Partnerships with Local Communities

The “Fureai Festa Autumn Festival” has been held at the Kobe headquarters since 2023. It is a diverse event that deepens ties with the local community and can be enjoyed by children and adults alike, featuring cute stage performances by local preschoolers, disaster prevention quizzes for families, street performances, and a raffle with luxurious prizes.

Kobe Head Office has annually hosted a Tanabata Festival since 2001. The event was canceled from 2020 and on due to the COVID 19 pandemic, and instead, Tanabata bamboo decorations were made surrounding each of the Group offices and plants. The event may not be the same as before, but we plan to continue to actively promote communications with local communities.

In November 2024, we carried out a beach clean-up activity on Suma Beach in collaboration with Kobe Umisakura, a Kobe City NPO, and our business partner RICOH JAPAN Corp. Around 130 employees, their families and members of the general public took part, and learned about the importance of environmental conservation through a variety of programs, including an environmental seminar, a hands-on experience with a plastic sorting sensor, the release of young fish and the transplantation of eelgrass.

The Shikoku Plant hosts a seine net experience event every May on the coast adjacent to the plant. The event in 2023 was the first in four years, enabled by the lifting of movement restrictions due to COVID 19, and participating children rejoiced in such a rare and valuable experience.

In May 2024, 40 employees from the Mitsuboshi Belting Group took part in the Yuragawa River Cleanup Project. This activity was part of the Yuragawa River environmental conservation activities organized by the Analytical Chemistry Club of Kyoto Prefectural Ayabe High School, and around 330 people from local companies and residents took part, collecting around 65kg of rubbish. On the day, we made banners with designs of our company's products, and employees actively competed with each other to see who could collect the most rubbish.

• We provided upcycled backpacks made from recycled PET bottles to students at schools near the WHA industrial area.
• We provided food, daily necessities, school supplies, etc to school children We also collaborated on a project with other companies and donated school bags made from recycled plastic bottles.
• To contribute to reducing CO₂ emissions, we participated in a tree planting project and distributed 828 donated trees to employees, who were asked to plant them in their homes.

In November 2022 PT MITSUBOSHI BELTING INDONESIA ( conducted corporate CSR activities at two locations under the theme of “Go Green, One Tree Million Benefits The first location was at a nearby school called Al Barokah, and the second location was at Pasir Jaya Ward Office We donated 1000 saplings to the school and 1200 saplings to the ward office.

• Al Barokah school
  We donated 1000 saplings to the students and teachers of the school, and we also gave snacks to the students We also donated chairs and building materials to help the school build a first aid room and improve its facilities.

• Pasir Jaya Ward Office
  We presented 1200 seedlings to the ward office The seedlings were later distributed to neighborhood associations and civic groups in Pasir Jaya We work with the hope of contributing to reducing CO₂ improving the quality of the environment, and achieving the SDGs MBI's activities can be viewed on the local YouTube news channel. https://youtu.be/fOp9jetG1Yc

• As part of our environmental efforts, we made a donation to a mangrove planting program through PT Megalopolis Manunggal Industrial Development, which operates the MM 2100 Industrial Town, and planted a total of 25500 mangrove trees on Bahagia Beach in Bekasi District This program aims to protect the coastline from erosion by planting mangroves, which have strong roots that can even withstand tsunamis.

• As part of our educational efforts, we are accepting several students from the vocational training school located in the MM 2100 Industrial Town for on the job training This activity supports the LINK MATCH program run by the Bekasi District Government, which fosters talented students who can hit the ground running and introduces them to companies.

• As part of our social initiatives, we supported the families of employees affected by the strong earthquake that occurred in the Cianjur district of West Java in November 2022 by donating 55 million rupiah through the Cianjur Earthquake Relief Program, which we collected from all our employees including labor unions, employee collectives, and the in house mosque board.

Mitsuboshi Belting Europe GmbH in Germany collected and donated unused cellphones from employees and their families by participating in the Mobile Phone Recycling Campaign run by NABU (Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union) for the purpose of environmental protection This contributes to environmental protection by recycling and properly disposing the circuit boards of collected mobile phones, and the proceeds from recycling are used for the NABU Insect Protection Fund.

In addition to local cleanup activities, we also proactively participate in tree planting activities in the areas where our sites are located, both in Japan and overseas. Tree-planting activities in various locations not only help reduce CO₂ emissions but also contribute to creating a town where people can continue to live by preventing coastal erosion.

In Thailand and Indonesia, where we have manufacturing plants, we provide school supplies, food, and other items to schoolchildren. We also accept students from vocational schools for on-the-job training to support the development of excellent human resources.

The Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake caused devastating damage to Nagata ku, Kobe City, where our head office is located Due to natural disasters and other causes including poverty, as many as five million children under the age of five lose their precious lives every year Staying true to the Corporate Philosophy of “to give attentive consideration to both humanity and nature,” the Mitsuboshi Belting Group began in FY 2005 the tenth anniversary of the earthquake, the activity titled “Extending Love to the Children of the World This activity donates a sum, mainly of collections from Group employees, to Japan Committee for UNICEF, a public interest incorporated foundation, in order to help these children We made a 10 million yen donation in FY 2024.

The Mitsuboshi Belting Group conducts disaster prevention and evacuation drills at each office / plant to raise employees' awareness regarding disasters. Additionally, we have designated January 17, the day of the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake, as “Mitsuboshi Belting Disaster Prevention Day,” and conduct comprehensive disaster prevention drills every year. This drill assumes that a strong earthquake has occurred, and not only conducts activities to prevent and reduce the damages from natural disasters and fires that may occur at any time, but also allows each individual to think about how to respond appropriately in the event of a disaster.