Nitto Belgium NV donated foam tapes to Mobile School, a Belgian NPO supporting the education of street-connected children. Together with Munsterbilzen Municipal School, Mobile School develops mobile blackboards that they use to provide educational opportunities to children through partnerships with NPOs in various countries and regions. More than 300 educational panels on subjects ranging from literacy to street business are held across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

In the past, as many as 230 rivets were required to build such a blackboard. With Nitto Group’s foam tapes, however, now only 60 screws are needed and assembly time has been reduced from one month to one week. Furthermore, with the use of our tapes, their construction is resistant against water and no longer requires the application of silicone glue to make the frame watertight.

On August 15, 2017, Hydranautics donated over 150 pairs of shoes via Soles4Souls, a non-profit social enterprise committed to fighting poverty through collection and distribution of shoes and clothing. Then, on November 14, Hydranautics employees teamed up with local partnership Oceanside Promise to collect over 500 books for their “Love of Literacy Campaign,” which were distributed to kindergartens throughout the City of Oceanside to help young children to prepare to enter schooling.

For the second consecutive year, employees at Hydranautics displayed their holiday spirit by donating a variety of holiday gifts to support both children and adults of families with members in the military. Over 100 gifts were collected, including clothing, books, and bicycles, which were distributed to 22 children and their families via the NPO Spirit of Sharing (S.O.S.), which has long been dedicated to helping military families in need.

On February 7, 2017, about 20 employees and their family members from Nitto Denko Technical Corporation, Kinovate Life Sciences, Inc., and Nitto BioPharma, Inc. volunteered at the San Diego Food Bank. They had an enjoyable time together as they sorted 10,000 pounds (approximately 4.5 tons) of potatoes in 90 minutes.

On May 30, 12 employees and their family members once again gathered together again to pack up bags of packaged and canned foods for 1,050 needy families. They finished in a record 75 minutes, and are planning on volunteering every quarter to keep supporting people in need.

Nitto Denko (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. donated 13,000 pieces of kinesiology tape for muscle support to a charity run that was held on October 8, 2017 under the sponsorship of Singapore Airlines. The tape was given out to every runner as part of a souvenir package.

Employees of the company also participated in a 5-km-long Fun Run and a Corporate Challenge, in which seven employees ran 70 km in a relay. All of the participation fees for the runners were donated to the Community Chest of Singapore.

During the Nitto ATP Finals, which were held at London’s The O2 arena from the 12th to the 19th of November, the Nitto Group organized a variety of charitable activities. Through these activities, we hoped to bring to life our mission of “bringing smiles on the faces of the children.”

We donated mascot spaces to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) which gave children the opportunity to walk on court with their tennis heroes. Through the support of spectators at the event, we also raised over £3,800 for UNICEF. Further to these activities, Nitto made a £30,000 donation to UNICEF, split evenly across two of their programs; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) that aims to ensure that all children have the right to clean water and basic sanitation; and Health where UNICEF envisions a world where no child dies from a preventable disease and that all children reach their full potential in health and well-being.

Through the British children’s hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital and the children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent, we invited young patients battling serious diseases and their family members to enjoy the Nitto ATP Finals as our VIP guests. The 57 invitees all thoroughly enjoyed watching the exciting matches and their faces beamed with smiles as they were presented with special gifts which included premium Nitto Group products. As a special surprise, they were also individually greeted by the players and left the arena with personal words of encouragement from them.