How we’re fighting COVID-19 in our communities

We’ve always supported the places we all call home. First, our philanthropic arm, DENSO North America Foundation, is donating to local organizations across North America battling COVID-19. Grant recipients have been selected and in the process of being notified, and we look forward to sharing this information with you next week.

A few weeks ago, we’ve also created a COVID-19 Cross-functional Community Contribution Task Force which will focus on:

• Planning the manufacturing and donating of personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Supporting community organizations
• Collaborating with partners up and down the supply chain

“We feel called upon to support our communities and those working so hard to protect us,” said DENSO’s North American CEO and Executive Officer Kenichiro Ito. “We’re grateful and hope our small contributions help improve the greater good. With our advanced manufacturing network and strong community ties, we’ll continue to look to use these assets to try to help as many people as possible.”

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, we’ve also:

• Donated nearly 2,000 N95 masks to hospitals in Michigan and North Carolina
• Started manufacturing thousands of face shields to protect local healthcare workers in Maryville, Tenn.
• In Canada, an employee of DENSO’s Guelph, Ontario, facility answered InkSmith’s call for people to 3D-print face shield components and is sending them to the company for assembly and donation to Canadian hospitals
• Began manufacturing components to help our customers COVID-19 efforts
• Collaborated with our customers and our supply chain to identify areas we can support and began implementing
• Joined a D-Wave project to give free access to a quantum computing systems that could facilitate medical breakthroughs to combat COVID-19

Our cross-functional task force team is working hard on many other activities that can help combat and mitigate the COVID-19 crisis. We look forward to sharing those activities, as well as all the DENSO Spirit actions our teams and associates are doing to make a difference during this unprecedented time.

To see all of our other COVID-19 updates, click here.