Community Contribution Activities
Basic ideas
Basic ideas on contributing to communities
Through our community contribution activities, we aim for partnerships and harmony with our local communities. We strive to fulfill our responsibilities as a member of local society, and we work to strengthen Ties of Reliability and relationships with local communities through domestic and international communication.
Initiatives
Japan
Participating in community-based emergency-response activities
Tokai Carbon actively participates in community emergency-response associations. This includes training to work with local communities to respond to emergency cases. Our employees participate in activities such as firefighting competitions and traffic safety support for students at railway crossings.
Participating in s firefighting competition（Tanoura Plant）
Social education
As part of our social education activities, we conduct plant tours that give students and municipality representatives a close-up look at manufacturing. We also accept interns and junior and high-school students for plants visits and have our researchers participate as lecturers in local science seminars for children as part of our proactive involvement in fostering future generations.
By playing this role in the education of everyone in the community, we aim to keep contributing to the community in the future.
Plant tours for students (Hofu Plant)
Factory visit by elementary school pupils (Tanoura Plant)
Participated in a scientific event hosted by NPO Taketoyo as a lecturer (Chita Laboratory)
Environmental protection activities
We took part in forest development and conservation activities, the source of industrial water, indispensable to our corporate activities.
(Hofu Plant)
Environmental protection activities
We actively participate in cleanup activities around our plants at each location.
Taking part in a cleanup activity hosted by the local fisheries cooperative (Tanoura Plant)
Making our facilities available to local communities
To enhance relations with local communities, we allow local residents to use athletic fields, tennis courts, and other recreational facilities located within our plant sites. Lending out these facilities is helping to keep people in the community healthy.
At our Ishinomaki Plant, we have partnered with the city of Ishinomaki to make those facilities available for use as a tsunami evacuation site.
Ishinomaki Plant
Overseas
Regular conference for local residents
TOKAI ERFTCARBON, located in Germany, holds periodic meetings with the local residents to disseminate information and receive feedback, mainly on environmental issues.
Sharing information with local residents（TOKAI ERFTCARBON GmbH）
Supporting local activities
We participate actively in community events to interact with the community, and provide support to regional activities through donation and volunteers.
Employees volunteered to support the local marathons race（Cancarb, Ltd.）
Donation of play equipment to the nursery school（TOKAI ERFTCARBON GmbH）
Provided Health checkup service to the neighbors（Thai Tokai Carbon Product Co., Ltd.）
Distributed foods for the poor（Tokai Carbon Korea Co., Ltd.)
Working in collaboration with the local foodbank, we arranged the employees to deliver food to families in need using cars owned by the employees. (Cancarb)
Tomatoes grown by employee volunteers are donated to the local foodbank. (Cancarb)
Environmental protection activities
We donated twenty trees to the city of Medicine Hat and planted them voluntarily
Tree planting (Cancarb Limited)
As part of their training, interns at TOKAI ERFTCARBON GmbH participated in cleanup activities near the plant.
Interns participating in a cleanup activity（ TOKAI ERFTCARBON GmbH ）
Safety improvement initiative
We asked employees' children to appear on Safe Plant Children, a video project to increase safety awareness at workplaces.
(Tokai COBEX)
Performance
Social contribution activity expenditure(Consolidated)
Fiscal 2023: 53 millions of yen