Community

To assist victims of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and help restore the affected areas, we have donated 10 million yen each to Himi City and Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture where the company has plants.

We invite employees to sign up for restoration volunteer tours open to the public and send employees on the tours on an ongoing basis. We cover the full cost of the tours to encourage employee participation.

At the bazaar, employees supplied items to be sold within the Group, with all the proceeds from the sale of these items, together with an additional donation from the company.

We are supporting the recovery of industries by actively using food grown in disaster-affected areas (provision of menus featuring food from the Tohoku region at the employee cafeteria in the Takaoka Plant on the 11th of every month).

Based on the motto of “nurturing future Nobel Prize winners in chemistry,” we hold chemistry classrooms in various areas to communicate the appeal of chemistry to children.

We are addressing Goal 4 of the UN’s sustainable development goals, Quality Education, by offering educational content to children that fosters an interest in science and chemistry through scientific experiment videos and online science project content (Zeon Kids), thereby contributing to the development of the next generation.

Scientific experiment videos

Created by company employees to demonstrate science and chemistry experiments

Zeon Kids

A website that communicates the fun of science and chemistry and introduces elementary and junior high school students to scientific experiments.

As part of our green procurement initiatives, we are pursuing efforts for green purchasing of office supplies at Zeon Group companies in Japan.

We have acquired the naming rights to the Shunan City General Sports Center and the Shunan Tennis Courts in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the Tokuyama Plant is located, for a period of five years from April 2024. The sports center will be renamed Zeon Arena Shunan, and the tennis courts will be called the Zeon Arena Shunan Tennis Courts.
Through this arrangement, we aim to contribute to the ongoing development of Shunan City by sharing with the citizens an excellent sports facility that promotes physical vigor and mental vitality.

Zeon’s plants and Group companies offer assistance to educational institutions with internships for high school, technical college, and university students, by welcoming plant tours by school groups, and by sending special instructors to give lessons at schools.

Plants participate in community dialog as part of the Responsible Care Council activities and communicate information on environment-related improvements, safety, and disaster preparedness during plant tours for representatives of local government authorities and for community residents. In addition, since FY 2023 we have released videos on our website introducing each worksite to facilitate dialogue with communities.

Zeon attaches great importance to our ties with local communities. Zeon’s plants and Group companies hold various events, including summer festivals, and welcome opportunities to participate in community events.

With the goal of being useful to and benefitting local communities, Zeon’s plants and Group companies conduct community cleanup campaigns around their sites and beyond.