Community Contribution

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.

Working with a local municipality to support disaster evacuees

In March 2014, the town of Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, and NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION signed an agreement on supporting earthquake and other disaster evacuees.

The agreement requires NIDEC INSTRUMENTS, during a disaster, to provide its head office’s parking lot and gymnasium as an evacuation center or an emergency evacuation center, provide support such as personnel and supplies to the extent possible, and work with administrative organizations to handle the disaster. NIDEC INSTRUMENTS is thus committed to supporting disaster relief activities as a member of the local community.

Fundraising and Donation

Fund-raising Lunch

Nidec Corporation’s head office and Building C of Nidec Park have a fund-raising dish on their lunch menu exclusively for donation purposes, in which an employee can donate 20 yen to charity by ordering the dish. Likewise, stores operated by Nidec Global Service Corporation have “donation days,” when part of the proceeds from the sale of private-brand products are donated to charity. The money collected via the above programs is donated to the Kyoto Model Forest Association, a public interest incorporated association, for a variety of forest conservation and growing activities in Kyoto.

Money-donating Vending Machines

In 2022, the Nidec Group started installing “money-donating vending machines” in multiple business bases in Japan, to donate part of the proceeds from the items sold off the machines to the Green Donation program run by the National Land Afforestation Promotion Organization, a public interest incorporated association. The money donated to the program is utilized to enhance activities for forests and people, including forest management and forest environmental education for children in Japan.

Support for the Sale of Merchandise by a Facility for People with Disabilities

Every month, Nidec Corporation’s head place and Building C of Nidec Park welcome people from a local facility for those with disabilities to have them sell bread, cookies, and other items made by people with intellectual disabilities seeking employment. This program, started in July 2012, is well received by Nidec employees, and held continuously. Likewise, bread made at a job assistance center is sold twice a month at Nidec Drive Technology Corporation’s Kyoto factory. In addition, some of Nidec’s overseas business bases support the sale of merchandise made by members of facilities for people with disabilities.

The Philippines: Support for Terminal Cancer Patients

Nidec Philippines Corporation and Nidec Precision Philippines Corporation work for Kalinga ng Angel Foundation in the city of Binan, Laguna Province, to provide support for terminal cancer patients. With medical treatment expenses so high and the public system-based coverage of cancer treatment limited in the country, a great number of people are subject to health problems.
It is to improve this situation even slightly that the two companies provide medical expense-related support (e.g. covering prescription charges) for patients who cannot afford cancer treatment. The companies donated a wheelchair to the foundation.

Upcycling

Nidec Component Technology (Thailand) Co., Ltd. joined an upcycling project hosted by the industrial park where the company operates, and has been donating approximately 200 used plastic bottles every month since March 2022. “Upcycling” means to upgrade waste materials and unused items originally planned to be discarded into new, different products.
This above project aims to use plastic bottles and a plant fiber called Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) to produce backpacks. 700 600ml plastic bottles can produce one backpack. The sustainable backpacks made in this project are distributed to local schools for free of charge, and used as children’s commuter bags.

Food Drive

The Nidec Group hold a food drive at multiple business bases that it runs in and outside Japan. “Food drive” is a program to collect leftover food items from home at schools and workplaces, and donate them to those in need. This volunteer activity can help reduce food loss and contribute to livelihood support.
Nidec Corporation’s head place and Building C of Nidec Park has been holding this program regularly since 2022. All the food items collected in this activity, 660kg in total, have been donated to Second Harvest Kyoto, an authorized NPO, and Food Bank Kyoto, a specified non-profit corporation. Those donated food items are delivered via NPOs to children and families in need of food. This program supports local people in need by donating other items such as books, shoes, toys, and diapers in addition to food in and outside Japan.

Blood donation

Multiple business bases of the Nidec Group in and outside Japan have been donating blood, with individual bases engaging in a blood drive twice to four times a year in collaboration with local Red Cross Societies. In July 2016, Nidec Philippines Corporation and Nidec Precision Philippines Corporation were given Blood Services Platinum Awards by the Philippines Red Cross Society for their continued efforts, while Nidec Corporation’s head office received a gold-medal award from the Japanese Red Cross Society for 20 consecutive years of blood donation.