Fundraising, Donation and Regional Contributions

Nidec Head Office and Central Technical Laboratory

The employee’s cafeteria offers a “special donation dish” program, in which 20 yen out of each payment for a certain lunch dish will be donated to a charity organization, Kyoto Model Forest Association. Also, inside the company’s head office building, a kiosk run by Nidec Global Service Corporation holds a “donation day,” where part of the sales from private-brand products is donated to the aforementioned charity organization.

In addition, from FY2014 to FY2017, Nidec employees joined the Kyoto CSR Network* to participate in the “Gion Festival Gomi Zero Dai-sakusen,” a campaign hosted by an eponymous general incorporated association, to reduce the amount of flammable waste disposed and environmental load at Kyoto’s Gion Festival. A massive amount of trash of disposable plates and utensils, etc., has been a big headache at Kyoto’s Gion Festival, an annual event crowded with numerous domestic and overseas tourists. At this festival, Nidec employees work as volunteers to ask tourists to sort trash and walk to collect trash to reduce its amount. With the participation of NIDEC ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY employees, FY2017 saw a record number of 20 Nidec employees participating in this volunteer effort.

*Kyoto CSR Network:
An organization of company’s CSR personnel, administrative officers, etc. based in Kyoto Prefecture who exchange information, offer learning opportunities, and create other chances for mutual collaboration beyond their organizational boundaries

Shiga Technical Center

“Green donation” vending machines are installed in the facility, where part of proceeds from the vending machines is combined with an additional amount of money by the manufacturers of the beverages sold in the vending machines, and the total amount is given as “green donation” to National Land Afforestation Promotion Organization.

Business sites outside Japan

Nidec’s Asian, North American, and European business sites, where the spirit of donation and serving others is well-rooted, constantly engage in various activities, including donating PCs and stationery to a local elementary school, fundraising via a charity event, and donation to an educational institution and a temple. In China, Nidec’s internal teams of volunteers work with municipal authorities to engage in not only fundraising and donation, but also local area cleanup, environmental campaigns, and visiting retirement homes.

Relief donation for disaster-affected areas

The Nidec Group donated money to the following afflicted regions:

Merchandize selling support for a facility for people with disabilities

Every month, people from a local facility visit the kiosk (run by Nidec Global Service Corporation) in Nidec Corporation’s head office and Central Technical Laboratory building, and sell bread, cookies, and other merchandize made by people with intellectual challenges who are seeking employment opportunities. This activity, which started in July 2012, is very popular among employees, is held on a continuing basis. Other sites inside and outside Japan provide similar support for people with disabilities to sell merchandise.

Charity sales of Christmas goods made in a workshop

Nidec Motors & Actuators (Germany) has been making donations to a local facility for people with disabilities during the Christmas period since 2015. In a workshop the company holds for engineering interns in the southern city of Bietigheim, the interns make Christmas goods. The interns, who hope to become mechanics, mechanical and electrical engineers, or drawing engineers in the future, process metal and make such goods as reindeer-shaped decorations, and sell them at a Christmas market or in the company’s employee cafeteria. The proceeds from selling these goods are combined with the company’s donation, and given to “Support for People in Need,” a fundraising project hosted by a Bietigheim newspaper company. The donated money is used to support those living in a facility for people with disabilities, located near the company site.

▲Christmas goods made by interns

Cleanup & beautification

Inside and outside Japan, Nidec Group employees clean up and beautify places around their business sites and other places, either by themselves or as part of local area cleanup events.

A Nidec employee and his family member sow cosmos seeds
in the “Greenery and Flower Plantation by Prefectural Residents” campaign
held in Fukui Prefecture (August 2016).

Blood donation

Each year, Nidec employees of sites inside and outside Japan donate blood, with each site working in collaboration with a local Red Cross Society two to four times a year. Two Nidec Group companies in the Philippines were given "Blood Services Platinum Awards" in July 2016 for their continuous blood donation activities.