for safety measures in many public spaces like parks, parking lots, and sidewalks, it was chosen for 4th place as a product trusted on-site for safe installation.
Featured Product: Wheel Stop (Hyper Bollard®) An impact-resistant wheel stop that has received the highest "VE evaluation" rank in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's New Technology Information System (NETIS). Amid increasing incidents of vehicles mounting sidewalks and runaway accidents due to pedal misapplication, the "Hyper Bollard®," backed by solid verification data, is a major reason for professional support as "a product that responsible on-site craftsmen can choose with confidence." Its adoption is expanding in places where safety measures are prioritized, such as public facilities, commercial facilities, and sidewalks, chosen by both craftsmen and business operators as a "next-generation wheel stop" that provides peace of mind. 5th Place: Nasta (Nasta Co., Ltd.)
Nasta is a manufacturer with a long history in the field of "residential equipment" such as mailboxes and parcel delivery boxes. It offers many products enhancing user convenience, with parcel boxes holding a particularly high market share. Against the backdrop of redelivery issues and increasing parcel demand, it entered the 2025 popular manufacturer ranking in 5th place.
Featured Product: Parcel Delivery Box (Nasta Box LIGHT) A parcel box that allows safe receipt of packages even when residents are absent, available in a rich variety of sizes and installation methods from single-family homes to apartment buildings. It also excels in design, with an appearance that does not spoil the landscape of home entrances or building lobbies. Easy-to-install types are also available, gaining broad support from professionals to individual users. Contributing to "solving redelivery problems," it is expanding support as a product matching the needs of the times.
2025 Ranking Summary
The 2025 Kato Kanamono EC site popular manufacturer ranking clearly showed a trend where "ease of use" and "efficiency" demanded by craftsmen and contractors on-site are increasingly valued. The shelf post and bracket system from 1st place Royal and the slender thread screws from 3rd place Wakai Sangyo were highly rated for installation flexibility and workability, standing out in on-site support.
On the other hand, products from 2nd place Sunpole and 4th place Teikin, which pursue safety and operability in public spaces, were highly rated, with expanded adoption in public facilities boosting their rankings. Furthermore, products like the parcel box offered by 5th place Nasta, which possess the flexibility and design to adapt to diverse residential environments, saw increased interest from general users.
Comment from the President and Representative Director
We sincerely thank craftsmen nationwide for their tremendous support again this year. Our top priority has been delivering “products that are truly useful on-site,” and we have worked to improve our product assortment and services. The top-ranking products are all excellent items that balance usability, safety, and design, responding to on-site voices. We will continue to stay close to the needs of craftsmen and provide products and services that offer peace of mind, convenience, and trust.
About Kato Kanamono Co., Ltd. Founded in 1931 and now in its 94th year, Kato Kanamono Co., Ltd. is an established company that has built local trust as a "hardware store supporting the worksite," handling everything from sales of architectural hardware, tools, and work supplies to construction. Leveraging its long track record and responsiveness to sites, it has recently expanded into e-commerce. Its online store, boasting about 100,000 items, handles all order confirmations and inquiries in-house, providing service with a human touch as an "EC with conversation."
Source: Read the original article | Published: December 10, 2025