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TAMRON CSR Report 2013

Table of Contents
Table of Contents, Company Outline… ………………… 1
Tamron’s CSR Management… …………………………… 2
Message from the President………………………………… 3
Participation in the UN Global Compact………………… 4
Feature Article：What Tamron Can Do Through Photography… … 5
Relationships with Customers……………………………… 7
Relationships with Business Partners… ……………… 10
Relationships with Employees…………………………… 11
Relationships with Shareholders and Investors……… 13
Management System… …………………………………… 14
Relationships with the Environment…………………… 15
Environmental Objectives and Targets Achieved…… 17
Reducing CO₂ Emissions and Energy Consumption…… 18
Reducing Waste and Water Consumption…………… 19
Relationships with Society……………………………… 20
Activities at Subsidiary Companies Overseas… …… 21
Independent Third Party Opinion… …………………… 22

Editorial Policy(1)This report was issued to keep our stakeholders including
customers, employees, shareholders, investors, business
partners, local communities, public institutions, NGOs andNPOs of our activities for protecting the environment anddischarging our social responsibilities.
(2)This reports covers activities at all the Tamron Group
including Tamron Co., Ltd., Tamron Optical (Foshan) Co., Ltd.,and overseas sales subsidiary companies (except for some
information on environment data and so on).
(3)Guidelines mainly referred in compiling this report:
Environmental Report Guidelines, Ministry of the Environment(2012 version)
Greenhouse Effect Gas Measuring & Reporting Manual Version
3.3 (Version 2.4 2009 on emission coefficient factors).
Environmental Accounting Guidelines, Ministry of theEnvironment (2005 version).
(4)We also referred to GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines
and ISO 26000:2010 Manual on Business Entities’ Social
Responsibility in extracting the needs for disclosing information
to our stakeholders.
(5)We worked on information disclosure sharing our perspectives
with our stakeholders, by referring to the warranty processes
in the AA1000 Warranty Standard.
(6)We selected the cover design to express our corporate
attitude attempting to contribute to the environment of theearth and the harmony with all stakeholders through lenses.

Company Profile
1

Trade Name : Tamron Co., Ltd.
Head Office : 1385 Hasunuma, Minuma-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama, Japan
TEL : 048-684-9111
Founded : November 1, 1950
Incorporated : October 27, 1952
Capital : 6.923 billion yen
President & CEO : Morio Ono
Employees : 2,295 (consolidated, excluding 3,843 temporary employees)
Net Sales : 64.353 billion yen (consolidated, as of December 31, 2012)
Domestic Factories : One each in Hirosaki, Namioka and Owani in Aomori
Consolidated Subsidiaries : U.S.A., Germany, France, Hong Kong, China(Shanghai, Foshan), Russia, Vietnam

Outlines of Business Operations（Billion yen）

60

14.2%

62.5
49.8

50

56.6

58.5

2010

2011

Consolidated
64.3

40
30
20
10
0

Commercial/industrial optics

2008

2009

2012

《Employees》（person）

12.9%
Sales composition ratios
by business segment(2012, consolidated)

Photographic
lenses《Net Sales in the Recent Five Years》
70

Listed : 1st Section, Tokyo Stock Exchange

Component
opticsHead Office (Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture)

72.9%

8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0

355
572

450

5,571

5,472

Consolidated (regular employees)

Consolidated (temporary employees)

406

7,198

3,843

6,005
2,295

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012 1

1. The sharp increase of the number of temporary employees in 2012 is due tochanges Tamron Optical (Foshan) Co., Ltd introduced in its employee hiring pattern.

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Tamron's CSR Management
For Enhancing Corporate Value

Twelve Themes for Enhancing CSR Management

Tamron's CSR management is conducted under ourbasic corporate philosophy of contributing to theeconomy, society and environment by supplying
customers with quality products that serve as eyes forindustry. Our basic corporate philosophy advocatesperforming all of our primary business operations
based on The Action Declarations defining the stancethe company should take toward stakeholders
divided into five categories of “customers”,“employees”, “shareholders”, “business partners” and“society”, and The Action Codes showing how all
Tamron employees should act while dialoguing with
our stakeholders, for conducting CSR management.

We have been working on our business operations
under twelve themes established for being acompany acknowledged by stakeholders. Throughaddressing these themes for CSR management, weare discharging our responsibilities to contribute toeconomy, society and the environment, for being acompany our customers select as a reliable supplier,in other words, to be a company having power to be
selected by customers1.
1. This is one of our corporate objectives, a factor showing power to be selected
and supported by customers.

Twelve Themes Association table

The Action Declarations of Tamron

Twelve Themes●From the customer perspective
Recognizing that customer satisfaction is of the highest
importance, we will contribute to society by supplying
safe,high-quality original products and services.

Compliance●From the employee perspective
In order to become self-reliant, each employee at
Tamron works with a spirit of challenging diﬃculties,
maintains good communications with fellow workers forcreating a lively work environment, and strives to yield
the best possible results at all times while observing thelaws and regulations.
Each and every employee at Tamron respects humanrights to support a good society as a good corporate
citizen.
●From the shareholders/investor perspective
All of us working at Tamron strive to enhance Tamron s
corporate value through faithful management , maintain
good communications with our stakeholders, and workon enhancing stakeholder conﬁdence to be a company
worthy of stable investments.

●From the society perspective
Maintaining good communications with local communities,
we will strive to contribute to their growth while
upholding their tradition and culture as a good
corporate citizen.
We will observe the laws and regulations, aiming at
earning conﬁdence from society as a good corporate
citizen.
We will be up against all social anti-society forces andorganizations that pose threats to the public order andsafety of our civil society.
We will work hard in NGO and NPO projects toestablish a good society.

CSR Committee
Our CSR Committee meets monthly to closely watch
the progress of activities for pursuing the twelve
themes. The committee is an organization under the
direct command of our president.
Representatives from all divisions at the headoffice
and factories at home and abroad meet monthly
through videoconferencing.

P13、16

Corporate Governance

P13

Risk Management

P14

Environment

P9、10、15 〜 19

Information disclosure

P13

Quality Products/Safety

P7 〜 9

Occupational Safety & Health

P11 〜 12

Employment/Human Resources

P11 〜 12

Human Rights

P10、P11 〜 12

Social Contribution

P5 〜 6、20

Information Security

P13

Private Information Protection

P13

Power to be
selected
Information disclosure
Environment

Employment/
Human Resources
Private Information
Protection
Human Rights

Society2

Corporate Value

Responsibility to Contribute toSocial and Environmental Issues●From the business partner perspective
All of us working at Tamron observe the laws andregulations, aiming to establish relationships that ensure
receiving a supply of quality materials and services fromour partners through trans parent transactions, working
to grow and contribute to society together with ourpartners.

Relevant page

SocialContribution
Quality Products/
SafetyOccupational
Safety & Health
Information Security

Risk Management

Compl ianc e

Environment

Corporate Governance

EconomyEconomic Responsibility
Twelve Themes for Enhancing CSR Management

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Message from the President
Contribution to Photographic and Imaging Culture
Looking back on 2012, the year obliged us to muse on future anxieties from natural
disasters at home and abroad, terror activities abroad and the European debt crisis.
Under such circumstances, we continued to work on contributing to developing
photographic and imaging culture as a photographic lens maker. We co-sponsored aphotographic exhibition“Ikiru “We(survive”) – Post Tsunami”JPS (Japan Professional
Photographers Society held to introduce pictures taken during the first year after
the earthquake and tsunami that hit the Northeast of Japan on March 11, 2011.
Also, to pass on the lessons learned from the disaster to the next generation not
only at home but also abroad, we co-sponsored the same exhibition JPS held at the
Photokina in Germany. Further more, we hosted the Railroad Scenery Photo Contest
again in 2011 to contribute to revitalizing photographic culture as a company with
our head office in Omiya, as well as our Macro Lens Photo Contest 2012 open to all
macro photo photographers.

For Global CSR Management
We have continued to work had on practicing CSR management at home andabroad under our corporate philosophy of“Contributing to Society by Creating
New Eyes for Industry”. In 2012, as for our environment objectives, we reduced
our group CO₂ emissions by 6.2% compared to 2009 in basic unit on sales. In 2013,
we will continue to work on reducing our CO₂ emissions by one percentage point
annually on an average compared to 2012 so that we may reduce our group total
CO₂ emissions by least seven percentage points by 2020 compared to 2012. Also,
as part of our risk management program, we reviewed our BCP (Business ContinuityPlan), refining risk management systems at our domestic factories.
We also continued to promote product designs friendly to the environment, ensuring
compliance with related laws at home and abroad while pursuing CSR procurementby paying attention to mineral resource problems. Furthermore, we continued towork on pursuing DfE (Designs for Environment), successfully reducing the weightof our photographic interchangeable lenses by 7% on an average compared to 2011
and the cubic capacity by 8% .
In order to be supported by customers, it is important to continuously work on
improving our after-service system. In 2012, we established our global system tocomplete repair work within three days at all repair service facilities all over theworld. In 2013 and beyond, we will continue to work on becoming a first-class lens
maker capable of living up to expectations of customers all over the world in every
aspect.

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President & CEO
Tamron Co.,Ltd

Morio Ono

Management Always Values Employees
At Tamron, we believe that our employees become possible to live up to customer
needs and make social contribution as we pursue management that always
values employees. We also know that respecting diversity is important in the eraof expanding globalization. From this standpoint, we plan to improve our work
environment to be more comfortable to women employees, while expanding theratio of managerial-level women employees. To that end, we plan to study a programfor establishing our own in-house nursery centers in the future.

Supporting the United Nations Global Compact
We established a sales subsidiary company in Russia in 2012 and plan to build afactory in Vietnam in 2013. In pursuing globalization in this way, we have continued
to support the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact Initiative thatserves as the basic code of conduct for all global companies, reflecting them on
our Action Declarations. Also, we hired natives as supervisory employees of thosesubsidiaries to promote CSR management in line with the local conditions. In 2013
and beyond, we plan to strengthen our consciousness of human rights as we believe
it will become more important in pursuing further globalization.
In compiling this CSR Report, Ｗ Ｅ focused on communicating with our stakeholders. We
would greatly appreciate your comments and suggestions for how we can further
improve our CSR management.

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Participation in the UN Global Compact
Tamron operates around the world, including a production
base in China and subsidiary sales companies in Europe
and America. Agreeing to the Global Compact（GC）, theinternational initiative proposed by the United Nations to
support the Ten Principles related to human rights, labor,
environmental protection and preventing corruption, Tamron
became a supporter of the initiative in August 2007. The
Ten GC Principles became pillars for establishing our CSR
promotion structure. We will continue to conduct ourbusiness following The Ten Principles, fulfilling our social
responsibility.

For further details on the initiative, please visit the United
Nation website at WEB
WEB http://www.unglobalcompact.org/

COP Report（Communication on Progress）
The following table describes our accomplishments and work at Tamron during 2012 in line with the Ten Principles.

Human Rights

Principle

Tamron’s Policies① Business should supportand espec ttheprotectionof internationally proclaimed
human rights

・We advocated support of basic humanrights in our Action Declarations.

Actions Taken, Accomplishments in 2012

Page

P2

Labour・We declared respect for human rights and abolishmentof discrimination in our Compliance Regulations.
・We Established Human Rights Protection &Labor
・ C o n d u c t e dStandard Management Regulations.
internal hearing
surveys on CSR
activities, basedon EICC’s Code③ Business should uphold the・We declared respecting the right of o f C o n d u c t 1 .
freedom of association andour employees to organize (in our (Interviews withthe effective recognition of them a n a g e r i a llabor organization memorandum).
right to collective bargaining
employees at thehead office, three
Aomori factories
・We stipulated the importance of complying
and Tamron④ Business should support thewith labor-related laws and regulations andOptical (Foshan).
elimination of all forms of
maintaining a proper work environment for our
For further detail,forced and compulsory labour
employees (in our Compliance Regulations).
please refer toPage 10 of this
⑤ Business should support
・We declared that we do not use child labor.
report.
the effective abolition of(We do not employ any workers under age
child labour
15,which is stipulated in our employment rules.) ・ P r o v i d e d o u r② Business should ensure thatthey are not complicit inhuman rights abuses

・Established and adopted
Human Rights Protection &Labor Standard Management
Regulations at our domestic
bases and Chinese factory.
P11 〜

P12

4
・Periodically provided opportunities
to discuss labor-management
issues at times including joint
management council meetings P12
and annual plan rollout meetings.
・Held social gatherings of the President
and woman employees.
・Specified all business days as“No P11〜
overtime work days”(Head Office) P12
・Established a manual to checkage of applicants at time of
P10
employment (Factory in China,
hereinafter called“TOF”)

employees with
an opportunity ・Achieved challenged person
employment and female manager
to learn more
P11〜
promotion rate targets.
about the 12
P12
C S R T h e m e s ・Ratio of taking newbornbaby careleave: 100%
(Held once to 86
employees)

Environment⑥B usiness should support theelimination of discriminationin respect of employment andoccupation

・We declared our targets for employing
physically challenged persons and ourpolicy to increase the ratio of female
managers in order to realize a diversified
work place.

⑦B usiness should support apreca utionary approach toenvironmental challenges

・We declared our policy in our consolidated
・Incidences connected to contact withmanagement policy to prevent environmental 1 . E I C C s t a n d s f o r
harmful chemical substances: Zero
P9〜
Electronic Industry
deterioration through work such as the following:
Citizenship Coalition. ・Provided an educational course on P10(1)Reducing CO₂ emissions.
biodiversity (Once at Head Office to 49
It established the(2)Reducing industrial waste.
employees)
P16〜
Code of Conduct(3)Finding alternative materials to harmful chemicalt o e n s u r e w o r k e r ・Participated in actions to protect local P20
substances.
ecological systems (Head Office)safety, fairness,(4)Keeping biodiversity intact.

⑧ Business Should undertake・We declared our policy to clearly establish
initiatives to promote
our environment objectives and targets for
greater environmental
thefollowing:
responsibility(1)Reducing CO₂ emissions⑨ Business should encourage(2)Reducing industrial waste emissions to
the development and diffusion
ultimately achieve zero emissionsof environmentally(3)Promoting environmentally-friendly designs
friendly technologies

Anti-Corruption⑩ B u s i n e s s e s s h o u l d w o r k ・We declared our policy to regulate acts ofagainst corruption in all its
endowment and political donations andforms,including extortion
terminate ties with anti-social forces in ourand bribery
Compliance Regulations and Action Declarations.

environmental
responsibility andbusiness efficiency atmember companies
in the electronic
industry.

・Reduced CO₂ emissions by 6.2 % , compared to2008 in basic unit per sales
・Achieved waste emission reduction targets. P17〜
・Reduced product weight by 7% on an average. P19
・Reduced product cubit capacity by 8% on
an average.

・The Compliance Promotion Committee
held workshops for employees to learn P13
more about compliance.

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Feature
ArticleWhat Tamron Can Do
Through Photography

F E AT U R E

As a photographic lens maker, Tamron supports activities to develop photographic
and imaging culture for contributing to society through photography.

5“Ikiru”– Post–Tsunami―Exhibition”
Photo

Tamron co-sponsored “Ikiru” (“We survive”) –Post– Tsunami― Exhibition JPS (Japan Professional
Photographers Society) held at Photokina from
September 18 through 23 in Cologne, Germany tointroduce pictures taken during the first year after
the earthquake and tsunami that hit the Northeastof Japan on March 11, 2011 as we thought it was
important to let people all over the world know every
day affairs and the state of progress of recovery in thedisaster-hit areas. A number of people visited JPS’s booth during the exhibition period, leaving many
messages reading, for example,“We were deeply
impressed to see everyday affairs of people who are
working hardily on reconstruction overcoming deepgrief”.
We will continue to work on contributing to society
on a global basis through photography.

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Masakazu Ikeda (JPS member)◎ Outlines of“Ikiru” – Post–Tsunami― Exhibition
Period：From September 18 through 23, 2012
Venue：JPS booth at Photokina, Cologne, Germany
Host：JPS (Japan Professional Photographers Society)
Co-sponsor：Tamron Co., Ltd.
JPS is a public interest incorporated association.
JPS exhibited 116 selected images taken by 73
professional photographers.

The 5th Railroad Scenery Photo Contest
contribute to revitalizing our local community anddeveloping photographic culture as a company with
our head office, a city known as The Railroad Town.
We held a photo exhibition and showed the award
winning photos at Omiya Sogo Department Store,
working together with Saitama City, the Chamberof Commerce and Industry of Saitama City and the
Educational Commission of Saitama City to make theexhibition an event rooted in the local community.
Along with the newly established prize”Vehicle
Body Photo Award”,”The 5th Railroad Scenery PhotoContest we held in 2012 was open to all from photoenthusiasts to photographers in general.
We received 6,211 works altogether, up 9% from 2011,
from photographers ranging from entry-level toadvanced amateurs and railroad photo enthusiasts.

Grand Prize (For Adults; Saitama City Mayor Prize)“Before dawn”, by Toshiyuki Nakano“I shot this scene at a 1/3-second shutter speed. I am surprised to see
the way Mount Fuji was captured in this way as a background.”WEB http://www.tamron.co.jp/special/train2012/result.html

Grand Prize (For Students,
Saitama City Educational
Board Superintendent Prize)“Before the sun goes
down”, by Yoshiki Endo

“I tried to capture themove of the train and thecontrast between light andshadow before sunset”.

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Humorous Photo Contest Award(Saitama City Chamber ofCommerce President Award)“Early summer”,
by Masatake Muguruma“Fish-on”in earlysummer morning”

9th Macro Lens Photo Contest
For popularizing macro lenses further, we madeour 9th Macro Lens Photo Contest (2012)
open to all photographers without restricting
manufacturers, accepting pictures as long as they
were macro pictures.
The contest was open to enthusiasts of nature
photography of insects and plants and to those
who love photography in general. A wide arrayof photographers entered the contest. We
received 5,429 works, including macro shots
finely capturing nature as well as warm pet shotsand pictures of kids. We will hold photo contests
in 2013 and beyond to continue to appeal to as
many people as possible with the attraction ofphotography.
WEB http://www.tamron.co.jp/special/macrocon2012/result.html

Grand Prize,
Macro Photo Contest“Pale blue fascination”,
by Hideki Kashino(Flower in pale blue)
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Relationships with Customers
Tamron is committed to contributing to society by supplying customers with safe, uniqueand quality products and services, putting the highest priority on satisfying customers,
dealers and OEM customers.
Major accomplishments in 2012
We worked on developing products for new
business fields, such as vehicle-built-in camera lenses.
● We worked on improving our after-service systems.
●

Tasks for 2013●●

Creating unique products customers appreciate
Further improvement of our after-service systems

Tamron Products Familiar to Everybody
We make eyes for industry by commanding
advanced optical technologies we have created
and obtained over many years.

For contributing to photographic
culture and imaging technologies

We contribute to the propagation and development ofphotographic culture and imaging technologies.

For protecting security

・Lenses for DSLR cameras
・Lens units for video cameras
・Lens units for Compact digital cameras.

For supporting
industry7

For contributing to safety and security ineveryday life, we make lens units.
・Surveillance cameras (including IR cameras),
・Security cameras
・Vehicle built-in lenses.

Contributing to our economy,society and environment
with eyes for industry

We support factory automationand quality enhancement.
・Industrial lenses.

Tamron Products Highly Acclaimed by Experts
In developing interchangeable lenses for DSLR (Digital
Single Reflex) cameras, we have been stressing highpower zoom lenses that enable photographers to respondto varied photographic opportunities, from wide-angle
to telephoto, with just one lens.The 18-200mm F/3.56.3 Di III VC we launched for Sony“mirrorless”cameras
in 2012 (Model B011) is a compact and lightweight
E-mount measuring 62mm in filter diameter and weighinga mere 460 grams while featuring a built-in VC (Vibration

Compensation) mechanism1. It is a versatile high-powerzoom allowing handheld shooting of all scenes fromwide-angle to telephoto. We also introduced the SP 2470mm F/2.8 Di VC1 USD (Model A007) featuring an antivibration mechanism for the first time in the world asa fast standard zoom lens while delivering high optical
performance. We received the following awards withthe two new zoom lenses. These two zoom lenses werehighly acclaimed by experts as follows.

《Awards Granted》
Awards

Model
B011

A007

Granted by

TIPA Award 2012, Best Entry-level Lens for Compact
System Cameras2

Technical Image Press Association (Europe)

Digital Camera Grand Prix 2012 Summer, Gold
Prize(Integrated Factors)

Digital Camera Grand-prix Evaluation Committee (Japan)

EISA Award – European Zoom Lens of the Year 2012-20133 The European Imaging & Sound Association (Europe)
Digital Camera Grand Prix 2013, Gold Prize(Integrated
Factors)

Digital Camera Grand-prix Evaluation Committee (Japan)

1. VC stands for“Vibration Compensation”. The VC mechanism reduces camera- or hand-shake when capturing images with Tamron’s proprietary vibration compensation technology.
2. We received the TIPA Award for two consecutive years, following the SP 70-300mm F/4.5-5.6 Di VC USD (Model A005) introduced in 2011.
3. Tamron is the recipient of the EISA Award for seven consecutive years in a row from 2006.

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R e l a ti o n s h i p s w i t h C u s to m ers

Quality Management System

For Global Deployment of Efficient After-service Systems

Tamron deploys manufacturing operations based on an
integrated quality management system. (Please refer to Page
14 of this report for further details.) Before being delivered
to customers, products go through various processes fromproduct planning reflecting customer needs, designing,
metal mold fabrication for plastic components to prototype
manufacturing and so on to name just a few. Design review isdone at every stage of those processes in order to check if the
products going through those stages are processed exactly as
specified in respective processes. In addition, heat, endurance
and other tests as well as sequential sampling inspections aredone before the final products are delivered to customers.

In 2012, we worked global deployment of efficient afterservice systems, aiming at establishing a framework
capable of completing repairs within three days on a
global basis. Toward this end, we provided opportunities
to learn more about new products to repair technicians
at some international distributors with less experience.
As a result, we successfully established a framework
capable of completing all repairs within three days at 42international distributors having after-service facilities. In
2013, we will continue to work on improving our afterservice systems, aiming at completing all repairs within
three days at all international distributors all over theworld.
We also continued to listen to opinions of the users of
our products by proving free cleaning services at timeof photo shows not only at home but also in markets
abroad, for feedback in product planning and so on.
Also, in 2013, we started working on establishing a
new framework for user registration. The new programis expected to be launched in 2013, for delivering mailmagazines on our new products and services while
enabling the users of our products to check the state ofprogress of repairs.

Evaluation by Dealers and OEM Customers
We conduct a Customer Satisfaction Survey annually by asking
our OEM customers and dealers handling products under ourown brand for their assistance. In 2012, this survey showed that
we improved our customer satisfaction concerning“quality”
by 0.5 points to 5.1 points,“communication capability”and“technical capability”by 0.3 points to 5.5 points and 5.1 points
respectively. The improvement was primarily possible due tothe combined efforts for maintaining closer communications
with OEM customers and enhancing quality of interchangeable
lenses, in addition advanced technology introduced in new
products launched in 2012. On the other hand, we lost 0.2
points in“delivery time”“price”,
and“after-service”ratings
respectively, while losing 0.1 point in“response to complaints”.
We will carefully review the opinions, feedback and suggestions
from our customers to take proper measures for improvements.

8《Results of Customer Satisfaction Survey》
The survey was conducted in 17 companies.

2010
2011

Overall

2012

6
Handling
repairs

5

Delivery4Free cleaning service at the event3
2
Response
to complaints

1

Price

《For Listening to Opinions of Our Customers》

0

Reports, instructions
Product inquiry

Overall Delivery

PriceCommuni- Development Technicalcations
strength capability

to Handling
Quality Responsecomplaints repairs

2010

4.8

4.8

4.1

5.3

4.9

4.9

4.8

4.8

5.0

2011

4.8

5.2

4.3

5.2

4.6

4.8

4.6

4.9

5.0

2012

4.9

5.0

4.1

5.5

4.6

5.1

5.1

4.8

4.8

gap

＋0.1

-0.2

-0.2

+0.3

±0

+0.3

+0.5

-0.1

-0.2

Questionnaire
Mail magazine(from 2013)●Extracting
qualityproblems
fromcustomercomplaints●Customer
service
improvements●Necessary
steps●Reflection
to products
and services

Management team

1.Greatly dissatisfied 2.Dissatisfied 3.Slightly dissatisfied
4.Slighly satisfied 5.Satisfied 6.Greatly satisfied

Customers

Development
strength

Technical
capability

Suggestions

Feedback
to productplanning,
design depts.

Reports, instructions

Communications

Customer
ServiceOﬃce

Reporting

Quality

Providing better products and services to customers

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R e l a t i o n s h i p s w i th C us tomers

Tamron’s DfE (Designs for Environment)

For Supporting Safety in Motorized Society

To continue to deliver products with designs friendly
to the environment, we constantly conduct productassessment from the stage of designing. There arenine factors to consider in assessing designs, andachievement objectives are established based on
important factors among the nine factors. In 2012, wereduced the overall weight of all products developed
by 7% and overall cubic capacity by 8% 1. Also, toreduce impacts to human health and the environment,
we constantly manage harmful chemical substances
based on“Environment-related Substance Management
Regulations, our own internal regulations based on“the
RoHS and the REAH Initiatives of the EU. Products withdesigns acknowledged as DfE designs wear the Tamron
Eco Label and are reported on our website.
In order to reduce waste from product manufacturing
processes, we make rear caps for our interchangeable
photographic lenses under our own brand from plastic
runner materials. We started using the plastic runnermaterials 2 in 2010. The materials we introduced asrecycled materials for rear caps in 2010 and used up to2012 amounted to 56 tons (equivalent to 2.49 million
rear caps). We will continue to promote the use ofrecycled materials while working on reducing waste.

Tamron makes lenses for vehicle-built-in cameras tosupport safety in motorized society. Vehicle-built-in
cameras aid in driving cars, preventing various risks indriving. Tamron makes headlight lenses that spread lightfor better front visibility, back-monitoring and aroundmonitoring camera lenses to ensure safety in parking
operations and lenses for human body sensing cameras
to avoid hitting pedestrians (including lenses for nighttime
infrared surveillance cameras), in compliance with the ISO/TS16949 quality management system o the automobile
industry and specific requirements of carmakers.
We will continue to work on developing better lenses forsupporting safety in the modern motorized society.

Sensing camera lenses(for monitoring whitelines in parking operations)Nighttime pedestrian
sensing camera lenses(including near infrared camera lenses)

1. On production basis, compared to 2012
2. Materials left in portions equivalent to paths to route resin for making plastic
components

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WEB http://www.tamron.co.jp/envi/top/index.html

Headlight lenses(for making linear
beam of light)

Tamron Eco Label：
The label symbolizes an eye gently looking at our economy, society andenvironment. The eyebrow symbolizes a flowing stream of air and water,
the pupul the green in the earth, and the tree in the pupil our work for thethree Rs of“reduce”,“reuse”and“recycle”.

For Enhancing Technological Development Capability
Our three factories in Aomori work on enhancing
technological development capability, serving as motherfactories of our manufacturing subsidiary overseas.
Namioka Factory, for example, has been working
on developing large- and medium-aperture3 molded
glass lens elements4 for DSLR and mirrorless cameras
spreading rapidly in the global market, together with
our manufacturing engineering headquarters. Different
from small-aperture elements, they need extreme
accuracy, and it becomes important to reduce timerequired to press one time while minimizing variation insurface accuracy5. In 2012, our engineers at the factory
made prototypes repeatedly, working on improving
manufacturing facilities for solving the problem.
We will continue to work on enhancing ourtechnological development capability for meetingcustomer needs.
3. Medium- and large-aperture lens elements mean lenses measuring 20-50mm in diameter.
4. Molded glass lens elements are lenses made by pressing softened optical glass in metal molds.
5. Surface accuracy means accuracy of curvature of lens elements.

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Circumference monitoring
camera lenses(for rear- and around-viewing)

VOICE
Interview with Product Designer

Automotive Optics &Component Business Unit,
Design Engineering Dept.

Hijiri Sakaki

I engage in developing vehicle-built-in camera
lenses, including headlight lenses. When we started
designing those lenses, we had to start scratch as
it was a new field for Tamron. We worked on new
developments, including technologies for injectionmolding plastic lens elements with uneven thickness
for making linear beam of light and forming multiple
layers on lens elements in complicated shapes.
Great accuracy and detail-oriented traceability are
required in making vehicle-built-in camera lenses.
We could successfully develop those lenses one
after another with cooperation from production
departments. I was very happy when I saw our firstheadlight lens was put on the front grill of a car on
an assembling line at our customer.
I wish to challenge shortening takt time (timefor making one product) and stabilizing productquality, aiming at fully-automated production lines
eventually.

Relationships with Business Partners
Tamron respects human rights, ensures compliance with laws and regulations, andestablishes good relationships with business partners to grow and contribute to society
together.
Tasks for 2013

Major accomplishments in 2012
Investigation of means to ensure compliancewith CSR Procurement● Strengthening environment quality assurance system●

Strengthening compliance with CSR Procurement(including Conflict minerals)●

Business Partner Accreditation System

For Maintaining Product & Environment Quality

Tamron aspires for establishing good relations with all
business partners for delivering high-quality products andservices to customers while contributing to society inaccordance with our CSR policy together.
Since 2008, we have asked all suppliers and business
partners to follow the Tamron Codes of Conduct that
includes prohibiting child and forced labor and ensuring
compliance with CSR procurement. In 2009 we also asked
all suppliers to assess their adherence to the codes. In 2010
we introduced our work for ensuring labor safety, sanitation,
human rights protection and information security to all
our business partners. For maintenance and protection of
product and environment quality1, we conducted a survey tocheck the work of our suppliers through on-site audits anddocument examination based on our assessment standards.
In 2013 and beyond, we plan to check the work of our
suppliers for social issues including human rights protection.
We will aim at contributing to society throughout our supply
chain, continuously working on quality, environmental andsocial issues.

We have been closely watching for harmful chemical substances
to prevent using them in our products. We use a system tocheck substances regulated by the RoHS Initiative of the EU
based on environment data obtained from our suppliers2. In
2012, we continued to internally implement analytical workwith advanced equipment including ICP-AES (Inductivity
Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry) and GC-MS (Gas
Chromatography Mass Spectrometry) to deliver safe products toour customers.
In addition, we asked all our suppliers to ensure compliancewith our environment quality assurance system, and conducted
document examinations and periodical on-site audits atdomestic sites and overseas subsidiaries.
We completed the audits and examinations as planned for2012, recommended improvements as necessary and asked foradherence to our standards.
As for the REACH Initiative, we will continue to ensure sufficientmanagement of the regulated substances together with ourbusiness partners, providing sufficient information to ourcustomers, consumers in general and the European Chemical
Agency.

1. “Maintenance and protection of environment quality”as used in this reportmean regulating the use of harmful chemical substances in products our
suppliers deliver to us to below the threshold level stated in our standards.

《Procedures to Select Suppliers》

2. Such data and documents as the certificate of non-use of harmful chemical
substances, ICP analytical data and MSDSFor Ensuring CSR Procurement

Request suppliers follow Tamron Supplier Codes of Conduct
covering aspects including labor safety,sanitation, environment
protection, administration systems and ethical managementin addition to promoting environment quality assurance
Submission of reports by candidate business partners
describing results of voluntary evaluation of work tofollow the Tamron Supplier Codes of Conduct

YES

Appointment as selected business partners
Implementation of CSR management bybusiness partners following the Tamron
Supplier Codes of Conduct〈History of Our Activities〉
2008 Requested all business partners to share“Tamron
Supplier Code of Conduct”
2009 Requested self-evaluation at respective business partners
2010 Introduced case examples on especially important
aspects such as“labor safety and sanitation”and“human rights protection”
2011 Held CSR Procurement Workshops for all business
partners at home and abroad2012 Continued to work on improving methods forchecking the state of compliance with our
Supplier Code of Conduct by our business partners

Periodical evaluation

NO

Product quality, environment quality andprocess audits, documentary examination

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We continued to work on CSR procurement through our CSR
Procurement Committee taking the leadership role by joining
related domestic departments and Tamron Optical Foshan (TOF)
in China. In 2012, we reviewed replies to our questionnaires toall related departments for enhancing the level of understandingof CSR procurement, holding internal workshops three times anda seminar by an outside lecturer once. A total of 48 employees
engaging in procurement operations at domestic factories and
TOF participated in the workshops and the seminar, studying
labor problems abroad, problems found at domestic sites, aswell as related ILO treaties, laws and regulations. We thenconducted questionnaire surveys with personnel and generalaffairs departments as well as environment-related and actual
production departments at the head office, three Aomori
factories and TOF respectively, based on the EICC Standard3, for
directly hearing our employees’opinions on related important
issues. With thisapproach, we could
ascertain our method
to check complianceat our business
partners.
In 2013 and beyond,we will continue toensure CSR procurement.
Hearing held at TOF, China
3. EICC stands for Electronic Citizenship Coalition. It adopted a code of conduct
applicable to all member electronic firms for ensuring labor safety, human rights
protection and environment protection throughout their supply chains.

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Relationships with Employees
Tamron fosters self-disciplined employees with the spirit of rising to the challenge of creating
new ideas in a climate emphasizing ethics. Tamron strives to create a safe work environment thatencourages work,based on fair evaluations, respect for human rights and mutual understanding.
Major accomplishments in 2012●●

Tasks for 2013

Held various seminars to develop human resources
Studied means to realize diversity in employment●

Continued efforts to realize diversity in employment

For Developing Human Resources

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To cultivate human resources having spirits of selfsufficiency and challenging, we provide seminars
to new graduates immediately after reemployment
as well as seminars for young employees withworking experience of one year, two years and three
years. The seminars are divided into courses fordevelopment engineers, administration staffs, factory
engineers and procurement personnel.
The seminars thus provided immediately after
employment and six months later, in one year,
two years and three years after employment areappreciated by our employees as they become
opportunities for them to review their carrier plans
and stay motivated. Also, they become good
opportunities for our employees to renew exchanges
with other employees who joined our company in thesame year but missed opportunities to see each otheras they work at other sites.
We will continue to hold similar seminars so that ouremployees may make use of them as opportunities
to enhance their capabilities, playing their respectiveroles at their work sites and achieving their carrierplans while keeping them motivated.

Seminars & Workshops Held in 2012

《Seminars & Workshops Held in 2012》
Stage

Educational course contents

New graduates

Factory observation at 3 Aomori factories, business manner, basic knowledge on business transactions,rules of the company

Six months after
employment

Mental attitude toward work, ways for staying motivated

One year after
employment

Attitude of mind toward work, how to meet expectations of superiors (including social gatherings withthe management to exchange opinions on the company and employees’own carrier plans)

Three years after
employment

Seminars to deepen understanding on own characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, roles respective
employees are expected to play and objectives for their own future

For Creating a Safe and Comfortable Work Environment
Tamron works hard to ensure safety and enhance thepsychological and physical health of employees andcreate a comfortable work environment.
In 2012, recognizing the importance of administrating
occupational safety, we enacted Labor Safety &Sanitation Regulations, organized the Tamron Labor
Safety & Sanitation Committee and started patrolling
employee work sites with administrators to help
prevent labor accidents.
As a result, three occupational accidents and ninecommute accidents arose in 2012.Since the numbersof minor traffic accidents during commuting by bicycle
and motor bikes have become conspicuous, we
implemented route cause analysis on each case andcalled employee attention to prevent similar cases.
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For mental health issues, we continued to holdseminars so that employees may learn more about
mental health care. In 2012, a total of 103 employees
participated in the seminars. They learned about
the means for performing self-analysis and self-caremeasures through the seminars and consultation with
contracted industrial physicians as well as interviews
with personnel department staffs so that they may
prevent emotional disorders.

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For Realizing Diversity and Good Life-Work Balance

Relationships with Employees at Tamron Optical (Foshan)

Interest in good life-work balance has been growing internationally as
diversity in human resources develops. Also, the problem of the declining
birthrate and growing elderly population has been rapidly increasing.
Under these social situations, firms must work hard to support employees
who take maternity leave or live with elders to care for. Tamron has beenworking on improving support for employees for good work-life balance.

Tamron Optical (Foshan) (TOF), our main production
base in China, continued to work on creating
comfortable work environment.

Positive Use of Female Employees

TOF continued to hold seminars and workshops for upgrading
employee skills, including business base training courses andseminars. In 2012, TOF held management training seminars eleventimes to train 307 employees in total. The training seminars weredivided into two courses, one for group leaders at administration
departments to learn more about cost management and anotherfor assistant managers at production departments about related
engineering
techniques. 94%
of the employees
who participatedin the seminars
appreciated theopportunities,
saying“The seminars
were helpful tofind solutions forproblems at work.

The total number of female employees at Tamron Japan as ofDecember 31, 2012 was 207, accounting for 19% of the total
number of employees. Tamron has positively employed
female employees as long as they are competent. We
will continue this approach to raise the ratio of female
employees further.
Among the total number of employees, 90 employees
have children. Almost 100% of female pregnant employees
took maternity leaves to take care of their newborn
babies. Since the number of female employees who raisechildren is expected to increase further, efforts to promote
good life-work balance for our employees will certainly
result in enhancing the productivity of the whole company.
Tamron will continue to support our female employees’
efforts to ensure compatibility between work and family
life with various plans including establishing an in-housenursery center within the premise of the head office.
At time of a social gathering held in September 2012
among our president and female employees who aremembers of our labor union, there was a scene wheresome female employees raised questions on theircareer development. Our president gave advice to them,
expressing his intention to increase the number of female
managerial-level employees further. The gathering becamea good opportunity for the management and female
employees to share mutual opinions. We will continue towork hard on creating a good work environment friendly
to female employees.

VOICE
Employee Interview

Production Planning Section Manager,
Procurement Center, Production
Headquarters

Mariko Sato

When I was told about a plan to promote me to asection manager, I felt uneasy as I was not sure if I
could live up to expectations, while being excitedand exhorting myself to hang tough for the newposition. After having been promoted eventually,
I also felt uneasy as I thought I might be treatedin a special way as a woman manager. But all
such anxieties were proven to be unfounded.
My colleagues were kind enough to support me,
thinking and acting together with me, and mysuperiors who kindly cheered me up by saying“Relax, take your mind off your tension”. I know
I am here because of their support at that time.
I hope that the number of female managers willgrow further at Tamron. I will continue to work
hard to assist in creating a work environment thatis comfortable to all female employees.

Efforts to Develop Human Resources

Employees participated in management training
seminar at TOF

For Creating Safe Work Environment

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In 2012, TOF continued to periodically issue Safe Work
Environment Newspaper for promoting labor safety
and sanitation as well as fire prevention, to enhancesafety mind among our employees. Also, TOF presented
improvement plans for 166 suggestions made as resultsof safety patrols done once every month. As a result, thenumber of industrial accidents at TOF was reduced fromthree cases in 2011 cases to just one case in 2012.

For Creating A Safe Work Environment
TOF continued to work hard on creating a safe work
environment while letting its employees feel at home.
Feedback boxes are installed for obtaining employee
feedback and improving communications between laborand management. Every month, the management reviews
feedback and suggestions submitted by employees,
posting replies on the company bulletin board. Also,
as done in 2011, TOF held a party every month tocelebrate the birthdays born in that month as part ofits program for ensuring good work-life balance. TOF
also continued to honor members of project teams who
contributed to operation improvements, by presenting
Presidential Awards. In
2012, the Awards were
given to the membersof a project team who
worked on improving
jigs and tools used forenhancing productivity
in assembling operations
and stabilizing dimensionsof components.
Recipients of presidential award

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Relationships with Shareholders and Investors
We strive to enhance the corporate value of our company by pursuing faithful management
and maintaining communications with our stakeholders including shareholders and investors.

Corporate Governance１．Basic Policy
We at Tamron have constantly pursued fair andtransparent management under our management
philosophy since the foundation of the company
and in line with our brand message, Contributing toSociety by Creating Eyes of Industry , respecting therights and equality of our shareholders and working
hard on maintaining good relationships with all
stakeholders.

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２．Outlines of Structure for Ensuring Corporate GovernanceTamron is a company with a board of auditors.
We have fourteen directors (including two external
directors) and four auditors (including three external
auditors).
(1)Board of Directors
Meetings of the board of directors are held twicea month in principle, attended by all directors andauditors, for reviewing the execution of duties by the
directors and deciding on important issues as set
forth in the basic policy of the company and related
laws and regulations.In 2012, we held board of
directors’meetings 26 times.
(2)Board of Auditors
The board of auditors audits the processes of decision
making by the board of directors and the execution ofduties of directors by attending the board of director
meetings and checking the documents presenting
their decisions. The board of auditors meets monthly
in principle.In 2012, we held board of auditors’
meetings 15 times.
(3)Executive Officer System
Tamron introduced an executive officer system overten years ago.
(4)Internal Control through Committee Meetings
We regularly hold monthly business discussion
meetings (MAC meetings) attended by all directors,
full-time corporate auditors and executive officers to
discuss management issues and respond to the fastchanging management environment.
(5)CSR Committee
We hold CSR Committee that is under direct control
by the president’s once a month. deciding onimportant issues including Risk management.
３．Internal Control System
For ensuring transparency of management, aninternal control reporting system has introduced. In
2012, Under the Internal Control Reporting System,
we submitted the report that proved effectivelyfunctioning of internal control.

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４．Outlines of Structure for Corporate Governance
General Meeting of Shareholders
Election/dismissal

Election/dismissal

Accounting Auditor（auditors, external auditor） Coordination
Audit

Election/dismissal

Accounting Auditor
Audit

Coordination

Coordination

Board of Directors(directors, external director)
CSR Promotion Board

President Internal Audit Board

CSR Committee

Management Meeting（MAC）

Compliance Committee

Executive Oﬃcers

Internal Audit Board

Internal audid

Each department/Subsidiaries

Communications with Shareholders and Investors
We continued to disclose information at appropriate times and incompliance with related laws and regulations, while paying due
attention to fairness. We are working to ensure sound management
and transparency, and to obtain understanding and credence of all
stakeholders.
During 2012, as part of our IR work1, we held explanatory meetingson our financial statements twice for institutional investors andsecurities analysts, inaddition to similar meetings
held twice for individual
investors. Also, we held
conferences abroad twice
to keep international
investors similarly informed.
1. IR stands for investor relations andmeans providing shareholders andinvestors with information such as
financial standing that is necessary forinvestors to make investing decisions.

IR conference held for institutional investors
and securities analysts

For Ensuring Compliance
At Tamron, a meeting of the Compliance Committee
attended by the management and the Compliance
Promotion Committee organized under the Compliance
Committee is held monthly to promote complianceon a company-wide basis. In 2012, we also held
workshops for learning more about our complianceaction guidelines and related laws and regulations in
performing our business operations, including the antimonopoly law and the insider transaction regulation
law. In addition, we worked hard on promoting
compliance as a group including subsidiaries overseas
as our overseas operations expanded. We also worked
on information security and protection of personal
information that are included in the twelve CSR themes,
based on our internal regulations.

Management System
We strive to enhance our product and service quality while reducing environmental load
through our consolidated management system. Also, we avoid various management risks
based upon our risk management system.

Integrated Management System

Triple Audit Systems for Surveillance and Finding Problems

In 2010, we obtained unified certification applicable to
the Tamron Group including our overseas production
base of Tamron Optical（Foshan）, in addition to all ourdomestic sites:Head Office, Hirosaki Factory, Namioka
Factory and Owani Factory. Our management system
has completely integrated ISO9001（quality）and ISO
14001（environment）. We will continue to produce highquality products that are safe and satisfy our customers,
while paying attention to the environment, under our
integrated management system.

We annually audit the implementation of the integrated management
system at the Head Office and the three Aomori factories to check theeffectiveness of the system and continually improve it, which are ourinternal quality and environment audits. From the auditing, internal
auditors found some nonconformity cases and suggested improvements
at the Head Office and three Aomori factories. In addition to the internal
audit, the Head Office and three Aomori factories audit each other tocheck their systems and manufacturing processes. We periodically audit
with contracted external audit organizations to maintain certifications
while continually improving the integrated management system at Tamron.
As a result of external audits implemented in 2012, the effectiveness of
our policy management processes adopted at our domestic sites wasassessed at level-3 on the whole on a scale of one to five, while theeffectiveness of processes used at our production base in China was rated
at level-4. Points at issue as results of the triple audit systems have been
promptly improved, and we are working on further improvements bydeploying activities horizontally among our group companies.

Integrated Management Policies
As a member of the optical industry of the world, we
will continue to manufacture products meeting customer
satisfaction and our goal of being Tamron Contributing toSociety by Creating Eyes for Industry, while paying attention
to environmental conservation.
1. We will supply our customers with high quality andreliable products by using our originality, ingenuity andtechnology,pursuing sustainable growth with profits
arising out of delighting and satisfying our customers.
2. In running our business, we will comply with all relatedlaws,standards and treaties at home and abroad,respecting the requests and demands postulated by ourcustomers and the local community.
3. We will work on preventing environmental contamination
through reducing CO₂, waste emissions and harmful
chemicals while seeking alternatives and keeping
biodiversity intact.
4. We will continue to work on improving the effectivenessof our integrated management system.
5. To achieve this management policy, we will specificallyset up our objectives and targets, periodically evaluating
our achievement level.
6.To enhance recognizing the importance of our integrated
management, we will maintain good communications
while providing sufficient education and training to all
people working for Tamron.
7. We will closely cooperate with society in all countries
and regions where we work and disclose information
as necessary on our quality assurance and environment
conservation.
December 7, 2009
Morio Ono, President & CEO《Consolidated Management》
Representative
Quality/
Environment Committee（Prosldent）

Consolidated
Administration Manager

Secretarial Oﬃce

（CSR Promotion Board）

Omiya Consolidated
Administration Manager
Secretarial Oﬃce
（CSR Promotion Board）

Aomori Consolidated
Administration Manager（representing consolidated administration
managers of three Aomori factories）

Secretarial Oﬃce
（Operation Promotion Section）

Tamron Optical（Foshan）
Consolidated Administration
Secretarial Oﬃce
（ISO Promotion Board）

Specialty Committee (Including sub-committees)

Omiya Head Oﬃce

Hirosaki Namioka Owani
Factory Factory Factory

Tamron Optical（Foshan）Co., Ltd.

※ Integrated internal auditors are working at our all sites, while integrated management
promotion committee members are fulfilling their missions at all domestic sites.

Risk Management
In 2008, we assessed all risks in our business operations andestablished our risk management policies. Since then,we have been
operating our risk management framework under the ten themes ofcompliance, employment, human resources, and so on.
As for our BCP (Business Continuity Plan), we have established
our own group system by consolidating systems employed at
our head office and three Aomori factories. We will continue towork on strengthening our risk management system by reviewing
the alternative plans being used at our company at present forcomponent procurement, assembling, personnel required for recovery
and seismic strengthening of manufacturing facilities and information
systems, while asking for consultants’professional opinions.

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Tamron’s Risk Management Policy
At Tamron, recognizing all possible risks that
may affect our business, we are committed
to all possible damage prevention in order tominimize damage to the economy,our society
and our environment. In emergencies,we work
to minimize damage and promptly recover by
acting responsibly, providing continuous services
to our customers for continuing growth. We aim
for safety and ease of mind for all stakeholders
including our employees, shareholders, customers
and business partners. We will continue to provide
opportunities for learning about risk management
to all employees so that they may work on risk
management from a CSR perspective built on
properly recognizing the importance of the policy
and their missions.
September 30, 2009
Morio Ono,
Representative Director & President（CEO）

For Responding to Acute Emergency
At our head office in head office, three factories in Aomori
and TOF in China, evacuation and fire extinguishing drills
are conducted every year with all employees participatingas part of our risk management program. In addition, theunits handling chemical substances train for emergency
response when the chemical substances are leaked. We
also held an initial stage drill for earthquakes according to
our BCP, using the government's preliminary earthquake
flash announcement program.
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Relationships with the Environment
We pay attention to protecting the environment in deploying our business operations,working to be acompany pursuing harmony with the environment.
Major accomplishments in 2012

Tasks for 2013

Achieved CO₂ emission reduction targets throughvarious measures to save energy consumption● Enhanced material recycle ratio (Hirosaki Factory)●

Implementing CO₂ emissions management
measures and study of additional measures● Grasping environmental load our factory in Vietnam will put on●

Environmental Load
Products are designed, prototypes made and metal
molds fabricated at the head office. In Japan, we also
operate our Namioka Factory for manufacturing lenselements, Owani Factory for injection-molding plastic
components and Hirosaki Factory for assembling final
products. We also operate Tamron Optical（Foshan）
in China as our manufacturing base abroad. The
factory in China is an integrated factory performing
all operations ranging from component production toassembly.
We use electricity, heavy oil, kerosene and otherenergy sources for developing, designing andmanufacturing, emitting CO₂. Our factories in
Namioka and Foshan use much water for polishing15

and cleaning lens elements, generating polluted
sludge and waste liquid containing melt chemicals.
Our factories in Owani and Foshan also generate
plastic runner materials1 while manufacturing plastic
components used in peripheral lens parts,in addition
to waste liquid.
We emit CO₂ as we mainly use trucks for transporting
materials,parts and products between factories. In
2012, we reduced our energy consumption volume
for gasoline and diesel oil used for transportation and
our CO₂ emissions by 14% , by more efficiently using
trucks compared to 2011.
1. Materials left in portions equivalent to paths to route resin for making plastic
components

INPUT
Energy69,816,000kWh
237kℓ
21kℓ
24kℓ
2kℓ
2,000kl
107,000㎥

Electric power
Crude oil
Kerosene oil
Diesel oil
Gasoline
LPG
Natural gas

644,000GJ

Paper

Copy paper

19t

Manufacturing raw materials/
parts at suppliers

Water

Transportation energy2

Clean water
824,000㎥
Sewage water 127,000㎥

Diesel oil
Gasoline

224kℓ
70kℓ

Total

Total

294kℓ

969,000㎥

Raw/auxiliary materials

2. The energy consumption data for transportation
cover energy used by trucks for transportingparts and ﬁnal products and commercial
vehicles connecting ﬁve sales oﬃces in Japan.
The Tamron Optical（Foshan）, China data
covers company cars only.

Metal（brass, aluminum）
Glass
Plastic
Chemicals（drugs, solvents, cleaners）
Gas（nitrogen, oxygen, argon）
Electrical components
Cardboard

Development, design andproduction at Tamron

Sites covered: 96%（based on the total number of employees）

Transportation between factories
and delivery to stores（logistics/business vehicles）

O U T PU T
CO2 Emissions

Recycled

Electric power 35,782t-CO2
Crude oil
642t-CO2
Kerosene oil
52t-CO2
Diesel oil
63t-CO2
Gasoline
4t-CO2LPG
12t-CO2Natural gas
223t-CO2

Paper
Cardboard
Metal
Plastic
Grinding sludge
Waste ﬂuid
Others

38t
37t
59t
115t
13t
124t
85t

Total

Total

471t

36,778t-CO2

Waste entrusted for intermediate treatment

Industrial waste3
General waste

386t
98t

Total

484t

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Total

Products

2,399tScope of INPUT Items：
Head oﬃce（including Tokyo/Osaka sales
oﬃces）,three factories in Aomori,Tamron
Optical（Foshan）,China（excluding Tamron
Optical（Foshan）as for waste entrusted
for intermediate treatment）

CO2 Emissions during Transportation2

Diesel oil
Gasoline

588t-CO2
163t-CO2

Total

751t-CO2

Customers

We report amount of waste which was
entrusted for intermediate treatment in Tamron
Optical（Foshan）, China below for reference.
Tamron Optical（Foshan）, China（estimated amount）
Industrial waste
589t
General waste
727t
Total

1,316tReference Guideline：
Greenhouse Eﬀect Gas Calculation/
Reporting Manual（Ver. 2.4）issued
by The Ministry for the Environmentn
3. The volume of industrial waste includes 4 tons of PRTR
(Pollutant Released & Transfer Registered) substance.
One ton of the PRTR substance was also released into theatmosphere.

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Compliance

Environmental Accounting

Tamron regularly checks compliance with laws andregulations related to quality assurance and environmental
protection in order to ensure the compliance of the entire
group.
In March 2012, there was an environment-related incidentof leakage of kerosene to a conduit outside the 2nd Hirosaki
Factory’s premise. This was due to an irregularity in theexternal ductwork of a kerosene tank at the factory. We
recovered the kerosene flew out of the factory immediately
after we knew the occurrence of the incident, installing an oil
fence around the conduit to prevent diffusion of the kerosene
left. Also, as soon as we found the incident, we reported thecase to Aomori Prefectural Government in compliance with
the Water Quality Contamination Prevention Law. As wetook immediate measures, there was no adverse effect to theenvironment of the ambient area. In addition, as an action toprevent recurrence, we promptly changed the kerosene tankductwork to an internal ductwork. We will continue to checkour premise, reinforcing activities to prevent occurrence ofsimilar incidents in the future.
In 2012, at time of rebuilding the north wing of our head
office, we also implemented activities to remove andprevent diffusion of asbestos in compliance with the Air
Pollution Control Act, the Labor Safety & Sanitation Law, theBuilding Standard Law and other related regulations. Prior
to commencing the work to remove asbestos, we informed
people of our neighboring area of the work, maintaining
adequate communications with the local government offices
including the Saitama City Government Office and theSaitama Labor Standard Office in compliance with the Air
Pollution Control Act and the Laws Related to Disposition &Clearance of Waste.
The state of compliance of the laws and regulations including
the above major laws and regulations is as stated below.
In 2012, we strengthened our activities to manage theharmful chemical substances and compile database withreference to the additional substances regulated under the
REACH Initiative of the European Community, confirmingthat the content of SVHC substances that must be regulated
additionally was below the standard for reporting to the loal
government office.

The outlines of our environmental accounting in 2012 wereas follows. In 2012, we invested 9.39 million yen as ourglobal environment protection cost. This covers the renewal
work of the air-conditioning system at the metal moldfabrication department of our head office and installationof a humidity control device in the vapor deposition
equipment at our Namioka factory. Also, we paid a total
amount of 70.433 million yen as expenses for preventing
diffusion of asbestos following demolition of an old building
at our head office, installation of a system to prevent
dispersion of kerosene flew out at our Hirosaki factory andother measures for protecting the environment.

《Compliance at Respective Sites》
A Satisfactory B Insufficient (minor incident)

C Non-compliance incident

Head office Aomori Factorie
Energy saving（revised law）
CO₂emissions reduction
Chemical substance management1
Air
Water quality
Soil
Noise
Vibration
Odor
Occupational safety
waste manageme

A
A
A
A
A2
A
A
A
A
A
A

A
A
A
A
B
A
A
A
A
A
A

Foshan3
―
―
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A

1. Laws related to managing and investigating chemical substances apply todomestic sites ; international directives including RoHS and REACH apply tothe entire group.
2. Values exceeded standard values at some points of measurement, but ourmeasures securely prevented contamination diffusion outside our facilities.
3. Compliance with related laws and regulations enforced in China as well asinternational regulations such as the RoHS and REACH initiatives.

（unit : thousand yen)

Category

Environmental costinvested Expense

Main work

Economic
EnvironmentalPage
effect conservation effectPollution
prevention
cost・Measures to prevent diffusion
0 10,775 of asbestos (head office)・System check and maintenance―

Ensuring
environmental
Standards

P16

Earth
environment
Costwith in conservation
business costarea・Renewal of an air-conditioning
system (head office)・Installation of a humidity
9,390 37,976
control device in the vapor
deposition equipment(Namioka factory)―

Reducing energy
consumption

P17
P18

0 21,682 Reducing and recycling waste

550

Reducing and recycling
waste (Enhanced material P19
recycling ratio)

Resource
cycling
cost
Subtotal

9,390 70,433

―

550

―

―

Upstream anddownstream costs

0

1,549 Green procurement―

Implementing audits
P10
at business partners’

Management
activity cost・Maintenance and operation ofenvironmental management
0 43,231 systems
・Environmental education
・Expansion of green zones―

Achievingenvironmental
objectives andtargets

P17

R&D cost

0 155,570 Efforts for DfE―

Enhancing productperformance through DfE

P9Social activity
cost

0

882

・Support to local bodies’
activities for preserving―
nature (head office)・Cleaning neighboring areas

Reducing disposed of
garbage―

Cost to prevent
Environmental damage

0

Prevention of diffusion of
127 kerosene flew out to external
conduit (Hirosaki factory)

Total

9,390 271,792

―

―
550

16

Recovered environment
once polluted (Hirosaki P16
factory)――＊Scope of Environmental Accounting
Period: From January 1 through December 31, 2012 Premises covered: headquarters(including sales offices in Tokyo and Osaka）and three Aomori factories.
＊Labor costs are calculated based on the average wage.
＊The economic effect in comparison with resource recycling costs is represented by a gainfrom metal waste sales.
＊Depreciation allowance is not calculated as an expense.

Education on Environmental Management System and CSR
In 2012, we continued to work on educating our employees about CSR and environmental
management, regularly holding seminars on classification of wastes, energy saving, green
procurement, green procurement and biological diversification toward the integrated
management promotion committee members serving as leaders at respective worksites. We have 49 such integrated management promotion committee members. We
proposed opportunities for them to learn more about waste sorting, energy saving, green
procurement and biodiversity. The committee members undertake the role of conveying
what they have learned to their colleagues in their work places and promoting energy
saving including efficiently using air-conditioning. Also, targeted mainly to 86 employees
who were unable to attend previous seminars, we gave an extra opportunity to learn
about our CSR system, twelve CSR themes and tasks imposed on us. Also, at our head
office, we specified the third Friday of every month as a“No May Car Day”and specificdays in summer and winter as“Eco-life Days”, supporting the environmental protection
promotion program Saitama Prefectural government advocates4.
4. The total amount of CO₂ emissions we reduced in 2012 through“No May Car Days”and“Eco-life Days”was 12t-CO₂.

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Environmental Objectives and Targets Achieved
In 2012, we worked on achieving the environmental objectives and targets for the last yearof our phase-four environmental protection program, eventually achieving our CO₂ reduction
targets.

Achievement of Environmental Objectives and Targets for 2012
In 2012, we focused on reducing CO₂ emissions as the mostimportant environmental objectives of the Tamron group,
deploying activities and managing reduction in terms of basic
unit per sales1. Our objective for 2012 was reducing CO₂
emissions by 5% in terms of our per-sales basic unit. We
achieved the target by reducing emissions by 6.2% although
our group CO₂ emissions increased compared to 2011.
Emissions were reduced compared to 2009 in terms of thebasic unit. As for measures for reducing CO₂ emissions, pleaserefer to Page 18 of this report.
For 2013 and beyond, we have established a new mid-range
plan to reduce CO₂ emissions by 1% annually compared to2012 and in terms of basic units per sales and 7.7% in total
by 2020. As our Vietnam factory is slated to start operationsin 2013, we plan to assess what state CO₂ emissions from thefactory are in so that we may strengthen our management of
CO₂ emissions as a group.
As for environmental load other than CO₂ emissions, ourrespective work sites established their own reduction targets
as their operations and the products they handle differ. In
2012, our respective sites achieved their targets except forhead office factory’s plan to reduce waste plastic materials.
In 2013, we will continue to work on reducing industrial
waste and enhancing productivity under the leadership by
our waste reduction sub-committee and promotion of DfE
designs by our integral design/manufacturing and assemblingengineering technology development sub-committee. For
reducing industrial waste, our Waste Reduction Promotion
Sub-committee established and managed our reduction target.
Our Integrative Design/Manufacturing Engineering Promotion
Sub-committee, a cross-section organization to verticallymanage operations from design to manufacturing, establishedand managed our target for promoting DfE designs.
For organizational structure, please refer to page
14(Consolidated Management System).

《CO₂ Reduction Targets Achieved and Three-year Plan》

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A

AchievedB

Not Achieved

2010

2011

2012

Reduction target compared to 2009
（In terms of basic unit per net sales)

-5％

-10％

-5％

Actual

-6%

-7%

-6.2%

Achievement

A

B

A

2013

2014

2015

-1%

-1.99%-2.97%《CO₂ Reduction Targets from 2013 to 2015》

Reduction target compared to 2012

《Environmental targets Achieved in 2012》
Targets
Reducing industrial
waste

Promotion of DfE
designs2

A

Targets in 2012

Achieved

Not Achieved

Results in 2012

Achievment

Head Office

3% reduction of waste plastic compared to 2011
(Mold & ToolingTechnology Center) (Waste at time of mold fabrication) Waste plastic growth rate：27%

3% reduction of metal scrap compared to 2010A

TOF in China

2.5% reduction from the emissions volume in 2011
Reduction rate：14％（per net sales unit）

A

All sites

・Promotion of DfE・No environmental contamination
accidents

Metal scrap reduction rate：35%

・Promotion of DfE designs:Reduced grossweight by 7% and gross cubic volume by 8%compared to 2012(conventional products),
on a total unit production basis
・Environmental contamination accidents: Zero

《Targets for 2013》
Targets in 2013

Targets
Three Aomori
Reducing industrial factories
Waste
TOF in China

Improvement of material recycling ratio :3% from the ratio in 2012
2.5% reduction from the emissions
volume in 2012( per net sales unit）
・Promotion of DfE・No environmental contamination accidents

Promotion of DfE

All sites

1. Basic unit per sales:

Total CO₂ emissions（ｔ－ CO₂）
Consolidated sales（million yen）

2. Work to pursue light weight, compactness and the use of recycled materials in line with our product assessment regulations

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B

A

Reducing CO₂ Emissions and Energy Consumption
Tamron strives to reduce CO₂ emissions and water consumption at factories based on our
integrated Management.

By-source CO₂ Emissions

Energy Saving Activities

Looking at sources of CO₂ emissions from the head
office,three Aomori factories and Tamron Optical（Foshan）in China,electric power accounts for 97% ,crude oil 2% and natural gas/kerosene/diesel oil/LPG/
gasoline 1% altogether. Reducing power consumption
is the key to reduce CO₂ emissions.
Electric power
Kerosene

Crude oil
LPG

Natural gas
Gasoline

Diesel oil

Diesel oil

Kerosene 0.1%

0.2%

LPG 0.03%

Natural gas 0.6%

Gasoline 0.01%

Crude oil

1.7%

Transitional Changes in CO₂ Emissions
The total volume of CO₂ emissions during the past five years
from our head office, three Aomori factories and Tamron
Optical (Foshan), our production base in China, has been
increasing.
In 2012, our total CO₂ emissions increased by 10%
compared to 2011. CO₂ emissions from our domestic
production sites increased 14%, while emissions from our
production base in China were up 9% year-on-year. Thiswas mainly due to 20% increases of output from both
domestic sites and Tamron Optical (Foshan), respectively.
However, our CO₂ emissions in terms of basic units per sales
decreased by 6.2% compared to 2009 with our efforts tosave consumption of energy at our manufacturing facilities
through stricter administration of operations of compressors
and other manufacturing facilities with additional monitoring
systems and by cutting use of standby electricity.
In 2013, we will continue to work on enhancing our
productivity and reducing energy consumption at our
production facilities.
Head Office
Owani

Hirosaki
Foshan（t-CO₂)30,00025,00020,00029,9970.48

20,55530,507

Basic Unit

Namioka

36,77832,53733,364

0.57

0.57

0.57

0.61

21,947

Our Namioka factory uses a considerable amount ofelectricity as its operations include a process to deposit
thin film layers on lens elements handling chemical
substances and metal materials in vacuum tanks. In 2012, it
worked on a new project to reduce the use of unnecessary
electricity by heaters by installing thermo sensors andheat controlling systems in the oil diffusion pumps of theevaporation depository machines. Previously, heaters had
been constantly used with sensors set at 230 degrees C
at its maximum temperature limit, but we renewed this to
210 degrees C after installation of the new sensors in all
the 10 evaporation depository machines. As a result, wereduced the use of electricity at our Namioka factory by
about 20% compared to 2011. This achievement was madeby putting a plan proposed by the technology development
department of our head office into practice. We willcontinue to work on reducing electricity consumption by
studying means to allow introducing the new processing
method to Tamron Optical (Foshan) as well.

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Oil diffusion pumpt-CO₂/
sales（million yen）

0.60
0.50

24,212

25,41327,72515,0000.40
0.30

10,000

919

620

593

5,000

5,501

5,013

535
4,447

5,267

987
2,035

891
2,036

4,639
1,012
2,081

968
2,001

1,055
2,136

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

0

At our head office, in addition to activities to saveenergy consumption by switching unnecessary lights
off during lunch time break and stricter administrationof air-conditioning systems, several importantmeasures were introduced in the past few years tosave energy consumption. For example, we changed
our lighting system partially to an LED system in
2010, while introducing a new compressor operation
administration system for metal mold fabricationin 2011. In 2012, we renewed our air-conditioning
system at our mold fabrication department, reducing
its electricity consumption by 40% year-on-year.

Namioka Factory
Electric power 97.3%

35,000

Head Office

595

0.20
0.10

Thermo sensor (Top view)

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Reducing Waste and Water Consumption
We are working on reducing waste by enhancing production efficiency and improving
business operations.

Changes in Volume of Waste

Water Consumption

The total volume of industrial waste from ourdomestic business operations declined over the three
years from 2009 to 2011, accompanying the declineof our domestic production volume, but the volume
increased by 3 percent in 2013. 1 By site, wastefrom our Omiya head office increased 30 percent
from discarding unnecessary trays and other fixtures
following the construction of a new North Wingbuilding. The three Aomori factories reduced waste
despite increased output. The primary factor was theHirosaki factory asking customers to return plastic
packages used for delivering production from TOF in
China to domestic OEM customers and the volume of
returned packages decreasing.

The total water consumption volume of our group has
been rising, following the output growth. This rise was
because water consumption at TOF, our production basein China, increased 18 percent compared to 2011 althoughconsumption at our Omiya head office and three Aomori
factories decreased by 3 percent compared to 2011 inspite of some defects found in pumps and conduits. The
increase at TOF was mainly because of installing additionallens polishing machines and increased output. We willcontinue to work on reducing our group water consumption
by investigating increases and taking countermeasures.

Head Office
（ t）

800

764

700

160

Namioka

512

500

92

74

300
200
100
0

95.4
163

95.3
248
121

224

145

Recycling ratio(Domestic)
98.5%
98.0%

96.8

528
368

Owani

98.4

600
400

19

Hirosaki

97.3

97.5%
97.0%

700
600

96.5%

73

89

96.0%

400

95.5%

300

214

206

95.0%

200

94.5%

100

67

69

70

92

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

94.0%
93.5%

1. TOF in China has been measuring industrial waste since 2008, but we arefocusing on data consistency because of the difficulties of obtaining dataon some products. We therefore report the waste reduction from domestic
production sites. The estimated volume of industrial waste from TOF in 2012is reported on page 15.

Reducing Waste from Business Operations
Aiming at zero emissions2, our Waste Reduction Subcommittee continued to work on reducing waste andpromoting recycling. The Hirosaki factory worked
on enhancing the recycling ratio of plastic waste
components3 as materials by increasing the numberof packaging trays since April 2012. The first step
was strengthening operations to classify plastic waste
components, outsourcing the task of recycling themas plastic materials. As a result, the recycling ratioof plastic waste material increased from 39 to 56
percent.
In 2013, our other factories in Aomori and abroad willtake the same step and enhance our group material
recycling ratio.
2. The term zero emissions as used at Tamron means that the volume ofindustrial waste recycled as materials is 98 percent or higher. Our use ofrecycled materials in 2012 was 99.7 percent.
3. Material recycling means recovering used products from markets and wastefrom manufacturing operations for reprocessing and reusing them as materials.
This concept is separate from thermal recycling, which means burning waste
to reuse the heat as thermal energy.

Owani

Foshan0

Basic Unit

969
852

800

484

97

Namioka

900

467

110

Hirosaki

1,000

500

73

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Head Oﬃce（thousand ㎥）

15.1

722
636
10.7

456

12.7

thousand ㎥ /sales（billion yen）

16
14

14.6

549

12

11.0

10

386

546

671

789

8
6

0.6
166
7

6

2008

0.4
149
8

6

2009

0.4
161
9

6

2010

0.8

4

165

162

2

7

10 7

2011

2012

0.4

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VOICE
Interview with Manager in Charge ofEnvironmental Management at TOF

Section Manager,
General Affairs Division

Guanfa Lin

At TOF, we worked hard on reducing our CO₂ emissions ingeneral and on the specific target of reducing industrial waste
by 2.5 percent compared to 2011. To reduce CO₂ emissions,
we focused on enhancing the COP 4 value of our freezing
machines by minimizing the loss of compressed air from ourgeneral air-conditioning system, while regulating individual airconditioning systems. We partially changed the lighting at ourfactory to LED lights. As a result of these countermeasuresand our everyday work to save energy, we reduced our CO₂
emissions by 8 percent, compared to 2011, per basic sales unit.
To reduce industrial waste, we took measures including
recycling component packaging boxes. As a result, we reduced
industrial waste by 14 percent, compared to 2011, per basic
sales unit.
Also, as TOF uses chemical substances, we renovated our
exhaust and ventilation systems to create a healthier work
environment.
4. COP stands for Coefficient of Performance, which is the averageenergy consumption efficiency ratio in a refrigerated stock area.

Relationships with Society
To grow together with society and continue to be patronized, Tamron also works to support
and participate in social events and culture activities.

Growing Together with Local Communities
Contributions of the Three Aomori Factories

Plastic Bottle Collection

Our three factories in Aomori continued to work on
recovering pull tops as part of our efforts to contributeto local communities. The total volume of pull tops wehave recovered since 2005 reached 311 kilograms.
The pull tops collected were donated to the social
welfare associations of local areas for supportingsocial events and buying nursing care products.
Each factory continued to regularly contribute to theneighboring area. The factory in Hirosaki co-sponsoredthe Hirosaki Nebuta Festival, while the factory in
Namioka supported the Namioka Kitabatake Festival
and the Owani factory supported the Owani Hot
Spring Summer Festival.

We have continued to collect empty plastic bottles
for donating the money received from selling them forprocuring polio vaccine. The total volume of plastic
bottles we donated since 2008 was equivalent topolio vaccinations for 545 children.

Nature Restoration
Our Omiya head office continued to support the nature restoration that the
Saitama Prefecture Ecological System Conservation Society deploys together
with local citizen groups at the Shibakawa 1st Flood Control Reservoir and in
the peripheral area. Years ago, the area called Minuma Tambo located in thereservoir area was a wetland full of nature with a number of white herons
flying. Our head office in Omiya is located in an adjacent area. As a resultof the continuing work of the society and local groups, the Minuma Tamboarea is recovering. A number of living creatures including white herons andeven short-toed eagles now visit the area to feed.

Classes for Children
Since 2008, we have continued to offer classes to arouse
elementary school children’s interest in science, including classes
for learning about environmental protection. Our employees
create educational programs and four to five employees serve
as a teaching team. In 2012, in addition to continuing programs
including a course of observing how the nature of soap bubbles
changes depending upon differences in chemical substances, ouremployees thought of creating cameras from milk cartons, a theme
closely related to Tamron as a photographic lens manufacturer.
Children at elementary schools in Saitama City successfully madecameras from milk cartons, shouting with surprise at seeing images
captured with the cameras. The children feel more familiar with
science from observing
phenomena with tools they
make themselves.
We will continue tocontribute to our local
communities with similarclasses for school children
to learn more about science.

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VOICE
Science class

Shibakawa 1st Flood Control Reservoir

Sponsoring Wheelchair Track and Field Athletes
Tamron sponsors wheelchair track and field athletes
Wakako Tsuchida and Kotaro Hokinoue. While physicallychallenged, they have been working hard to realize
their dreams to become international athletes, giving
strength to and inspiring
many people. Impressedby their challenging spirit,
our company sponsoredtheir participation in the
London Paralympic Games2012 held from August 29
through September 9.
Athlete Kotaro Hokinoue in competition

Two wheelchair athletesAthlete Wakako Tsuchida in competition

Interview with Director ofCommunity Hall

Nanasato Community Hall,
Saitama City

Mr. Noboru Hagiwara

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that we canmake cameras from milk cartons. One Tamron
employee taught each group of four school children
and they smoothly worked on making cameras.
As this was a science class, Tamron employees
explained about constructing camera lenses. The
explanation seemed a little difficult to understand,but the children experiencing and understanding
the process of reversing images captured upside
down on the image planes of their cameras helped
to encourage their interest in science. Anotherstrong point of the class was the children being
able to bring home the actual cameras they madeto tell their families and take pictures with their very
own cameras.
I hope that Tamron will continue to help children
learn more about science by providing opportunities
to see manufacturing sites and holding seminars totake pictures with digital cameras.
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Activities at Subsidiary Companies Overseas
Tamron's subsidiaries abroad continued to work to strengthen their relationships with theircommunities.

Tamron Europe GmbH (TEG)

Tamron Optical (Shanghai) (TOS)In Germany known as a tourism-oriented countryemphasizing principles of environmental protection,
solar power generation systems have been becoming
popular after introducing a fixed system forpurchasing generated electric power. TEG installed
334 solar panels on the roof of our building when
expanding the building in February 2011 to reduce
CO₂ emissions through in-house power generation.
Our power generation in 2012 reached 62,749 kWh,which we sold to a power company in Cologne forabout 20,000 euros. The aggregate amount of electric
power we generated after installing the solar panels
has reached 14,525 kWh.
TEG also continued to contribute to society bypresenting photographic lenses to photographyschools and donating money to pediatric cancer
hospitals. Also, employees at TEG participated in
Business Run, a marathon held in Cologne that invites
participants from local firms. A total of approximately
10,000 people, including 15 people from TEG
participated in the 5 km race, wearing uniforms
bearing their company logos, supporting the event forvitalizing the local community.
At TEG we will continue to work on making Tamron acompany firmly linked with the local community thattreasures the environment.

In increasingly aging China, the number of people whowish to enjoy photography after retirement has been
increasing. Interest in photography classes has been
growing for learning more about selecting equipment
and photographic techniques. In 2012, in line withthe basic policy of social contribution of the Tamrongroup, Tamron Optical (Shanghai) started to support
local photo culture clubs by sending our employees
to teach about cameras, interchangeable lenses andphotographic know-how. Many participants greatly
appreciated the lessons from our employees, withcomments like the following:“We appreciated thelessons as we could increase our knowledge ofphotographic equipment. We wish to make the use ofthis knowledge for improving our photographic skills”.

Photography class held by Tamron Optical (Shanghai)

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Tamron USA (TUS)

Solar panels on the TEG roof
Generated electricity display

In 2012, Tamron USA held fifteen free photographyclasses for promoting photographic culture. Our
employees served as teachers, providing basic
knowledge on photographic equipment and giving
participants tips on photography. Many participants,
especially beginners who make up the majority of theparticipants, appreciated the classes.
We also continued to work on environmental
protection. As part of our program to reduce CO₂
emissions, we made our photographic exhibitionbooth fixtures 40 percent lighter compared to ourprevious booth. Our marketing team led the project,focusing on environmental protection from the stageof planning and designing for making the boothlighter and reducing CO₂ emissions by saving energy
required when hauling it.
We will continue to work on environmental protection
in deploying our marketing operations here in the
United States.

TEG employees participated in Business Run

Photography class held by TUS

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Independent Third-Party Opinion【Current Position】【Academic Societies】
Senior General Member of Sustainable Management Forumof Japan, an academic member of Japan Association for
Human & Environmental Symbiosis, The Japanese Society ofEnvironmental Education, Japan Institute of Tourism Research,
The Japanese Society for Quality Control, Japan Society of
Civil Engineering, The Institute of Life Cycle Assessment Japan,【Academic Background】
Japan Logistic Society, Public Policy Study Association Japan,
Graduated from the Department of Management, Japan Association for Communication, Information & Society,
Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University in 1989, and Society of Environmental Science Japan, Japan Tourism
Promotion Academic Conference
visited 80 countries of the world as a journalist.
Majored in and completed his master’s incomprehensive policy at the Comprehensive 【Committees】
Policy Study Course, Graduate School of Chuo Exploratory committee on management and operation of
University,and started to work as a bench scientist national parks (Ministry for the Environment) in 2006, an
at the Political Measure & Culture Comprehensive explanatory committee on Japan-ASEAN environmental
action plans in conjunction with public transportation
Research Lab of Chuo University in 1999.
Associate professor at the Research & Development (Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Ministry) in 2009, a
verification committee for establishing objective systems for
Organization, Chuo University, in 2001.
Professor in charge of a new course at the evaluating scenic spots working on reducing environmental
Graduate School, Faculty of Engineering, Chuo load (Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Ministry) in2009.
University in 2006.
In current position since 2009. Also a professor at【Scientific Papers】
The Open University of Japan.
Environmental Education from School to In-house Seminars
at Businesses(Journal of the Academy of Environment【Areas of Specialization】
Environmental management, CSR, environmental Management), 2003 (Paper received Environmental
policy, environmental education, sustainable Management Academy’s Distinguished Research WorkAward), and a lot of books and research literatures have been
tourism
published.

Professor, Faculty of Engineering,
Toyama Prefectural University
Senior Counselor, Policy Making,Toyama City

Professor

Noriyasu Kunori

Environmental Protection and CSR Governance in Deploying Global Operations
I was given this opportunity to submit my third-party opinion on
Tamron’s work in 2012 as I did last year.
Tamron deployed sound business operations in 2012, steadily
achieving revenue growth under the continuing deflationary
economy. The growth was primarily through component optics andphotographic interchangeable lens businesses that serve as corecompetences. Tamron also established a factory in Vietnam and asales base in Russia, aiming to be a global company with group total
sales of 100 million yen. Tamron pursued separating after services
from competitors by being able to complete all repair services within
three days on a global basis.
Tamron is becoming a global company in this way. In deploying its
business operations globally, people at Tamron must remember
CSR governance and environmental protection. Tamron declared
supporting the 10 principles of the United Nation’s Global Compact
Program, while pursuing CSR governance under its 12 CSR themes
through its internal CSR committee and in line with its Code of
Conduct that involves all stakeholders. I interviewed people at
Tamron to ascertain if Tamron was actually following this.
For environmental protection, Tamron has made steadyachievements in accordance with ISO 14001. In order to continue
to grow in the coming low-carbon society, Tamron is now in thestage of fundamentally reviewing its manufacturing and material
flow systems. In order to pursue its goal in this direction, Tamron
should consider education on CSR governance and environmental

protection for employees in the framework of ESD (education forsustainable development).
As for relationships with society, the majority of the stakeholders
love Tamron. Tamron improving its rating in general on its customer
satisfaction survey shows that it is now highly valued as a reliablemaker of quality products with sufficient communication capability.
In addition, Tamron has been putting CSR procurement into
practice throughout its supply chain together with its suppliers andbusiness partners in accordance with its Supplier Code of Conduct.
In addition to its commitment to compliance with rigid European
initiatives banning the use of harmful chemical substances, Tamron
has decided not to use conflict minerals that are often used in many
precision products, demonstrating that the company recognizes theimportance of risk management.
For gender diversity, Tamron has steadily progressed by promoting
female employees to managers and planning in-house day-care
centers for employees’children. Overseas subsidiaries also worked
hard on educating their employees and creating comfortable work
environments, but they should stay alert as situations change
rapidly, particularly in developing countries. At overseas factories inparticular, maintaining good communications with employees andthe community is essential, in addition to the basic requirements ofreducing CO₂ emissions, saving energy and enhancing productivity.
Tamron is entering an era as a global company, committed toworking for stakeholders all over the world.

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Editors’Postscript
In compiling this report, we tried to report our
accomplishments, focusing on communications with
our stakeholders.
We focused more on our work to contribute tosociety including our contributions to photographic
and imaging culture as well as our relationships withsociety. We also tried to make this report easier toread by using universal fonts. We will continue towork on social issues, including CO₂ emissions on
a global basis, listening to independent third-party
opinions.

Editors at Head Office

Editors at Tamron Optical(Foshan）

Editors at Three Aomori factories

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