Sustainable Procurement

Management of Chemical Substances with Business Partners

TAMRON is working to create products in accordance with its policy of using no hazardous chemicals as product materials. We also ask our suppliers to manage hazardous chemicals based on the standards of our own environmental quality assurance system through our chemSHERPA* scheme for sharing information about the chemical substances contained in products.
Internally, we carry out analyses using an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, an inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) analyzer and a gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyzer to provide safe and worry-free products to customers.
We will continue maintaining and improving our system for following countries’ hazardous chemical regulations.

*chemSHERPA is a scheme for sharing information about the chemical substances in products in the supply chain. Its intent is to reduce the burdens on those providing and receiving information.

Responsible Minerals Sourcing Policy

TAMRON has adopted a policy of non-use of conflict-affected minerals as raw materials to fulfill its social responsibility in its procurement practices.
TAMRON is working together with business partners to identify the history of minerals used in its products with the aim of avoiding the use of conflict minerals.
TAMRON would like our business partners to understand the international circumstances surrounding the conflict minerals issue and support us in not using conflict minerals.
By cooperating with surveys and audits conducted by TAMRON, we expect our business partners to join TAMRON in carrying out the responsible procurement of necessary minerals.

Tamron has identified tantalum, tin, gold, tungsten, and cobalt as high-risk minerals and is working to build a responsible supply chain.
We ask our suppliers to procure these minerals only from smelters that conform to the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) established by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI).
In 2024, we conducted traceability surveys using CMRT/EMRT with 328 suppliers and received responses from all of them, achieving a 100% response rate.

If any risks are identified during the survey process, we request our suppliers to remove the relevant smelters from their supply chains. We verify the status of these corrective actions during the following year's survey.

Sustainability Improvement Initiatives at TAMRON Group plants

TAMRON utilizes SAQ at its production plants, and continually implements monitoring and improvement activities. In So far, we verified activities at our plants in Foshan (China) and Vietnam.
As a result, we made enhanced fire prevention measures and made improvements to ensure that industrial physicians monitor the state of health of employees working a lot of overtime.

Management system for Sustainable Procurement

The key issues and goals decided by the CSR Committee will be managed by the respective departments. For the key sustainability issue of "Sustainable Procurement," the CSR Procurement Subcommittee, an affiliated body of the CSR Committee, oversees specific policies and objectives. Composed of procurement and related personnel, the CSR Procurement Subcommittee, works to realize sustainable procurement by exploring and discussing measures to address various social issues such as GHG emission reductions across the value chain, responsible mineral sourcing, and respect for human rights.

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