Nidec, once one of Japan’s most acquisitive companies, will return to dealmaking once it recovers from scandals over accounting, succession and quality control, CEO Mitsuya Kishida said.

“We can expand our business into territory where we create solutions by managing or combining our various machinery businesses, including motors,” Kishida said in an interview last week.

While there will be some existing operations that Nidec will need to sell, there are also new areas to push into, he added.

“M&A goes both ways,” he said.

Shigenobu Nagamori, Nidec’s hard-charging founder, built his reputation on rapid M&A integration to drive profit and sales. He relinquished his final management role at the company earlier this year after a series of bookkeeping errors compounded longstanding concerns over succession. Although Kishida was brought in four years ago and was eventually put in charge of restoring investors’ trust, he’s also signaling that M&A is baked into Nidec’s DNA.

One reason for the optimism: Strong sales of components used in emergency power supplies for data centers. The Kyoto-based company is working flat out to meet demand and is moving ahead with plans to build factories in the U.S., China and India, the CEO said.

“Demand is growing at an explosive rate,” Kishida said. “We will need to make additional investments and bolster research.”

Kishida has spoken with multiple media outlets since disclosing that changes were made to product materials, processes and designs without customer approval, many involving parts used in household appliances. Nidec said earlier this month that no quality issues that immediately affect product functionality or safety have been identified.

Nidec shares were battered but have since regained much of their decline.

“Regaining trust is our top priority,” Kishida said.

The company’s investigation into the previously flagged accounting issues is proceeding as expected, Kishida said, adding that he’s determined to make every effort to resolve the problems, which involved numerous cases of improper bookkeeping at subsidiaries in Italy, Switzerland and China, as well as within its core automotive electric-motor inverter business.

The motor maker’s stock has been removed from the Nikkei 225 and Topix indexes, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange has said it may delist the company if it can’t show an improvement in its internal management.