Local Community Contribution, Social Contribution

SDGs

Local Community Contribution, Social Contribution

Basic Policy

Furukawa Electric Group has continued to conduct social contribution activities that are rooted in the local community. Going forward, we will strengthen these actions further along the three dimensions of nurturing future generations, promoting sport and culture, and living in harmony with the natural environment and local communities.

Furukawa Electric Group Basic Policy on Social Contribution Activities (Revised March, 2011)

Furukawa Electric Group will continuously undertake social contribution activities focusing on nurturing future generations, promoting sport and culture, and living in harmony with the natural environment and local communities, in addition to its business-related activities, in order to maintain and strengthen community ties built over centuries and create a better tomorrow for future generations.

ESG awards Social Contribution Award

Furukawa Electric has established the “ESG Awards”, which commends the outstanding social contribution activities and the environmental conservation activities of the group companies, and award them every year. We are working to expand and enhance social contribution activities within the Group, targeting the social contribution activities of our Group companies and our bases in Japan and overseas.

Outstanding Performance Award

OFS Fitel LLC: Requests to local employment opportunities groups for people with disabilities and safety reviews to the groups

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.: Free evacuation mats for areas affected by torrential rain in southern Kyushu
Excellent Award

Excellent Award

OFS Fitel LLC: In the early stages of corona expansion, masks, face shields, etc. were manufactured with a 3D printer and donated to facilities for the elderly
Furukawa Electric Power Systems Co., Ltd. (FEPS): Providing work guidance to outsourced facilities for people with disabilities to achieve stable sharing, cost reduction, and increase in purchasing volume

DFF Inc., ビジネス基盤変革本部サステナビリティ推進室, ものづくり改革本部安全推進室, ものづくり改革本部資材部, ものづくり改革本部品質管理推進室, 総務・CSR本部 CSR推進部

各地域での活動

Activities in different regions

The Group conducts a variety of social contribution activities in different regions.

		Activities in different regions
		Cultivation of the next generation	Encouragement of sports and culture	Harmony with nature and communities	Support and cooperation	Evaluation and opinions of outside organizations, external commendations	Other social contribution activities
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Locations and Divisions	Chiba	●	●	●	●	●
	Nikko		●	●	●		●
	Hiratsuka	●	●	●	●		●
	Mie	●	●	●	●	●
	Yokohama	●			●
	Tokyo	●			●	●	●
	Copper foi		●	●
Domestic subsidiaries and affiliates	Furukawa Elecom Co., Ltd. (ELECOM)		●	●	●
	Furukawa Magnet Wire Co., Ltd.		●	●	●
	Yokohama Drum Manufacturing Co.,Ltd.			●			●
	Furukawa Nikko Power Generation Inc.		●	●
	Furukawa UACJ Memory Disk Co., Ltd.				●
	Foam Kasei Co., Ltd.		●
	Furukawa Research Inc.	●			●	●
	Myojodenki Co., Ltd.		●	●	●
	Furukawa Electric Advanced Engineering Co., Ltd.
	TOTOKU Electric Co, Ltd.	●	●	●	●	●
	Furukawa Electric Power Systems Co., Ltd. (FEPS)	●		●	●
	Miharu Communications Inc.		●		●	●	●
	The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd. (Iwaki)	●			●
	The Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd. (Imaichi)	●	●	●	●
	Furukawa Communication and Broadcasting Co., Ltd.		●	●	●
	Furukawa Precision Engineering Co.,Ltd.		●	●	●	●	●
	Okano Cable Co., Ltd.			●	●
	Kyusyu Network Cable Co., Ltd.				●
	Ibaragi Okano Cable Co., Ltd.	●			●		●
	Okano Electronics Co., Ltd.	●	●	●	●	●	●
	KANZACC		●	●	●		●
	Furukawa Fitel Optical Device CO.,LTD			●
	Furukawa Logistics Corp.			●	●
Overseas subsidiaries and affiliates	FESZ			●
	FFT			●	●		●
	Tianjin Jinhe Electric Engineering Co., Ltd. (TJHE)			●
	FAPV	●			●	●
	TFOC	●
	FASW	●	●	●	●		●
	Trocellen （Germany）	●	●		●
	Trocellen （Italy）	●			●		●
	Trocellen （Hungary）	●	●	●	●
	TSEA		●		●
	FTC
	FETI	●	●	●	●	●	●
	TFU	●	●		●		●
	FAST	●	●	●	●	●	●
	FALP	●		●	●	●
	FEL	●	●	●	●	●	●
	AFI	●			●		●
	FURMEX	●	●	●	●	●
	SFPOC	●	●	●	●	●
	FCFT		●	●
	FECT		●	●
	TMS			●		●	●
	FME	●	●	●	●		●
	PFAM			●	●
	FPT	●			●	●

Nurturing future generations

The Group has conducted the following activities to nurture the future generation.

The Company's Yokohama Works has provided work experience tours for elementary school and junior high school students since 2017.

In order to cultivate human resources who are responsible for the future, the Company provided workplace experience to and accepted company visits from first-year students at prefectural high schools in Ibaraki at the head office.

The Company donated computers for local children.（Thai Furukawa Unicomm Engineering Co,, Ltd.）

Christmas support for district kindergartens（Trocellen）

Promoting sport and culture

The Company is an official partner of the professional soccer team JEF United Ichihara Chiba.

The Company supports the activities of the professional ice hockey team H.C. Tochigi Nikko Icebucks.

The Company donated the former Shigenobu Okuma House and the former Munemitsu Mutsu House, which the Company maintained and managed as reception facilities in Meiji Memorial Oiso House and Garden, to the national government in fiscal 2018.

Living in harmony with the natural environment and local communities

The Group has conducted a variety of social contribution activities that contribute to coexistence with local communities, including the following.

Held a Nikko Waraku Odori dance event (Furukawa Electric).
(Canceled in 2020 due to the spread of new coronavirus infection)

Supported the "Let's create recycled artwork" workshop for neighborhood elementary school students (Furukawa Electric Power Systems).）

Providing sanitary facilities to schools（Furukawa Minda Electric Private LTD. ）

Distribute face masks and hand sanitizers to the local community（Permintex Furukawa Autoparts Malaysia Sdn.Bhd.）

Biodiversity Conservation（Harmony with nature）

The Group has made various biodiversity initiatives in each region.

Participated in Furukawa-no-mori tree planting organized by the Tochigi Furukawa Association (Furukawa Precision Metal Industrial).

Monitoring and control of treated wastewater discharge parameters to ensure the natural state of the river（Furukawa Electric LatAm S.A.）

In fiscal 2020, we conducted the activities of biodiversity conservation listed below.

		Nurturing future generations
		Conservation of forest resources such as tree planting in consideration of the local ecosystem	Conservation of rivers and marine resources in consideration of the local ecosystem	Restoring the loss of the ecosystem due to laying work and factory construction in the neighborhood or another place	Cooperation with other companies / organizations and external organizations such as NPOs	Request for consideration of biodiversity from suppliers	Survey of biodiversity conservation status of suppliers	Explanation of the company's biodiversity conservation policy to suppliers	Other activities to consider the ecosystem	Customer requirements for biodiversity
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Locations and Divisions	Chiba	●				●	●	●
	Hiratsuka	●		●
	Mie	●	●				●
	Yokohama
	Copper foi				●
Domestic subsidiaries and affiliates
	Yokohama Drum Manufacturing Co.,Ltd.								●
	Furukawa Research Inc.	●							●
	Furukawa Electric Advanced Engineering Co., Ltd.	●
	TOTOKU Electric Co, Ltd.		●
	Furukawa Communication and Broadcasting Co., Ltd.	●		●
	Furukawa Precision Engineering Co.,Ltd.	●			●				●
	Okano Cable Co., Ltd.	●	●		●
	Ibaragi Okano Cable Co., Ltd.	●				●	●	●	●	●
	Okano Electronics Co., Ltd.								●
	Furukawa Fitel Optical Device CO.,LTD		●
Overseas subsidiaries and affiliates
	TFOC	●				●		●	●
	FASW					●	●	●	●	●
	Trocellen （Germany）	●
	Trocellen （Italy）					●
	Trocellen （Hungary）									●
	FTC						●
	FEL	●	●	●	●	●		●	●
	TMS	●
	FME;	●	●			●	●	●		●
	FPT				●