TECHNO ASSOCIE Corporate Profile

TECHNOASSOCIECorporateProfile

Based on its corporate principles, the Techno Associe Group stresses quality

and CSR in its efforts to conduct business operations that earn the

understanding of all stakeholders. With a business policy of “Heart-to-Heart

Bonds” , we stand as an intermediary between our suppliers and our

customers with the aim of becoming an integrator of goodwill.

In the Techno Associe Group, we have four business units that handle

our customers’ different industries. Also, in addition to a Broad Area Sales

Division, which covers the various geographical regions of Japan, we have a

Quality Assurance Division with state-of-the-art assessment equipment, and

a Development and Promotion Division that develops applications and

construction methods. Our 20 affiliates in Japan and other countries conduct

duties include designing and manufacturing forged parts, machined parts,

and chemical products. This structure allows us to meet the needs of our

customers in Japan while at the same time promptly and accurately

responding to the specialized needs of Japanese customers doing business

internationally and our local customers doing business in their respective

countries around the world. We call this doing business in a ‘glocal’ way:

‘globally’ and ‘locally’.

The Techno Associe Group will continue to be a company that engineers

value by developing new solutions as we put our wealth of expertise to work

in providing customers with peace of mind and satisfaction.

Message from the President

TECHNO ASSOCIE Corporate Profile

Focus Both Globally and Locally in Order to Promptly and Accurately Respond to Customer Needs

Corporate Principles

“Heart-to-Heart Bonds”1. Providing services which cater to the needs of customers within the basic concept of “the customer is �rst.” We always stay in close touch with communities and production sites to deliver high-quality products while respecting environmental preservation and safety.

2. Improving the level of satisfaction of customers, suppliers and employees and enhancing our shareholder value.

3. Achieving sustainable growth by maintaining social responsibility and high corporate ethics and promoting globalization.

4. Fostering a lively corporate culture and contributing to the creation of a better society and environment. We provide opportunities for self-realization and endeavour with the aim of becoming a dependable company.

Be creativeso that we keep offering original proposals

to customers

Be service-mindedand willing to help customers

Be gratefulto people supporting us

Business Policy

Hisato ShinguPresident

Products and Services

Telecommunications FieldRaising the performance oftelecommunications equipment

Provision of parts for today’s indispensable mobile equipment and optical communications equipment. We offer ways to realize greater functions and performance.


Basic Data

Outline

18041946Tosabori 3-3-17, Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-0001Telephone: (+81) 6-6459-2101

26 domestic offices and 22 overseas offices5,001,000,000 yen

March 31

Consolidated: 2,018 Non-consolidated: 825(As of March 2017)Stock listed on Tokyo Stock ExchangeSecond Section on July 26, 1999

Design, manufacture, and sale of fasteners, processed components, metal materials, electrical components, chemical products, industrial machinery, and others, and incidental or related businesses

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Techno Associe KyoeikaiJP Morgan Chase Bank 380684Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd.Techno Associe Employee Stock Ownership Planhttp://www.technoassocie.co.jp/

Sales by Business Segment (consolidated)

Housing & Construction Products FieldSupport for living that is both comfortableand sustainable

We market and sell products in Japan and other countries such as construction materials, housing equipment, and building renovation goods. A particular focus in recent years has been the provision of materials for solar power generation systems and smart grid equipment, as we contribute to the realization of lifestyles that are comfortable and sustainable.

Automotive Products Field

Provision of a range of automotive parts that improve safety, comfort, and environmental performance. By linking with our overseas plants, we can provide customers with low-cost, consistently high-quality products.

Supporting safety, comfort,and environmental performance

Industrial Machinery & Solution Field

Besides selling fasteners, processed components, functional materials, and chemical products for industrial machinery, we market and sell devices that reduce manpower on production lines. We meet customer needs at every stage of manufacturing.

Responding to all manufacturing-related needs

Electronics & Appliance Field

We provide a wide range of products indispensable to electrical and electronics equipment: parts like power cords for appliances, static electricity prevention parts for office equipment, and various materials for semiconductors.

Behind the provision of electricaland electronics equipment

Fastener Products

We sell functional, environmentally friendly products like screws and rivets in all shapes and sizes. We are the leading manufacturer in terms of volume among screw distributors.

A full lineup for the entire spectrum of needs

Chemical Products

We make the most of our proprietary compound technologies to infuse new functions into materials such as resin, fiberglass, aluminum foil, and multi-functional non-woven fabric, thus allowing the development and provision of materials that have the functions needed for each specific application.

Marketing the right materials for the application

Sales (consolidated, non-consolidated)

(Unit: Million yen)

50,461

2016

74,37170,820

91,974

51,021

79,115

59,287

86,010

70,269

98,778

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Non-consolidated Consolidated

Fiscal 2016sales

(million yen)74,371

Telecommunications6,772 (9.1%)

Other Marketing Business

Automotive Products25,323 (34.0%)

Electronics & Appliance16,689 (22.4%)

Housing & Construction Products

10,359 (14.0%)

Industrial Machinery& Solution

5,822 (7.9%)

9,404 (12.6%)

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EstablishedIncorporatedHead Office

Number ofOfficesCapitalSettlementPeriodNumber ofEmployees

Market Listing

Line ofBusiness

PrimaryShareholders

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Fiscal 2015sales

(million yen)79,115

Telecommunications7,313 (9.3%)

Other Marketing Business

Automotive Products26,411 (33.4%)

Electronics & Appliance19,722 (24.9%)

Housing & Construction Products

13,878 (17.5%)

Industrial Machinery& Solution

6,601 (8.3%)

5,188 (6.6%)

Only Techno Associe Makes It Possible

The value we provide comes not just from making new parts and products through a combination of technologies and processing methods; it also comes from our ability to provide modular and systematic solutions for customers. We sow the “seeds”—technologies and products from our suppliers around the world—in order to meet the “needs” of our customers. As a company that engineers new value in a range of fields from industrial materials to parts, we offer precisely the solutions that our customers are looking for.

Giving birth to new value in every stage of manufacturing,we engineer value in providing customers with solutions.

Seeds

Workefficiency

Productdevelopment

Costreduction

QualityimprovementEnvironmental

protection

Needs

Strengths and Functions


As a solutions developer,we constantly strive to boostour development capabilities. Our mission is to grasp customer needs and pursue every possible way to meet them. By constantly improving our proprietary development and design functions, we conduct new business and develop new products that are brimming with added value and originality.

Development/Design

We are building an optimalsupply chain that is supportedby our worldwide network.Making the most of our bases around the world, we have built an optimal supply chain, through which we procure products with the best quality and functions from an expansive network of worldwide material manufacturers and processers, and deliver them to our customers’ manufacturing sites.

Procurement/Processing,Manufacture/Delivery We are strengthening our quality

assurance system through theuse of proper quality standardsand inspection equipment.Our quality assurance system is the backbone of the solutions we provide to our customers. In order to equate the name “Techno Associe” with quality among all of our customers, we adopt proper quality standards and install all necessary inspection equipment. Improving quality assurance throughout the supply chain is a never-ending job at Techno Associe.

Quality Assurance

Be the customer’s“associate”

Be the supplier’s and affiliate’s“associate”

Delivery

Procurement/processing,manufacture

Development/design

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We have bases in every worldwide region so that we can assist our customers’ accelerating drive into global markets. These bases work together to provide the optimal solutions for our customers, wherever in the world they are. Besides providing overseas customers with products, we also provide customers in Japan with the best products procured from around the world.

Asia

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Europe

26 offices

Japan

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We make full use of our 26 bases in Japan and 22 overseas.

Providing optimal solutions for customers aroundthe world

Europe

Network


TECHNO ASSOCIE TAIWAN CO., LTD.

TAIPEI OFFICE

TAINAN OFFICE

TECHNO ASSOCIE HONG KONG CO., LTD.

TECHNO ASSOCIE (GUANGZHOU) CO., LTD.

F&T KUNSHAN TECHNO CO.,LTD.

TECHNO ASSOCIE SHANGHAI CO., LTD.

NETTFORM TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO.,LTD.

ACCURATE METAL MACHINING CO.,LTD.

TECHNO ASSOCIE (DALIAN F.T.Z.) CO.,LTD.

TECHNO ASSOCIE SINGAPORE PTE.LTD.

TECHNO ASSOCIE VIETNAM CO., LTD.

HO CHI MINH HEAD OFFICE

HANOI BRANCH

PT. TECHNO ASSOCIE INDONESIA

TECHNO ASSOCIE (THAILAND) CO., LTD.

15 TA AUTOMOTIVE PARTS (THAILAND) CO., LTD.

MALAYSIAN PRECISION MANUFACTURING SDN. BHD.16

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East Asia

Southeast Asia

TECHNO ASSOCIE CZECH s.r.o.

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North AmericaT.A. AMERICA CORPORATION

CALIFORNIA OFFICE

TENNESSEE OFFICE

ATLANTA OFFICE

TECHNO ASSOCIE DE MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V.

TIJUANA FACILITY

SILAO FACILITY

TECHNO ASSOCIE CO., LTD.

(Affiliates)TOBUTSU TECHNO CO., LTD.SILICONE TECHNO CO., LTD.TAIYO SANGYO CO., LTD.

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