Action Album

- Regional contributions

General medical camp

Aiming to realize a society where everyone has access to proper medical care, Nidec Mobility India Pvt. Ltd. works with NGOs to offer complimentary health checkup for local residents of the State of Haryana’s rural areas. In this program, physicians, obstetricians and gynecologists, pediatricians, diabetes specialists, and other medical personnel check examinees’ health conditions, and offer them proper medical advice, while, as necessary, providing them with medicines for free of charge. This “general medical camp” has been held multiple times since December 2022, providing health checkup services for a total of approximately 1,000 people.

Nidec Cleanup Day (local cleanup activities)

At the Nidec Group, the employees of Nidec Corporation’s head office, Building C of Nidec Park, domestic group companies’ business bases, and overseas business bases in China, the Philippines, Thailand, Mexico, the US, and elsewhere actively engage in cleanup activities. Based on these individual business bases’ requests for volunteers, a total of about 100 employees participate in the cleanup every time.

Pottery class to prevent dementia

Since 2013, Nidec Drive Technology has been working with Nagaoka Health Center (Nagaoka Hospital) to hold a pottery class to prevent dementia annually. Pottery is known to be effective in prevention and rehabilitation of dementia, and Nagaoka Health Center has long been using pottery as part of its treatment of dementia patients. On the other hand, Nidec Drive Technology, a company with a large market share with its electronic potter’s wheels, had long been wanting to support those addressing social issues via business to help enhance society’s and its own sustainability. Thus, the company’s labor union proposed to the hospital to hold a pottery class, which has been held for more than 10 years so far.

Sponsoring local events

Nidec Leroy-Somer Lexington is a sponsor of Truck-or-Treat, a local event held jointly by police officers and firefighters so that children can enjoy Halloween safely. The company donates to this event chocolate and candy assortments and trick-or-treat bags with reflective plates.

Charity work during the holiday season

The Nidec Group works in charity events in time for them around the world. In many areas, such activities become most active during the holiday season.

- Fostering a next generation of people

Terakoya (temple-school) class

Nidec Shin-Kawasaki Technology Center, an R&D base for basic & applied motor research in Kanagawa Prefecture, has been holding an environmental class since 2015 for local children to learn Nidec’s actions to reduce environmental load via the research and development of motors.
This class teaches children motors’ relations with the environment, gives them a tour to the Center’s research facility, and helps them learn how to make a coil motor.

Teaching how to make a coil motor in a booth at Keihanna Science Experience Festival

Annually since 2019, Nidec Keihanna Technology Center has been participating in Keihanna Science Experience Festival, an event for elementary school children hosted by Keihanna Science Communication Promotion Network, by setting up a booth to teach children how to make a coil motor.
This event, the largest of its kind in the Keihanna area, is intended to offer children opportunities to experience the mystery and fun of science via science-based craft making and experience among other activities.
Every year, many children come visit our booth to know about Nidec, motors, and the environment.

Work experience for junior high school students

Since FY2024, Nidec Central Technical Laboratory in the city of Muko accepts students for them to experience our workplace in Nidec’s unique work-experience program based on the work experience guidelines for junior high school students issued by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
This program offers opportunities for participants to listen to the voices of product development, quality assurance, production engineering and many other personnel, to know more about their respective works and careers, while making simple motors, using an electronic microscope to inspect substances, and participating in other activities to experience the fun of product making.

Environmental class for elementary school students

Nidec Corporation’s head office holds an environmental class under the theme, “Motor and the global environment,” for local elementary school children to deepen their interest in and understanding of the global environment, and learn the fun of product making.
In this activity, launched in 2007, students learn the relations between motors, which are part of their everyday lives, and electric energy, and motors’ effects to the global environment. In the class, students also learn the motors that Nidec develops to protect the global environment, and they are offered an opportunity to think with Nidec employees what we can do to conserve the environment.

Company tour for elementary school children

To help deepen people’s interest in and understanding of product making, Nidec Precision Corporation accepts students of local elementary schools for tour to the company, as part of the schools’ social studies classes. In the class, students see products on display and the company’s chronology, and listen to explanations on product development while visiting various floors of the company’s buildings.
An elementary school even decided to visit us for the second time to give us a presentation on what their students learned during their first visit.