Norma : On NORMA Help Day, NORMA Group is committed to social projects around the world »

• On Volunteer Day, employees support social institutions and are committed to protecting the environment
• Community involvement part of the company's corporate responsibility

Maintal, Germany, September 20, 2018-NORMA Group, a global market leader in innovative engineered joining technology, is holding its NORMA Help Day this week. At over 30 locations worldwide, employees of the company are committed to social organizations and environmental projects in the immediate vicinity of the company's locations.

'As a responsible company, we want to make a positive contribution to the regions and local communities in which we operate,'says Dr. Michael Schneider, CFO of NORMA Group.'This is why we also put our corporate responsibility into practice on our annual NORMA Help Day, actively supporting social projects and facilities at our sites around the world.'

Commitments on Volunteer Day
In Singapore, NORMA Group employees packed food parcels and distributed them to needy elderly people in cooperation with an aid organization. Employees in California and China were committed to environmental protection and cleaned parks and green areas, for example. Other sites are supporting kindergartens, orphanages and facilities for those with disabilities.

At the company's headquarters in Maintal, employees were active in four projects: they repaired bicycles for a youth club, took a trip with residents of a senior citizens' facility, got involved in an afternoon of play at a daycare center and helped redesign a community garden.

Monika Böttcher, Mayor of Maintal, praised the volunteers' commitment during a visit: 'I would like to thank the employees of NORMA Group most sincerely for their repeated energetic commitment. This shows that they feel a connection with Maintal. Our society needs more such positive role models. When many hands are at work, great progress can be made in just one day.'

The international NORMA Help Day took place for the fourth time this year.

Through the way in which NORMA Group conducts its business, the company seeks to make a contribution to an ecologically and socially sustainable society. NORMA Group's corporate responsibility strategy helps the Group to act in a responsible manner while at the same time securing its position as a global market and technology leader for engineered joining technology in the long term.

More information on Corporate Responsibility (CR) at NORMA Group can be found on ourCR websiteand in theCorporate Responsibility Report 2017.

Employees of NORMA Group at the afternoon of play in a daycare center

Employees of NORMA Group with Mayor of Maintal Monika Böttcher (center) as well as representatives of the youth club and the city of Maintal.