DocumentExhibit 1.01
MaxLinear, Inc.
Conflict Minerals Report
For The Year Ended December 31, 2022
Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements: This Conflict Minerals Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include statements concerning MaxLinear’s objectives for its conflict minerals policy and compliance initiatives and actions it intends to take relating to conflict minerals. Forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from currently anticipated results. When considering forward-looking statements, you should consider, among other factors, the risk factors described in the reports and other filings that MaxLinear files with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including MaxLinear’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. The risk factors included in these filings are not exhaustive, and risks that are not identified therein could materially affect whether MaxLinear realizes the results anticipated or implied by any forward-looking statements contained in this Conflict Minerals Report. Except as required by law, MaxLinear disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Introduction
This Conflict Minerals Report (this “Report”) for MaxLinear, Inc. (“MaxLinear” or “we” or “our”) covers the reporting period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 and is presented in accordance with Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule 13p-1”). This Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to our Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD (the “Form SD”). A copy of this Report and the Form SD are publicly available on our website at https://investors.maxlinear.com/sec-filings.
In 2010, the United States enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”). Section 1502 of the Act related to conflict minerals and requires companies subject to the Act to file a Form SD annually with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to disclose whether the tungsten, tantalum, tin, and gold (referred to collectively as “3TG”) used in their products benefited, directly or indirectly, armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries (collectively, the “Covered Countries”). This Report, which is an exhibit to our Form SD, describes the design and implementation of our conflict minerals due diligence measures undertaken in 2022, including a description of how these measures were designed to determine, to our knowledge, the source mines, countries of origin, and processing facilities for 3TG contained in components used in MaxLinear’s products.
Background and Covered Products
MaxLinear is a provider of communications systems-on-chip (SoC) solutions used in broadband, mobile and wireline infrastructure, data center, and industrial and multi-market applications. As a fabless integrated circuit design company, we do not manufacture our products but contract for their manufacture through semiconductor foundries generally located in Asia. Our supply chain is complex, and multiple tiers exist between the mines from which 3TG are extracted and its incorporation into our products. We do not purchase raw ore or unrefined 3TG directly and make no purchases in the Covered Countries. As a result and as described more fully below, we rely on our foundries and suppliers to provide information on the origin of the 3TG contained in our products.
MaxLinear Covered Products
During 2022, MaxLinear contracted to manufacture and had manufactured a total of 946 integrated circuit products, or IC Products, (as measured by individual stock keeping units or SKUs) for our markets. We currently provide several types of broadband and communications semiconductor devices: radio frequency, or RF, receivers and RF Receiver System on Chip, or RF Receiver SoCs; wireless infrastructure backhaul RF receivers and modem SoCs; transimpedance amplifiers, or TIA’s; laser modulator drivers; clock and data recovery circuits; interface solutions; power management; and date encryption and compression. Our semiconductor solutions combine various analog and mixed-signal technologies and functionality that traditionally required the use of multiple external discrete components. Substantially all of MaxLinear’s revenues in calendar year 2022 were generated through sales of integrated circuit products.
MaxLinear also provides evaluation or demonstration circuit boards, or Board Products, to customers or prospective customers to allow them to test or validate MaxLinear’s IC products. Board Products are marketing or business development tools that facilitate the sale of MaxLinear’s IC Products. Because of their limited application, Board Products are manufactured and sold in very small quantities. Board Products are either assembled at MaxLinear facilities or manufactured for MaxLinear by third party
suppliers. The supplier base for Board Products varies widely and includes many small suppliers, including printed circuit board manufacturers, component distributors, component manufacturers and manufacturers of custom made hardware such as RF filters, connectors, cables, etc. The sales of Board Products represented less than 1% of MaxLinear’s revenues in calendar year 2022.
Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry
In accordance with Rule 13p-1 and Form SD, MaxLinear determined that 3TG are necessary to the functionality or production of its integrated circuit products and that 3TG are incorporated into its products during the manufacturing process. Accordingly, we undertook a reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”).
MaxLinear’s RCOI consisted principally of submitting to its suppliers the conflict minerals reporting template (the “RMI Template”) prepared by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (“RMI”), an initiative of the Responsible Business Alliance and Global e-Sustainability Initiative. MaxLinear submitted the RMI Template to all of its contract manufacturers and all of its first tier suppliers of components. MaxLinear then reviewed all responses for completeness, reasonableness, and consistency, and followed up for corrections and clarifications as MaxLinear determined appropriate.
Based on MaxLinear’s RCOI, MaxLinear was unable to determine that the 3TG used in its products did not originate in Covered Countries or are from recycled or scrap resources.
Due Diligence Process
MaxLinear’s due diligence measures were designed to conform, in all material respects, with the framework in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (the “OECD Framework”). The objectives of our diligence initiative were to determine, to the best of our ability, the source and chain of custody of the 3TG necessary for the functionality and/or production of our products; whether any such 3TG originated in the Covered Countries or are from recycled or scrap sources; and where such 3TG were determined to have originated in Covered Countries, whether armed groups directly or indirectly benefited from such 3TG.
Due diligence measures undertaken by MaxLinear included, but were not limited to, the following:
1. Establishment of Internal Management Systems
a. Conflict Minerals Policy. In 2013, MaxLinear adopted and communicated to its foundries and suppliers a written policy relating to the use of conflict minerals in its supply chain. A copy of MaxLinear’s Conflict Minerals Policy is publicly available at https://www.maxlinear.com/support/quality/conflict-mineral-policy.
b. Internal Management to Support Supply Chain Due Diligence. MaxLinear has established an internal compliance team with members from its operations, quality, finance, and legal functions, and these individuals are charged with the management of our conflict minerals program.
c. Controls and Transparency. As described above, MaxLinear undertook an RCOI with respect to conflict minerals in our supply chain by providing the RMI Template to each of our contract manufacturers and other first tier suppliers to gather information about their use of 3TG, the smelters and refiners in their supply chain that are included in our products, and the countries of origin or the recycled or scrap sources for 3TG used in our products. For 2022, the direct supplier response rate to us was greater than 95%.
d. Supplier Engagement. MaxLinear continues to engage actively with its foundries and other first tier suppliers to strengthen its relationship with them. We have communicated to our foundries and other suppliers our commitment to source 3TG in a manner that does not, directly or indirectly, benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries, and we have communicated that we will consider alternative arrangements with other manufacturers or suppliers who are unable to cooperate in our due diligence efforts. Based on responses from our suppliers, in 2022, 95% of our direct suppliers have reported to us that they require their direct suppliers to source 3TG from smelters whose due diligence practices have been validated by an independent third party audit program.
e. Grievance Mechanism. Employees and others may report, anonymously, violations or concerns about the conduct of our business, including our implementation and enforcement of our Conflict Minerals Policy under MaxLinear’s confidential reporting policy and complaint procedures via MaxLinear EthicsConnect online reporting tool (https://www.maxlinear.ethicspoint.com) and/or hotline, both available in local languages.
2. Identification and Assessment of Risks in the Supply Chain
Because of our position within our supply chain, identifying actors upstream from our first tier contract manufacturers and suppliers is difficult. As discussed above, we identified our foundries and first tier suppliers and relied on them to provide the necessary information about the source of conflict minerals contained in the products that we contract to
have manufactured. Similarly, our foundries and first tier suppliers rely on information provided by their suppliers to provide information regarding the country of origin or the recycled or scrap sources of 3TG included in our products.
3. Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Respond to Identified Risks
We have developed a formal risk management plan through which our conflict minerals program is implemented, managed, and monitored. During calendar years 2013 to 2022 and continuing into 2023, where foundries or suppliers were unable to provide MaxLinear with complete or reliable responses to the RMI Template, we considered these matters internally. To date, we have not identified any circumstances where we concluded that it was necessary to terminate any contract or relationship or find a replacement manufacturer or supplier as a result of conflict minerals matters.
4. Carrying Out Independent Third-Party Audit of Supply Chain Due Diligence at Identified Points in the Supply Chain
We do not have a direct relationship with any smelters or refiners in our supply chain. As a result, we do not and cannot conduct any audits directly. Instead, we support the development and implementation of independent third party audits of smelters such as the RMI’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (“RMAP”) by encouraging our foundries and other suppliers to purchase materials from audited smelters that have been validated as conflict-free under the RMAP.
5. Reporting on Supply Chain Due Diligence
In May 2023, we publicly filed the Form SD and this Report with the SEC. A copy of this Report and the Form SD are publicly available at https://investors.maxlinear.com/sec-filings. This Report includes information about the RCOI methodology utilized by the Company, the design of our due diligence process in conformance with the OECD Framework, the list of known smelters and refiners utilized in our supply chain identified in our due diligence process, and a description of our products that incorporate 3TG necessary to the functionality or production of such products.
Smelters and Refiners in Supply Chain
We adopted RMI’s industry approach to trace back the origin of 3TG by identifying smelters, refineries, or recyclers and scrap supplier sources through our supply chain survey results. MaxLinear leveraged RMI and the RMAP to trace the mine of origin of the 3TG to its ore level. The RMAP audits smelters and refineries to ensure that all certified smelters and refineries use only the ores that are conflict free from the Covered Countries. Based on information that was provided by our foundries and other first tier suppliers or that was otherwise obtained through our due diligence process, we believe, to the extent reasonably determinable, that the following facilities were used to process 3TG contained in our covered products.
We have also provided information concerning whether the smelter participates in the RMAP and has been audited or whether it has agreed to participate in the RMAP but the audit process has not yet been completed.
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Metal | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country | RMAP Status* |
Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Agosi AG | GERMANY | C |
Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | UZBEKISTAN | C |
Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Corrego do Sitio Mineracao | BRAZIL | C |
Gold | Argor-Heraeus S.A. | SWITZERLAND | C |
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corp. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | ATAkulche | TURKEY | A |
Gold | Aurubis AG | GERMANY | C |
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | PHILIPPINES | C |
Gold | Boliden AB | SWEDEN | C |
Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | GERMANY | C |
Gold | Caridad | MEXICO | A |
Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | CANADA | C |
Gold | Cendres + Metaux S.A. | SWITZERLAND | A |
Gold | Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
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Metal | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country | RMAP Status* |
Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | ITALY | C |
Gold | Chugai Mining | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Daejin Indus Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | A |
Gold | Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | DSC (Do Sung Corporation) | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Gold | DODUCO Contacts and Refining GmbH | GERMANY | A |
Gold | Dowa | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. East Plant | JAPAN | C |
Gold | OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | Refinery of Seemine Gold Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | LT Metal Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | GERMANY | C |
Gold | Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | C |
Gold | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Hunan Guiyang yinxing Nonferrous Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | HwaSeong CJ CO., LTD. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | A |
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | TURKEY | C |
Gold | Japan Mint | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Asahi Refining USA Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. | CANADA | C |
Gold | JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | JSC Uralelectromed | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Kazakhmys Smelting LLC | KAZAKHSTAN | A |
Gold | Kazzinc | KAZAKHSTAN | C |
Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | KYRGYZSTAN | A |
Gold | L'azurde Company For Jewelry | SAUDI ARABIA | A |
Gold | Lingbao Gold Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Gold | Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Materion | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. | SINGAPORE | C |
Gold | Metalor Technologies S.A. | SWITZERLAND | C |
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
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Metal | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country | RMAP Status* |
Gold | Metalurgica Met-Mex Penoles S.A. De C.V. | MEXICO | C |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San.Ve Tic. A.S. | TURKEY | C |
Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | UZBEKISTAN | C |
Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | PAMP S.A. | SWITZERLAND | C |
Gold | Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | INDONESIA | C |
Gold | PX Precinox S.A. | SWITZERLAND | C |
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | SOUTH AFRICA | C |
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | CANADA | C |
Gold | Sabin Metal Corp. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | A |
Gold | Samwon Metals Corp. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | A |
Gold | SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria S.A. | SPAIN | C |
Gold | Shandong Tarzan Bio-Gold Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Shyolkovsky | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA | C |
Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Super Dragon Technology Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM | CHINA | A |
Gold | Shandong Gold Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Anhui Tongling Nonferrous Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Torecom | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Gold | Umicore Brasil Ltda. | BRAZIL | A |
Gold | Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | BELGIUM | C |
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | Valcambi S.A. | SWITZERLAND | C |
Gold | Western Australian Mint (T/a The Perth Mint) | AUSTRALIA | C |
Gold | Yamakin Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | CHINA | C |
Gold | Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Gold | Morris and Watson | NEW ZEALAND | A |
Gold | SAFINA A.S. | CZECHIA | C |
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Metal | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country | RMAP Status* |
Gold | Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited | CHINA | A |
Gold | Umicore Precious Metals Thailand | THAILAND | A |
Gold | Geib Refining Corporation | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. | INDIA | C |
Gold | Republic Metals Corporation | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Gold | KGHM Polska Miedz Spolka Akcyjna | POLAND | C |
Gold | Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd. | ZIMBABWE | A |
Gold | Singway Technology Co., Ltd. | TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA | A |
Gold | Shandong Humon Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Shenzhen Zhonghenglong Real Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Gold | Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | C |
Gold | Emirates Gold DMCC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | C |
Gold | International Precious Metal Refiners | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | A |
Gold | Kaloti Precious Metals | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | A |
Gold | Sudan Gold Refinery | SUDAN | A |
Gold | T.C.A S.p.A | ITALY | C |
Gold | REMONDIS PMR B.V. | NETHERLANDS | C |
Gold | Fujairah Gold FZC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | A |
Gold | Industrial Refining Company | BELGIUM | A |
Gold | Shirpur Gold Refinery Ltd. | INDIA | A |
Gold | Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Gold | Marsam Metals | BRAZIL | A |
Gold | TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn | KAZAKHSTAN | C |
Gold | Abington Reldan Metals, LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | SAAMP | FRANCE | C |
Gold | L'Orfebre S.A. | ANDORRA | C |
Gold | 8853 S.p.A. | ITALY | A |
Gold | Italpreziosi | ITALY | C |
Gold | SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH | GERMANY | A |
Gold | WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH | GERMANY | C |
Gold | Ogussa Osterreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH | AUSTRIA | C |
Gold | AU Traders and Refiners | SOUTH AFRICA | A |
Gold | GGC Gujrat Gold Centre Pvt. Ltd. | INDIA | A |
Gold | Sai Refinery | INDIA | A |
Gold | Universal Precious Metals Refining Zambia | ZAMBIA | A |
Gold | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | MALAYSIA | A |
Gold | Bangalore Refinery | INDIA | C |
Gold | Kyshtym Copper-Electrolytic Plant ZAO | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Gold | Morris and Watson Gold Coast | AUSTRALIA | A |
Gold | DEGUSSA | GERMANY | A |
Gold | Pease & Curren | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Gold | JALAN & Company | INDIA | A |
Gold | SungEel HiMetal Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Gold | Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA | CHILE | C |
Gold | ABC Refinery Pty Ltd. | AUSTRALIA | A |
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Metal | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country | RMAP Status* |
Gold | Safimet S.p.A | ITALY | A |
Gold | State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology | LITHUANIA | A |
Gold | African Gold Refinery | UGANDA | A |
Gold | Gold Coast Refinery | GHANA | A |
Gold | NH Recytech Company | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Gold | DS PRETECH Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | A |
Gold | QG Refining, LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Gold | Dijllah Gold Refinery FZC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | A |
Gold | CGR Metalloys Pvt Ltd. | INDIA | A |
Gold | Sovereign Metals | INDIA | A |
Gold | C.I Metales Procesados Industriales SAS | COLOMBIA | A |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. North Plant | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. West Plant | JAPAN | C |
Gold | Augmont Enterprises Private Limited | INDIA | A |
Gold | Kundan Care Products Ltd. | INDIA | A |
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 1) | INDIA | A |
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 2) | INDIA | A |
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 3) | INDIA | A |
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 4) | INDIA | A |
Gold | K.A. Rasmussen | NORWAY | A |
Gold | Alexy Metals | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Gold | Sancus ZFS (L’Orfebre, SA) | COLOMBIA | C |
Gold | Sellem Industries Ltd. | MAURITANIA | A |
Gold | MD Overseas | INDIA | A |
Gold | Metallix Refining Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Gold | Metal Concentrators SA (Pty) Ltd. | SOUTH AFRICA | C |
Gold | WEEEREFINING | FRANCE | A |
Gold | Value Trading | BELGIUM | A |
Gold | Gold by Gold Colombia | COLOMBIA | C |
Tantalum | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | A |
Tantalum | Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tantalum | Guangdong Rising Rare Metals-EO Materials Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tantalum | Exotech Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Tantalum | F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | LSM Brasil S.A. | BRAZIL | C |
Tantalum | Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. | INDIA | C |
Tantalum | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL | C |
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Tantalum | NPM Silmet AS | ESTONIA | C |
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | QuantumClean | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tantalum | Yanling Jincheng Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
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Metal | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country | RMAP Status* |
Tantalum | Taki Chemical Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Tantalum | Telex Metals | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | KAZAKHSTAN | C |
Tantalum | Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | D Block Metals, LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tantalum | FIR Metals & Resource Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Metals | MEXICO | C |
Tantalum | TANIOBIS Co., Ltd. | THAILAND | C |
Tantalum | TANIOBIS GmbH | GERMANY | C |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | GERMANY | C |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tantalum | TANIOBIS Japan Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Tantalum | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | C |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Aizu | JAPAN | C |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Powder | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Tantalum | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | C |
Tantalum | Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material | CHINA | C |
Tantalum | Meta Materials | NORTH MACEDONIA, REPUBLIC OF | A |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Janny New Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tantalum | CP Metals Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Tantalum | RFH Yancheng Jinye New Material Technology Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | Alent plc Alpha | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tin | CV Gita Pesona | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Premium Tin Indonesia | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | CV United Smelting | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | Dowa | JAPAN | C |
Tin | EM Vinto | BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) | C |
Tin | Estanho de Rondonia S.A. | BRAZIL | C |
Tin | Fenix Metals | POLAND | C |
Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | IMPAG AG | SWITZERLAND | A |
Tin | Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC | CHINA | A |
Tin | China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | MALAYSIA | C |
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Metal | Smelter or Refiner Name | Country | RMAP Status* |
Tin | Metallic Resources, Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tin | Metallum Group Holding NV | BELGIUM | A |
Tin | Mineração Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL | C |
Tin | Funsur Smelter Minsur | PERU | C |
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | C |
Tin | Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Novosibirsk Processing Plant Ltd. | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | THAILAND | C |
Tin | Operaciones Metalurgicas S.A. | BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) | C |
Tin | PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Babel Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Bangka Tin Industry | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Bukit Timah | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT DS Jaya Abadi | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Panca Mega Persada | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Prima Timah Utama | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Refined Bangka Tin | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Sumber Jaya Indah | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Timah Tbk Kundur | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Timah Tbk Mentok | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Timah Nusantara | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Tommy Utama | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | Rui Da Hung | TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA | C |
Tin | Soft Metais Ltda. | BRAZIL | A |
Tin | Thaisarco | THAILAND | C |
Tin | Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | Mining and processing tin-tungsten ore Giang Son - VQB Co., Ltd. | VIETNAM | A |
Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineracao Ltda. | BRAZIL | C |
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Tin Smelting Branch of Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | CV Venus Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. | BRAZIL | C |
Tin | PT Tirus Putra Mandiri | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | Melt Metais e Ligas S.A. | BRAZIL | A |
Tin | PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | PHILIPPINES | C |
Tin | PT Inti Stania Prima | INDONESIA | A |
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Tin | CV Ayi Jaya | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company | VIETNAM | A |
Tin | Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | VIET NAM | A |
Tin | Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | VIET NAM | A |
Tin | CV Dua Sekawan | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Cipta Persada Mulia | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company | VIETNAM | A |
Tin | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | C |
Tin | Super Ligas | BRAZIL | A |
Tin | Metallo Belgium N.V. | BELGIUM | C |
Tin | Metallo Spain S.L.U. | SPAIN | C |
Tin | PT Bangka Prima Tin | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Sukses Inti Makmur | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | PT Kijang Jaya Mandiri | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | Thai Nguyen Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | VIET NAM | C |
Tin | PT Menara Cipta Mulia | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Gejiu Fengming Metallurgy Chemical Plant | CHINA | A |
Tin | Guanyang Guida Nonferrous Metal Smelting Plant | CHINA | A |
Tin | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | MALAYSIA | A |
Tin | PT Lautan Harmonis Sejahtera | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | PT Bangka Serumpun | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | Pongpipat Company Limited | MYANMAR | A |
Tin | Tin Technology & Refining | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tin | Dongguan CiEXPO Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | Ma'anshan Weitai Tin Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tin | PT Masbro Alam Stania | INDONESIA | A |
Tin | PT Rajawali Rimba Perkasa | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | Luna Smelter, Ltd. | RWANDA | C |
Tin | Yunnan Yunfan Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | Precious Minerals and Smelting Limited | INDIA | A |
Tin | Gejiu City Fuxiang Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tin | PT Mitra Sukses Globalindo | INDONESIA | C |
Tin | CRM Fundicao De Metais E Comercio De Equipamentos Eletronicos Do Brasil Ltda | BRAZIL | C |
Tin | CRM Synergies | SPAIN | C |
Tin | Fabrica Auricchio Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | C |
Tin | PT Putera Sarana Shakti (PT PSS) | INDONESIA | C |
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. Corp. | JAPAN | C |
Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tungsten | Chaozhou Xianglu Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
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Tungsten | Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tungsten | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | C |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Kennametal Fallon | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | VIETNAM | A |
Tungsten | Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | VIETNAM | A |
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten AG | AUSTRIA | C |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd. | VIET NAM | C |
Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Yatai Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH | GERMANY | C |
Tungsten | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | C |
Tungsten | Masan High-Tech Materials | VIET NAM | C |
Tungsten | Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | Niagara Refining LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | C |
Tungsten | China Molybdenum Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | Hydrometallurg, JSC | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | Unecha Refractory metals plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | South-East Nonferrous Metal Company Limited of Hengyang City | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. | PHILIPPINES | C |
Tungsten | Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | ACL Metais Eireli | BRAZIL | A |
Tungsten | Woltech Korea Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | A |
Tungsten | Moliren Ltd. | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | Hunan Litian Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | A |
Tungsten | KGETS Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | C |
Tungsten | Fujian Ganmin RareMetal Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Lianyou Metals Co., Ltd. | TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA | C |
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Tungsten | JSC "Kirovgrad Hard Alloys Plant" | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | NPP Tyazhmetprom LLC | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | Jingmen Dewei GEM Tungsten Resources Recycling Co., Ltd. | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | Albasteel Industria e Comercio de Ligas Para Fundicao Ltd. | BRAZIL | A |
Tungsten | CP Metals Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | A |
Tungsten | Cronimet Brasil Ltda | BRAZIL | C |
Tungsten | Artek LLC | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | Fujian Xinlu Tungsten | CHINA | C |
Tungsten | OOO “Technolom” 2 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | OOO “Technolom” 1 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
Tungsten | LLC Vostok | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | A |
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* | This column indicates whether the known smelter or refiner participates in the RMAP as a smelter that sources conflict minerals in a manner that does not finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries. For purposes of this column, “C” denotes that the smelter participates in the RMAP and successfully completed an assessment against the applicable RMAP standard or an equivalent cross-recognized assessment to be deemed “Conformant”, “A” denotes that the smelter has agreed to participate in the RMAP but that the audit process has not yet been completed as of May 5, 2023, and “U” denotes that the smelter or refinery has not received a “conflict free” designation from an independent third party audit program or the facility’s receipt of such designation is undeterminable. |
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Future Steps
We have communicated our expectations to our foundries and other first tier suppliers regarding our commitment to sourcing minerals for our products in a manner that does not, directly or indirectly, finance or benefit armed groups in the DRC or adjoining countries. Since the end of 2013, we have continued, and expect to continue to increase our engagement with our relevant manufacturing foundries and first tier suppliers in order to build their knowledge and capacity so they are able to provide MaxLinear with more complete and accurate information on the source and chain of custody of conflict minerals. In the future, we plan to extend our due diligence efforts to cobalt using the extended minerals reporting template created by the Responsible Business Alliance.