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| Green Diamonds highlights the ongoing
efforts of Mitsubishi companies to foster a greener,
more sustainable planet
and brighter, more vibrant communities through wide-ranging environmental and
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| Mitsubishi Rayon group company Mitsubishi Rayon Textile
(MTX) stages the Soalon Design Contest each year in Japan.
The contest is open to fashion design faculty students at
the Bunka Gakuen¹ who are expected to move on to play
an active role in the fashion industry. The designs submitted
for the contest must incorporate the Soalon™ textile made
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| by MTX. Providing the
students with an arena for
presenting original design
ideas, the contest serves to
raise the recognition given to
this environmentally-friendly
triacetate fiber and to expand
the avenues for its use. The
theme for the 2013 contest
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Formal Style.” Some 300 |
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| designs were submitted, and after final screening three were
presented with Best Design Awards and one with the Japan
Formal Style Association Award. |
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| Best Design Award designs and their designers. From left: Silver Medal, Victoriya Veselova
(Sophomore, Bunka Fashion College); Gold Medal, Akane Ueno (Senior, Bunka Fashion College);
Bronze Medal, Shohei Kinoshita (Junior, Bunka Fashion Graduate University.) |
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the field of fashion design and science in Japan. |
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| Cleanup activities at Sunrise Day Camp |
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In 2011, Nikon Inc., a member of the Nikon Group, added
the Project F.L.A.S.H. (Families Lending Advice, Support
and Hope) social contribution initiative to the many CSR
programs it already runs. One of the project’s partners is
Sunrise Day Camp, an institution which invites children
with cancer and their siblings to its camp at no cost. Nikon
Inc. organizes charity events with SDC, and company
employees also help in general cleaning and maintenance
tasks at the SDC facility.
Nikon Inc. also helps support Ronald McDonald House of Long Island. RMH provides a program called
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from-home” for
families so they can stay
close-by their hospitalized
child at little or no cost.
Company employees will
often help prepare meals
at the House. |
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The charity walk held at Ronald McDonald House of
Long Island (co-sponsored by Nikon Inc.) |
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■http://www.nikon.com/about/csr/feature/activity/index.htm
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Asahi Glass subsidiary AGC Flat Glass (Thailand) Public
(AFT) began planting mangroves, releasing young fish and
initiating other programs in 2003 to promote awareness
about biodiversity and climate change.
In 2010, AFT began supporting the Learning Center of
Sufficiency Economy in Kanjanaburi Province by donating
over 1,000 trees, which AFT employees have helped to
plant. Working with other Thai glass manufacturers, in 2011
AFT planted some 500 mangrove trees to help prevent land deterioration
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| Planting of herbs and rare trees |
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| in
the Samut Prakan,
Chonburi and Rayong
districts, where three
AFT plants are located.
The company has also
begun planting herbs
and rare trees for |
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are native species but were not considered economically
useful and the planting program is aimed to keep them from
extinction. |
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■http://www.agc.com/english/csr/env/act/biodiversity.html
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Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and the Dutch state-run
energy firm Eneco have entered a long-term strategic
partnership covering offshore wind farm operations in
Europe. MC has also acquired 50% of the Luchterduinen
wind farm planned for construction off the coast of the
Netherlands. The farm will be constructed and operated
jointly by the two companies.
The Luchterduinen wind farm will be located 23 km
off the Dutch coast of Noordwijk in an area covering some
25km². With 43 turbines, the wind farm is due to start
commercial operation in mid-2015 and is expected to
generate approximately 130MW of electricity – enough
energy to power 150,000 households in Holland. |
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