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Winners of FY2022 Best Contributors to Product Safety Awards
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November 21, 2022
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been conducting the Best Contributors to the Product Safety Awards program with the aim of encouraging private enterprises to make a greater commitment to improving product safety and to firmly establish the concept of the value of product safety across Japanese society. METI hereby announces that it has selected 13 enterprises and organizations as winners of the FY2022 Best Contributors to Product Safety Awards.
The ceremony will be held on November 29 (Tue.), 2022, at Seiryo Kaikan Hall. *Please note that only people related to the program can attend, as a measure to prevent COVID-19. Members of the press are able to attend the event if they complete prior registration.
1. Outline of the awards program
METI has been holding the awards program since FY2007, aiming to honor companies' pioneering efforts for product safety and thereby firmly establish product safety as a significant value in business activities and consumers' daily lives as well as ensure product safety across society.
2. Winners of FY2022 Best Contributors to Product Safety Awards
(1) METI Minister's Awards
[Large Manufacturer and Importer Category]
- Panasonic Corporation, Living Appliances Company, Laundry systems and Vacuum Cleaner Business Division
[Small & Medium Manufacturer and Importer Category]
- MAZROC Co., Ltd.
[Small & Medium Retailer Category]
- Ibaraki Nikka Service Co., Ltd.
(2) Director-General for Technology Policy Coordination and Industrial and Product Safety’s Awards
[Large Manufacturer and Importer Category]
- Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Inc.
- FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
[Large Retailer Category]
- Akachan Honpo Co., Ltd.
[Small & Medium Manufacturer and Importer Category]
- OHKUMA Co., Ltd
- Ryugu Co., Ltd.
(3) Excellence Awards (Committee Awards)
[Large Manufacturer and Importer Category]
- Noritz Corporation・OMRON Social Solutions Co., Ltd.
[Small & Medium Manufacturer and Importer Category]
- HARIO Co., Ltd.
- FUJISLATE Co., Ltd.
(4) Special Awards (Committee Awards)
[Enterprise General Category]
- YUWA HOLDINGS INC.
3. Profiles of winners
4. The 16th Best Contributors to Product Safety Awards ceremony
The awards ceremony will be held as below, and winners will also deliver speeches.
Date:
November 29 (Tue.), 2022; from 12:30 to 15:30
Venue:
Seiryo Kaikan Hall (2-16-2, Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
[Program]
- Opening remarks
- The 16th Best Contributors to Product Safety Awards ceremony
- Speeches by winners (13 companies)
- Presentations by Gold Medal Winning Companies (two companies)
・YKK AP Inc.
・Accuphase Laboratory, Inc. - Closing Remarks
[Information for the press on how to apply]
Details of the ceremony will be publicized via video at a later date.
Video address:
Capacity:
20
How to apply:
Please call the telephone number of the division in charge shown at the end of this press release for advance registration.
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