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Having set out a groupwide policy for corporate citizenship activities, we provide a range of financial support via each of our operating companies, from donations to various organizations and research institutions, to research subsidies, to aid for areas affected by disasters. We are also actively involved in community activities, including taking part in local events at our plants and research centers, providing support for employee volunteer activities and opening up recreation and welfare facilities to the local community.
Given the global reach of our operations here at the Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings (MCHC) Group, we signed the UN Global Compact and took the opportunity to get involved in a joint project in partnership with local citizens and NGOs in six countries in West Africa and Asia, by funding and helping to organize the Local Citizens Building Schools Project from 2006 through to 2009. We are considered that the project achieved a certain results therefore we organized follow-up activities last year.
In addition to activities such as these, we are always on the lookout for corporate citizen activities in which all MCHC Group employees can get involved on an ongoing basis. As the United Nations General Assembly has designated 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry, we are organizing a series of activities aimed at promoting and raising awareness of chemistry here at the MCHC Group. We have also joined forces to provide support for employees engaging in volunteer activities in wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings (MCHC) Group has been engaged in corporate citizenship activities in all over the world in accordance with our Corporate Citizenship Activities Policy.
As good corporate citizens, the MCHC Group has been striving for realizing KAITEKI with better understanding the culture and customs in communities and countries where we operate. Furthermore, we have been active in responding to real needs and demands of the communities through various manner including our business activities where we locating.
In addition to the various corporate citizenship activities carried out by our operating companies to date, we are also exploring the possibility of organizing groupwide activities in the future, through dialog with NPOs.
We are planning to finalize and begin implementing specific activities by the end of the current fiscal year. All of our operating companies are getting involved in corporate citizenship activities as part of the International Year of Chemistry. Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation for instance is organizing science classes at elementary schools in the vicinity of its head office and plants.
Science class (head office)
Science class (Kashima Plant)
Science class (Kurosaki Plant)
Also, the MCHC Group has supported volunteer activities by employees at areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Offering employees the opportunity to participate in volunteer activities, and paying part of the costs for volunteer activities by employees (transportation costs and volunteer insurance premiums)
Each of the operating companies has addressed unique activities, in addition to contributing to various organizations and research institutes, offering subsidies for research activities, participating in community activities in the neighborhood of their plants and research centers, supporting volunteer activities by employees, and making companies’ welfare facilities available to local residents.
Corporate Citizenship Activities under APTSIS 15
We also engage in corporate citizenship activities at overseas MCHC Group companies, in line with our groupwide policy on corporate citizenship activities, and make every effort to raise awareness of cultures and customs in other countries and regions. This year, we will be profiling initiatives in China, where we have a substantial number of MCHC Group facilities.
Since 2007, Shanghai Baoling Plastics Inc. has been donating personal computers and composite printers at the expiration of their lease, along with athletic gear and study tools, as its commitment to contributing to the local community.
In 2010, the fourth year of this activity, the President led a group of five representatives of the company on a visit to Zhuqiao Private Elementary School in Jiading Industrial Zone, to present the donation in person. In response to the President’s remarks that, “15 years have passed since our foundation in the Jiading Industrial Zone, and our company hopes to continue developing along with the local community,” a student representative thanked the company and a school representative also expressed appreciation. The company plans to continue the activities and its contributions.
Dalian Rayon Environmental Equipment Co., Ltd. was established in May 2002, in Dalian economic and Technological Development Zone, Liaoning Province. The company assembles and processes drainage treatment film elements.
In response to the need of Dalian Japanese School for water of better quality to ensure that all students gargle as a measure for preventing influenza, the company donated eight units of business-use Cleansui water purifiers to the Elementary School, in cooperation with Mitsubishi Rayon Cleansui Co., Ltd.
