0001193125-16-608502.txt : 20160531 0001193125-16-608502.hdr.sgml : 20160531 20160531164004 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-16-608502 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 13p-1 1.01 20151231 1.02 20151231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160531 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160531 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: IMAX CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000921582 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES [3861] IRS NUMBER: 980140269 STATE OF INCORPORATION: A6 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SD SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-35066 FILM NUMBER: 161686402 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2525 SPEAKMAN DRIVE STREET 2: MISSISSAUGA CITY: ONTARIO CANADA STATE: A6 ZIP: L5K 1B1 BUSINESS PHONE: 9054036500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2525 SPEAKMAN DRIVE STREET 2: MISSISSAUGA CITY: ONTARIO CANADA STATE: A6 ZIP: L5K 1B1 SD 1 d189323dsd.htm SD SD

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM SD

 

 

SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT

 

 

IMAX Corporation

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

 

 

 

Canada   001-35066   98-0140269

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation or organization)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.

 

2525 Speakman Drive,

Mississauga, ON, Canada L5K 1B1

 

110 E. 59th Street, Suite 2100

New York, New York, USA 10022

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

G. Mary Ruby 905-403-6500

(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)

 

 

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

 

x Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015.

 

 

 


Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure

Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosures and Report:

IMAX has concluded in good faith that during 2015:

 

  a) IMAX has manufactured or contracted to manufacture products as to which tin, tungsten, tantalum and/or gold (herein referred to as “3TGs”, or “conflict minerals1” – see footnote) are necessary to the functionality or production of such products.

 

  b) Based on a “reasonable country of origin inquiry”, IMAX knows or has reason to believe that a portion of its necessary 3TGs originated or may have originated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (collectively, sometimes referred to as the “Covered Countries”) and knows or has reason to believe that those necessary 3TGs may not be from recycle or scrap sources.

A copy of the Company’s Conflict Minerals Report is provided as Exhibit 1.01 hereto and is also available on the Company’s website at http://www.imax.com/content/corporate-governance.

Item 1.02 Exhibit

Exhibit 1.01 – Conflict Minerals Report.

Section 2 – Exhibits

Item 2.01 Exhibits

The following exhibit is filed as part of this report.

Exhibit 1.01 – Conflict Minerals Report.

 

1  The term “conflict mineral” is defined in Form SD under the SEC’s conflict mineral rules as (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives; or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD, including the Conflict Minerals Report exhibit, contains forward-looking statements that are based upon management’s expectations and beliefs concerning future events. Certain matters contained herein concerning the future, including risk mitigation steps, constitute forward-looking statements and are based upon management’s expectations and beliefs concerning future events impacting our efforts to improve our due diligence and risk mitigation strategies relating to any conflict minerals used in our manufacture or contract to manufacture activities. There can be no assurance that these future events will occur as anticipated. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they were made, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update them. For a description of certain factors that could cause our future results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, see Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 entitled “Risk Factors.”

 

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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.

 

     

IMAX CORPORATION

(Registrant)

Date: May 31, 2016       By  

/s/ Robert D. Lister

       

Robert D. Lister

Chief Legal Officer & Chief Business Development Officer

Date: May 31, 2016       By  

/s/ G. Mary Ruby

       

G. Mary Ruby

Chief Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary

 

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EX-1.01 2 d189323dex101.htm EX-1.01 EX-1.01

Exhibit 1.01

IMAX CORPORATION

Conflict Minerals Report

For The Year Ended December 31, 2015

This report for the year ended December 31, 2015 is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Rule”). The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”). The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals which are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. The term “conflict mineral” is defined in Form SD under the SEC’s conflict mineral rules as: (A) columbite-tantalite, also known as coltan (the metal ore from which tantalum is extracted); cassiterite (the metal ore from which tin is extracted); gold; wolframite (the metal ore from which tungsten is extracted); or their derivatives which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten, unless the Secretary of State determines that additional derivatives are financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country or (B) any other mineral or its derivatives determined by the Secretary of State to be financing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country. Tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold will herein be referred to as the “3TGs”.

Pursuant to the Rule, IMAX Corporation (herein referred to as “IMAX,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) has undertaken a reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) for products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured by IMAX during calendar year 2015. In response to representations from certain of its suppliers obtained in the course of the RCOI, IMAX has conducted due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the necessary 3TGs in its products that it had reason to believe originated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the “DRC”) or an adjoining country (collectively, defined as the “Covered Countries”). For that reason, IMAX is required under the Rule to undertake due diligence and to submit to the SEC a Conflict Minerals Report (“CMR”) as an Exhibit to Form SD.

This report has been prepared by management of IMAX. The information includes the activities of all majority-owned subsidiaries and variable interest entities that are required to be consolidated. It does not include the activities of variable interest entities that are not required to be consolidated.

 

1. Company Overview

IMAX is one of the world’s leading entertainment technology companies, specializing in motion picture technologies and presentations. IMAX’s principal businesses are: (i) the design and manufacture of premium theater systems and the sale, lease or contribution of those systems to customers under theater arrangements; and (ii) the digital remastering of films in the IMAX format and the exhibition of those films in the IMAX theater network. The IMAX theater systems contain many electronic components, which in turn contain 3TGs that are necessary to their functionality or production.

 

2. Supply Chain

IMAX develops and designs all of the key elements of the proprietary technology involved in its theater systems. Fabrication of a majority of parts and sub-assemblies, however, is subcontracted to a group of third-party suppliers. IMAX, therefore, is a purchaser of parts, components and manufactured products that are many steps downstream in the minerals supply chain. As a result, IMAX’s due diligence measures can provide only reasonable and not absolute assurance regarding the source and chain of custody of the necessary 3TGs. IMAX’s due diligence processes are based on the necessity of seeking data from its direct suppliers and those suppliers seeking similar information within their supply chains to identify the original sources of the necessary 3TGs.

 

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3. Product Description

IMAX’s theater systems may contain conflict minerals within the following components:

 

    Tantalum, primarily used in capacitors;

 

    Tin, used in soldered components;

 

    Tungsten, used in lamp electrodes (solely for IMAX’s non-laser based theater systems); and

 

    Gold, used in circuit boards, electrodes, connectors and electronic components.

 

4. Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry

IMAX has engaged Assent Compliance (“Assent”) to assist with the implementation of its conflict minerals program. For 2015, IMAX began its RCOI by compiling a list of suppliers, which was extracted from the Company’s preferred vendor list. The list was then filtered to ensure that all suppliers surveyed by the Company actually provided items that were used in final products in 2015. Specifically, the list was filtered to remove:

 

    Service providers/suppliers;

 

    Indirect materials suppliers; and

 

    Inactive suppliers (minimum 1 year since last purchase).

The filtered list was composed of 259 suppliers, which was provided to Assent and uploaded to Assent’s Compliance Manager software system (“Assent Compliance Manager”).

Assent conducted additional analysis of the supply chain which, combined with supplier feedback, resulted in 2 additional suppliers being removed from the scope of the conflict minerals inquiry. These suppliers were removed based on the following factors, which were provided either directly by the suppliers or through Assent’s secondary analysis:

 

    Whether a supplied product was merely packaging (labels do not count as packaging);

 

    Whether the parts a supplier used did not end up in the final product (e.g., such as equipment used to make the product, including industrial equipment, computers, etc.);

 

    Whether a supplier used test labs to determine, for example, the resistance or durability of a product;

 

    Whether a supplier was solely a service provider; and

 

    Whether a supplier supplied anything to IMAX in the last year.

After limiting the scope of inquiry, Assent conducted the supplier survey portion of the RCOI. The supplier survey utilized a template developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition® and The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (“EICC/GeSI”) called the Conflict Mineral Report Template (“CMRT”). The CMRT was developed to facilitate general disclosures and information regarding smelters or refiners that provide materials to the supplier. It includes questions regarding the supplier’s conflict-free minerals policy, the engagement process with its direct suppliers and identification of the smelters or refiners used by the supplier. Non-responsive suppliers were contacted a minimum of three times by the Assent Compliance Manager, and were also contacted by the Assent Compliance Supply Chain team on a one-on-one basis, with two follow-ups.

Communications from Assent also include training and education on completion of the CMRT, as well as access to a resource center for suppliers designed to answer questions. All communications with suppliers were monitored and tracked in Assent’s system for future reporting and transparency.

For calendar year 2015, IMAX’s program continued to include automated data validation on all submitted CMRTs. The goal of automated data validation is to increase the accuracy of submissions and to identify any contradictory answers in a CMRT. Based on the automated data validation, each CMRT is classified as valid or invalid, and data records are retained. Suppliers who submit invalid forms are contacted and are encouraged to resubmit a valid form.

 

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As of May 20, 2016, IMAX has received 168 CMRT forms from suppliers. Of the responses received, 63 suppliers claimed that they source 3TGs from the Covered Countries. There were 11 invalid supplier submissions. Many suppliers are still unable to provide all of the smelters or refiners used for materials supplied to IMAX, and some responses indicated an “unknown” status with respect to the origin of their materials.

After completing the RCOI, IMAX then implemented due diligence measures on the source and chain of custody of such conflict minerals, as further described below.

 

5. Due Diligence

As a result of the RCOI, IMAX has reason to believe that some of the 3TG minerals included in its systems may have originated in the Covered Countries. Therefore, IMAX conducted supply chain due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the minerals, in a manner consistent with the framework promulgated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) and its Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High Risk Areas, including the related supplements on gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten (“OECD Guidance”), an internationally recognized due diligence framework. IMAX has taken the actions described below to adhere to the OECD guidance.

 

5.1 Establish Strong Company Management Systems

 

5.1.1 Conflict Minerals Policy

IMAX adopted a Conflict Minerals Policy in 2014 committed to addressing the concern that certain minerals that are contained in its systems may contribute to the funding of military conflict and human rights violations in the Covered Countries. Through this policy, IMAX has encouraged its suppliers and sub-suppliers to responsibly source 3TGs. This policy is available publicly on the Company’s website at http://www.imax.com/content/corporate-governance.

 

5.1.2 Internal Team

To ensure conflict mineral compliance, IMAX established an internal management system to support the conflict minerals team, which includes representatives from IMAX’s technology, supply chain management and legal teams. The conflict minerals team is responsible for implementing IMAX’s conflict minerals program. Management, including senior members of the technology and procurement groups, are briefed about issues arising under the Company’s conflict minerals compliance program.

 

5.1.3 Control Systems

Controls adopted include, but are not limited to, IMAX’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, which outlines expected behaviors for all IMAX employees, IMAX’s Conflicts Minerals Policy, the IMAX Supplier Compliance Document, and supplier conflict minerals contract clauses as further described below.

A number of parts contained in IMAX’s products are commercial, off-the-shelf (“COTS”) components. Each new purchase order for COTS components requires that the supplier assist the Company in implementing its Conflict Minerals Policy, such as by completing the CMRT. IMAX further compiles a list of all unique COTS items contained in IMAX products, and contacts the manufacturers of each COTS items to request completion of the CMRT.

IMAX also contracts with various suppliers for fabricated assemblies. Based on drawings provided by IMAX, suppliers fabricate a portion of these assemblies from various materials, such as metal for enclosures. These fabricated assemblies are in turn used by IMAX in the assembly of its products. All new purchase agreements for the manufacturing of assemblies incorporated into IMAX products contain clauses that require suppliers to assist IMAX in implementing its Conflict Minerals Policy, such as by completing the CMRT. However, contracts with our direct suppliers are frequently multi-year term contracts. In the case of existing contracts, we generally are unable to unilaterally impose new contract terms prior to expiration of the contract. However, IMAX works individually

 

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with key selected suppliers to insure they provide 3TG sourcing information for current contracts. As the Company renews contracts or enters into new ones, it intends to add a clause that requires all applicable suppliers assist IMAX in implementing its Conflict Minerals Policy.

 

5.1.4 Supplier Engagement

With respect to the OECD requirement to strengthen engagement with suppliers, IMAX has, through Assent, provided education on conflict minerals regulation as well as communicated IMAX’s expectations of the parties’ continued business relationship through video, recorded training and documented instructions. Feedback from engagement with suppliers has allowed IMAX to enhance the supplier training, and to ensure that communications with the Company’s suppliers are focused and adapted appropriately to each supplier.

 

5.1.5 Grievance Mechanism

In the event of an actual or possible violation of the Company’s policies, including the Company’s Conflict Minerals Policy, employees (internal) and suppliers (external) can report violations as part of the Company’s whistleblower protocol for reporting suspected violations of the IMAX Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. The Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is available at http://www.imax.com/content/corporate-governance.

 

5.1.6 Maintain Records

Assent maintains all relevant documentation for a minimum of five years as per OECD Due Diligence Guidelines.

 

5.2. Identify and assess risk in the supply chain

Because of IMAX’s size, the complexity of its products, and the depth, breadth and constant evolution of its supplier chain, it is difficult to identify actors upstream from the Company’s direct suppliers. The majority of IMAX’s direct suppliers who were surveyed and who responded to the survey identified their components and products as containing 3TGs. These suppliers are relied upon to provide IMAX with information about the source of 3TGs contained in the components and products supplied to us.

Risks are identified based on criteria established for supplier responses in IMAX’s conflict minerals compliance system. Specifically, with assistance from Assent, supplier risk is classified as high, medium or low based on various scoring criteria, including: (1) whether the smelter or refiner is recognized by a regulated body and has an associated number; (2) an analysis of the smelter or refiner country and its proximity to Covered Countries; and (3) whether the smelter or refiner is certified as conflict-free via the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (“CFSI”) or the London Bullion Market Association (“LBMA”). Where a smelter or refiner is claimed to be “conflict-free”, the facility is cross-referenced against the lists maintained by the CFSI or LBMA. In cases where IMAX identifies supplier risk, IMAX will contact the supplier, gather pertinent data and perform an assessment of the supplier’s conflict minerals status.

The results of IMAX’s smelter and refiner data analysis are described in Section 6 below.

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

 

5.3 Design and Implement a Strategy to Respond to Risks

As described in IMAX’s Conflict Minerals Policy, IMAX will engage any suppliers whom it has reason to believe is supplying the Company with 3TG from sources that may support conflict in the Covered Countries to establish an alternative source of 3TG that does not support such conflict, as provided in the OECD guidance. At present, the Company has found no instances where it was necessary to terminate a contract or find a replacement supplier.

 

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

The Company does not typically have a direct relationship with 3TG smelters and refiners and does not perform or direct audits of these entities within its supply chain.

 

5.5 Report annually on supply chain due diligence

The Company reports annually on supply chain due diligence by filing a Form SD and a Conflict Minerals Report with the SEC. The Company’s Form SD and Conflict Minerals Report can be found at http://www.imax.com/content/corporate-governance.

 

6. Due Diligence Results

The large majority of the responses received provided data at a company or divisional level meaning that the 3TG may or may not actually be present in the components or parts actually supplied to IMAX. In many other cases, the suppliers were unable to specify the smelters or refiners used for components supplied to IMAX. Furthermore, suppliers did not always provide smelter or refiner lists nor were the smelter or refiner lists they did supply consistently completed with smelter or refiner identification numbers. In addition, many of the responses provided at the company or division level indicated an “unknown” status in terms of determining the origin of 3TGs. Therefore, we were unable to validate that any of these smelters or refiners are actually in our supply chain.

As of May 20th, 2016, we have validated 306 smelters or refiners and continue to work to validate the additional smelter and refiner entries from the submitted CMRTs. We have included the current list of valid smelters and refiners disclosed to us by our suppliers in Annex 1 to this report.

Based on the smelter and refiner lists provided by suppliers via the CMRTs, which were in turn validated against the CFSI as described above, we are aware of (i) 214 conflict-free smelters or refiners; (ii) 37 smelters or refiners that have begun the process to be validated as conflict-free, and which are active in the Conflict Free Smelter Program but have not yet been validated as conflict-free; (iii) and 55 smelters or refiners that are not conflict-free and have not started the process to become conflict-free. Annex 1 also includes an aggregate country list of known smelter or refiner sourcing countries.

 

7. Steps to be taken to mitigate risk

Going forward, IMAX intends to take the following steps to further improve its due diligence and to further mitigate any risk that the necessary 3TGs in IMAX products could benefit armed groups in the DRC or adjoining countries:

 

    Further refine and enhance clauses in new purchase orders and supplier contracts to assist in implementing the Company’s conflict minerals program;

 

    Expand the number of suppliers requested to supply information while working with suppliers to move to the latest version of the CMRT;

 

    Engage any suppliers found to be supplying the Company with 3TG from sources that support conflict in the DRC or any adjoining country to establish an alternative source of 3TG that does not support such conflict; and

 

    Increase the emphasis on clean and validated smelter or refiner information from the supply chain as the list of conflict-free smelters and refiners grows and more smelters declare their intent to enroll in the program.

All suppliers who do not know the origin of the 3TGs in their products will be further encouraged to examine their supply chain and enact due diligence measures as per the OECD guidance. The goal for these suppliers is to determine origin of their 3TGs and, if not from recycled or scrap resources, then to ensure a conflict-free origin. Should suppliers of parts that are at a high risk of containing 3TGs remain unresponsive or if suppliers are unable to definitively determine origin and to take necessary subsequent steps to ensure that their products are conflict-free, IMAX will consider replacing such suppliers.

 

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Annex 1

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

 

Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Gold    Advanced Chemical Company    UNITED STATES   
Gold    Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Aktyubinsk Copper Company TOO    KAZAKHSTAN   
Gold    Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES   
Gold    Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.    GERMANY    Yes
Gold    Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC)    UZBEKISTAN   
Gold    AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração    BRAZIL    Yes
Gold    Argor-Heraeus SA    SWITZERLAND    Yes
Gold    Asahi Pretec Corporation    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Asahi Refining Canada Limited    CANADA    Yes
Gold    Asahi Refining USA Inc.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Gold    Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.    TURKEY   
Gold    Aurubis AG    GERMANY    Yes
Gold    Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)    PHILIPPINES    Yes
Gold    Bauer Walser AG    GERMANY   
Gold    Boliden AB    SWEDEN    Yes
Gold    C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG    GERMANY    Yes
Gold    Caridad    MEXICO   
Gold    CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation    CANADA    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Gold    Cendres + Métaux SA    SWITZERLAND   
Gold    Chimet S.p.A.    ITALY    Yes
Gold    Chugai Mining    JAPAN   
Gold    Daejin Indus Co., Ltd.    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   
Gold    Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Do Sung Corporation    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   
Gold    DODUCO GmbH    GERMANY    Yes
Gold    Dowa    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Elemetal Refining, LLC    UNITED STATES    Yes
Gold    Emirates Gold DMCC    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES    Yes
Gold    Faggi Enrico S.p.A.    ITALY   
Gold    Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd.    ZIMBABWE   
Gold    Gansu Seemine Material Hi-Tech Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Geib Refining Corporation    UNITED STATES   
Gold    Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM    CHINA   
Gold    Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited    CHINA   
Gold    Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Heimerle + Meule GmbH    GERMANY    Yes
Gold    Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong    CHINA    Yes
Gold    Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG    GERMANY    Yes
Gold    Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd.    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Gold    Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited    CHINA    Yes
Gold    Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Istanbul Gold Refinery    TURKEY    Yes
Gold    Japan Mint    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Jiangxi Copper Company Limited    CHINA    Yes
Gold    JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Gold    JSC Uralelectromed    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Gold    JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Kaloti Precious Metals    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES   
Gold    Kazakhmys Smelting LLC    KAZAKHSTAN   
Gold    Kazzinc    KAZAKHSTAN    Yes
Gold    Kennecott Utah Copper LLC    UNITED STATES    Yes
Gold    KGHM Polska Miedź Spółka Akcyjna    POLAND   
Gold    Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Korea Metal Co., Ltd.    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   
Gold    Korea Zinc Co. Ltd.    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   
Gold    Kyrgyzaltyn JSC    KYRGYZSTAN   
Gold    L’ azurde Company For Jewelry    SAUDI ARABIA   
Gold    Lingbao Gold Company Limited    CHINA   
Gold    Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF    Yes
Gold    Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Materion    UNITED STATES    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Gold    Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Metahub Industries Sdn. Bhd.    MALAYSIA   
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd.    SINGAPORE    Yes
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Metalor Technologies SA    SWITZERLAND    Yes
Gold    Metalor USA Refining Corporation    UNITED STATES    Yes
Gold    METALÚRGICA MET-MEX PEÑOLES, S.A. DE C.V    MEXICO    Yes
Gold    Mitsubishi Materials Corporation    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd.    INDIA    Yes
Gold    Morris and Watson    NEW ZEALAND   
Gold    Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Gold    Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.    TURKEY    Yes
Gold    Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat    UZBEKISTAN   
Gold    Nihon Material Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH    AUSTRIA    Yes
Gold    Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastsvetmet)    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Gold    OJSC Kolyma Refinery    RUSSIAN FEDERATION   
Gold    OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Gold    PAMP SA    SWITZERLAND    Yes
Gold    Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd.    CHINA   

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Gold    Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Gold    PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk    INDONESIA    Yes
Gold    PX Précinox SA    SWITZERLAND    Yes
Gold    Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd.    SOUTH AFRICA    Yes
Gold    Republic Metals Corporation    UNITED STATES    Yes
Gold    Royal Canadian Mint    CANADA    Yes
Gold    Sabin Metal Corp.    UNITED STATES   
Gold    Samduck Precious Metals    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   
Gold    SAMWON Metals Corp.    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   
Gold    SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH    GERMANY   
Gold    Schone Edelmetaal B.V.    NETHERLANDS    Yes
Gold    SEMPSA Joyería Platería SA    SPAIN    Yes
Gold    Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Gold    Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Gold    Singway Technology Co., Ltd.    TAIWAN    Yes
Gold    So Accurate Group, Inc.    UNITED STATES   
Gold    SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Gold    Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.    TAIWAN    Yes
Gold    Sudan Gold Refinery    SUDAN   
Gold    Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    T.C.A S.p.A    ITALY    Yes
Gold    Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Gold    Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Torecom    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF   
Gold    Umicore Brasil Ltda.    BRAZIL    Yes
Gold    Umicore Precious Metals Thailand    THAILAND    Yes
Gold    Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining    BELGIUM    Yes
Gold    United Precious Metal Refining, Inc.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Gold    Valcambi SA    SWITZERLAND    Yes
Gold    Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint    AUSTRALIA    Yes
Gold    WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH    GERMANY   
Gold    Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Gold    Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Gold    Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation    CHINA    Yes
Gold    Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Avon Specialty Metals Ltd    UNITED KINGDOM   
Tantalum    Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    D Block Metals, LLC    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tantalum    Duoluoshan    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Exotech Inc.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tantalum    F&X Electro-Materials Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    FIR Metals & Resource Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Global Advanced Metals Aizu    JAPAN    Yes
Tantalum    Global Advanced Metals Boyertown    UNITED STATES    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Tantalum    Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Guizhou Zhenhua Xinyun Technology Ltd., Kaili branch    CHINA   
Tantalum    H.C. Starck Co., Ltd.    THAILAND    Yes
Tantalum    H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar    GERMANY    Yes
Tantalum    H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg    GERMANY    Yes
Tantalum    H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH    GERMANY    Yes
Tantalum    H.C. Starck Inc.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tantalum    H.C. Starck Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Tantalum    H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG    GERMANY    Yes
Tantalum    Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Hi-Temp Specialty Metals, Inc.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tantalum    Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    KEMET Blue Metals    MEXICO    Yes
Tantalum    KEMET Blue Powder    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tantalum    King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    LSM Brasil S.A.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tantalum    Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd.    INDIA    Yes
Tantalum    Mineração Taboca S.A.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tantalum    Mitsui Mining & Smelting    JAPAN    Yes
Tantalum    Molycorp Silmet A.S.    ESTONIA    Yes
Tantalum    Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Plansee SE Liezen    AUSTRIA    Yes
Tantalum    Plansee SE Reutte    AUSTRIA    Yes
Tantalum    QuantumClean    UNITED STATES    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Tantalum    Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tantalum    RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Tantalum    Taki Chemicals    JAPAN    Yes
Tantalum    Telex Metals    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tantalum    Tranzact, Inc.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tantalum    Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC    KAZAKHSTAN    Yes
Tantalum    XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tantalum    Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide    CHINA    Yes
Tin    Alpha    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tin    An Thai Minerals Company Limited    VIET NAM   
Tin    An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company    VIET NAM   
Tin    Chenzhou Yun Xiang mining limited liability company    CHINA   
Tin    China Tin Group Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tin    CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tin    CV Ayi Jaya    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    CV Dua Sekawan    INDONESIA   
Tin    CV Gita Pesona    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    CV Serumpun Sebalai    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    CV United Smelting    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    CV Venus Inti Perkasa    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    Dowa    JAPAN    Yes
Tin    Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company    VIET NAM   

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Tin    Elmet S.L.U. (Metallo Group)    SPAIN    Yes
Tin    EM Vinto    BOLIVIA    Yes
Tin    Estanho de Rondônia S.A.    BRAZIL   
Tin    Feinhütte Halsbrücke GmbH    GERMANY   
Tin    Fenix Metals    POLAND    Yes
Tin    Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC    CHINA   
Tin    Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tin    Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tin    Linwu Xianggui Ore Smelting Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    Magnu’s Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tin    Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)    MALAYSIA    Yes
Tin    Melt Metais e Ligas S/A    BRAZIL    Yes
Tin    Metahub Industries Sdn. Bhd.    MALAYSIA   
Tin    Metallic Resources, Inc.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tin    Metallo-Chimique N.V.    BELGIUM    Yes
Tin    Mineração Taboca S.A.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tin    Minsur    PERU    Yes
Tin    Mitsubishi Materials Corporation    JAPAN    Yes
Tin    Nankang Nanshan Tin Manufactory Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company    VIET NAM   
Tin    O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.    THAILAND    Yes
Tin    O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.    PHILIPPINES    Yes
Tin    Operaciones Metalurgical S.A.    BOLIVIA    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Tin    Phoenix Metal Ltd.    RWANDA   
Tin    PT Alam Lestari Kencana    INDONESIA   
Tin    PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Artha Cipta Langgeng    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Babel Inti Perkasa    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Bangka Kudai Tin    INDONESIA   
Tin    PT Bangka Prima Tin    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Bangka Timah Utama Sejahtera    INDONESIA   
Tin    PT Bangka Tin Industry    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Bukit Timah    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Cipta Persada Mulia    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT DS Jaya Abadi    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Fang Di MulTindo    INDONESIA   
Tin    PT Inti Stania Prima    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Justindo    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Karimun Mining    INDONESIA   
Tin    PT Mitra Stania Prima    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Panca Mega Persada    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Pelat Timah Nusantara Tbk    INDONESIA   
Tin    PT Prima Timah Utama    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Refined Bangka Tin    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Seirama Tin Investment    INDONESIA   

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Tin    PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Sukses Inti Makmur    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Sumber Jaya Indah    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Tinindo Inter Nusa    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Tirus Putra Mandiri    INDONESIA   
Tin    PT Tommy Utama    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    PT Wahana Perkit Jaya    INDONESIA    Yes
Tin    Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tin    Rui Da Hung    TAIWAN    Yes
Tin    Soft Metais Ltda.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tin    Thaisarco    THAILAND    Yes
Tin    Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company    VIET NAM   
Tin    VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC    VIET NAM    Yes
Tin    White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda.    BRAZIL    Yes
Tin    Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tin    Yunnan Tin Group (Holding) Company Limited    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp.    JAPAN    Yes
Tungsten    Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.    VIET NAM    Yes
Tungsten    Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Dayu Jincheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Ganxian Shirui New Material Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Tungsten    Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Ganzhou Yatai Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tungsten    Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    H.C. Starck GmbH    GERMANY    Yes
Tungsten    H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG    GERMANY    Yes
Tungsten    Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Yanglin    CHINA   
Tungsten    Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Hydrometallurg, JSC    RUSSIAN FEDERATION    Yes
Tungsten    Japan New Metals Co., Ltd.    JAPAN    Yes
Tungsten    Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Jiangxi Minmetals Gao’an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Jiangxi Xiushui Xianggan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA   
Tungsten    Kennametal Fallon    UNITED STATES   
Tungsten    Kennametal Huntsville    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tungsten    Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes

 

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Metal

  

Standard Smelter Name

  

Smelter Facility Location

  

Conflict Free?

Tungsten    Niagara Refining LLC    UNITED STATES    Yes
Tungsten    Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC    VIET NAM    Yes
Tungsten    Pobedit, JSC    RUSSIAN FEDERATION   
Tungsten    Sanher Tungsten Vietnam Co., Ltd.    VIET NAM   
Tungsten    Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd.    VIET NAM    Yes
Tungsten    Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.    VIET NAM    Yes
Tungsten    Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG    AUSTRIA    Yes
Tungsten    Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes
Tungsten    Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd.    CHINA    Yes

 

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