As a part of our quality management activities, we analyze complaints and conduct customer satisfaction surveys at all Mitsubishi Materials business sites and Group companies in order to reflect the diverse demands of our customers. We take analysis results and customers’ comments seriously and submit our findings to management reviews, in an effort to provide customers with better quality products and services.
By taking advantage of the Mitsubishi Process for continuous copper smelting, a unique copper smelting technology that has achieved the industry's top environmental impact reduction, we have long accepted and processed E-Scrap and currently boast the world's number one E-Scrap acceptance and processing capacity of approximately 160,000 tons annually. Against this background, we began operating the new MEX platform for E-Scrap trading, on December 20, 2021, to further improve our customer services. MEX uses the latest digital technologies and includes a large number of features. We aim to be an accessible partner for all customers in Japan and overseas by offering our long-standing experience and high technological capabilities through MEX.
In the recycling and resource circulation sector, the Company carries out recycling treatment of waste products, etc. and devises ways to accumulate improvements in the recycling process, including methods for recovering raw materials, so that recycled resources (copper, iron, resins, etc.) can be systematically supplied in grades and quantities that meet the needs of customers. In addition, each recycling plant actively conducts plant tours for customers in order to provide opportunities for environmental education as part of its social contribution activities.
We deliver advanced products that are essential for customers, leveraging our manufacturing technologies like oxygen-free copper, high-performance copper alloys, and silicon products, as well as process technologies like bonding different materials.
Sharing the future product road map with customers to identify the functional value they demand promptly, we will be a good partner of our customers as their first call vendor.
Web seminars held through live demonstrations from machining technology center
At our Machining Technology Center, we provide technical support to help our customers use cutting tools correctly. Specifically we offer the Machining Academy to increase attendees’ knowledge of tools and cutting operations, along with cutting tests and technical support aimed at enabling our customers to use our tools more efficiently. We also offer toll-free telephone technical counseling. With these and other support services, we strive to ensure direct communication with our customers at all times. In fiscal 2023, we focused our efforts on offering web seminars and remote cutting tests, continued in fiscal 2022. Based on customer demand, we will continue to provide comprehensive solutions through technical diagnoses of processing lines and analyses of cutting operations on them.
We are contributing to the creation of a recycling-oriented society through the business of recycling mineral resources and the development of renewable energy. In the renewable energy sector, we are actively engaged in the maintenance and management of facilities on a daily basis to ensure the stable supply of environmentally friendly energy over the long term, aiming to contribute to the creation of a decarbonized society through the provision of renewable energy. Furthermore, we strive to provide new value derived from "renewable sources" by supplying electricity to local new power initiatives based on the concept of "local production and consumption of energy" and participating in auctions for non-fossil fuel certificates. Through these efforts, we aim to meet the trust of our customers and the community.