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We will accelerate the cultivation of ourcorporate culture and further enhance
our corporate value.
Under our philosophy of “inspiring transformation; shaping the future and creating happiness,” we will further enhance
our corporate value by accelerating the cultivation of a corporate culture in which every employee strives independently
to satisfy customers, thereby creating an “And Game” that satisfies all of our Group’s stakeholders.

December 2022 FDK CORPORATION President & CEO  In October 2019, in order to further strengthen our business structure and improve the corporate value of the FDK Group, we further refined our vision for
the FDK Group. In order to meet the expectations of our various stakeholders,
we have formulated a “10 years’ scheme” as the ideal form of the company

environmental conditions in order to support a wider range of applications.

Next-Generation BatteriesCompactHighdurability

Long lifein 10 years’ time, and to make this a reality, a mid-term business plan, “R1,”for the first three years (FY2020–FY2022) of this period.
FY2021, the second year of the R1 mid-term business plan, was a year ofHighcapacity

Batteries/Engineering & Electronics
High output
Reliabilitysocial structural changes triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, surging raw

SafetyEnvironmental
conservationmaterial prices and difficulties in procuring electronic and plastic parts, logistics disruptions such as container shortages and port congestion becoming

Rapid charging

the norm, soaring international energy prices due to the situation in Ukraine,and further expanded efforts to address sustainability, ESG, and the SDGs.

3Co-Creation

Ryo Nagano

Battery life prediction
Solutions packages

Power Management
Solutions

nicating and Collaborating with Stakeholders,” “Ensuring Compliance,” andIn the area of next-generation technology development, we are applying“Strengthening Corporate Governance.” By advancing responsible initiatives

our electrical energy supply, storage, and control technologies to the re-in these areas and practicing “CSR through core business” that contributes tosearch and development of power management services and products forsolving social issues, we have been striving to realize our vision.

all types of battery devices. In FY2021, we made progress in the prototyping

In January 2022, we launched the “Sustainability Promotion Preparatoryand development of battery modules equipped with a battery management

Committee” to develop and evolve our existing CSR activities into sustain-system based on our cell balance patent, and also in our search for elemental

ability activities. The committee evaluates social issues to be addressed bytechnologies to make battery modules smarter.

the company from the perspectives of both importance in terms of social

The FDK Group’s Initiatives:
From CSR Management to Sustainability Activities

demands and importance in terms of corporate activities. In this way, thecommittee began to examine the materialities that the Group should address
over the medium to long term, and in March 2022, it identified the following

The FDK Group has set out the FDK Group CSR Policy, and has defined seven

five issues as the Group’s materialities: “1. Provision of safe and reliableprioritized initiatives based on the CSR Policy that we will focus on whenelectric energy,” “2. Coexistence with the global environment,” “3. Promotion

Making the Ideal Form of the FDK Group a Reality

energy density to meet the growing demand for smart meters in Japan andputting it into practice. By addressing these issues, we will pursue responsi-of diverse human resources,” “4. Sustainable enhancement of corporate gov-

Our 10 years’ scheme sets forth an ideal form for the FDK Group, including

overseas, and in alkaline batteries, we have improved discharge performanceble management as a global company. In order to move forward with theseernance,” and “5. Contribution to the sustainability of local communities andthe reliability, safety, and environmental conservation that we have always

and resistance to leakage.

initiatives, the FDK Group has established the CSR Promotion Committee,society.” In April 2022, we officially established the Sustainability Promotion

offered. By combining these with various new functions and characteristics,

In next-generation batteries, we applied our Ni-MH and alkaline battery

which works to ensure that the FDK Group Corporate Conduct Guidelines,Committee and initiated sustainability activities to realize the Group’s identi-

we are striving to develop environmentally friendly products that can be usedtechnologies to develop nickel-zinc batteries that use nickel hydroxide for thewhich form the basis of the Group’s CSR activities, and the “FUJITSU Way,”

fied materialities. From FY2022 onward, the activities of this committee willin a wider range of applications and meet the increasingly diverse needs ofpositive electrode and zinc for the negative electrode, as well as metal-hy-

the Fujitsu Group’s philosophy, become widespread and firmly established,promote initiatives that contribute to sustainability and the SDGs and solve

our customers.

dride/air secondary batteries that use oxygen from the air for the positiveand regularly reviews the status of initiatives based on the seven prioritizedsocial issues more than ever before, thereby enhancing our corporate value.

To improve the performance of existing battery products, we have worked

electrode and hydrogen-absorbing alloy for the negative electrode. We areinitiatives set forth in the CSR Policy. The seven initiatives are “Contributing

I hope that this report will foster an understanding of the FDK Group CSR

on materials development, analytical evaluation, and elemental technology

preparing for sample shipment and mass production of nickel-zinc batteries,

to the Materialization and Development of a Sustainable Society,” “Protectingactivities. I would also like to ask all of our stakeholders for their candid feed-development using CAE. In Ni-MH batteries, we have developed high-tem-

while metal-hydride/air secondary batteries for stationary power sources are

the Global Environment,” “Embracing Diversity and Inclusion,” “Developingback and insights for the sake of future FDK Group CSR initiatives.

perature, highly durable, long-life batteries for the in-vehicle accessories andbeing tested as part of an environmental commissioning project to further re-

Human Resources for Their Contribution to Society and the Planet,” “Commu-power backup markets, and mass-produced battery systems for the transpor-duce costs and improve performance. We are also working on improving thetation infrastructure market. In lithium batteries, we have worked to improve

durability of our compact all-solid-state SMD battery SoLiCell® under harsh

FDK GROUP CSR REPORT 2022

FDK GROUP CSR REPORT 2022

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