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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM SD

SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT

 

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc.

 

(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

DELAWARE 001-33957 04-3306140

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation)

(Commission File Number) (IRS Employer Identification Number)

 

  84 October Hill Road, Holliston, MA   01746  
  (Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)  

 

  Robert Gagnon (508) 893-8999  
(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)

 

 

 

Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:

 

   ☒  Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure

 

Item 1.01   Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (“Harvard Bioscience”) has evaluated its current product lines and has determined in good faith that during 2016 it manufactured or contracted to manufacture products as to which columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite and their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten (herein referred to as “Conflict Minerals”)) are necessary to the functionality or production of such products (herein referred to as “Covered Products”). Based on such determination, Harvard Bioscience conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry, or RCOI, that was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals in the Covered Products originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia or Angola); or were from recycled or scrap sources.

 

Following the RCOI, Harvard Bioscience exercised due diligence on the source and chain of custody of its applicable products. Information on the RCOI, steps we have taken to exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of any Conflict Minerals in the Covered Products and the results of this due diligence, are disclosed in the Conflict Minerals Report filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.

 

Conflict Minerals Disclosure

 

A copy of Harvard Bioscience’s Conflict Minerals Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 hereto and is publicly available at: http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.  The content of any website referred to in this Form SD is included for general information only and is not incorporated by reference in this Form SD.

 

Item 1.02   Exhibit

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc. has filed its Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.

 

Section 2  - Exhibits

 

Item 2.01  Exhibits

 

Exhibit 1.01  Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form SD

 

Forward Looking Statements

 

This Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD and the exhibit to this Form SD may contain statements that are not statements of historical fact and are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). The forward-looking statements are principally contained in Exhibit 1.01 and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about management’s confidence or expectations, and our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions that are not historical facts. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “seek,” “expects,” “plans,” “aim,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “projects,” “predicts,” “intends,” “think,” “potential,” “objectives,” “optimistic,” “strategy,” “goals,” “sees,” “new,” “guidance,” “future,” “continue,” “drive,” “growth,” “long-term,” “projects,” “develop,” “possible,” “emerging,” “opportunity,” “pursue” and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include those described under the heading “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, or described in our other public filings. Our results may also be affected by factors of which we are not currently aware. We may not update these forward-looking statements, even though our situation may change in the future, unless we have obligations under the federal securities laws to update and disclose material developments related to previously disclosed information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc.      
(Registrant)      
       
/s/ Robert E. Gagnon      
By: Robert E. Gagnon, Chief Financial Officer May 26, 2017  

 

 

Exhibit 1.01

 

Harvard Bioscience, Inc.

 

Conflict Minerals Report

 

For The Year Ended December 31, 2016

 

This report for the year ended December 31, 2016 is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Rule”). The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”). The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals which are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Conflict Minerals are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (“Conflict Minerals”) for the purposes of this report. These requirements apply to registrants whatever the geographic origin of the conflict minerals and whether or not they fund armed conflict.

 

As described in this report, Harvard Bioscience, Inc., a Delaware corporation (herein referred to as “Harvard Bioscience” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) has reason to believe that some of the Conflict Minerals present in its supply chain may have originated in the Covered Countries.  For purposes of this report, Covered Countries refers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the “DRC”) and adjoining countries, defined as any country that shares an internationally recognized border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  We are unable with absolute assurance to determine the origin of the Conflict Minerals in our products and therefore cannot exclude the possibility that some may have originated in the Covered Countries.

 

1. Company Overview

 

This report has been prepared by management of Harvard Bioscience. The information includes the activities of all majority-owned subsidiaries.

 

Harvard Bioscience is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of scientific instruments, systems and lab consumables used to advance life science for basic research, drug discovery, clinical and environmental testing. Our products are sold to thousands of researchers in over 100 countries through our global sales organization, websites, catalogs, and through distributors including Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., VWR, and other specialized distributors. We have sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Spain, France, Canada, and China.

 

Conflict Minerals Policy

 

We adopted a conflict minerals policy in 2013 which is publicly available at http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.

 

2. Product Description

 

Our product range is organized into three product families: Cell and Animal Physiology, Lab Products and Services, and Molecular Separation and Analysis. We primarily sell these products under brand names that include Harvard Apparatus, Denville, Biochrom, Warner Instruments, BTX, KD Scientific, Hugo Sachs Elektronik, Panlab, Coulbourn Instruments, Multi Channel Systems, Triangle Biosystems, HEKA Instruments, and CMA Microdialysis.  Our products consist of instruments, consumables, and systems made up of several individual products. We manufacture our products at our locations in the United States, Germany, Sweden and Spain.  Our broad and complex product range may contain conflict minerals within the following components:

 

· Tantalum, used in capacitors,
· Tin, used in soldered components,
· Tungsten, used in coatings, alloys, heating elements and electrodes,
· Gold, used in circuit boards, electrodes and electronic components.

 

3. Description of Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry, or RCOI

 

We began our RCOI by completing a supplier list extraction from our Vendor List. This list was then filtered to remove:

 

Service Providers/Suppliers
Indirect Materials Suppliers
Inactive Suppliers (minimum 1 year since last purchase)

 

 

 

 

This ensures that all suppliers surveyed provided items to Harvard Bioscience that were used in final products in the year 2016. Once the filtering was completed, we populated the list with contact information and this list was then provided to Assent Compliance (“Assent”), our third party service provider, for upload to their Assent Compliance Manager SaaS system (“ACM”). It was deemed appropriate to not further filter this list based on the necessity of the presence of Conflict Minerals in the products as we could not definitively determine the presence or absence of Conflict Minerals in all parts supplied. The survey employed the CFSI’s Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the “CMRT”), version 4.10 or higher, originally developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition® and The Global e-Sustainability Initiative. The CMRT allows for further scoping as they ask suppliers whether any of the Conflict Minerals are intentionally added and if they are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Assent conducted additional analysis of the supply chain and such analysis combined with supplier feedback, allowed Assent and Harvard Bioscience to remove additional suppliers from scope of the conflict minerals regulation. The factors considered in Assent’s secondary analysis and the information provided that removed these suppliers from scope included:

 

The product they supply is packaging. (Labels do not count as packaging)
Parts that do not end up in the final product. (This includes equipment used to make the product but is not a part of the actual product itself (i.e. Industrial equipment, computers etc.).)
Test Labs (i.e. Providers that test the resistance or durability of a product)
Service Providers (i.e. any supplier that provides a service but not an actual physical part).
Any supplier who has not supplied anything to Harvard Bioscience, Inc., in the last 2 years.

 

Assent then conducted the supplier survey portion of the RCOI.

 

During the supplier survey, suppliers were contacted via the ACM, a SaaS platform that enables its users to complete and track supplier communications as well as allow suppliers to upload completed CMRTs directly to the platform for assessment and management.

 

Non-responsive suppliers were contacted a minimum of three times by ACM and then were also managed by the Assent Compliance team in one on one communications. This includes two to three direct follow ups from that team.

 

Assent’s communications with suppliers included training and education on the completion of the CMRT to alleviate any remaining confusion with suppliers. All of these communications were monitored and tracked in Assent's system for future reporting and transparency.

 

The program continues to include automated data validation on all submitted CMRTs. The goal of data validation is to increase the accuracy of submissions and identify any contradictory answers in the CMRT. All submitted forms are accepted and classified as valid or invalid so that data is still retained. Suppliers are contacted in regards to invalid forms and are encouraged to resubmit a valid form.

 

4. Due Diligence Process

 

4.1 Design of Due Diligence

 

Our due diligence measures have been designed to conform, in all material respects, with the framework in The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (the “OECD Guidance”) and the related Supplements for Conflict Minerals.

 

4.2 Management Systems

 

Internal Team

 

Harvard Bioscience has established a management system for conflict minerals. Our management system includes a committee selected by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company as well as executive-level representatives and a team of subject matter experts from relevant functions such as:

 

· Quality
· Purchasing
· Finance
· Engineering

 

The team of subject matter experts is responsible for implementing our conflict minerals compliance strategy. Senior management is briefed about the results of our due diligence efforts on a regular basis.

 

 

 

 

Control systems

 

As we do not typically have a direct relationship with Conflict Minerals smelters and refiners, we are engaged and actively cooperate with other major manufacturers in our sector and other sectors. Controls include, but are not limited to, the use of the CMRT as the data collection format for our suppliers, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics which outlines certain expected behaviors for all Harvard Bioscience employees. In addition, we rely on our direct suppliers to provide information on the origin of the Conflict Minerals contained in components and materials supplied to us – including sources of Conflict Minerals that are supplied to them from lower tier suppliers.

 

Supplier Engagement

 

With respect to the OECD requirement to strengthen engagement with suppliers, we have, through Assent, provided education on the Conflict Minerals regulation as well as the expectations of the law and for a continued business relationship. This year, we put a stronger emphasis on supplier education and training. To accomplish this, we utilized Assent’s learning management system, Assent University, and provided all in-scope suppliers access to their Conflict Minerals training course. This training is tracked and evaluated based on completion. All suppliers are encouraged to complete all modules within this course.

 

Grievance Mechanism

 

Various communication channels exist to serve as grievance mechanisms for early-warning risk awareness. We have multiple longstanding grievance mechanisms whereby employees (internal) and suppliers (external) can report violations of our policies. This includes, but is not limited to our whistleblower hotline that is part of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics policy located on our website at http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.

 

Maintain Records

 

Our existing policy related to relevant documentation of our conflict mineral compliance process requires that documentation will be retained for a period of at least five years.

 

4.3 Identify and assess risk in the supply chain

 

Because of the complexity of our products, and the depth, breadth, and constant evolution of our supply chain, it is difficult to identify actors upstream from our direct suppliers. Risks are identified automatically in‎ ACM based on criteria established for supplier responses in the Conflict Policy document and Management System.

 

Invalid responses are dealt with directly by Assent Compliance staff who contact the supplier, encourage the submission of a valid CMRT, gather pertinent data and perform an assessment of the supplier’s Conflict Minerals status. 

 

All of the information and findings from this process are stored in a database that can be audited by internal or external ‎parties.

 

Certain of the responses to the surveys included the names of facilities listed by the suppliers as smelters or refiners. We compared, via Assent, each facility listed in the responses to the lists of smelters and refiners maintained by the CFSI to verify the existence of the facility and to determine whether the facility has met the requirements of the CFSI’s Conflict Free Smelter Protocol (CFSP) and is considered Compliant to that protocol.

 

Each facility that meets the CFSI definition of a smelter or refiner of a 3TG mineral is assigned a risk of high, medium or low based on 3 scoring criteria:

 

1.Geographic proximity to the DRC and covered countries;
2.Conflict-Free Smelter Program (CFSP) audit status;
3.Known or plausible evidence of unethical or conflict sourcing.

 

Based on this criteria, certain facilities have been identified as being of highest concern to the supply chain. When these facilities were reported on a CMRT by one of the suppliers surveyed, risk mitigation activities were initiated. Through Assent, submissions that include any of the above facilities immediately produce a receipt instructing the supplier to take their own risk mitigation actions, including submission of a product specific CMRT to better identify the connection to products that they supply to Harvard Bioscience, and escalating up to removal of these high risk smelters from their supply chain.


As per the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, risk mitigation will depend on the supplier’s specific context. Suppliers are given clear performance objectives within reasonable timeframes with the ultimate goal of progressive elimination of these risks from the supply chain.  

 

In addition, suppliers are guided to the Assent University learning platform to engage in educational materials on mitigating the risk of smelters or refiners on the supply chain.

 

 

 

 

If any smelter or refiner is not recognized by the CFSI, Assent conducts outreach and research to gain more information about whether they are a smelter or a refiner, sourcing practices, location, and country of origin. Additionally, if any smelter is not certified conflict-free, Assent conducts outreach providing education on the Conflict-Free Smelter Program and encouraging them to join this program.

 

Additionally, suppliers are evaluated on program strength (further assisting in identifying risk in the supply chain). Many companies continue to be in the middle of the process and still have “unknown” as some of the answers. It has been decided that penalizing or failing them for working through the process is likely not the best approach for the initial years of compliance, it does not meet the goals or spirit of the Rule, however evaluating and tracking the strength of the program does meet the OECD Due Diligence Guidelines and can assist in making key risk mitigation decisions as the program progresses. The criteria used to evaluate the strength of the program are:

 

A. Do you have a policy in place that includes DRC conflict-free sourcing?

E. Have you implemented due diligence measures for conflict-free sourcing?

H. Do you verify due diligence information received from your suppliers?

I. Does your verification process include corrective action management?

 

When suppliers meet or exceed those criteria (“Yes” to at least A,E,H,I) , they are deemed to have a strong program. When suppliers do not meet those criteria, they are deemed to have a weak program.

 

We believe that the inquiries and investigations described above represent a reasonable effort to determine the mines or locations of origin of the Conflict Minerals in our Covered Products, including (1) seeking information about Conflict Minerals smelters and refiners in our supply chain through requesting that our suppliers complete the CMRT, (2) verifying those smelters and refiners with the expanding CFSI lists, (3) conducting the due diligence review, and (4) obtaining additional documentation and verification, as applicable.

 

4.4 Design and Implement a Strategy to Respond to Risks

 

In response to this risk assessment, Harvard Bioscience has an approved risk management plan, through which the conflict minerals program is implemented, managed and monitored.

 

As part of our risk management plan, to ensure suppliers understand our expectations we have provided both video, recorded training and documented instructions through Assent. As the program progresses, contacts via email and phone by Harvard Bioscience procurement team members will be completed as an escalation to ensure the importance of a response via CMRTs to Assent and the required cooperation for compliance to the Conflict Minerals rules will be emphasized.

 

As described in our conflict minerals policy, we engage any of our suppliers whom we have reason to believe are supplying us with Conflict Minerals from sources that may support conflict in the Covered Countries to establish an alternative source of Conflict Minerals that does not support such conflict, as provided in the OECD guidance. We have found no instances where it was necessary to terminate a contract or find a replacement supplier.

 

4.5 Carry out Independent Third Party Audit of Supply Chain Due Diligence at Identified Points in the Supply Chain

 

We do not typically have a direct relationship with smelters and refiners and therefore do not perform or direct audits of these entities. However, we will rely on publicly available third party assurances and certifications, for example, through the CFSI's Conflict-Free Smelter Program.

 

4.6 Report annually on supply chain due diligence

 

We report annually on our supply chain due diligence by filing a Form SD and a Conflict Minerals Report with the SEC. Our Form SD and Conflict Minerals Report can be found on the Corporate Governance page of our website: http://investor.harvardbioscience.com/corporate-governance.cfm.

 

5. Due Diligence Results

 

Survey Responses

 

We are actively surveying our supplier chain. We review the responses against criteria developed to determine whether further engagement with our suppliers is required. These criteria included untimely or incomplete responses as well as inconsistencies within the data reported in the template. We, through the assistance of Assent, have worked with these suppliers to provide revised responses.

 

Smelters or Refiners

 

The information that we received from a majority of our Applicable Suppliers was at their company-wide level. Thus, the smelters or refiners identified by our Applicable Suppliers contained in the tables below may contain smelters or refiners that processed conflict minerals that our Applicable Suppliers supplied to their other customers, but not to us. As a result, we are unable to conclusively determine whether the smelters or refiners included in the tables below were used to process the conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of our products during 2016. Because of this uncertainty, we are also unable to conclusively determine whether each of the countries of origin listed above were the country of origin of conflict minerals in our products during 2016, and therefore also unable to conclusively determine the source and chain of custody of those conflict minerals. In addition, the information that we receive from our Applicable Suppliers may yield inaccurate or incomplete information because they may not have received accurate and complete conflict minerals information from all of the suppliers in their own supply chain. As we are not a member of the CFSI, we also do not have access to audit reports or detailed findings of the third-party audits conducted as part of the CFSI Conflict-Free Smelter Program or the LBMA Responsible Gold Programme and, as a result, are not responsible for the quality of these audits or the audit findings.

 

 

 

 

Our third-party service provider compared the facilities listed in the responses in the CMRT to the list of smelters maintained by the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (“CFSI”), and confirmed that the name was listed by CFSI as a legitimate smelter. As of May 1, 2017, we have validated in this manner that 317 smelters or refiners provided in our supplier CMRTs are included on these lists. The facilities determined to be legitimate smelters or refiners based on this comparison to the CFSI-maintained list have also been compared to the CFSI’s Conflict Free Smelter Protocol (CFSP) list. Based on this comparison, we are aware of 246 compliant smelters or refiners, 13 smelters or refiners that have begun the process to be validated as Conflict-Free, they are deemed as active in the Conflict Free Smelter Program but have not yet been validated as Conflict-Free and 58 smelters or refiners that are not enrolled in the process to become compliant to the CFSP. Confirmed smelter or refiner sourcing is not generally available through public information sources related to the smelter or refiner however Attachment A does include an aggregate country list of known smelter or refiner sourcing countries. Despite the additional smelter information obtained from these suppliers, in most cases information has been provided on a company or division level, rather than on a component level. Therefore, we cannot yet ascertain whether the smelters identified by our suppliers are related to any parts or components actually provided to us by the suppliers. Attachment A lists the smelters and refiners that the suppliers we surveyed reported as being in their supply chains. We have not included in Attachment A any smelters or refiners that we have not been able to validate. Attachment A also includes the facility location and whether a smelter or refiner is Conflict-Free.

 

Efforts to determine mine or location of origin

 

As noted above, the current efforts focus on gathering smelter information via the CMRT reporting template and, as the program progresses, requiring full completion of all necessary smelter identification information which will enable the validation and disclosure of the smelters as well as the tracing of the Conflict Minerals to their location of origin. Seeking information about Conflict Minerals smelters and refiners in our supply chain represents the most reasonable effort we can make to determine the mines or locations of origin of the Conflict Minerals in our supply chain.

 

6. Steps to improve future due diligence and to mitigate risk

 

We intend to take the following steps to improve the due diligence conducted to further mitigate any risk that the necessary Conflict Minerals in our products could benefit armed groups in the DRC or adjoining countries:

 

Include a conflict minerals flow-down clause in new or renewed supplier contracts.
Engage with suppliers and direct them to training resources to attempt to increase the response rate and improve the content of the supplier survey responses.
Suppliers will also be requested to inform Harvard Bioscience of the correlation between these smelters and the products and parts they supply to Harvard Bioscience
Engage any of our suppliers found to be supplying us with Conflict Minerals from sources that support conflict in the DRC or any adjoining country to establish an alternative source of Conflict Minerals that does not support such conflict.

 

 

ATTACHMENT A

 

Metal  Standard Smelter Name  Smelter Facility Location  CFSI Audit Status
Gold Abington Reldan Metals, LLC UNITED STATES Active
Gold Advanced Chemical Company UNITED STATES Compliant
Gold Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Compliant
Gold Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. GERMANY Compliant
Gold Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) UZBEKISTAN Compliant
Gold AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração BRAZIL Compliant
Gold Argor-Heraeus S.A. SWITZERLAND Compliant
Gold Asahi Pretec Corp. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. CANADA Compliant
Gold Asahi Refining USA Inc. UNITED STATES Compliant

 

 

 

 

Gold Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. TURKEY Not Enrolled
Gold AU Traders and Refiners SOUTH AFRICA Compliant
Gold AURA-II UNITED STATES Not Enrolled
Gold Aurubis AG GERMANY Compliant
Gold Bangalore Refinery INDIA Active
Gold Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) PHILIPPINES Compliant
Gold Boliden AB SWEDEN Compliant
Gold C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG GERMANY Compliant
Gold Caridad MEXICO Not Enrolled
Gold CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation CANADA Compliant
Gold Cendres + Métaux S.A. SWITZERLAND Active
Gold Chimet S.p.A. ITALY Compliant
Gold Chugai Mining JAPAN Not Enrolled
Gold Daejin Indus Co., Ltd. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Compliant
Gold Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Degussa Sonne / Mond Goldhandel GmbH GERMANY Not Enrolled
Gold DODUCO GmbH GERMANY Compliant
Gold Dowa JAPAN Compliant
Gold DSC (Do Sung Corporation) KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Compliant
Gold Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Elemetal Refining, LLC UNITED STATES Compliant
Gold Emirates Gold DMCC UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Compliant
Gold Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd. ZIMBABWE Not Enrolled
Gold Gansu Seemine Material Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Geib Refining Corporation UNITED STATES Active
Gold Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Gujarat Gold Centre INDIA Not Enrolled
Gold Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Heimerle + Meule GmbH GERMANY Compliant
Gold Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong CHINA Compliant
Gold Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG GERMANY Compliant
Gold Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Not Enrolled
Gold Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Gold Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Istanbul Gold Refinery TURKEY Compliant
Gold Japan Mint JAPAN Compliant
Gold Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant

 

 

 

 

Gold JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Gold JSC Uralelectromed RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Gold JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Kaloti Precious Metals UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Not Enrolled
Gold Kazakhmys Smelting LLC KAZAKHSTAN Not Enrolled
Gold Kazzinc KAZAKHSTAN Compliant
Gold Kennecott Utah Copper LLC UNITED STATES Compliant
Gold KGHM Polska Miedź Spółka Akcyjna POLAND Active
Gold Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Compliant
Gold Kyrgyzaltyn JSC KYRGYZSTAN Compliant
Gold L'azurde Company For Jewelry SAUDI ARABIA Not Enrolled
Gold Lingbao Gold Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold L'Orfebre S.A. ANDORRA Not Enrolled
Gold LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Compliant
Gold Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Materion UNITED STATES Compliant
Gold Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Gold Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. SINGAPORE Compliant
Gold Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Gold Metalor Technologies S.A. SWITZERLAND Compliant
Gold Metalor USA Refining Corporation UNITED STATES Compliant
Gold Metalúrgica Met-Mex Peñoles S.A. De C.V. MEXICO Compliant
Gold Mitsubishi Materials Corporation JAPAN Compliant
Gold Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. INDIA Compliant
Gold Modeltech Sdn Bhd MALAYSIA Not Enrolled
Gold Morris and Watson NEW ZEALAND Not Enrolled
Gold Morris and Watson Gold Coast AUSTRALIA Not Enrolled
Gold Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Gold Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. TURKEY Compliant
Gold Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat UZBEKISTAN Active
Gold Nihon Material Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH AUSTRIA Compliant
Gold Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Gold OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Gold PAMP S.A. SWITZERLAND Compliant

 

 

 

 

Gold Pease & Curren UNITED STATES Not Enrolled
Gold Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Gold PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk INDONESIA Compliant
Gold PX Précinox S.A. SWITZERLAND Compliant
Gold Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. SOUTH AFRICA Compliant
Gold Remondis Argentia B.V. NETHERLANDS Not Enrolled
Gold Republic Metals Corporation UNITED STATES Compliant
Gold Royal Canadian Mint CANADA Compliant
Gold SAAMP FRANCE Not Enrolled
Gold Sabin Metal Corp. UNITED STATES Not Enrolled
Gold SAFINA A.S. CZECH REPUBLIC Not Enrolled
Gold Sai Refinery INDIA Not Enrolled
Gold Samduck Precious Metals KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Compliant
Gold SAMWON Metals Corp. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Not Enrolled
Gold SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH GERMANY Compliant
Gold Schone Edelmetaal B.V. NETHERLANDS Compliant
Gold SEMPSA Joyería Platería S.A. SPAIN Compliant
Gold Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Gold Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Gold Singway Technology Co., Ltd. TAIWAN Compliant
Gold So Accurate Group, Inc. UNITED STATES Not Enrolled
Gold SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Gold Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. TAIWAN Compliant
Gold Sudan Gold Refinery SUDAN Not Enrolled
Gold Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold SungEel HiTech KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Active
Gold T.C.A S.p.A ITALY Compliant
Gold Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. JAPAN Compliant
Gold The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Gold Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Tony Goetz NV BELGIUM Active
Gold TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn KAZAKHSTAN Not Enrolled
Gold Torecom KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Compliant
Gold Umicore Brasil Ltda. BRAZIL Compliant
Gold Umicore Precious Metals Thailand THAILAND Compliant
Gold Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining BELGIUM Compliant
Gold United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. UNITED STATES Compliant

 

 

 

 

Gold Universal Precious Metals Refining Zambia ZAMBIA Not Enrolled
Gold Valcambi S.A. SWITZERLAND Compliant
Gold Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint AUSTRALIA Compliant
Gold WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH GERMANY Compliant
Gold Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Gold Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Gold Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation CHINA Compliant
Gold Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry CHINA Compliant
Tantalum D Block Metals, LLC UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum Duoluoshan CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Exotech Inc. UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum FIR Metals & Resource Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Global Advanced Metals Aizu JAPAN Compliant
Tantalum Global Advanced Metals Boyertown UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. THAILAND Compliant
Tantalum H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar GERMANY Compliant
Tantalum H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg GERMANY Not Enrolled
Tantalum H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH GERMANY Compliant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Inc. UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Tantalum H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG GERMANY Compliant
Tantalum Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Hi-Temp Specialty Metals, Inc. UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material CHINA Compliant
Tantalum JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum KEMET Blue Metals MEXICO Compliant

 

 

 

 

Tantalum KEMET Blue Powder UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum LSM Brasil S.A. BRAZIL Compliant
Tantalum Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. INDIA Compliant
Tantalum Mineração Taboca S.A. BRAZIL Compliant
Tantalum Mitsui Mining & Smelting JAPAN Compliant
Tantalum Molycorp Silmet A.S. ESTONIA Compliant
Tantalum Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Plansee SE Liezen AUSTRIA Not Enrolled
Tantalum Plansee SE Reutte AUSTRIA Compliant
Tantalum Power Resources Ltd. MACEDONIA Compliant
Tantalum QuantumClean UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda. BRAZIL Compliant
Tantalum RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Tantalum Taki Chemicals JAPAN Compliant
Tantalum Telex Metals UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum Tranzact, Inc. UNITED STATES Compliant
Tantalum Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC KAZAKHSTAN Compliant
Tantalum XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tantalum Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tin Alpha UNITED STATES Compliant
Tin An Thai Minerals Co., Ltd. VIET NAM Not Enrolled
Tin An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company VIET NAM Not Enrolled
Tin Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tin China Tin Group Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tin CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Tin Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda. BRAZIL Compliant
Tin CV Ayi Jaya INDONESIA Compliant
Tin CV Dua Sekawan INDONESIA Compliant
Tin CV Gita Pesona INDONESIA Compliant
Tin CV Serumpun Sebalai INDONESIA Compliant
Tin CV Tiga Sekawan INDONESIA Compliant

 

 

 

 

Tin CV United Smelting INDONESIA Compliant
Tin CV Venus Inti Perkasa INDONESIA Compliant
Tin Dowa JAPAN Compliant
Tin Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company VIET NAM Active
Tin Elmet S.L.U. SPAIN Compliant
Tin EM Vinto BOLIVIA Compliant
Tin Estanho de Rondônia S.A. BRAZIL Not Enrolled
Tin Fenix Metals POLAND Compliant
Tin Gejiu Fengming Metallurgy Chemical Plant CHINA Compliant
Tin Gejiu Jinye Mineral Company CHINA Compliant
Tin Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC CHINA Active
Tin Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tin Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd. CHINA Active
Tin Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Tin Guanyang Guida Nonferrous Metal Smelting Plant CHINA Compliant
Tin HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tin Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Tin Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tin Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. BRAZIL Compliant
Tin Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) MALAYSIA Compliant
Tin Melt Metais e Ligas S.A. BRAZIL Compliant
Tin Metallic Resources, Inc. UNITED STATES Compliant
Tin Metallo-Chimique N.V. BELGIUM Compliant
Tin Mineração Taboca S.A. BRAZIL Compliant
Tin Minsur PERU Compliant
Tin Mitsubishi Materials Corporation JAPAN Compliant
Tin Modeltech Sdn Bhd MALAYSIA Not Enrolled
Tin Nankang Nanshan Tin Manufactory Co., Ltd. CHINA Active
Tin Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company VIET NAM Not Enrolled
Tin O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. THAILAND Compliant
Tin O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. PHILIPPINES Compliant
Tin Operaciones Metalurgical S.A. BOLIVIA Compliant
Tin Phoenix Metal Ltd. RWANDA Not Enrolled
Tin PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Artha Cipta Langgeng INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Babel Inti Perkasa INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Bangka Prima Tin INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Bangka Tin Industry INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera INDONESIA Compliant

 

 

 

 

Tin PT Bukit Timah INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Cipta Persada Mulia INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT DS Jaya Abadi INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Inti Stania Prima INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Justindo INDONESIA Not Enrolled
Tin PT Karimun Mining INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Kijang Jaya Mandiri INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Lautan Harmonis Sejahtera INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Mitra Stania Prima INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT O.M. Indonesia INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Panca Mega Persada INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Prima Timah Utama INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Refined Bangka Tin INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Sukses Inti Makmur INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Sumber Jaya Indah INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Tinindo Inter Nusa INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Tommy Utama INDONESIA Compliant
Tin PT Wahana Perkit Jaya INDONESIA Compliant
Tin Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda. BRAZIL Compliant
Tin Rui Da Hung TAIWAN Compliant
Tin Soft Metais Ltda. BRAZIL Compliant
Tin Thaisarco THAILAND Compliant
Tin Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company VIET NAM Not Enrolled
Tin VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC VIET NAM Compliant
Tin White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda. BRAZIL Compliant
Tin Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CHINA Active
Tin Yunnan Tin Company Limited CHINA Compliant
Tungsten A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp. JAPAN Compliant
Tungsten ACL Metais Eireli BRAZIL Not Enrolled
Tungsten Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd. VIET NAM Compliant
Tungsten Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Tungsten Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant

 

 

 

 

Tungsten Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Ganzhou Yatai Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Tungsten Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. UNITED STATES Compliant
Tungsten Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten H.C. Starck GmbH GERMANY Compliant
Tungsten H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG GERMANY Compliant
Tungsten Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Hydrometallurg, JSC RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Tungsten Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. JAPAN Compliant
Tungsten Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Jiangxi Dayu Longxintai Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Tungsten Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CHINA Not Enrolled
Tungsten Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Jiangxi Xiushui Xianggan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Kennametal Fallon UNITED STATES Compliant
Tungsten Kennametal Huntsville UNITED STATES Compliant
Tungsten Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Moliren Ltd RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant
Tungsten Niagara Refining LLC UNITED STATES Compliant
Tungsten Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC VIET NAM Compliant
Tungsten Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. PHILIPPINES Compliant
Tungsten South-East Nonferrous Metal Company Limited of Hengyang City CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. VIET NAM Compliant
Tungsten Unecha Refractory metals plant RUSSIAN FEDERATION Compliant

 

 

 

 

Tungsten Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. VIET NAM Compliant
Tungsten Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG AUSTRIA Compliant
Tungsten Woltech Korea Co., Ltd. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Compliant
Tungsten Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant
Tungsten Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA Compliant

 

Country of Origin List:

 

This list below sets out possible countries of origin of 3TGs used in the manufacture of products containing conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of our products. The list is based on publicly available information, our reasonable country of origin investigation, and other due diligence. For the reasons described in the Report, however, these possible countries of origin cannot necessarily be linked to our products.

 

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Cote D’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.