Japan Plywood Inspection Corporation was established in 1955 as a foundation to enhance people's welfare through its activities to promote the utilization of wood based materials.
Wood based materials have outstanding properties as natural materials. Japanese people have been developing a unique culture through making good use of outstanding properties of wood materials. Symbolically, the oldest wooden structure, 5 stories' tower in Horyuji temple, and the biggest wooden structure for a great image of Buddha in Todaiji temple are representing the culture.

Todaiji temple

Wood itself has its individual characteristics by nature because of its natural origin, and this feature is quite different from that of industrialized produce. This feature of wood varies by wood species, by conditions where it grows and others. This feature was quite skillfully materialized into a very solid construction such as the 5 stories tower building which lasts over thousand years.
However, when using wood in our life conveniently, it is quite essential to be capable of using wood easily as a stable and uniform material as possible, still retaining its good feature. In this context, after being logged in the woods, logs shall be dried, saw milled, and further processed into more stable and uniform wood based materials.

Japan Plywood Inspection Corporation has been striving for attaining its objectives through conducting research and measurement of wood based materials and providing necessary information and indications for their proper utilization to the producers, architects and consumers concerned. Along the same objectives, the Japanese Agricultural Standards are constituted and JPIC has been enrolled as a testing organization based on the JAS standards and as a leading organization to promote JAS labeling and proper operations of JAS system being a designated foundation under the Civil Code.

From daily life environment issues like dioxin or formaldehyde emission up to global environment issues, we will confront severe resource and environment problems in the 21st century. Considering these conditions, such natural and reproductive materials as wood based materials are quite promising. JPIC hopes that people will have much concern on these issues, and fully utilize wood based materials which are very tender to the environment, and for this purpose, JPIC tries it best to provide as much information and services necessary as possible.

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