Social Community Activities

At the Nihon Parkerizing Group, we have established the Policy on Social Contribution Activities, guided by which we engage in various activities together with people from local communities.

We engage in diverse activities tailored to local needs as part of our activities for contributing to local communities. At the same time, we strive to coexist in harmony and cooperate hand-in-hand with local communities, governments, and residents.

Social Contribution Activity Policy

1. The Nihon Parkerizing Group will work to achieve the harmonious co-existence of each of its business sites in Japan and other countries and the local community in the area where they are located, thereby contributing to the sustainable development of local communities.
2. The Nihon Parkerizing Group will collaborate with local communities to engage in community-based activities, including environmental protection activities.
3. The Nihon Parkerizing Group will develop a corporate culture that will enable employees to participate in social activities voluntarily as members of the local community.

Provision of Learning Opportunities to the Children Who will Represent the Next Generation

From 2008 to 2012, we invited elementary school children from the neighboring area to increase their familiarity with chemistry through experiments, including experiments related to rust prevention treatments, hydrophilic treatments, cold forming, surface observation, chemical reactions (color changes caused by reactions, pH-test paper, and color changes permitting observation of patterns), and the three states of matter (freezing experiment using liquid nitrogen).

In June 2019, we invited junior high school students in the neighboring area to attend a lecture entitled “Chemical Substances and Our Life” and conduct surface treatment experiments (demonstrations) and analyses.

• Why is surface treatment necessary?
• How is a surface treated?
• What happens as a result of surface treatment?
• Let’s observe various things using a microscope.

Under these themes, we made the students feel close to the chemistry in everyday life. At the same time, we also explained our Chemical Substance Management System. We had them understand the importance of the proper handling of chemical substances.

Activities to Support Children and Their Future

Donations

To support the people affected by the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, the Nihon Parkerizing Group donated a total of 10 million yen to a relief fund via the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Tour of the Kansai Plant Given to High School Students

Initiative to build an open workplace environment: Workplace tour for high school students

At the Kansai Plant, we give workplace tours for high school students who will graduate and start working afterward. We occasionally provided a 1.5-hour tour of the manufacturing plant, including a brief explanation of the plant. The tour aims to enable students to experience our corporate activities and tell other children representing the next generation about what they experienced, saw, and heard at the plant.

To allow high school students to imagine themselves working at the plant, we have employees from the same high school join them and give them time to listen to specific stories told by people older than them working at the plant and ask questions. We hope they will share what they have experienced and felt with younger generations.

Other

• Student internship program
  In FY2016, we began offering an internship program to students to give them opportunities to participate in a work experience program. This internship program, intended for university students, is provided at the Central Research Laboratories in Kanagawa. It includes practical work to develop a perspective on working and tours of the laboratories. The final part of the program consists of work in proposing new research themes in surface treatments and creating reports related to this research. The unique thinking and ideas of the highly imaginative students are also presented, making the program a good opportunity for the employees who attend the sessions to learn new things. In FY2020, we began to conduct online remote workplace tours and distribute videos via the Internet to control COVID-19 infections, allowing students to deepen their understanding of the content of work and what it is like to work.
• Internships for persons with disabilities
  In cooperation with special needs schools, we provide ongoing internships for people with disabilities. Through internships, we are promoting efforts to have them directly experience the work environment and working styles, and to help them find employment.
• Introduction of farm-type employment service for people with disabilities
  We have introduced a farm-type employment service for people with disabilities with the aim of providing a place where people with disabilities can contribute to society through work and creating employment. The vegetables harvested from the farm are donated to children's cafeterias and shared with employees.

• Mangrove planting
  In 2022, Thai Parkerizing planted 999 mangrove trees along the Bang Pu coast, which are expected to absorb approximately 10 tons of CO₂ per year. Mangrove forests not only contribute to reducing CO₂ emissions but also help prevent natural disasters.

Unique Initiatives Taken at Business Sites

• Fukuyama Plant and Fukuyama No. 2 Plant
  Initiatives for contributing to local communities: Clean-up of roadside drains in the Nonohama district
  Every year, Fukuyama Plant and Fukuyama Plant No. 2 proactively participate in the clean-up (soil removal) of wastewater drains, which is conducted as part of the activity to clean up the whole school area hosted by the town development promotion committee of the Nonohama district of Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, where the plants are located, thus contributing to the local community.

• Aichi Plant
  Initiatives for contributing to local communities: Fire drills, clean-up activities, and traffic safety activities (traffic safety monitoring on streets)
  We cooperate with the Handa Chamber of Commerce & Industry and other parties in fire drills, clean-up, and traffic safety activities (traffic safety monitoring on streets).
  
  

• Itami Plant
  Initiatives for contributing to local communities: Measures against natural disasters (evacuation drills and stockpiling of emergency goods) and clean-up activities
  To prepare for natural disasters, we conduct evacuation drills, stockpile emergency goods, including goods we will distribute to the residents of neighboring areas, and install AEDs. In addition, we regularly clean up the bus stop and the area peripheral to the plant, collect Illegally dumped waste and mow the grass as part of our activities to contribute to the local community.

• Utsunomiya Plant
  Initiatives for contributing to local communities: Measures against natural disasters (evacuation drills and stockpiling of emergency goods) and clean-up activities
  To prepare for natural disasters, we conduct evacuation drills, stockpile emergency goods, including goods that we will distribute to the residents of neighboring areas, and install AEDs. In addition, we regularly clean up the area around the plant and implement traffic safety activities during traffic safety weeks to contribute to the local community.

• Hiratsuka Plant No. 2
  Initiatives to reinforce the system for responding to natural disasters: Measures to address natural disasters (evacuation drills and the stockpiling of emergency goods) and clean-up activities
  To prepare for natural disasters, we conduct an emergency drill once a year and provide daily training on measures to prevent secondary disasters. We also clean up the area around the plant and engage in other activities to contribute to the local community.