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

Furukawa Electric LatAm S.A（Brazil）: Donating food and hygiene products to neighboring households in response to problems associated with the new coronavirus infection

Excellent Award

Furukawa Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. (FSK): A wide range of activities such as inviting elementary school students and people of the welfare facilities to the Nikko Ice Bucks game and donating to orphanages
Furukawa Electric Power Systems: Supporting workshops for elementary school students and social studies classes at local elementary schools in cooperation with local governments

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各地域での活動

Activities in different regions

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

	Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Locations and Divisions								Domestic subsidiaries and affiliates					Overseas subsidiaries and affiliates
Types of activities	Chiba	Nikko	Hiratsuka	Mie	Yokohama	Copper tube	Copper foil	Sales management	Furukawa Nikko Power Generation Inc.	Meisei Electric Co., Ltd.	Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.	Furukawa Techno Material Co., Ltd.	Furukawa Precision Metal Industrial Co., Ltd.	FALP（Philippines）	FEAP（Philippines）	FAPH（China）	FASW（China）	FESZ（China）	SFC（China）	FAST（Thailand）	FPT（Thailand）	TFOC（Thailand）	TFU（Thailand）	FCFT（Taiwan）	FFT（Taiwan）	FEL（Brazil）	FOSI（Indonesia）	PFAM（Malaysia）
Cultivation of the next generation Support for youth development Acceptance of teachers and environmental classes and others	●	●	●	●	●		●		●		●	●		●	●		●	●			●		●	●	●	●
Encouragement of sports and culture Holding and supporting sports classes, invitation to sports classes Holding and supporting festivals and others		●	●	●		●			●		●			●	●	●	●	●					●			●		●
Harmony with nature and communities Participation in local environmental beautification activities Plant tours for residents Participation in local trade shows and others	●							●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●			●	●	●			●
Support and cooperation Support and donation to people affected by earthquakes Support for environmental funds and blood donation and others	●	●	●	●	●		●	●		●	●			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●
Evaluation and opinions of outside organizations, external commendations Commendations from national, prefectural and municipal governments Commendations from companies and other organizations and others	●														●	●	●	●		●		●			●
Other social contribution activities Actions for biodiversity and others	●	●	●		●		●					●		●	●							●	●		●		●

Cultivation of the next generation

In fiscal 2019, we conducted the activities listed below.

The Company's Yokohama Works has provided work experience tours for elementary school and junior high school students in Yokohama 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 participates in trainings for teachers at private companies of the Keizai Koho Center and provided training for teachers.

Contribution to the promotion of sports 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.

Harmony with nature and communities

In fiscal 2019, the Group conducted a variety of social contribution activities in many different regions.

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

Held a Nikko Waraku Odori dance event (Furukawa Electric).

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

Donated to an organization that provides housing to the less fortunate.（Furukawa Electric LatAm）

Donated to areas affected by volcano eruptions.（Furukawa Electric Autoparts（Philippines））

Donated to areas affected by volcano eruptions.
（Furukawa FITEL（Thailand））

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