Social Contribution Activities

The Resonac Group has been continuously conducting an aluminum can recycling activity with the participation of its employees as well as employees from partner companies.
In 2022, 33 domestic business locations of the former Showa Denko Group engaged in aluminum can recycling activities, collecting approximately 2.3 million aluminum cans over that year. We also contributed to communities through such activities by donating approximately 1.5 million yen in proceeds from these activities to local welfare facilities, elementary schools, municipalities, and other local organizations.

Resonac Automotive Products (Thailand) Co., Ltd., contributes to local communities by having employees visit local elementary schools and use their skills and knowledge to teach students how to make bio-compost from vegetable scraps (stressing the importance of separating waste), educate them on hydroponics, and provide safety instruction.

In order to address the social issue of declining interest in science among children, the Resonac Group provides kindergartens, nursery schools and elementary and junior high schools located around its sites with texts and materials for experiment classes and also provides instructors for such classes from among its own employees, with the aim of helping children discover the joys of learning about science and chemistry. Moreover, on our official website, we post videos offering easy-to-understand explanations about how to conduct experiments like those included in the experiment classes at home, as well as the teaching materials (in PDF format) on the wonders of chemistry that we created and published for the classes.

In the Lake Kasumigaura basin, from which our Group draws a considerable amount of industrial water, we have since FY2012 been implementing the “Project to Restore the Environment around Kasumigaura" as a social contribution activity in cooperation with the certified NPO Asaza Foundation. Ibaraki Prefecture’s Sakuragawa City, where the project is based, sits near the headwaters of Lake Kasumigaura, and we are aiming to restore the satoyama environment and conserve the ecosystem there through rice cultivation on abandoned farmland. With cooperation from the local community, we have been clearing bush, creating biotopes, and carrying out other environmental maintenance activities in conjunction with rice planting, weeding, and harvesting programs, as well as engaging in fixed-point observations of the creatures living in the surrounding area. These observations have confirmed that the numbers of river snails, red-legged frogs and other living creatures has increased since the activities started, and we hope to boost the number of species in future. We have also confirmed the presence of species listed on the Ministry of the Environment's Red List – including giant water bugs, whirligig beetles, and Japanese eight-barbel loaches – and we will be continuing our efforts to conserve the ecosystem. While we had to suspend our activities in the area from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we resumed our efforts in 2023.

We are conducting this activity to deal with the social issue of global warming. Specifically, we are working to create more “green curtains” on and around the premises of our sites in and outside Japan. In this activity, participants can enjoy creating green curtains that will help them stay comfortable without relying on air conditioners. (Cooperation by an NPO named “Midorinoka-ten Oendan”)