Optex Group's business contributes to the achievement of SDGs goals

Since our founding, we have been developing our business with the goal of contributing to a "safe, secure, and comfortable" society and industry by making full use of our sensing technology. In other words, we are expanding our business to remove the “un” from unease, the “dis” from discomfort, and the “in” from inconvenience that exists in the world. We believe that the SDGs are also about removing these negative prefixes from the world, and here we will introduce the projects (removing the negatives) and CSR activities that we believe will contribute to achieving the goals of the SDGs that we have been engaged in.

THE 17 SDGｓ	169　Targets	Optex Group's business contributes to the achievement of SDGs goals
	4.1　By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes	Providing children with hands-on learning experiences such as canoeing on the shores of Lake Biwa and observation of biodiversity ⇒Lake Biwa Environmental Experience Learning Program Providing children with opportunities to learn about history, traditional culture, nature, and the environment as part of their out-of-school learning through the World Heritage Site of Mt. Hiei
	4.4　By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship	Nurturing the next generation of young people to be active in the world ⇒Agreement courses at universities ⇒Supporting education through business activities
	6.3　By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally	Improving the water environment in countries and regions where water pollution is becoming more serious ⇒Sustainable river water quality monitoring with WATER it
	7.3　By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency	Conducting environmental assessment evaluations in product planning and selling environmentally friendly products with the goal of reducing CO2 emissions during product use ⇒Environmental contribution through products
	9.5　Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending	Support for selecting the most suitable model by reproducing the conditions close to the customer's imaging environment ⇒Provide evaluation opportunities with AI labs and testing rooms
	11.1　By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums	Providing sensors that operate stably even outdoors, where there are many factors that can cause malfunctions, and that are useful for outdoor crime prevention. ⇒Sensors for "outdoor pre-crime prevention" aimed at deterring crime before it happens
	11.3　By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries	Solving the problem of delayed detection of events due to missed images ⇒Supplemental lighting for surveillance cameras for accurate situational awareness
		Industry-academia collaboration to commercialize an inspection robot that can inspect aging social infrastructure and disaster response using cameras and sensors ⇒Remote controlled crawler robot for monitoring and inspection
	11.7　By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities	Automatic doors that allow all users to pass through safely and securely. ⇒Automatic door sensors
	12.3　By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses	Reducing food loss and supporting safe and secure food supply ⇒Label Inspection Systems, High Performance Print Inspection Systems
	13.3　Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning	Simple Flood Monitoring System to be Used for Early Flood Control Activities ⇒Road flooding, simple monitoring