Melife Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Fukio Tsukagoshi), which sells LP gas, electricity, kerosene, and other energy products in the Kanto area and is a subsidiary of Sinanen Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Taro Nakagome), a comprehensive energy, housing, and daily-life services provider, is pleased to announce that it has entered an agreement with Tomisato City in Chiba Prefecture (Mayor: Hirofumi Igarashi) to provide temporary shelters and assist in supplying gas during a disaster with the aim of ensuring that emergency disaster response measures are implemented efficiently in the event of a disaster.

(Photo from left) Nobuyuki Igarashi, Head of General Affairs in Tomisato City,
Hirofumi Igarashi, Mayor of Tomisato City, Fukio Tsukagoshi, President and CEO of Melife Co., Ltd.,
Kenichi Nakano, Chiba Branch Manager, Melife Co., Ltd.

As a company that develops businesses rooted in the local community, Melife has implemented initiatives that make everyone in local communities feel safe, comfortable and satisfied on a daily basis through means such as implementing Children's Emergency Shelter Shop activities in all its offices and installing donation-type vending machines at some of its offices.

Melife Tomisato Store, located in Tomisato City and is the store that has entered this agreement with the city, functions as a central gas filling station and is fully equipped with emergency power generators so that it can operate autonomously during a disaster.

Melife will enter an agreement to provide temporary shelters in three conference rooms inside its Tomisato Store office for residents affected by a disaster should such a situation occur, and will also assist in supplying gas and electricity using its emergency power generators. The conference rooms are spacious and can accommodate about 50 people while the emergency power generators can charge around 50 cell phones simultaneously in addition to operating air conditioning units to ensure that the shelter is kept at a habitable temperature.

Conference room provided as a temporary shelter

Emergency power generators

Melife will continue to make every effort to inform all residents in the local community that their office can be used as a shelters in the event of a disaster by holding disaster prevention and other related events at their Tomisato Store.

As a community-based comprehensive energy service company, Melife will contribute towards achieving a recycling-orientated society in the local community and achieving SDGs with the objective of "Leave no one behind" in the future.

■ Comments from Fukio Tsukagoshi, President and CEO of Melife Co., Ltd.

"How an energy supply company can support the local community is a question we all know is very important in these times when we never know when a disaster might strike.

Melife has had a store in Misawa, Tomisato City since 2003 and supplies distributed energy there as well as LP gas, which is often referred to as the last resort during a disaster. Our office has set up large-scale emergency power generators that run on LP gas, and although I hope a disaster never happens, but if it does, then it is my hope that these power generators can be used to provide and maintain power. I would also like to create initiatives that can contribute to maintaining and improving the quality of life for all residents, not just during a disaster, but during normal times as well."

■ Melife Tomisato Store
Location: 8-1 Misawa, Tomisato City, Chiba prefecture

■ About Melife Co., Ltd.: https://www.melife.co.jp/
Melife Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Sinanen Holdings Co., Ltd. with a community-based network that spans the entire Kanto area. It provides various services related to energy and home & life services, including LP gas, electricity, and kerosene sales, renovation, and house cleaning.

■ Sinanen Holdings Co., Ltd.: https://sinanengroup.co.jp/en/
Founded in 1927, Sinanen Holdings is the holding company of a corporate group offering comprehensive services related to energy, housing, and daily life. With the mission of the Group to contribute to realizing a comfortable life for all customers in their communities through energy and home & life services, we provide Retail/Wholesale Energy & Related Business for consumers, Energy Solution Business for corporations, and non-energy businesses such as bicycle, bicycle sharing, environmental and recycling, system development, antimicrobial, building maintenance and management, and other services. We are also strengthening efforts to develop new environmentally-friendly businesses and corporate initiatives to achieve a decarbonized society.

[Contact for inquiries about this release]

Nishikawa & Endo, Planning Supervision & Public Relations Team, Corporate Planning Department, Melife Co., Ltd.
Tel: +81-3-6478-7858 Fax: +81-3-6478-7857 E-mail: melife-kouhou@sinanengroup.co.jp