On February 18, Nidec Corporation has held an eco class for the last time this fiscal year at Kyoto's municipal Takao Elementary School. In the class, titled "What we can do with motors for the global environment," students made motors to learn how fun it is to make things, as well as what they as individuals can do for the global environment.
Nidec Corporation has held an eco-class a total of six times - five times in the city of Kyoto and once in Shiga Prefecture. We will continue to actively promote community-oriented CSR activities, and help individual children raise their environmental consciousness.
54 fourth to sixth-grade students, full of energy, try to answer questions from Nidec employees.
Students work hard on their motors after learning that polishing enamel wires clean is the key to making motors rotate well.
Students learn what they can do to protect the global environment, such as turning off lights in an empty room and shutting off the television that no one is watching.
Nidec Corporation specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of small precision motors and automotive and appliance components. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- appliances, air-conditioning and industrial equipment motors (40.5%);
- small precision motors (21.9%): pin motors for hard drives, fan motors, vibrating motors, brush motors and motor applications, etc. ;
- automotive components (21.3%);
- machines (12.1%): industrial robots, card readers, test systems, presses and power transmission drives, etc. ;
- electronic and optical components (3.9%): switches, trimmer potentiometers, lens units and camera shutters, etc. ;
- other (0.3%).
The net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (17.8%), China (26.7%), the United States (21.6%), Germany (6.1%), Italy (5.5%), Thailand (5.2%) and other (17.1%).
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