NDK sincerely abides by laws, regulations and social norm as business ethics, so that we could fulfill the NDK's philosophy, which is "being aware of its mission and responsibility as the top manufacturer in the world in the crystal products industry".
NDK prohibits illegal financial transactions and criminal act as corruption, extortion and embezzlement. Moreover, NDK establishes Internal Hotline System, acquires information in-house about breaches of laws, regulations, etc., then analyzes and utilizes such information. NDK entirely prohibits unfavorable treatment in personnel evaluation of whistleblowers and collaborators, and set a compliance hotline as the Compliance Committee (in-house) with a women-only contact point and an external hotline (lawyers), so as for all the employees to report or consult their problems.

Promotion of compliance

We are actively focused on enhancing our policies, practices and trainings to deepen this commitment through establishing committees in each department such as General Affairs, Personnel, Quality Assurance, Sales Purchasing, Legal. Also, we established the Compliance committee in each group company.

NDK Group Code of Conducts

In December 2015, NDK established "NDK Group Code of Conducts" . In April 2019, NDK revised the Conducts. There are three languages version; Japanese, English and Chinese which was distributed to each group company. In NDK, all employees learn and test the contents of the Conducts every year in order to understand its importance.

Internal Reporting System

In all NDK group companies, we established internal reporting system for observing internal situation and regulating violation as well as improving the situation and protecting person who reported. Also, NDK provides three internal report desks superiors, the compliance committee and external law firm, and moreover recording the number of reporting in internal website every half a year. Furthermore, NDK has a system for raising an objection of the internal investigation results, and the report desk for the objection is not only compliance committee and internal report desk but also external law firm other than the one of internal report desk.

Export Control

NDK constructs a fast and reliable export system, obtaining and taking advantage of the following export certifications, so that we could fulfill the NDK's philosophy, which is "being aware of its mission and responsibility as the top manufacturer in the world in the crystal products industry".

Utilization of the open general licensing system on notification of CP to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

A CP (Compliance Program) is a set of internal policies and procedures of a company prescribing a series of export procedures to comply with laws and regulations on security trade management such as the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, and to prevent violations. Notification of CP to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will enable NDK to engage in exports exempted from individual review of application for the export license when exporting the restricted items (technologies) which require permission under the Foreign Exchange, and Foreign Trade Control Law.