AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Conflict Minerals Report
For the Year Ended December 31, 2019
This Conflict Minerals Report (the “Report”) of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (“Agilent,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is provided in accordance with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Rule”) for the reporting period from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (“Reporting Year”). The report covers all Agilent majority-owned subsidiaries and variable interest entities that are subject to the Rule.
The Rule imposes certain due diligence and reporting obligations on US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registrants whose manufactured products (including products contracted to be made for each registrant) contain “conflict minerals” necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The Rule defines “conflict minerals” to include cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite and their derivatives limited to tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (collectively referred to as “3TGs”) regardless of their country of origin or whether they are used to finance or benefit armed groups.
Company Overview
Agilent is a leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. Our company provides laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise.
Our products that could contain conflict minerals are: liquid chromatography systems; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry systems; gas chromatography systems; gas chromatography mass spectrometry systems; inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry instruments; atomic absorption instruments; microwave plasma-atomic emission spectrometry instruments; inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry instruments; bioanalytical Instruments, microarray equipment, raman spectrometers and auto stainer, laboratory automation and robotic systems; vacuum pumps and measurement technologies.
Summary of Agilent’s Commitment to Responsible Sourcing
Agilent’s mission is to advance the quality of life and improve the human condition. To support our mission, we are committed to sourcing components and materials from organizations that share our values around human rights, ethics and environmental responsibility. Conflict Minerals is one of our 5 Key Policies. Agilent’s Conflict Minerals Policy is to support the goal of ending violence, human rights violations and environmental devastation in the Covered Countries. To ensure that these messages are easily accessible, Agilent maintains its Corporate Social Responsibility Report for 2018, Powered by Purpose, on its website.
Agilent’s commitment to responsible sourcing of Conflict Minerals will be met when all the 3TGs used in our products are sourced from smelters or refiners that have been confirmed as conformant to or active in a third-party audit of their management systems and sourcing practices approved by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI).
Applicability
Agilent conducts an annual analysis of procurement and manufacturing activities to identify product categories likely to include products that contain conflict minerals.
We conducted reasonable due diligence regarding the source and chain of custody of the conflict minerals in our products. Based on our efforts, we have reason to believe that some of the conflict minerals present in our supply chain may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) or adjoining countries (collectively the “Covered Countries”). We are unable to determine with assurance the origin of the conflict minerals in our products at this time and therefore cannot exclude the possibility that some conflict minerals may have originated in the DRC or Covered Countries. For this reason, we are required under the Rule to submit this Conflict Minerals Report (CMR) as an exhibit to Agilent’s Form SD.
Reasonable Country Of Origin Inquiry (RCOI)
Agilent has instituted Conflict Minerals reporting requirements as part of our suppliers’ contractual obligations through the requirement that they abide by the directives in Agilent’s Supplier Code of Conduct. We expect that these obligations will cascade through our supply chain and that our direct suppliers will extend the same obligations on their suppliers to survey their suppliers.
Agilent typically does not purchase Conflict Minerals directly from mines, smelters or refiners. Agilent’s supply chain is extensive and complex with many layers of suppliers positioned between us and 3TG raw material smelters or refiners (also known as “SORs.”).
For reporting purposes, we require our relevant direct suppliers to complete the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT) designed by the RMI. Suppliers are instructed to upload their CMRT to a specific website but if they are unable to do so, they are then requested to submit their completed CMRT to us via email.
Design of Due Diligence
Our Due Diligence measures have been designed to conform in all material respects, with the 5-step framework described 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, Third Edition, 2016 (“OECD Guidance”) and the related supplements for 3TG.
The OECD Guidance provides a framework for detailed due diligence to support responsible global supply chain management of minerals and is currently the only internationally recognized framework for raw material due diligence.
The OECD Guidance (including its Supplements) applies to each of the 3TGs and to Agilent as a “downstream company.”
For the reporting year of 2019, we expanded the number of suppliers surveyed to 200 compared to 139 in 2018. We received responses from 89% of the in-scope suppliers surveyed. We continue to work with our suppliers to improve the quality and completeness of their reports, and we provide feedback to suppliers if their reports are incomplete or inconsistent.
All RMI smelter information used in this report was downloaded from the RMI website on December 6, 2019.
Due Diligence Framework
In accordance with the Rule, Agilent carried out a Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI) and Due Diligence process to determine the origin of 3TG metals used in its in-scope products.
Agilent has taken the following measures to exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of Conflict Minerals in its products for this reporting period.
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OECD Step 1: Establish Strong Company Management Systems
Agilent has implemented programs that are in conformance with Step 1 of the OECD Framework.
Responsible Sourcing Policies
| • | Established and communicated Agilent’s Conflict Minerals Policy that applies to all direct materials suppliers. |
| • | Established and communicated Agilent’s Supplier Code of Conduct that includes the requirement to maintain compliance with Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and applies to all suppliers. |
| • | Established and communicated Agilent’s Environmental and Social Responsibility Expectations to all suppliers. |
Structured Internal Management to Support Supply Chain Due Diligence
| • | Established a cross-functional working level team to oversee Agilent’s Conflict Minerals Program. The working level team includes members of the Legal, Enterprise Regulatory Affairs and Supply Chain functions. |
| • | The Vice President of Enterprise Regulatory Affairs is accountable for the implementation of the policy. |
| • | Agilent’s General Counsel is available to support the company’s Conflict Minerals Program. |
| • | Executive management is briefed on a quarterly basis about the results of Agilent’s due diligence efforts before reviewing potential opportunities to improve it and to mitigate risk. |
Established a System of Controls and Transparency Over the Mineral Supply Chain
| • | Agilent has established a process to identify in-scope suppliers. |
| • | Agilent has established a supplier-compliance process for its supply chain. As part of this global process, suppliers receive a written communication regarding our supplier compliance requirements (including those relating to conflict minerals). |
| • | Agilent has put in place the necessary controls to promote compliance with the SEC Rule. Controls include, but are not limited to, our Standards of Business Conduct, which outlines expected behaviors for all Agilent employees and contractors and the Agilent Supplier Environmental and Social Responsibility Code of Conduct. |
| • | Agilent requires direct materials suppliers to report on their source and use of conflict minerals using the RMI Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT). |
Strengthened Engagement with Suppliers
| • | The tone of all communications with our suppliers is positive and supportive reflecting Agilent’s values. |
| • | Agilent’s Conflict Minerals Program Manager has an open-door policy for all suppliers and offered assistance to suppliers who lacked the knowledge necessary to provide Agilent with a correctly researched and generated CMRT. |
| • | Agilent’s Commodity Managers responsible for purchasing products from our suppliers worked directly with their accounts that did not understand the Conflict Minerals Rule and/or its importance to Agilent. The Commodity Managers support was critical for strengthening Agilent’s relationship with its suppliers. |
Provided a Company-level Grievance Mechanism
| • | Agilent is committed to providing an anonymous grievance reporting mechanism for our employees, suppliers and other stakeholders who may be impacted by our operations. |
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| • | We have put in place multiple mechanisms whereby employees and suppliers can report violations of Agilent’s policies, including an anonymous reporting hotline |
OECD Step 2: Identify and Assess Risks in the Supply Chain
Agilent is a member of the RMI. We use the RMI List of All Operational 3TG Smelters, the RMI Smelter Revision History List, The RMI List of Conformant Smelters and the RMI List of Active Smelters as reference authorities for identifying risk in our supply chain. These online tools are critical inputs to help us identify risk in our supply chain.
We rely on the RMI to determine if smelters and refiners reported by our suppliers are Conformant with Responsible Minerals Assurance Program (RMAP) Conflict-Free management sourcing standards. These audit standards have been developed by the RMI to assess if smelters or refiners have management systems in place to support responsible sourcing practices.
We took the following steps to identify and assess supplier conflict mineral sourcing risk during this reporting year:
• | Based upon the Rule and SEC guidance, we generated a list of 200 potential in-scope suppliers that represented over 85% of Agilent’s total purchasing spend. |
• | From mid-September 2019 through mid-November 2019 we sent emails to these in-scope suppliers explaining the importance to Agilent of correctly surveying our supplier base and requesting that they provide us with their accurately prepared CMRT. |
• | Our supplier survey followed OECD Guidance as tailored for Agilent’s role as a downstream company. The CMRT form includes questions regarding the supplier’s raw material due diligence policies and procedures, its practices for engaging with its upstream suppliers, SORs from which its 3TGs were sourced, and the origins of 3TGs contained in its acquired products. |
• | We reviewed all supplier CMRT submissions to validate their accuracy and to identify red flags or errors. If issues were identified, a follow-up due diligence email was sent to the supplier requesting assistance on understanding the problem. |
• | We obtained survey responses from 178 suppliers out of the 200 we originally identified – an 89% response rate. |
We compared the smelters listed by our Suppliers’ in their CMRT Smelter List with the RMI’s List of All Operational 3TG Smelters as of December 6, 2019, maintained on-line by the RMI. CMRTs with smelters or refiners found to not be included in the RMI All Operational 3TG Smelters list were returned to the supplier for corrections.
• | Agilent accepted 60 supplier CMRTs that were used as the basis for generating Agilent’s updated CMRT Version 5.12. Ninety-one percent of responses received provided data at a company or division level. In some cases, based on CMRT responses, we were unable to determine the specific smelters or refiners used for components, material or assemblies supplied to us. Therefore, we are unable to determine whether the conflict minerals reportedly in use by the suppliers were contained in components, parts or assemblies supplied to us. |
• | Areas that were at risk were the following: |
| • | Suppliers that did not respond to our request for their CMRT. |
| • | Suppliers that did not submit a CMRT but instead provided a declaration letter stating that their products were conflict free. |
| • | CMRTs that were out of date as indicated by an effective date older than 15 months. |
| • | Suppliers who provided inconsistent answers. |
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| • | Suppliers who declared that there were 3TGs in their products but did not provide a smelter list or provided an incomplete list. |
A due diligence letter was sent to these suppliers requesting them to remediate the problems and re-submit an updated CMRT. We continue to work with our suppliers and any CMRT files received after January 1, 2020, will be included in our 2020 Reporting Year.
Annex 1 to this report contains a list of confirmed smelters and refiners who were included in the reports submitted by our suppliers.
Step 3 Design and Implement a Strategy to Respond to Identified Risks
Measures taken by Agilent to design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks as part the company’s due diligence process include:
• | Notifying Agilent’s Global Supply Chain management about identified risks; |
• | Describing to individual Category Managers why the supplier(s) they are responsible for have been identified as conflict minerals risks and explaining to them the actions the supplier can take to remove the risk; |
• | Reviewing supplier responses to the CMRT and following-up with suppliers to request clarification or more complete responses, where necessary; |
• | Mapping suppliers against the smelters that they reported in their CMRT to identify what suppliers must remove non-conformant smelters from our supply chain; |
• | Participating in RMI events to stay informed of macro Conflict Minerals issues and developments. Agilent is a member of the RMI. |
Step 4: Carry Out Independent Third-Party Audit of Smelter(S) and Refiner(S) Due Diligence Practices
We rely on the RMI to determine if smelters and refiners reported by our suppliers are Conformant with the RMI RMAP responsible conflict-free management sourcing standards.
Step 5: Report Annually on Supply Chain Due Diligence
Agilent complies with this step through this report filing and its related Form SD to the SEC and making it publicly available on the SEC website.
Facilities Used to Process the Conflict Minerals in Products, if Known
We have surveyed our in-scope suppliers in an effort to identify the facilities used to process the 3TG contained in our products. The majority of our 60 in-scope suppliers, 91%, provided a company-level or user-defined CMRT that does not identify the smelters or refiners used for a particular part, component, or business customer. In cases where suppliers provided a part-level report, the identification of the smelters and refiners that support our specific products could not be determined due to lower-tier suppliers reporting on a company basis. Therefore, we are unable to identify with certainty the specific facilities used to process the 3TGs in our products and whether the 3TGs in our products was obtained from recycled or scrap sources.
By comparing our in-scope suppliers’ smelters and refiners lists to the RMI Smelter Database, 296 RMI validated 3TG smelters and refiners were reported by our in-scope suppliers as shown in Annex 1. Overall, 80% of the 296 smelters and refiners are considered “responsible sources of 3TG.” This was an improvement from 2018 in which 79% were considered “responsible sources of 3TG.”
The graphs below depict, by mineral, the number of smelters and refiners that are participating (conformant and active) and the number of those that are not participating in the RMAP audit protocol.
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Country of Origin of the Conflict Minerals in Products, if Known
We reviewed the RMI RCOI data against the 296 SORs reported in our supply chain to determine the Country of Origin of the Conflict Minerals.
Although the data provided by suppliers continues to improve with additional smelter details being included in suppliers’ responses, there are still gaps in the information provided where sub-tier suppliers have failed to provide details for all components. Responses from suppliers showed that there are still significant challenges relating to information about the country of origin of 3TG metals, and the smelters and refiners from which 3TG metals were sourced, as this information is often unavailable, incomplete or potentially erroneous. Agilent will continue engaging with suppliers to improve the completeness and quality of information provided.
We believe that our inquiries and investigations represent a reasonable effort to determine the mines or locations of origin of the conflict minerals in our products, including:
(1) Seeking information about conflict minerals smelters and refiners in our supply chain through requesting that our suppliers complete the CMRT; and
(2) Verifying those smelters and refiners with the RMI database.
Based on information provided by RMI and our suppliers, Annex 2 contains the Country of Origin list for the RMI conformant smelters and refiners in our supply chain.
Continuous Improvement Efforts to Mitigate Risk
To enhance the due diligence process and further mitigate any risk that conflict minerals used in the company’s products may benefit armed groups, Agilent is taking the following steps:
• | engaging with suppliers (for example, through written communication, meetings and presentations) with the aim of continuously improving the completeness and quality of information provided, |
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particularly in relation to the identification of smelters and refiners and the country of origin of 3TG metals, and in providing CMRT information on smelters and refiners at product level; |
• | improve CMRT response completeness from in-scope direct suppliers through Agilent’s review and feedback to those suppliers using the most current SOR information; |
• | remain aware of developments in Conflict Minerals due diligence processes by participation in the RMI and apply that knowledge to Agilent’s risk assessment and mitigation actions; |
• | engaging with suppliers to encourage them to put a conflict minerals policy in place or to improve their existing conflict minerals policies; |
• | continuing to participate in industry efforts to address issues related to conflict minerals in supply chains; |
• | increasing the number of smelters certified as conflict-free and sourcing from the covered countries; |
• | continuing to allow verified conflict-free material from the covered countries to enter our supply chain. |
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Annex 1: Smelters and Refiners Reported by Suppliers in Agilent’s Supply Chain
Metal | Smelter Name | Country Location | Conformance Status |
Gold | 8853 S.p.A. | ITALY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Abington Reldan Metals, LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | African Gold Refinery | UGANDA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | UZBEKISTAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Corrego do Sitio Mineracao | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Argor-Heraeus S.A. | SWITZERLAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corp. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. | CANADA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Asahi Refining USA Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. | TURKEY | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | AU Traders and Refiners | SOUTH AFRICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Aurubis AG | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Bangalore Refinery | INDIA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | PHILIPPINES | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Boliden AB | SWEDEN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Caridad | MEXICO | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | CANADA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Cendres + Metaux S.A. | SWITZERLAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | CGR Metalloys Pvt Ltd. | INDIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | ITALY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Chugai Mining | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Degussa Sonne / Mond Goldhandel GmbH | GERMANY | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Dijllah Gold Refinery FZC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | DODUCO Contacts and Refining GmbH | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Dowa | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | DS PRETECH Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | DSC (Do Sung Corporation) | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. North Plant | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. West Plant | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Emirates Gold DMCC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd. | ZIMBABWE | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Fujairah Gold FZC | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | GCC Gujrat Gold Centre Pvt. Ltd. | INDIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Geib Refining Corporation | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
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Metal | Smelter Name | Country Location | Conformance Status |
Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT | |
Gold | Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | HeeSung Metal Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Hunan Guiyang yinxing Nonferrous Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | HwaSeong CJ CO., LTD. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | International Precious Metal Refiners | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | TURKEY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Italpreziosi | ITALY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Japan Mint | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | JSC Uralelectromed | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Kaloti Precious Metals | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Kazakhmys Smelting LLC | KAZAKHSTAN | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Kazzinc | KAZAKHSTAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | KGHM Polska Miedz Spolka Akcyjna | POLAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | KYRGYZSTAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Kyshtym Copper-Electrolytic Plant ZAO | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | L'azurde Company For Jewelry | SAUDI ARABIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Lingbao Gold Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | L'Orfebre S.A. | ANDORRA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Marsam Metals | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Materion | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. | SINGAPORE | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Metalor Technologies S.A. | SWITZERLAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Metalurgica Met-Mex Penoles S.A. De C.V. | MEXICO | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
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Metal | Smelter Name | Country Location | Conformance Status |
MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. | INDIA | CONFORMANT | |
Gold | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | MALAYSIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Morris and Watson | NEW ZEALAND | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.S. | TURKEY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | UZBEKISTAN | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | NH Recytech Company | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Ogussa Osterreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH | AUSTRIA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Gold | OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Gold | PAMP S.A. | SWITZERLAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Pease & Curren | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA | CHILE | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | INDONESIA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | PX Precinox S.A. | SWITZERLAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | QG Refining, LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | SOUTH AFRICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Refinery of Seemine Gold Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | REMONDIS PMR B.V. | NETHERLANDS | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | CANADA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | SAAMP | FRANCE | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Sabin Metal Corp. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Safimet S.p.A | ITALY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | SAFINA A.S. | CZECHIA | ACTIVE |
Gold | Sai Refinery | INDIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Samwon Metals Corp. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria S.A. | SPAIN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Shandong Humon Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Singway Technology Co., Ltd. | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Sovereign Metals | INDIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology | LITHUANIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Sudan Gold Refinery | SUDAN | NOT CONFORMANT |
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Metal | Smelter Name | Country Location | Conformance Status |
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT | |
Gold | SungEel HiMetal Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | T.C.A S.p.A | ITALY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Tony Goetz NV | BELGIUM | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn | KAZAKHSTAN | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Torecom | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Umicore Brasil Ltda. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Umicore Precious Metals Thailand | THAILAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | BELGIUM | CONFORMANT |
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Valcambi S.A. | SWITZERLAND | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Western Australian Mint (T/a The Perth Mint) | AUSTRALIA | CONFORMANT |
Gold | WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Yamakin Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Gold | Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | CP Metals Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | ACTIVE |
Tantalum | D Block Metals, LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Exotech Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | FIR Metals & Resource Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Aizu | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. | THAILAND | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Metals | MEXICO | CONFORMANT |
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Metal | Smelter Name | Country Location | Conformance Status |
KEMET Blue Powder | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT | |
Tantalum | LSM Brasil S.A. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. | INDIA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | NPM Silmet AS | ESTONIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Power Resources Ltd. | MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | QuantumClean | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | RFH Tantalum Smeltery Co., Ltd./Yanling Jincheng Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Taki Chemical Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Telex Metals | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | KAZAKHSTAN | CONFORMANT |
Tantalum | XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Alpha | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company | VIET NAM | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Dongguan CiEXPO Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ACTIVE |
Tin | Dowa | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company | VIET NAM | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | EM Vinto | BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Estanho de Rondonia S.A. | BRAZIL | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | Fenix Metals | POLAND | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Gejiu City Fuxiang Industry and Trade Co., Ltd.” | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | Gejiu Fengming Metallurgy Chemical Plant | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Guanyang Guida Nonferrous Metal Smelting Plant | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Ma'anshan Weitai Tin Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | MALAYSIA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Melt Metais e Ligas S.A. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
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Metal | Smelter Name | Country Location | Conformance Status |
Metallic Resources, Inc. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT | |
Tin | Metallo Belgium N.V. | BELGIUM | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Metallo Spain S.L.U. | SPAIN | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Minsur | PERU | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | MALAYSIA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | VIET NAM | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | THAILAND | CONFORMANT |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | PHILIPPINES | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Operaciones Metalurgicas S.A. | BOLIVIA (PLURINATIONAL STATE OF) | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Pongpipat Company Limited | MYANMAR | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | Precious Minerals and Smelting Limited | INDIA | ACTIVE |
Tin | PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | INDONESIA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | INDONESIA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | PT Refined Bangka Tin | INDONESIA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | PT Timah Tbk Kundur | INDONESIA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | PT Timah Tbk Mentok | INDONESIA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Rui Da Hung | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Soft Metais Ltda. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Super Ligas | BRAZIL | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | Thai Nguyen Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | VIET NAM | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Thaisarco | THAILAND | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Tin Technology & Refining | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | VIET NAM | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineracao Ltda. | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Yunnan Tin Company Limited | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tin | Yunnan Yunfan Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. Corp. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | ACL Metais Eireli | BRAZIL | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd. | VIET NAM | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Fujian Ganmin RareMetal Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH | GERMANY | CONFORMANT |
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Metal | Smelter Name | Country Location | Conformance Status |
Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT | |
Tungsten | Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Hunan Litian Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Hydrometallurg, JSC | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Dayu Longxintai Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | ACTIVE |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | NOT CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | JSC "Kirovgrad Hard Alloys Plant" | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | ACTIVE |
Tungsten | Kennametal Fallon | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | KGETS Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Lianyou Metals Co., Ltd. | TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Masan Tungsten Chemical LLC (MTC) | VIET NAM | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Moliren Ltd. | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Niagara Refining LLC | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. | PHILIPPINES | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | VIET NAM | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Unecha Refractory metals plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten AG | AUSTRIA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Woltech Korea Co., Ltd. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
Tungsten | Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | CONFORMANT |
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Annex 2: Country of Origin Information
The Countries of Origin (COO) information was identified based on the smelters reported by Agilent’s suppliers in their CMRTs (Conflict Minerals Reporting Template) and the Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry Data that Agilent received through its membership in the RMI (Responsible Minerals Initiative.)
Argentina | Guyana | Puerto Rico |
Australia | Honduras | Russian Federation |
Austria | India | Rwanda |
Azerbaijan | Indonesia | Saudi Arabia |
Benin | Iran | Senegal |
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Ivory Coast | Serbia |
Botswana | Japan | Sierra Leone |
Brazil | Kazakhstan | Slovakia |
Burkina Faso | Kenya | Solomon Islands |
Burundi | Laos | Somaliland |
Canada | Liberia | South Africa |
Chile | Madagascar | Spain |
China | Malaysia | Suriname |
Colombia | Mali | Swaziland |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Mauritania | Sweden |
Cuba | Mexico | Taiwan |
Cyprus | Mongolia | Tajikistan |
Dominican Republic | Morocco | Tanzania |
Ecuador | Mozambique | Thailand |
Egypt | Myanmar | Togo |
Eritrea | Namibia | Turkey |
Ethiopia | Netherlands | Uganda |
Fiji | New Zealand | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
Finland | Nicaragua | United States of America |
France | Niger | Uruguay |
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Nigeria | Uzbekistan | |
Germany | Papua New Guinea | Venezuela |
Ghana | Peru | Vietnam |
Guatemala | Philippines | Zambia |
Guinea | Portugal | Zimbabwe |
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