Certificate of Outstanding Performance

Following three years of delays caused by the pandemic, in September 2022 we were finally able to hold our first physical board meeting in Kotka, Finland, where our ion exchange resins plant is located.

Before the meeting started, President of Jacobi Group’s owners, Osaka Gas Chemicals, Watabe-san, handed over the Certificate of Outstanding Performance for Jacobi’s 2021 results to our CEO Remko Gouddapel, on behalf of Fujiwara-san, President of Osaka Gas. In addition to Jacobi’s financial results, the award was granted because of the reduction of severe accidents during 2021, stable operations during Covid under very challenging conditions, and the steady continuation of investing in a sustainable future for Jacobi.

We would like to take the opportunity again to thank everyone whole heartedly for your outstanding performance in 2021. Thank you!

Providing Medical
Facilities to Local Primary
Health Centre

Primary Health Centre (PHC) is a government-run hospital in the village Vadasithur with basic facilities to handle immediate medical requirements in the local community. From Jacobi in Coimbatore, India, we provided various medical facilities for the centre. By doing this, several thousands of patients yearly will be helped at the hospital.

In addition, we also provided various speciality medical facilities to the centre and nutritious food and nutrition charts to all the pregnant mothers who visited the hospital on the day of event.

A 90-year history of activated carbon production

Our factory in Premnitz has a long history and has been producing activated carbon since 1933. During the research for his book ‘The History of Activated Carbon’, our colleague DR. Roland K. Wildner found this historical document.

Starting from 1933, the factory was operated under the name Deutsche Aktivkohle Ges.m.b.H., a daughter company of the German I.G. Farben Group, which created the first activated carbon production site in Germany at Bayer Leverkusen. The factory in Premnitz was their subsidiary.

Good luck with the work on your book Roland. We are looking forward to seeing the result.

The document reads:

To support medical treatment of dysentery and typhus. Proven adsorbent of high purity. The application of Carbo medicinalis D.A.K. is indicated in acute gastric and intestinal disorders such as diarrhea, flatulence, symptoms of poisoning, after alcohol abuse etc. D.A.K. is based on a particularly strong adsorptive binding of the toxins in the stomach and intestines, so that resorption of the same, despite the high solution tendency, does not occur in these organs.

Building Toilet Facilities for St. Antonys Secondary School

Jacobi's effort to enhance hygiene in a school headed by Jacobi's Mr. Tomohiro Sakaihori.

St. Antony’s Higher Secondary School, is a government aided school in the Alavanthankulam village near to our factory. The school premises, where over 450 pupils study, does not have adequate restroom/toilet facilities.

As part of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of Nova Carbons, located in Tirunelveli, we have chosen to fund the renovation.

Providing access to one of the most basic necessities in a local community, water.

Providing Non-Potable Water Facility to Local Community

Jacobi Carbons Philippines laid a pipeline from a deep well to the local community and turned over the water station to the Local Government Unit of Villanueva Misamis Oriental.

The provision of a water station in the area will help roughly 150 people, spread across a wide area, to prevent diseases caused by a lack of adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene. It also reduces the physical strain on women's and children’s bodies, not having to walk long distances to fetch water.