Social Value

Seiko Epson traces its roots to Daiwa Kogyo, a watch factory. Over the decades, we have developed watch manufacturing technology and master watchmakers.
Seiko Epson holds watch assembly classes for elementary and junior high school students in the community to provide them with opportunities in which they can experience the fun and lure of monozukuri. Children who took the classes felt a sense of accomplishment and gained a greater understanding of local industry. They commented that they were surprised by the tiny parts in a watch and found it difficult to insert them in tiny holes. Nevertheless, they were pleased to complete their watches with support from the staff.

To stimulate the local economy and community, Seiko Epson sponsors fireworks festivals that take place in Suwa, Shiojiri, Azumino, Minowa, Beppu and other areas where it operates.
Seiko Epson has been a sponsor of the Lake Suwa Fireworks Festival since 1956. The festival is held in the city of Suwa, the location of Seiko Epson's Head Office. This festival, one of the largest in Japan, is a local summer tradition. The sound of fireworks exploding over the lake reverberates off the surrounding hills, thrilling spectators.

Epson Singapore Pte. Ltd. (ESP) employee volunteers teamed up with the staff from Rainbow Centre to bring children with disabilities out for an excursion to Gardens by the Bay. It was an exciting day for us as we interacted with the children, which also allowed us to learn more about different ways to communicate with and befriend persons with disabilities.
Together, we can embrace diversity and inclusion to create a better world in our own ways.

Epson Deutschland GmbH (EDG) has been running its 290 Days of Social Commitment program since 2008. All 290 EDG employees are granted one day of paid leave to serve the community by volunteering their time at social welfare facilities or schools in the area around the Düsseldorf office.
The activities are diverse. In FY2023, they included building a warehouse in the schoolyard to store toys for children needing special educational support, cleaning up riverbanks, helping elderly people with gardening work, repairing stables for an animal welfare organization, and donating laptops to support disadvantaged people in need.

Seiko Epson has been bringing the Fantas Aquarium to hospitals and special-needs schools around Japan since 2015. The Fantas Aquarium is a projector-based production that uses a technique called Fantas Projection to generate a calm and peaceful space through a combination of video images, music, and gently swaying screens. The result is a richly stimulating sensory experience that delights the senses of sight, touch, and hearing. In the 2024 fiscal year, the company staged this event at 7 locations nationwide, welcoming 2,222 visitors. The shows were set up and run with the help of employee volunteers. In recent years, with access to facilities limited due to the pandemic, Epson started a Fantas Car (a mobile cart equipped with a projector) loan program. Facilities exercised ingenuity to effectively use the Fantas Car to stage shows in ways that were best for them. In FY2024, a total of 9,987 people were able to experience the program at 37 facilities nationwide.
Facility and school staff members, as well as members of the children's families, often report that children are stimulated by and respond positively to the Fantas Aquarium. Even children who normally sleep all day will suddenly open their eyes to follow the projected images or will reach out to try to touch them, their faces lit up in wonder. Children who are normally confined to a hospital room will shriek with delight at the prospect of an outing beyond their door.  
Seiko Epson looks forward to delivering the Fantas Aquarium experience in different ways in the future.

Epson India Pvt. Ltd. (EPIL) believes in the importance of childhood education and has an assistance program that focuses on underprivileged children. Over the past several years, EPIL has been distributing notebooks, backpacks, stationary, and other goods to public schools that serve underprivileged children primarily in the states of Karnataka, in southwest India where EPIL is located, the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the northern state of Utter Pradesh and in the western state of Maharashtra. The number of recipient schools has been increasing year by year. In fiscal 2024, we delivered goods to 539 schools and 42,480 students. The children were happy with their new gear that helped with their studies.

Since FY2022, Seiko Epson has been officially collaborating with Bunka Fashion College (Tokyo) on a Creative Support Project, which promotes sustainable fashion through environmentally conscious digital textile printing technology. This initiative provides aspiring designers with hands-on experience using the latest technology to create original textile designs.
The apparel industry is implicated in some serious environmental issues. It is estimated that 35% of all textile materials in the industry become waste¹, and that 20% of global industrial wastewater comes from the textile sector ².
Digital textile printing can help address these issues thanks to two key advantages over conventional analog textile printing.

• Digital textile printing provides prints on-demand. Textiles are printed only in the amount needed, when they are needed.
• Digital textile printing obviates the need for printing plates and a water-based cleaning process, significantly reducing water usage.

Seiko Epson established the Epson Information Science Vocational School in 1989 to develop technical personnel who are trusted by the community and can make wide-ranging contributions to society. The school has produced more than 3,000 graduates so far, some of whom are working at Epson.
Most of the instructors are engineers and developers who have corporate experience, including at Epson. The curriculum is designed to enable students to master skills that can be used in actual work. There are three disciplines: Information Systems, Information and Electronic Systems, and Information Business. All of these are recognized as Professional Post-Secondary Courses by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Seiko Epson has been supporting the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival since it began, in 1992.
The festival brings together top-notch musicians from all over the world to perform high-quality programs, including orchestral concerts, chamber music and opera.
There are special events geared toward children. To date, invitations have been extended to 13,000 sixth-graders, seventh-graders, and to schools for the deaf, blind, and disabled in Nagano prefecture. This education program provides a valuable opportunity for the children to hear live orchestra music, thus serving as a catalyst for interest in music.