Sustainability Initiatives
Based on our Corporate Philosophy—“TAMRON creates emotion and reassurance through its mastery of light, contributing to the realization of a fulfilling society.”—we work closely together with all our stakeholders to achieve the sustainable society envisioned by the SDGs. Amid rapidly changing social conditions, we remain unwaveringly committed to contributing to the realization of a “fulfilling society” through our optical products. We believe Tamron’s social mission is to tackle future societal challenges with the power of optics and deliver new value to the world. We view sustainability as achieving a sustainable society and ensuring our continued growth through the fulfillment of this mission.
Corporate Mission
TAMRON creates emotion and
reassurance through its mastery of light,
contributing to the realization of a fulfilling society.
Key Sustainability Issues and Promotion Structure
Key Sustainability Issues and Promotion Structure
Based on the key sustainability issues identified in response to requests from our stakeholders, we have been working on our business operations and established the "Standards of Business Conduct", which is the way TAMRON behaves as a company.
We have established a sound corporate governance system and carry out management with a fundamental focus on compliance,while also considering the economy, society and the environment.
Furthermore, by engaging in themes such as the environment,quality/product safety, and employment/human resources and other social issues, we are striving to be a company that has the power to be selected by customers.
Key Sustainability Issues and Standards of Business Conducts
1.Contributing to social issues through business（SDGs）
Looking to providing solutions to social issues, TAMRON creates new value through its corporate activities to achieve economic growth, solve social issues and contribute to the realization of a fulfilling society.
2.Quality and product safety
TAMRON combines innovation with its technological capabilities to create excitement and peace of mind by providing high quality products that earn the trust of customers while considering safety and the environment.
3.Environment
TAMRON recognizes that global environmental issues are issued shared by humanity, endeavors to reduce the impact on and conserve the environment, and contributes to the development of a sustainable society in harmony with the environment.
4.Compliance
TAMRON is aware that it exists together with society. We place a priority on observing laws and regulations while respecting social rules, and carry out our corporate activities with a high sense of ethics.
5.Information disclosure
To enhance corporate value, TAMRON actively works to disclose corporate information effectively and fairly, and engages in constructive dialogue with the stakeholders associated with its business.
6.Occupational safety and health
To develop a pleasant workplace environment that considers the health and safety of each employee, TAMRON monitors the state of health of its employees, undertakes initiatives on the maintenance and management of health, and makes every effort to ensure employee safety.
7.Social contributions
To create a society in which people can experience spiritual fulfillment, TAMRON engages in activities contributing to the development of photography and film culture, and acting as a good corporate citizen, takes part in local community activities and contributes to their development.
8.Human resources/human rights
TAMRON makes every effort to provide employees with opportunities to develop and demonstrate their abilities in ways that respect their diversity, character and individuality. We embrace a global perspective, value teamwork and endeavor to cultivate human resources who harness creativity.
9.Information management
TAMRON establishes protections from threats such as information asset incidents and crimes, and lives up to the trust placed in it by customers and society.
10.CSR procurement
TAMRON engages in sound trade practices, and works with its business partners to promote procurement activities that consider social responsibility including human rights, labor standards and the environment.
11.Risk (crisis management)
TAMRON prepares against risks that could threaten civic life or corporate activities, and does the utmost to prevent such risks from occurring. Should any such crisis occur, we will make every effort to minimize damage and loss, effect a swift recovery, prevent recurrences and fulfill our social responsibility.
12.Corporate governance
Top management works to build up sustainable corporate value by establishing governance to engage in fair, transparent and swift decision making in response to a changing business environment.
Standards of Business ConductSustainability Management System
With the aim of fulfilling TAMRON’ s corporate social responsibility and contributing to the development of a sustainable society, the CSR Committee, whose members include full-time directors, full-time Audit & Supervisory Committee Members and executive officers, meets five times a year in principle. The committee makes decisions on and deliberates over basic matters, policies and important targets concerning CSR and promotion of the integrated management system, and also manages the progress of important targets.
Tamron has formulated a Code of Conduct as a foundation for corporate behavior. The Code is also incorporated into Tamron’s Integrated Management Manual, which is a core regulation in Tamron’s management system that integrates ISO 9001 quality and ISO 14001 environmental standards.
This system is applied across all departments to promote compliance with laws, respect for fair social rules, and high ethical standards. All related internal rules are developed in alighment with this principle, and activities based on this system are audited at least once annually by internal auditors or external audit organizations.
Integrated Management Manual
Process for Identifying Key Sustainability Issues
Firstly, we identified social issues surrounding TAMRON based on international guidelines. We then assessed the importance of those issues for various stakeholders, and the possibility and potential impact of any risks. After considering the validity of the results of our assessment, we identified key sustainability issues and submitted them for final decision making by the CSR Committee.
We will continuously improve our response to sustainability issues.
| Materiality | Key Sustainability Issues | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Creating emotion and reassurance |
Quality and Product Safety | Enhancing product quality and safety management |
| Promoting CSR procurement | Building a sustainable supply chain | |
| Creating new light | Solving social issues through corporate activities (SDGs) | Contributing to social issues through business |
E Contributing to a sustainable earth |
Environment | Reducing CO2 emissions |
| Recycling resources and reducing waste | ||
| Environmentally friendly design | ||
| Reducing harmful chemical substances | ||
| Water management | ||
S Promoting human capital management |
Human resources and rights | Human resource development |
| Advance DE&I | ||
| Respect for human rights | ||
| Social contributions | ||
| Occupational safety and health | Promoting health and productivity management | |
G Developing the foundations of trust and sustained growth |
Compliance | Full enforcement of compliance |
| Risk (crisis management) | Strengthening business continuity management (BCM) | |
| Information management | Strengthening of information security | |
| Disclosure of information | ||
| Corporate governance | Improving the governance system |
Key Sustainability Issues: Activity Results
| Relationship to Materiality | Key Sustainability Issues | 2025 Goals | 2025 Results | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creating emotion and reassurance | Enhancing product quality and safety management | Thorough measures to prevent recurrence of serious past quality issues | Zero recurrence cases | 0 |
| Global product and safety compliance | Zero violations | 0 | ||
| Building a sustainable supply chain | ESG survey of key suppliers | 100% implementation | 100% implementation | |
| Creating new light | Contributing to social issues through business | R&D expenses as a percentage of net sales | 7% or more | 8.6% |
| Contributing to a sustainable earth | Reducing CO2 emissions | Reduction of CO2 emissions | 15% reduction (vs. 2015) | 21.9% reduction |
| Reducing industrial waste | Reduction of the volume of industrial waste generated | [Head office] Below the average of the past 3 years (32,058.9 kg) | 15,172.8 kg | |
| [Mold & Tooling Technology Center] 2% reduction of waste plastic compared with 2024 | 33.0% reduction | |||
| [China Factory] 2% decrease from 2024 | 16.4% increase | |||
| [Vietnam Factory] 1% decrease from 2024 | 23.2% increase | |||
| Recycling of waste plastics | [China Factory] Recycling rate: 2.7% | 3.4% | ||
| Environmentally friendly design | Introduction of TAMRON eco-label | Rollout to all applicable models | Implemented on six models | |
| Reduce bags used for owner's manuals | Reduction rate for new models: 100% | 100% | ||
| Introduction of recycled plastic materials | Deployment across multiple models | Decision made to adopt PC-CF recycled material for future models | ||
| Reducing harmful chemical substances | Leaks of harmful chemical substances from business locations | 0 incidents | 0 incidents | |
| Water management | Grasping actual amount of clean water use | [Head office] 4,113 m3/year or less | 4,644 m3/year | |
| [Hirosaki] 1,059 m3/year or less | 4,874 m3/year | |||
| [Namioka] 81,617 m3/year or less | 74,060 m3/year | |||
| Reduction of clean water use | [China Factory] 2% decrease compared with 2024 | 13.4% increase | ||
| [Vietnam Factory] 1% decrease compared with 2024 | 1.0% reduction | |||
| Empowering employees | Human resources development | Education and training expenses per employee | Up 15% from the previous year (previous year: 22 thousand yen) | 29 thousand yen |
| DE&I promotion | Percentage of female managerial staff | Up from the previous year (2024: 7.41%) | 7.03% | |
| Respecting human rights | Improving the human rights due diligence framework | ・Implemented the PDCA cycle for human rights due diligence based on the "TAMRON Human Rights Policy" ・As part of efforts to establish a complaint-handling mechanism, set up a reporting channel for suppliers on our website ・Disclosed in the Integrated Report on our website in June |
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| Health management | Number of occupational accidents | Decrease from the previous year (7 in 2024) | 5 | |
| Developing the foundations of trust and sustained growth | Full enforcement of compliance | Violations of laws and regulations | 0 | 0 Company-wide compliance training conducted |
| Strengthening business continuity management (BCM) | Review of corporate BCP and business BCP | Review and implementation of corporate BCP and business BCP | ||
| Strengthening information security | Information leakage | 0 | 0 | |
| Network infections | 0 | 0 | ||
| Improving the governance system | Enhancing the quality of board of directors deliberations | Matters for deliberation increased to 8 (2 in 2024) | ||
| Improving the effectiveness of the nominating committee | Review and determination of the annual agenda, skill matrix guidelines, and basic policies and procedures regarding nominations | |||