Completing a triple win alongside the iF Design Award 2026 and the Good Design Award 2025, sukui’s blockchain-based Digital Product Passport earns international recognition
Carbon-negative medical wear “sukui,” winner of the Green Product Award 2026
Berlin, May 28, 2026 — “sukui,” the sustainable medical wear brand developed by WORKING HASEGAWA Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Keisen-cho, Fukuoka, Japan; Representative Director: Shinichi Hasegawa), has been honoured with the Green Product Award 2026 in the Fashion category. The awards were presented on May 28 at Berlin’s Colosseum, where Shinichi Hasegawa attended and took the stage to accept the award.
With this recognition, sukui has now received three major international design and sustainability honours — the iF Design Award 2026, the Good Design Award 2025, and the Green Product Award 2026 — completing a triple win.
Project: https://www.gp-award.com/en/projects/sukui
Green Product Award 2026 ceremony at Berlin’s Colosseum — sukui’s key visual and company name on the main screen
elected from 1,200 entries across 54 countries
Under the guiding theme “Shape what matters,” the international Green Product Awards honoured outstanding sustainable products, concepts, and materials from around the world. From a total of 1,200 submissions from 54 countries, the best projects were recognised across 12 categories, including interior design, consumer goods, architecture, mobility, fashion, and new materials. The award-winning projects included contributions from established brands and innovative start-ups, as well as students from four continents.
Jurors including Uwe Melichar (Touch Design Ltd.), Prof. Claus-Christian Eckhardt (Lund University), and Katja Keienburg (baby&junior) presented the awards to the winners.
Official Jury Statement
The Fashion category jury highlighted the shift in fashion from seasonal consumption toward durability — products that can be repaired, used longer, and eventually become something new — before introducing sukui as the category’s first winner with the following statement:
Japan-based “sukui” impresses with its CO₂-negative medical workwear, combining modern minimalist design with chemical-free hemp fibers. Each garment features a blockchain-based Digital Product Passport, ensuring full transparency while supporting a circular lifecycle through repairability and final compostability.
About sukui
sukui is carbon-negative medical wear for healthcare professionals, made from hemp in Japan. It solves the need for sustainable, functional scrubs by using a chemical-free spinning method for silk-like softness and a circular design that includes repair and composting. Each garment carries a blockchain-based Digital Product Passport (DPP) for transparent CO₂ and traceability data. The project has won the Good Design Award 2025 (Japan), the iF Design Award 2026, and the Green Product Award 2026 (both Germany).
Contact Information
WORKING HASEGAWA Co., Ltd.
Representative Director & CEO: Shinichi Hasegawa
Head Office: 156-1 Seto, Keisen Town, Kaho District, Fukuoka 820-0604, Japan
URL: https://sukui-wear.jp
Email: info@sukui-wear.jp
About WORKING HASEGAWA Co., Ltd.
Founded in 1978 in Fukuoka, Japan, WORKING HASEGAWA Co., Ltd. has continuously supported working people through the production and sale of workwear. With the growing importance of environmental consciousness in manufacturing globally and observing the EU’s advanced initiatives, we felt a strong need to shift towards environmentally-friendly garment production in Japan. To this end, we launched our sustainable medical wear brand, sukui, promoting the development of sustainable wear based on circular economy principles. We aim to establish standards for resource circulation and low environmental impact by collaborating with like-minded companies domestically and internationally, striving to bring about positive social change for future generations.
Website: https://working-hasegawa.co.jp/
About the Green Product Awards
Since 2013, the international Green Product Award has been honoring products and services that stand out in terms of design, innovation and sustainability. In cooperation with the IKEA Stiftung, the Green Concept Award evaluates concepts by young designers and supports their further development.
HomePage：https://www.gp-award.com/en
