UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form SD
Specialized Disclosure Report
HITTITE MICROWAVE CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization) |
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000-51448 (Commission File Number) |
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04-2854672 (I.R.S Employer Identification No.) |
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2 Elizabeth Drive, Chelmsford, MA (Address of principal executive offices) |
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01824 (Zip Code) |
William W. Boecke
(978) 250-3343
(Name and telephone number, including area code, of 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:
x Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2013.
Section 1—Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
Conflict Minerals Disclosure
This Form SD of Hittite Microwave Corporation is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Conflict Minerals Rule”) for the reporting period January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013.
A copy of our Conflict Minerals Report is provided as Exhibit 1.02 to this Form SD, and is publicly available at www.hittite.com.
The Conflict Minerals Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures, or contracts to manufacture, products for which the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives of tantalum, tin and tungsten (the “Specified Minerals”). The “Covered Countries” for the purposes of the Conflict Minerals Rule are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.
We design, develop and manufacture, or contract for the manufacture of, high performance integrated circuits, modules, subsystems and instrumentation for technically demanding radio frequency, microwave and millimeterwave applications. At December 31, 2013, we offered more than 1,100 standard and custom products having different electronic functions, performance characteristics and form factors, each represented by an individual part number. We believe that substantially all the products that we manufacture contain one or more of the Specified Minerals, and that the Specified Minerals included in our products are in most cases necessary to their functionality.
In our annual and quarterly reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission and in our external communications with customers and others we categorize our individual products for descriptive purposes into 36 product categories or product lines, based on their electronic function. To provide meaningful information to readers of this Form SD and the attached Conflict Minerals Report, the results of our inquiries and due diligence efforts are aggregated at the level of these functional product lines. Any reference herein to “Covered Products” or “Covered Product Groups” should be interpreted to refer collectively to all of the individual part numbers that are included in that functional product category or product line, as follows:
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Our Covered Product Groups | ||||
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Amplifiers |
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Frequency dividers and detectors |
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Phase locked loops with integrated voltage controlled oscillators |
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Attenuators |
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Frequency multipliers |
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Phase shifters |
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Automatic gain control |
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High speed digital logic |
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Power detectors |
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Broadband time delays |
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IF signal processing |
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Sensors |
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Clocks and timing |
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Interface |
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Signal conditioners |
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Comparators |
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Limiting amplifiers |
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Signal generators /instrumentation |
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Crosspoint switches |
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Mixers and converters |
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Successive detection logarithmic video amplifiers |
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Data converters |
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Modulators and demodulators |
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Switches |
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DC power conditioning |
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Multiplexer/demultiplexer |
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Transimpedance amplifiers |
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DC power management |
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Optical modulator drivers |
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Transceivers |
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Dielectric resonator oscillators |
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Passives |
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Variable gain amplifiers |
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Filters-tunable |
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Phase locked loops |
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Voltage controlled oscillators and phase locked oscillators |
We also offer modules and subsystems and instrumentation that incorporate or integrate multiple parts from the above Covered Product Groups.
We have conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding any Specified Minerals that are included in our Covered Product Groups. We believe that our country of origin inquiry was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the included Specified Minerals originated in the Covered Countries and whether any of the included Specified Minerals may be from recycled or scrap sources, and was conducted diligently and in good faith.
We also designed our country of origin inquiry to include inquiries as to the source (i.e., back to the smelter) and the chain of custody of all Specified Minerals included in our Covered Product Groups, so as to enable us, if necessary, also to conduct due diligence on the source and chain of custody of our Specified Minerals, should our country of origin inquiry prove inconclusive.
Our country of origin inquiry included the following actions:
· We organized a cross-functional working group, which we refer to in this report as our “Conflict Minerals Working Group,” including representatives from the following disciplines within our organization: engineering, product development, materials management, purchasing, manufacturing, quality, finance and sales. The Conflict Minerals Working Group was chaired by our vice president of global operations, who is an executive officer of our company.
· The Conflict Minerals Working Group reviewed our list of approximately four thousand suppliers of goods and services to identify those that were still active (i.e., had supplied us with materials or services in 2012 or 2013) and as to which there was a reasonable likelihood that the raw materials or components that they supplied to us might contain a Specified Mineral. We identified approximately 845 of these suppliers, which we refer to as the “Active Suppliers.”
· We sent a questionnaire to 689 Active Suppliers, in a format developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) Extractives Working Group, that asked, among other things, whether Specified Minerals were contained in any product supplied to us by the respondent and, if so, whether they originated in a Covered Country, and also requested that the respondent identify the specific facility at which such Specified Minerals were smelted or refined. The remaining 156 Active Suppliers were determined not to have supplied Specified Minerals and therefore were not surveyed.
· Active Suppliers that did not respond within a reasonable amount of time or whose responses were insufficient were contacted again in writing and by telephone. We estimate that in the course of this effort, we made approximately 150 telephone calls and sent/received approximately 2,700 letters and emails. Hittite established a Supplier Point of Contact and engaged with the Active Suppliers and coached them on the requirements of Conflict Minerals. For Active Suppliers that were non-responsive, contact was escalated within the Conflict Minerals Working Group.
· Of the Active Suppliers, 144 reported that Specified Minerals were included in the products or components they supplied to us in 2013. We refer to the latter as the “Identified Minerals Suppliers.”
· We engaged with each of the Identified Minerals Suppliers and ultimately received completed EICC/GeSI questionnaires from almost all of them, with the following results:
· Of the 144 Identified Minerals Suppliers,
· 73 stated that were unable to determine the origin of the Specified Minerals they supplied to Hittite, including:
· 55 who provided responses stating that their own inquiries were not complete; and
· 18 who provided responses that were incomplete or that we otherwise determined were not reliable; and
· 71 responded that the Specified Minerals they supplied did not originate in a Covered Country. We reviewed the responses of these suppliers for completeness, internal consistency and for the presence of contrary evidence, or “red flags,” that might cast doubt on the reliability of the supplier’s representation as to the material’s origin. Where such an Identified Minerals Supplier’s response was considered by us to be reliable, based upon that review, and identified a specific conflict-free smelter at which the Specified Minerals supplied to us were processed, we characterized the supplier as a “Non-DRC Supplier.”
· Of the 144 Identified Minerals Suppliers, 50 stated that their Specified Minerals came from a recycler or scrap supplier, 56 stated none of their Specified Minerals came from a recycler or scrap supplier and 38 stated that they were uncertain if their Specified Minerals came from a recycler or scrap supplier.
· We then created a database that associated each of the individual part numbers included in our 36 Product Groups with the Identified Minerals Suppliers that supplied material that was included in those individual parts. Through this analysis, we determined how many of the individual parts constituting each Product Group contained Specified Minerals that were supplied solely by suppliers we had been able to classify as Non-DRC Suppliers.
· The result of this analysis was that approximately 65% of the Hittite individual part numbers from our Covered Product Groups included Specified Minerals supplied by suppliers that we had been unable to classify as Non-DRC Suppliers.
Reasonable Country of Origin Conclusion
Because the percentage of individual parts comprising each of our Covered Product Groups that were sourced solely from suppliers we classified as Non-DRC Suppliers was so low, we concluded that the responses obtained in our inquiry were insufficient to provide a reasonable basis for a determination by us either (a) that there is “no reason to believe that any of the necessary minerals may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country, or (b) that the Specified Minerals “did come from recycled or scrap sources.”
We therefore exercised due diligence on the source and chain of custody of our Specified Minerals, in a manner that we believe conforms to the Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Item 1.02 Exhibit
The following exhibit is filed as part of this report.
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Exhibit No. |
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Description |
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1.02 |
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Conflict Minerals Report of Hittite Microwave Corporation |
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.
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HITTITE MICROWAVE CORPORATION |
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By: |
/s/ William W. Boecke |
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William W. Boecke |
June 2, 2014 | |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Exhibit No. |
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Description |
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1.02 |
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Conflict Minerals Report of Hittite Microwave Corporation |
Exhibit 1.02
HITTITE MICROWAVE CORPORATION
Conflict Minerals Report
For the reporting period from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013
This Conflict Minerals Report (the “Report”) of Hittite Microwave Corporation ( “we,” “us,” or the “Company”) has been prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD (the “Conflict Minerals Rule”) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or “SEC,” under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013.
The Conflict Minerals Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures, or contracts to manufacture, products for which the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives of tantalum, tin and tungsten (the “Specified Minerals”). The “Covered Countries” for the purposes of the Conflict Minerals Rule are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.
I. Description of the Company’s Products Covered by this Report
We design, develop and manufacture, or contract for the manufacture of, high performance integrated circuits, modules, subsystems and instrumentation for technically demanding radio frequency, microwave and millimeterwave applications. At December 31, 2013, we offered more than 1,100 individual standard and custom products having different electronic functions, performance characteristics and form factors, each represented by an individual part number. We believe that substantially all the products that we manufacture contain one or more of the Specified Minerals, and that the Specified Minerals included in our products are in most cases necessary to their functionality.
This Report relates to products: (i) for which Specified Minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of that product; (ii) that were manufactured, or contracted to be manufactured, by us; and (iii) for which the manufacture was completed during calendar year 2013.
In our annual and quarterly reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission and in our external communications with customers and others we categorize our individual products for descriptive purposes into 36 product categories or product lines, based on their electronic function. To provide meaningful information to readers of this Conflict Minerals Report, the results of our due diligence efforts are aggregated at the level of these functional product lines. Any reference herein to “Covered Products” or “Covered Product Groups” should be interpreted to refer collectively to all of the individual part numbers that are included in that functional product category or product line, as follows:
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Our Covered Product Groups | ||||
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Amplifiers |
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Frequency dividers and detectors |
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Phase locked loops with integrated voltage controlled oscillators |
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Attenuators |
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Frequency multipliers |
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Phase shifters |
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Automatic gain control |
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High speed digital logic |
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Power detectors |
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Broadband time delays |
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IF signal processing |
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Sensors |
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Clocks and timing |
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Interface |
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Signal conditioners |
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Comparators |
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Limiting amplifiers |
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Signal generators /instrumentation |
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Crosspoint switches |
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Mixers and converters |
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Successive detection logarithmic video amplifiers |
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Data converters |
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Modulators and demodulators |
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Switches |
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DC power conditioning |
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Multiplexer/demultiplexer (mux/demux) |
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Transimpedance amplifiers |
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DC power management |
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Optical modulator drivers |
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Transceivers |
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Dielectric resonator oscillators |
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Passives |
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Variable gain amplifiers |
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Filters-tunable |
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Phase locked loops |
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Voltage controlled oscillators and phase locked oscillators |
We also offer modules and subsystems and instrumentation that incorporate or integrate multiple parts from the above Covered Product Groups.
II. Summary Results of our Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry and Due Diligence
We were unable, through the country of origin inquiry described in our Form SD, to obtain responses sufficient to form the basis for a reasonable belief either that none of the necessary Specified Minerals included in our Covered Products originated in a Covered Country, or that such necessary Specified Minerals were from recycled or scrap sources. We therefore exercised due diligence on the source and chain of custody of our Specified Minerals, in a manner that we believe conforms to the Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, or “Due Diligence Guidelines,” of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or “OECD.”
Our due diligence efforts fell into the following categories described in the OECD Due Diligence Guidelines:
Step I: Establish strong management systems;
Step II: Assess risk in the supply chain;
Step III: Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risk;
Step IV: Carry out independent third-party audit of supply chain; and
Step V: Report on supply chain due diligence.
After exercising this due diligence, as described more fully below, we were unable to determine whether or any of our Covered Product Groups qualifies as “DRC conflict free,” or “not DRC conflict free,” as defined under the Conflict Minerals Rule. Accordingly, we concluded that, based on the information currently available to us, each of our Covered Product Groups manufactured or contracted to be manufactured in 2013 is “DRC conflict undeterminable.”
III. Our Due Diligence Efforts
OECD Step I: Establish strong management systems
We organized a cross-functional working group, which we refer to in this report as our “Conflict Minerals Working Group,” including representatives from the following disciplines within our organization: engineering, product development, materials management, purchasing, manufacturing, quality, finance and sales. The Conflict Minerals Working Group was chaired by our vice president of global operations, who is an executive officer of our company, and reported periodically to our chief executive officer and to our Board of Directors. The Conflict Minerals Working Group met in person or by telephone conference call on at least 46 occasions between April 2013 and April 2014 to establish and review the results of our conflict minerals due diligence activities.
We also adopted, and communicated to our suppliers, a corporate policy to seek, to the extent reasonably possible, to minimize the use in our products of Specified Minerals that are not “DRC conflict free” (meaning that they do not contain Specified Minerals that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries), and we provided training to our employees in relevant areas of our organization.
We also created an information technology infrastructure and database to enable us to collect, track and analyze and document the conflict minerals compliance status of our Active Suppliers.
We attended Conflict Minerals-related extracurricular activities and training by means of offsite seminars, online webinars and teleconferences hosted by Conflict Minerals consultants and also participated in Conflict Minerals survey requests. In addition we also interacted with eight audit consultants in relation to performing an independent assessment of Hittite’s conflict minerals program, should an audit of our due diligence be required. We also issued weekly Conflict Minerals status updates to all members of the Conflict Minerals Working Group, which summarized our due diligence efforts with our Active Suppliers, highlighted key activities from the reporting week and plans for the following week.
OECD Step II: Assess risk in the supply chain
When we conducted our a good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry, we designed it to include inquiries as to the source (i.e., back to the smelter) and the chain of custody of all Specified Minerals included in our Covered Products, so as to enable us, if necessary, also to conduct due diligence on the source and chain of custody of our Specified Minerals, should our country of origin inquiry prove inconclusive.
Our supply chain is complex. We do not purchase Specified Minerals directly from mines, smelters or refiners, and there are many intervening steps in the supply chain between the original sources of these minerals and our receipt of the materials we use to manufacture the Covered Product Groups. We must therefore rely on our Identified Minerals Suppliers, and their upstream suppliers, to provide information regarding the origin of Specified Minerals that are included in our products that are sold or sampled to customers in 2013. Not all of our Identified Minerals Suppliers were able to provide us with this information. For example, our principal suppliers include our foundries, which manufacture semiconductor wafers to our specifications. Of our thirteen principal foundries, five were not able to certify to us the source of the Specified Minerals included in the wafers they supplied to us in 2013.
Several of our principal suppliers that are component distributors also stated that they were unable to make Conflict Minerals declarations, provided responses that were incomplete or advised us to contact the manufacturers directly for their Conflict Mineral information.
The due diligence steps we took in order to seek to ascertain the source and chain of custody of Specified Minerals included in our Covered Product Groups included the following:
· The Conflict Minerals Working Group reviewed our list of approximately four thousand suppliers of goods and services to identify those that were still active (i.e., had supplied us with materials or services in 2012 or 2013) and as to which there was a reasonable likelihood that the raw materials or components that they supplied to us might contain a Specified Mineral. We identified approximately 845 of these suppliers, which we refer to as the “Active Suppliers.”
· We sent a questionnaire to 689 Active Suppliers, in a format developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) Extractives Working Group, that asked, among other things, whether Specified Minerals were contained in any product supplied to us by the respondent and, if so, whether they originated in a Covered Country, and also requested that the respondent identify the specific facility at which such Specified Minerals were smelted or refined. The remaining 156 Active Suppliers were determined not to have supplied Specified Minerals and therefore were not surveyed.
· Active Suppliers that did not respond within a reasonable amount of time or whose responses were insufficient were contacted again in writing and by telephone. We estimate that in the course of this effort, we made approximately 150 telephone calls and sent/received approximately 2,700 letters and emails. Hittite established a Supplier Point of Contact and engaged with the Active Suppliers and coached them on the requirements of Conflict Minerals. For Active Suppliers that were non-responsive, contact was escalated within the Conflict Minerals Working Group.
· Of the Active Suppliers, 144 reported that Specified Minerals were included in the products or components they supplied to us in 2013. We refer to the latter as the “Identified Minerals Suppliers.”
· We engaged with each of the Identified Minerals Suppliers and ultimately received completed EICC/GeSI questionnaires from almost all of them, with the following results:
· Of the 144 Identified Minerals Suppliers,
· 73 stated that were unable to determine the origin of the Specified Minerals they supplied to Hittite, including:
· 55 who provided responses stating that their own inquiries were not complete; and
· 18 who provided responses that were incomplete or that we otherwise determined were not reliable; and
· 71 responded that the Specified Minerals they supplied did not originate in a Covered Country. We reviewed the responses of these suppliers for
completeness, internal consistency and for the presence of contrary evidence, or “red flags,” that might cast doubt on the reliability of the supplier’s representation as to the material’s origin. Where such an Identified Minerals Supplier’s response was considered by us to be reliable, based upon that review, and identified a specific conflict-free smelter at which the Specified Minerals supplied to us were processed, we characterized the supplier as a “Non-DRC Supplier.”
· Of the 144 Identified Minerals Suppliers, 50 stated that their Specified Minerals came from a recycler or scrap supplier, 56 stated none of their Specified Minerals came from a recycler or scrap supplier and 38 stated that they were uncertain if their Specified Minerals came from a recycler or scrap supplier.
· We then created a database that associated each of the individual part numbers included in our 36 Product Groups with the Identified Minerals Suppliers that supplied material that was included in those individual parts. Through this analysis, we determined how many of the individual parts constituting each Product Group contained Specified Minerals that were supplied solely by suppliers we had been able to classify as Non-DRC Suppliers.
· In the course of these efforts, we did not undertake any direct engagement with mines, smelters or refiners. However, based on the results of our inquiries, we have formed a reasonable belief as to certain countries of origin and certain smelters that are sources of Specified Materials included in our Covered Product Groups. This information is set forth in Appendix A to this Conflict Minerals Report.
· Most of the individual parts comprising each of our Covered Product Groups included material from at least one Identified Minerals Supplier as to which we were unable to establish the smelter, mine or country of origin.
We have no actual knowledge, as a result of our inquiry or otherwise, that any Specified Minerals that were contained in products we manufactured during 2013 originated in a Covered Country and directly or indirectly financed or benefited an armed group. However, because the percentage of our individual products included in each of our Covered Product Groups that we were actually able, through the due diligence described above, to trace to an identifiable conflict free mine or smelter was so low, we concluded that the results of our due diligence were insufficient to enable us to determine that any of our 36 Covered Product Groups was either “DRC conflict free” or “not DRC conflict free,” as those terms are defined in the Conflict Minerals Rule. Accordingly, we determined that each of our Covered Product Groups is “DRC conflict undeterminable,” as defined in the Rule.
OECD Step III: Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risk
To reduce the risk of purchasing and including in any of our Covered Product Groups Specified Materials that originate in a Covered Country and that directly or indirectly financed or benefited an armed group we have taken steps to:
· Establish supplier approval and certification requirements that include conflict minerals compliance as a criterion;
· Modify the terms of our volume purchase agreements and purchase orders to include undertakings as to conflict minerals compliance;
· Document supplier status and progress toward compliance;
· Identify and qualify DRC conflict-free suppliers as alternative sources;
· Establish and document a process for management review and rationale for exceptions to “conflict free” policy;
· Implement a system for monitoring and measuring impact of these programs (i.e., reduction in usage of minerals that cannot be determined to be DRC conflict free) and report periodically to senior management;
· Incorporate a conflict minerals risk assessment as a step in our product design process;
· Establish mechanisms to ensure that changes in circumstances that present new risks are addressed (including a periodic management review of our conflict minerals due diligence plan).
· At incoming inspection confirm the presence of a certificate of analysis to the requirements of our Conflict Minerals policy.
· Physically segregate and secure any shipment for which there is an identified risk that the Specified Minerals originated in a Covered Country and directly or indirectly financed or benefited an armed group.
OECD Step IV: Carry out independent third-party audit of supply chain
Under the SEC transition rule that applies to our first two years of reporting under the Conflict Minerals Rule, an independent third party audit of this Report is not required. We have not undertaken any independent third party audit of our supply chain.
OECD Step V: Report on supply chain due diligence
In satisfaction of this requirement, we have:
· Reported the results of our due diligence to senior management and to our Board of Directors;
· Prepared and filed the foregoing Form SD and this Conflict Minerals Report; and
· Posted the required content on our corporate website.
IV. Measures to improve our future due diligence
We expect to take the following steps, among others, to improve our due diligence measures and to further mitigate the risk that Specified Minerals contained in our products finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries:
· continue to engage with suppliers to obtain current, accurate and complete information about the supply chain;
· consider the need to encourage suppliers to implement responsible sourcing and to have them encourage smelters and refiners to obtain a “conflict-free” designation from an independent, third-party auditor;
· incorporate our Conflict Minerals policy into our ERP system;
· consider the need to directly engage with smelters and refiners to encourage having verifiable “conflict-free” sources; and
· participate in industry initiatives encouraging “conflict-free” supply chains.
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APPENDIX A
Certain Identified Facilities and Countries of Origin
Based on the results of our due diligence inquiries, we identified certain smelters and countries of origin that we believe are sources of Specified Materials included in our Covered Product Groups. This information is set forth in the table below.
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Metal |
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Standard Smelter Names |
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Smelter Facility Location: |
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Location of |
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Gold |
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Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint |
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Australia |
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Australia |
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Gold |
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Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining |
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Belgium |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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AngloGold Ashanti Mineração Ltda |
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Brazil |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Umicore Brasil Ltda |
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Brazil |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Johnson Matthey Limited |
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Canada |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Royal Canadian Mint |
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Canada |
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Canada |
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Gold |
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Xstrata Canada Corporation |
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Canada |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Argor-Heraeus SA |
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Switzerland |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Cendres & Metaux SA |
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Switzerland |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Metalor Technologies SA |
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Switzerland |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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PAMP SA |
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Switzerland |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Valcambi SA |
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Switzerland |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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PX Précinox SA |
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Switzerland |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Codelco |
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Chile |
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Chile |
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Gold |
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Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited |
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China |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Jiangxi Copper Company Limited |
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China |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd |
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China |
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China |
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Gold |
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Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd |
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China |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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The Great Wall Gold and Silver Refinery of China |
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China |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation |
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China |
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China |
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Gold |
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Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd |
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China |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Suzhou Xingrui Noble |
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China |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. |
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Germany |
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Mozambique |
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Gold |
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Aurubis AG |
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Germany |
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Unknown |
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Metal |
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Standard Smelter Names |
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Smelter Facility Location: |
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Location of |
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Gold |
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Heimerle + Meule GmbH |
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Germany |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG |
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Germany |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria SA |
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Spain |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Heraeus Ltd Hong Kong |
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Hong Kong |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd |
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Hong Kong |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk |
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Indonesia |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Chimet SpA |
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Italy |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Asahi Pretec Corp |
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Japan |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Dowa |
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Japan |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. |
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Japan |
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Japan |
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Gold |
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Japan Mint |
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Japan |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co.Ltd Nittko seiren(saganoseki) |
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Japan |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Matsuda Sangyo Co. Ltd |
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Japan |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Mitsubishi Materials Corporation naosima seirenjyo |
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Japan |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. |
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Japan |
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Unknown |
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Gold |
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Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. |
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Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. |
|
Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Tokuriki Honten Co. Ltd |
|
Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Nihon Material Co. LTD |
|
Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Aida Chemical Industries Co Ltd |
|
Japan |
|
Japan |
|
Gold |
|
Asaka Riken Co Ltd |
|
Japan |
|
Japan |
|
Gold |
|
Kojima Chemicals Co. Ltd |
|
Japan |
|
Japan |
|
Gold |
|
YOKOHAMA METAL CO.,LTD. |
|
Japan |
|
Japan |
|
Gold |
|
Chugai Mining |
|
Japan |
|
Japan |
|
Gold |
|
Pan Pacific Copper Co. LTD |
|
Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Kazzinc Ltd |
|
Kazakhstan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Kyrgyzaltyn JSC |
|
Kyrgyzstan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Central Bank of the DPR of Korea |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
LS-Nikko Copper Inc |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Torecom |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Daejin Indus Co. Ltd |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
DaeryongENC |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Do Sung Corporation |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Hwasung CJ Co. Ltd |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Korea Metal |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Samwon Metal |
|
Korea, Republic of |
|
Unknown |
|
Metal |
|
Standard Smelter Names |
|
Smelter Facility Location: |
|
Location of |
|
Gold |
|
Caridad |
|
Mexico |
|
Chile; Mexico |
|
Gold |
|
Met-Mex Peñoles, S.A. |
|
Mexico |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Schone Edelmetaal |
|
Netherlands |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) |
|
Philippines |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
FSE Novosibirsk Refinery |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
JSC Uralectromed |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastvetmet) |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
OJSC Kolyma Refinery |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
L’ azurde Company For Jewelry |
|
Saudi Arabia |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Boliden AB |
|
Sweden |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. |
|
Turkey |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Istanbul Gold Refinery |
|
Turkey |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. |
|
Turkey |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. |
|
Taiwan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
JM USA |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Materion |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Metalor USA Refining Corporation |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Ohio Precious Metals |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Sabin Metal Corp. |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Sabin |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Kennecott Utah Copper LLC |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) |
|
Uzbekistan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Navoi |
|
Uzbekistan |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd |
|
South Africa |
|
Africa |
|
Gold |
|
CV DS Jaya Abadi |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Gold |
|
Ganzhou Nonferrous Metals |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Metal |
|
Standard Smelter Names |
|
Smelter Facility Location: |
|
Location of |
|
|
|
Smelting Co Ltd. |
|
|
|
|
|
Gold |
|
Hunan Chenzhou Mining Industry Group |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Gold |
|
Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co. Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Plansee |
|
Austria |
|
Ethiopia, Australia, Nigeria, China |
|
Tantalum |
|
CIF |
|
Brazil |
|
Brazil |
|
Tantalum |
|
Duoluoshan |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
F&X |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tantalum |
|
Jiujiang Jinxin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry |
|
China |
|
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
|
Tantalum |
|
Zhuzhou Cement Carbide |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
RFH |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co. Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
H.C. Starck GmbH |
|
Germany |
|
Australia, Brazil |
|
Tantalum |
|
Molycorp Silmet A.S. |
|
Estonia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Metallurgical Products India Pvt Ltd |
|
India |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Mitsui Mining & Smelting |
|
Japan |
|
Australia |
|
Tantalum |
|
Taki Chemicals |
|
Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Ulba |
|
Kazakhstan |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Solikamsk Metal Works |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Exotech Inc. |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Gannon & Scott |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Global Advanced Metals |
|
United States |
|
Australia Canada Mozambique |
|
Tantalum |
|
Kemet Blue Powder |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Hi-Temp |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Telex |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
QuantumClean |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Tantalite Resources |
|
South Africa |
|
Unknown |
|
Tantalum |
|
Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Metal |
|
Standard Smelter Names |
|
Smelter Facility Location: |
|
Location of |
|
Tin |
|
Metallo Chimique |
|
Belgium |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
EM Vinto |
|
Bolivia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
OMSA |
|
Bolivia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Mineração Taboca S.A. |
|
Brazil |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
White Solder Metalurgia |
|
Brazil |
|
Brazil |
|
Tin |
|
Cooper Santa |
|
Brazil |
|
Brazil |
|
Tin |
|
Gejiu Zi-Li |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tin |
|
Gejiu Non-ferrous |
|
China |
|
Bolivia |
|
Tin |
|
Gold Bell Group |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Jiangxi Nanshan |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Liuzhou China Tin |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Yunnan Chengfeng |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Yunnan Tin Company Limited |
|
China |
|
CHINA |
|
Tin |
|
CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co. Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Bolivia |
|
Tin |
|
Minmetals Ganzhou Tin Co. Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co. Ltd |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Kai Unita Trade Limited Liability Company |
|
Indonesia |
|
China |
|
Tin |
|
Linwu Xianggui Smelter Co |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
CV Duta Putra Bangka |
|
Indonesia |
|
China |
|
Tin |
|
CV JusTindo |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
CV Makmur Jaya |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
CV Nurjanah |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
CV Prima Timah Utama |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
CV Serumpun Sebalai |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
CV United Smelting |
|
Indonesia |
|
Indonesia |
|
Tin |
|
PT Alam Lestari Kencana |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Artha Cipta Langgeng |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Babel Inti Perkasa |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Bangka Kudai Tin |
|
Indonesia |
|
Indonesia |
|
Tin |
|
PT Bangka Putra Karya |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Bangka Timah Utama Sejahtera |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera |
|
Indonesia |
|
Indonesia |
|
Tin |
|
PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Bukit Timah |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Fang Di MulTindo |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT HP Metals Indonesia |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Metal |
|
Standard Smelter Names |
|
Smelter Facility Location: |
|
Location of |
|
Tin |
|
PT Koba Tin |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Mitra Stania Prima |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Refined Banka Tin |
|
Indonesia |
|
Bolivia; Indonesia |
|
Tin |
|
PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Sumber Jaya Indah |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Timah |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Timah Nusantara |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Tinindo Inter Nusa |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Yinchendo Mining Industry |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Tambang Timah |
|
Indonesia |
|
Brazil; Peru |
|
Tin |
|
CV Gita Pesona |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Tommy Utama |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Bangka Tin Industry |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT DS Jaya Abadi |
|
Indonesia |
|
Bangka, Indonesia |
|
Tin |
|
PT Panca Mega |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Seirama Tin investment |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
PT Karimun Mining |
|
Indonesia |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Cooper Santa |
|
Brazil |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation |
|
Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Malaysia Smelting Corp |
|
Malaysia Smelting Corp |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Minsur |
|
Peru |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Fenix Metals |
|
Poland |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Novosibirsk Integrated Tin Works |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Unknown |
|
Tin |
|
Thaisarco |
|
Thailand |
|
Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru |
|
Tin |
|
Cookson |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG |
|
Austria |
|
AUSTRIA |
|
Tungsten |
|
Chaozhou Xianglu Tungsten Industry Co Ltd |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
China Minmetals Corp. |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tungsten |
|
Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co Ltd |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tungsten |
|
Jiangxi Rare Earth & Rare Metals Tungsten Group Corp |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tungsten |
|
Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co. LTD. |
|
China |
|
Canada, Peru, Spain, Portugal & Bolivia |
|
Metal |
|
Standard Smelter Names |
|
Smelter Facility Location: |
|
Location of |
|
Tungsten |
|
Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
China, Russia, Canada |
|
Tungsten |
|
Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group Co Ltd |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tungsten |
|
Ganzhou Grand Sea W & Mo Group Co Ltd |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tungsten |
|
Hunan Chenzhou Mining Group Co |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
A.L.M.T. Corp. |
|
United States |
|
China |
|
Tungsten |
|
Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
Hunan Chun-Chang Nonferrous Smelting & Concentrating Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
China |
|
Tungsten |
|
Jiangxi Minmetals Gao’an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. |
|
China |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
HC Starck GmbH |
|
Germany |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
Japan New Metals Co Ltd |
|
Japan |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
A.L.M.T. Corp. |
|
Japan |
|
Japan |
|
Tungsten |
|
Wolfram Company CJSC |
|
Russian Federation |
|
Russia |
|
Tungsten |
|
ATI Tungsten Materials |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
Global Tungsten & Powders Corp |
|
United States |
|
Canada, Peru, Spain, Portugal & Bolivia |
|
Tungsten |
|
Kennametal Inc. |
|
United States |
|
Unknown |
|
Tungsten |
|
Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co Ltd |
|
Vietnam |
|
Unknown |