Community involvement

The Company co-sponsors M&K JAPAN, a general incorporated association that supports people with disabilities through sports such as football.

M&K JAPAN is an organization that is actively engaged in activities aimed at realizing a society in which both people with and without disabilities learn together by setting up places to allow people with disabilities to play sports and by holding lectures on and providing hands-on experiences in football for people with disabilities at elementary schools throughout Japan. The Company has decided to co-sponsor the said organization in order to contribute to the local community and to the realization of a society where no one is left behind.

The organization holds a monthly sports exchange event on a football field in which people with disabilities and their families as well as employees of the Company can participate.

Since 2019, we have been holding an event to invite the Tatsuno Kodomo Eco Club, an environmental learning group for elementary school students run by the city of Tatsuno, to the Harima Plant.

Participants enjoy learning through simple experiments using our environment-friendly products and explanations of how factory wastewater is purified, and the participants have received the program well.

In order to contribute to the local community and regional revitalization, from 2021, the Company began to co-sponsor a baseball tournament held in the City of Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture, called the "Nagase ChemteX Cup: Tatsuno City Mayor's Baseball Tournament for School Children".

is is a tournament in which a total of 32 elementary school baseball teams in Hyogo Prefecture participate and which is co-sponsored by Tatsuno City, the Iryuu Children’s Softball Baseball Federation, and the Company.

In order to contribute to the local community and regional revitalization, from 2022, the Company began to co-sponsor the “Sports Business Contest held by Victorina Himeji and the Hyogo-Kobe University Consortium”.

In this contest, local university students form teams to address several business issues presented by the women's professional volleyball team, Victorina Himeji, create plans to solve the issues, and put such plans into practice in the team’s home game.We expect that the contest will provide a valuable educational opportunity in which promising students make their own plans and implement them.

To contribute to the revitalization of the local community, the Harima Plant co-sponsored the Tatsunoshi Umetoshionoka Marathontaikai (Tatsuno Marathon), which is held in Mitsu-cho, Tatsuno City.
The Tatsunoshi Umetoshionoka Marathontaikai is a major Marathon event hosted by Tatsuno, with about 4,000 runners and 650 staff members participating.
Our employees are participating in the event as volunteer staff.

The Sakai Plant also cooperates with Green Front Sakai in the Sakai City Marathon, in which our employees participate as volunteer staff.

Our Harima Plant, Fukuchiyama Plant, and Sakai Plant regularly clean the roads in the vicinity.

We also participate in the Ibo River Cleanup Campaign, a trash collection activity after the fireworks organized by Tatsuno City, in an effort to improve the beauty of the area.