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Company of choice for a sustainable tomorrow MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO SAFETY & HEALTH SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE SUSTAINABLE SOURCING INNOVATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GOVERNANCE, INTEGRITY & TRUST GOAL SUMMARY AWARDS & RECOGNITION INGREDION LOCATIONS 2015 Sustainability Update To our customers, shareholders and neighbors, In 2015 we continued our Ingredion Company of Choice for a Sustainable MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO Tomorrow plan, a program rolled out in 2014 that outlines our sustainability agenda and includes performance and reduction targets in eight key areas. SAFETY & HEALTH These eight focal areas, identified by chapters in this update, are aligned with our customers’ objectives and are directed where our sustainability efforts can have the most meaningful and positive impact. SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY Safety is and always has been our most important value. Last year we Mission announced a lofty target to achieve an employee Total Recordable Incident We believe that our success as a company is tied to the well- ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Rate of 0.20 by 2020. In 2015 we continued to develop programs and implement processes detailed in this update that help to further indoctrinate being of our employees and the health of our communities OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE our safety culture throughout our global network. Nothing we do is worth and the environment. We aspire to operate our business in a getting hurt for, and through training, communication and improved sustainable manner to become the employer, supplier, neighbor, processes we ultimately strive for zero injuries. investment and Company of Choice for our many stakeholders. SUSTAINABLE SOURCING We are also pleased to highlight a number of exciting new programs, initiatives We intend to achieve this by rigorously incorporating sustainable and collaborations in our other focal areas with water and environmental practices and maintaining high moral and ethical standards INNOVATION conservation continuing to be special areas of emphasis for our sustainability wherever we do business. We will adhere to our core values of efforts. I am pleased with the cooperative work and enhanced efforts of our Safety, Quality, Integrity, Respect, Excellence and Innovation COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT employee teams to improve our efficiency in important areas such as water usage and carbon emissions. Our approximately 11,000 employees around as we continue to grow our business into a world-leading the world continue to push tirelessly to reach Ingredion’s sustainability goals ingredient solutions provider. GOVERNANCE, INTEGRITY & TRUST every day. In 2015 we announced the acquisition of two U.S.-based companies, Penford TARGET SUMMARY Corporation and Kerr Concentrates. Both acquisitions expand our reach ice Sup ho pli into healthy trends such as clean-label and non-GMO as well as bolster our f C er o Safety & o Health f AWARDS & RECOGNITION innovation and R&D capabilities. We are working diligently to integrate r , e e st A So C nc ru cc c y a T ou ia h the new facilities into our current sustainability programs and will provide rn & n l e y ta o v it b o l o r i g li G e t i progress reports in subsequent updates. p t y c n I e INGREDION LOCATIONS m E C E n o t v y n n i t r s Finally, as you read through this 2015 update, I hope you will see that i e o e n n m r u m v e a g m e t sustainability is not just important to our business agenda, it is a priority. Our a n i m o g N t o n n a e C E l teams of passionate employees are dedicated to improving our environment, e c i i g o making a difference in our communities and ensuring that we operate E x O h n c h p e o i e l t l b r e a C a n v t safely. I am proud of the good work our employees have done to further c o i o e o n f n n I a r l o S our progress and look forward to continuing to build on our Company of o o g u n r i c t f S u e l s t b a n a i n C Choice sustainability mission to make a positive difference for our customers, e h m o t i s c e e v employees, communities and shareholders. n I Ilene S. Gordon Ingredion Company of Choice for a Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Sustainable Tomorrow plan 1 April 22, 2016 COLLABORATIONS PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES At Ingredion, safety is one of our highest priorities. We COLLABORATIONS engage in safety initiatives around the globe designed to keep our employees, contractors and visitors safe while Once again in 2015, Ingredion awarded our prestigious working at or visiting our facilities. Some of these efforts CEO Award in Safety Excellence to a country that are a continuation of activities started in previous years, exemplifies our value of safety in its operations and while some were new in 2015. MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO programs. Our team in Brazil took the award for their PURPOSE exemplary work, surpassing more than 13 million man- We continued to focus our safety efforts on Process SAFETY & HEALTH hours without a lost time accident at all seven facilities. Safety. Through our Hazard Study Leader Training, Providing a secure and We are also pleased to report that our EMEA region at individuals are instructed in a systematic, six-level healthy work environment SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY year-end has completed 34 months without an injury. process to assess potential hazards in new projects. for our employees is our Our Global Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) In 2015, we conducted training in multiple locations, priority. We are committed team, comprising EHS personnel from our sites around including Europe, North America and Pakistan, adding ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION to maintaining the highest the world, continues to have meetings on a monthly 48 hazard study leaders across the organization. standards of safety at our basis to share these types of successes and exchange Additionally, we expanded our Process Safety facilities and continually OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE best practices. Management (PSM) and Dry Thermal Review (DTR) strive for zero injuries programs. In 2015, we rolled out PSM and DTR to our employees, visitors SUSTAINABLE SOURCING in South America, continuing the work we started in and those working on TRIR Safety Results Total Recordable Incidence Rate (TRIR) stated per 200,000 hours. Asia last year. We expect to bring these programs to our behalf. 1.2 INNOVATION our operations in Mexico in 2016. 1.02 1.0 Ingredion continues to utilize Lean Six Sigma (LSS) tools COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT to assess our safety performance across the organization. GOAL 0.8 This data led us to launch our Hand Safety initiative in GOVERNANCE, INTEGRITY & TRUST 0.68 2014, a program that continued in 2015. Additionally, 0.6 we identified a slight increase in the number of injuries • Achieve an employee 0.50 GOAL SUMMARY Total Recordable occurring in the summer months, and launched an Incidence Rate (TRIR) of 0.4 awareness campaign in 2015 to reduce those accidents. 0.31 0.29 AWARDS & RECOGNITION 0.20 by 2020 0.23 0.2 In October, Ingredion held a global Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) meeting with EHS personnel INGREDION LOCATIONS 0.0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 from our sites around the world. This meeting focused on best practice sharing, as well as communicating our EHS strategy. Ingredion continued our 20.20 All Eyes on Safety program to increase awareness and enhance SAFETY HIGHLIGHTS safety performance with the goal of achieving a Total Recordable Incidence 82% 59% 96% Rate (TRIR) of 0.20 by the year 2020. of sites were Lost Time of sites were injury of non-manufacturing Case (LTC) free in 2015 free in 2015 sites were injury free (Exclusive of Penford in 2015 and Kerr locations) 2 COLLABORATIONS Ingredion continues to engage with our customers regarding their needs around social accountability. These discussions and programs have the added benefit of helping our customers MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO to understand potential risks across their supply chain. Our PURPOSE membership in Sedex, the largest global platform for sharing SAFETY & HEALTH ethical supply chain data, and our participation in four-pillar We are dedicated to the SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) assessments 100% SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY welfare of our employees, speak to our commitment to social accountability throughout business associates and our organization. We completed these extensive SMETA of SMETA audits audits of our manufacturing locations* in 2015, and we are ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION the communities in which completed we operate. We promote continuing to raise the bar for our social audit program to (Exclusive of Penford and Kerr locations) ethical business practices meet customer expectations. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE and strive to protect and *Exclusive of Penford and Kerr locations. support human rights. SUSTAINABLE SOURCING We know that our efforts to maintain a socially INNOVATION responsible supply chain are PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES important to our business, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT our customers and other In addition to working with our customers through the Sedex process, we have a goal to stakeholders. register our own key suppliers by the end of 2016. We invited key suppliers that were not familiar with Sedex to communication sessions to learn about Ingredion’s sustainability GOVERNANCE, INTEGRITY & TRUST program, introduce Sedex and answer GOALS questions. In addition to working GOAL SUMMARY with our suppliers, we conducted • 100% certified social considerable engagement activities with AWARDS & RECOGNITION accountability assessments select customers in the area of social of all our manufacturing accountability.