Harmony with Local Communities
Basic Approach and Policy
Basic Stance for Corporate Citizen Activities
The Nabtesco Group contributes to the economic development of local areas and society by establishing a production system aimed at local production for local consumption. As part of the implementation of The Nabtesco Way, we clearly state in our policy for our activities as a corporate citizen that in the areas where we operate, we facilitate interactions and collaboration with the area and community regarding the matters related to the businesses that we promote. As a corporate citizen engaged in business activities in a variety of locations, we leverage our resources, such as employees, technologies, products and services, to contribute to solving social issues.
Nabtesco Group Community Investment Policy
Policy
- The Nabtesco Group promises to protect the global environment and promotes harmony with local communities and cultures by practicing The Nabtesco Way.
- In each region where it conducts business, the Nabtesco Group will proactively engage in exchange and cooperate with local communities in those fields closely related to its business.
Targets
- To contribute to solving global social challenges
- To contribute to solving social challenges faced by local communities in each region where the Group conducts business
- To encourage employees’ spirit of challenge and their innovative way of thinking by contributing to solving social challenges in those fields related to the Group’s business
- To increase the Group's brand value by contributing to solving social challenges
- By achieving these targets, to foster the growth of both the Nabtesco Group and local communities and to build long-term relationships of mutual trust
| Priority Areas of activity | Relevance to the Group's business | Corresponding management materiality |
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Corresponding SDGs
System
System to Promote Corporate Citizen Activities
In Japan, the Corporate Communication Department plans a range of programs to utilize the Nabtesco Group’s strength to contribute to the solution of social issues. Then the Department implements the programs in cooperation with the administrative departments, in-house companies, major Group companies and others.
Outside Japan, Nabtesco’s local subsidiaries are taking initiatives to conduct social contribution activities closely connected to local communities.
As for disaster recovery support and for donations made and membership fees paid to general incorporated associations, foundations, NPOs, NGOs and others, the related departments check whether or not they are appropriate in line with the internal rules before the donations, etc. are actually made.
Measures
Resources Invested and Impact
Resources Invested
*Excluding commercial initiatives
Impact
Environment
| Number of trees planted (FY2013 to FY2025) | Accumulated total: 8,420 |
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| Number of persons who planted trees (FY2013 to FY2025) | Accumulated total: 1,827 |
*Not conducted in 2020-2022 due to COVID-19
Education
| Number of persons who joined various programs | FY2025: 90,778 |
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Welfare
| Number of people playing the three para-sports for which Nabtesco provided support (Number in Japan) | FY2025: 9,305 |
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Corporate Citizen Activities
In order to implement even more initiatives in line with the Nabtesco Group Community Investment Policy, the Nabtesco Group launched in 2021 an in-house system to give prizes to the corporate citizen activities that had been conducted by employees in and outside Japan in the previous fiscal year and that met the evaluation criteria to receive the prizes. In FY2025, under the system, the Group gave prizes to the following six activities (conducted by a total of 16 people from three companies) from among the initiatives implemented in FY2024.
Prize-winning corporate citizen activities (FY2025)
- Gold prize: Participation in RIKOCHALLENGE
- Gold prize: Participation in the environmental education project Earth Classroom
- Gold prize: Mangrove tree-planting activities in Thailand
- Gold prize: Winner of the ILCA 7 Class at the 2024 ILCA All-Japan Championships
- Silver prize: Hosting a CSR football tournament
- Bronze prize: Participation in the JIFF Inclusive Education Program
Support for Employees’ Community Contribution Activities
The Nabtesco Group believes that employees’ local community contribution activities are effective in nurturing diversified values and establishing trust with the communities in which we operate, thus we are actively providing relevant support and information to employees. In addition, to promote these activities, our working regulations provide for the use of accumulated leave for participating in volunteer activities organized by international NGOs.
[Priority Activity Area: Environment] Tree-Planting Activities for Coastal Environmental Conservation in Thailand
The Nabtesco Group has continued tree-planting activities at the Bang Poo Nature Education Center in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand, with the aim of strengthening ties with local communities and contributing to the resolution of local environmental issues.
Although the activities were suspended from 2020 to 2022 due to the spread of COVID-19, they resumed in 2023. By 2024, a cumulative total of 7,620 mangrove seedlings had been planted.
In June 2025, the three companies, Nabtesco Automotive Products (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Nabtesco Power Control (Thailand) Co., Ltd., and Nabtesco Service Southeast Asia Co., Ltd. jointly conducted the 10th tree-planting activity. A total of 158 people, including employees and their family members, participated in the activity and planted 800 Portia seedlings. This brought the cumulative number of seedlings planted to 8,420 to date.
Mangroves are a collective term for plants that grow in intertidal zones where seawater and freshwater mix. They are expected to provide various environmental benefits, including water purification, the maintenance and restoration of ecosystems, mitigation of damage caused by natural disasters, and climate change mitigation. Portia is a coastal tree that is highly tolerant of salinity and sea winds. It is considered effective in stabilizing soil to help prevent coastal erosion, serving as windbreaks, promoting coastal greening, and supporting biodiversity conservation.
- *Nabtesco Power Control (Thailand) Co., Ltd. was excluded from the scope of our consolidated subsidiaries following the share transfer in the hydraulic equipment business, effective January 1, 2026.
Planting mangrove seedlings
A commemorative photo of the tree-planting activity
[Priority Activity Area: Education] Development of the Next Generation of Leaders
Exchange with Local Educational Facilities
In order to contribute to the development of next-generation human resources as a member of the local community, the Nabtesco Group invites students, teachers and general citizens to its plants and other facilities for tours and internship programs. Last year, 1,149 people participated in these events.
Support for an Environmental Education Program
Nabtesco has been supporting Environmental Education Program hosted by Asahi Shimbun Company, the newspaper company, since FY2014. The Program is held to help children learn about the Earth in a pleasant manner, and encourage them to voluntarily take actions for the planet.
In this project, Asahi Shimbun, together with seven other sponsors including Nabtesco, created free educational materials (digital materials) and distributed them to approximately 90,000 elementary school students nationwide in FY2025. The materials were also distributed through a content delivery service used by more than 8,400 elementary and junior high schools nationwide. The materials introduce basic knowledge on environmental issues and corporate activities to resolve them. Moreover, an environmental event was held in September, special classes were provided at two elementary schools in December, and participatory events were held for the children, who were asked to create a wall newspaper. The Program provides students with opportunities to raise awareness about the Earth’s environment while learning in a fun way.
Special class provided in the Program
Sponsorship of the JIFF Inclusive Education Program
Since 2024, Nabtesco has been sponsoring the “JIFF Inclusive Education Program” organized by the Japan Inclusive Football Federation (JIFF). This program offers interactive classes for elementary and junior high school students, in which para soccer players give presentations and activities designed to foster understanding of disabilities and awareness of diversity before prejudice and discrimination can arise. In support of the program, Nabtesco Automotive Corporation, a Group company, dispatches Mr. Yusuke Matsuzaki, an amputee soccer* player, as a guest instructor. Through such activities, we promote diversity and inclusion, expand opportunities for people with disabilities, and work toward the realization of an inclusive society.
Amputee soccer: A seven-a-side soccer game played by athletes with upper- or lower-limb amputations using two crutches.
Scene from a classroom session
Scene from an amputee soccer experience in the gymnasium
The Nabtesco Cup Tokai Inclusive Football Festival & Tournament
In November 2025, we hosted the inaugural Nabtesco Cup Tokai Inclusive Football Festival & Tournament at Sports no Mori Suzuka (Suzuka Sports Garden) in Mie Prefecture. The purpose of this tournament is to support the growth of the next generation through sports by providing middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities with opportunities to experience football and interact with their peers in the community, while also contributing to the realization of an inclusive society where everyone, regardless of whether they have a disability, can enjoy sports. On the day of the event, 104 players from eight teams in the Tokai region participated. Two classes were established based on participants’ competitive experience, providing opportunities for even children experiencing football for the first time to participate. Nine of our employees also supported the tournament as volunteer staff. We will continue to support the tournament in cooperation with relevant local organizations.
Group photo of tournament participants and event volunteers
Trophies presented to the winning teams in each class
Supporting Japanese National Team Schools for International Rocketry Challenge
The Nabtesco Group has been supporting schools which have participated in the International Rocketry Challenge (IRC) as a Japanese national team since FY2016. In this event, national teams consisting of junior high and high school students from the US, the UK, France and Japan participate as teams to design, build and launch a model rocket, competing for higher altitude, longer flying duration and others. Events have been held during the Farnborough International Airshow (in even-numbered years) and the International Paris Airshow (in odd-numbered years) at the respective sites. The Nabtesco Group provides some of the travel expenses for the Team Japan students to participate in the competition. In FY2025, we provided support to Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa Secondary School and its affiliated junior high school. The Group will continue to support national team schools as part of an initiative to develop next-generation human capital in the field of aerospace engineering, with which the Nabtesco Group is involved in its business.
Students from the Japanese representative school who participated in the International Rocketry Challenge (IRC)
Holding a RIKOCHALLENGE Event
Since March 2021, the Nabtesco Group has been supporting the RIKOCHALLENGE initiative implemented by the Gender Equality Bureau of the Cabinet Office of Japan. In the summer of FY2025, we held the Nabtesco Summer Workshop, “Let’s Make Key Chains with 3D Printers!” at the Nabtesco R&D Center in Kyoto City as a RIKOCHALLENGE event to support female students interested in science and engineering in their career choices. Twenty-four female junior high and high school students from across Japan participated in this event. We will continue to hold similar events to encourage more women to engage in fields related to science and engineering.
Key chain design workshop
Original key chains made with a 3D printer
Held Nabtesco Youth Curling Academy
To strengthen and develop junior athletes with the potential to represent Japan in the future, Nabtesco has been hosting the Nabtesco Youth Curling Academy since 2023. Organized by the Japan Curling Association, the academy is open to junior high and high school athletes who have competed in events such as the Japan Junior Curling Championships. Over the course of three days, instructors—including current members of Japan's national curling team—provide practical and classroom-based instruction. In 2025, the academy was held in Karuizawa with 26 junior athletes participating. We will continue supporting young athletes as they pursue their dreams while passing on the joy and value of sports to the next generation.
Junior athletes who participated in the Nabtesco Youth Curling Academy
Support for Youth Athletes
The Nabtesco Group has been supporting youth athletes since FY2018.
In each of the regions where we have our bases, we aim to foster harmony with the region and local culture by giving support for the education of local school children and for youth sports. Since FY2018, the Nabtesco Group has provided assistance to a total of 16 youth athletes in fencing, sailing, speed skating, shooting, BMX, mogul skiing, golfing, weight-lifting and others, thereby helping school children and young people to make their dreams come true through sports.
Sailing
Weight-lifting
[Priority Activity Area: Welfare] Support for Para-Sports
Support for Wheelchair Curling and Para Ice Hockey
Nabtesco has been supporting para-sports, specifically wheelchair curling and para-ice hockey as official partners of the Japan Wheelchair Curling Association and the Japan Para Ice Hockey Association. We will continue to give support for para-sports to contribute to the creation of a vibrant, symbiotic society, which is upheld as the philosophy for para-sports.
Support for Disabled Soccer
Nabtesco has entered into a partnership agreement with the Japan Inclusive Football Federation (JIFF) starting in 2024. We share JIFF’s vision: “Through football, we contribute to creation of a vibrant, inclusive society where everyone, with and without disabilities, can enjoy the value of sport and individuality of each person is fully respected.” Through our support for JIFF’s various activities, we will work to expand the possibilities for people with disabilities and advance the realization of an inclusive society.
