CSR Activities

Details of Activities and Examples of Efforts

Encouraging and Facilitating CSR

At TAIYO YUDEN we actively provide education to encourage and facilitate the understanding and implementation of CSR.
To deepen understanding of our CSR Code of Conduct, we have created and distributed to all officers and employees the CSR Code of Conduct Handbook that uses simplified explanations with illustrations.
In addition, we hold seminars for management personnel given by visiting lecturers, and periodically carry out an e-Learning program and other measures for non-management-level employees. We also hold group training sessions for employees upon first entering the Company or at the time of a promotion.

Environmental Activities

In order to contribute to passing on our irreplaceable natural world to future generations, the TAIYO YUDEN Group is implementing initiatives to reduce the burden on the environment of all manner of business activities.

Product Cutting Machine Wastewater Recycling

Chuki Seiki Co., Ltd. used to treat and discharge wastewater from product cutting machines, but it has now been able to significantly reduce water consumption by filtering with a filter and reusing this wastewater. The reduction in the amount of water comes to approximately 4,490 tons per year.

Mangrove Tree Planting

In FY2008, TAIYO YUDEN (PHILIPPINES) began planting mangrove seedlings on Olango Island, near Mactan Island where the company is located. Every year 10,000 mangrove trees are planted.

Contributing to Society

Our corporate approach is to coexist harmoniously with the local communities and wider global society that our business touches. Toward that end we actively encourage tours of our factories, and promote community exchanges and exchanges with other companies as part of our activities to contribute to society.

Beautification Activities

We put great effort into volunteer community clean-ups at each TAIYO YUDEN Group site. These activities are not restricted to Japan; in 2012 in the Philippines we carried out a beach clean-up of Olango Island and collected 81 kg of garbage that had washed ashore.

Community Exchange

The TAIYO YUDEN Group accepts plant tours as one important way of keeping in contact with local communities. TAIYO YUDEN Mobile Technology was visited by about 80 elementary school students and about 20 high school students who were then briefed on the corporate activities of the TAIYO YUDEN Group and the products made at the plant. University students visited TAIYO YUDEN (PHILIPPINES) and learned about the practice of environmental protection technologies. Moreover, 40 representatives from 28 groups also paid a visit and toured the safety practices in the workplace.

Donations to Local Communities

The TAIYO YUDEN Group gives donations to the Gunma Prefecture and Sato Traffic Orphans Welfare Fund. The Sato Traffic Orphans Welfare Fund was founded based on the contributions of the late Hikohachi Sato, who was the founder of TAIYO YUDEN. These funds are then used to give scholarships to traffic orphans and to hold traffic safety training. Moreover, these activities are not confined to Japan: we are proactively developing social contribution activities overseas. In South Korea, we operate a traffic accident orphans fund and make donations to elementary schools. In China, we support the SOS Children's Villages.* In the Philippines, we make donations to welfare and other organizations, and to the victims of Typhoon Pablo.

*SOS Children's Villages: An international child welfare organization that supports children who need help and children who lost their parents due to war, disasters, infectious diseases and major accidents.

Health and Safety Activities

To create a workplace where employees can work without anxiety, the TAIYO YUDEN Group draws up Group-wide medium-term plans. The plans proscribe the activities to be carried out to prevent work-related accidents.

Prevention of Disasters and Explosions

We are developing comprehensive measures to prevent disasters and explosions caused by chemical substances. These include managing humidity, making facilities explosion-proof, and removing static electricity from production jigs and people's bodies.