Production and Donation of Braille Calendars
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Braille calendars 2011 edition
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MPM began producing Braille calendars for the 1997 edition, and the 2011 edition marks the 15th year of this effort.
2500 Braille calendars were donated to welfare organizations and Braille libraries in areas where our plants are located, and these have been extremely well received by the groups receiving the donations and the visually impaired people using them. They are environmentally friendly thanks to the use of embossed Braille and paper rings. We have also made improvements every year by reflecting comments made by actual users with visual impairments.
Participation in the Koiwai Farm Tree-Planting Festival
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The Koiwai Farm Tree-Planting Festival
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The Koiwai Farm Tree-Planting Festival has been held every year since 1968 with the aim of protecting forest resources while fostering an understanding of their importance. As a member of the Iwate Ryoyu-kai Club, the Company's Kitakami Division has been participating in the festival since 2000.
This year, 19 employees and their family members took part in the festival. The festival's tree-planting activities are based on the premise that forests play a vital role in maintaining environmental integrity by purifying the atmosphere and helping preserve water sources. Thus, we are making a valuable contribution to the preservation of the global environment through long-term tree-planting activities.
Company donates paper for high-school girls' calligraphy contest
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The Shodo Girls' Koshien contest
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The Calligraphy Club of the Hachinohe Higashi High School in Aomori Prefecture participated this year in the Shodo Girls' Koshien calligraphy contest for female high-school students broadcast in the TV program "Zoom in!! SUPER". The program is sponsored by Aomori Broadcasting Corporation, an affiliate of the Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV). The Company's Hachinohe Mill played its part in this program by donating strips of five-meter-wide untrimmed paper for use in the contest.
Participation in work to protect groundwater resources, and "Forest Volunteer" activities
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"Forest Volunteer" activities
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The city of Nagaokakyo in Kyoto Prefecture, where the Company's Kyoto Mill is located, enjoys extensive groundwater resources, thanks to the Katsuragawa and Yodogawa river system. However, in the 1970s the water level was found to be dropping at an alarming rate as an increasingly large proportion of the groundwater was being used up by human activities. In response, the Nagaokakyo Water Resources Fund was established in 1982, and employees of the Company's Kyoto Mill were appointed as executive officers of the fund, where they helped take a number of measures to protect the area's groundwater resources, such as making more use of surface water and engaging in afforestation work in Kyoto's Nishiyama district.
In 2005, the Nishiyama Forest Preservation Promotion Council was set up to supervise and coordinate efforts to protect and expand the extensive forest resources in the Nishiyama district. "Forest Volunteer" activities, directed by the Council, have been held every year since 2006, with the participation of Mitsubishi Paper Mills employees.
Music club members perform concert at home for the elderly
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Concert at Madoka Tateishi Nursing Home
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In February 2010, members of the Music Club at Mitsubishi Paper Sales Co., Ltd. gave a concert for the residents of the Madoka Tateishi nursing home for the elderly. The club plans further such performances as part of the company's CSR activities.
