EXHIBIT 1.01
Owens & Minor, Inc. Conflict Minerals Report
For the Year Ended December 31, 2022
I. Introduction
This Conflict Minerals Report (“Report”) by Owens & Minor, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Owens & Minor,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) is for the period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 (“Reporting Period”).
This Report is intended to comply with Rule 13p-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule”). The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on public companies that manufacture or contract to manufacture products containing conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Form SD defines “conflict minerals” as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite and their derivatives, which are currently limited to tin, tantalum and tungsten. We identified tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (“3TGs”) that are necessary to the functionality or production of certain products that we manufactured or contracted to manufacture during the Reporting Period.
As described in this report, Owens & Minor has reason to believe that some of the 3TGs present in its supply chain may have originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) or an adjoining country (collectively, “Covered Countries”). Therefore, we performed a reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) to determine whether any of the 3TGs in our products originated from the Covered Countries and were not from recycled or scrap sources. Based on the RCOI, we determined that we may have some suppliers that sourced 3TGs from the Covered Countries, and we proceeded to conduct due diligence on our supplier base. The results of our due diligence are discussed below.
II. Company Overview
A. Our Business
Owens & Minor, Inc. and subsidiaries, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a global healthcare solutions company that incorporates product manufacturing, distribution support and innovative technology services to deliver significant and sustained value across the breadth of the industry – from acute care to patients in their home. Our teammates serve healthcare industry customers in approximately 70 countries, by providing quality products and helping to reduce total costs across the healthcare supply chain by optimizing point-of care performance, freeing up capital and clinical resources and managing contracts to optimize financial performance.
B. Business Segments
During the Reporting Period, Owens & Minor was organized into two operating segments: Products & Healthcare Services and Patient Direct. The principal sources of revenue in each global business segment are described below:
• Products & Healthcare Services includes our United States distribution business (Medical Distribution), outsourced logistics and value-added services business, and our Global Products business which manufactures and sources medical surgical products through our production and kitting operations. Medical Distribution does not manufacture or contract to manufacture products and thus does not have any in-scope products under the Rule.
• The Patient Direct segment includes our Byram and Apria businesses, leading providers of home medical equipment, supplies, and related services. Patient Direct does not manufacture or contract to manufacture any products that require conflict minerals for their production or functionality and, thus, does not have any in-scope products under the Rule.
C. Our Products
For the Reporting Period, we conducted an analysis of our products to determine which, if any, were likely to contain 3TGs. The analysis identified that 3TGs were necessary to the functionality or production of certain products that we manufactured or contracted to manufacture during the Reporting Period.
III. Description of Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (“RCOI”)
We began our scoping process by developing a list of our suppliers that provide us with products that may contain one or more of the 3TGs. We then populated the list with contact information and provided it to our third party service provider (“Service Provider”). The supplier list was then uploaded to our Service Provider’s software tool that allows us to store and manage supplier requests and documentation.
From there, we removed from the list service providers, indirect materials suppliers, and other suppliers who are inactive. This helped ensure that all suppliers surveyed provided items to Owens & Minor that were used in final products in 2022.
Our Service Provider then conducted the supplier survey portion of the RCOI. Utilizing the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (“CMRT”), version 6.22 developed by the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA)® and The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI)® , the suppliers on the final supplier list were surveyed on their sourcing of the 3TGs that we identified in our products. The CMRT was developed to facilitate disclosure and communication of information regarding smelters that provide material to a company’s supply chain. It includes questions regarding a direct supplier’s conflict minerals policy, due diligence process, and supply chain, including such supply chain information as the names and locations of smelters or refiners.
As part of the supplier survey, suppliers were asked to complete the CMRT. All communications were tracked and monitored in the Service Provider’s software tool. Non-responsive suppliers were contacted a minimum of three times. Any suppliers that continued to be non-responsive were advanced to an escalation phase and further contacted on an individual basis.
The RCOI also included automated data validation on all submitted CMRTs. The goal of data validation is to increase the accuracy of submissions. All submitted CMRTs were classified as valid or invalid. All suppliers who submitted CMRTs that were classified as “invalid” were contacted to address items such as incomplete data, missing smelter information, or inconsistent answers. All of these communications were monitored and tracked in our Service Provider’s software system. As of May 10, 2023, there were 5 invalid submissions that had not been corrected by suppliers.
Based on the RCOI, we determined that we may have some suppliers that sourced 3TGs from the Covered Countries; therefore, in an effort to locate mines with the greatest possible specificity, we then conducted due diligence on our supplier base.
IV. Due Diligence
A. Design of Due Diligence
We designed our due diligence procedures to conform, in all material respects, with the due diligence framework presented by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) in the publication OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict- Affected and High-Risk Areas and the related Supplements for tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.
Our conflict minerals due diligence process includes the five steps described in the Guidance: 1) establishing strong company management systems, 2) identifying and assessing risks in our supply chain, 3) designing and implementing a strategy to respond to identified risks, 4) utilizing independent third party audits, and 5) publicly reporting on our supply chain due diligence. A summary of our due diligence measures is outlined below.
B. Performance of Due Diligence
Step 1. Establishing Strong Company Management Systems
a. Internal Team
We organized a Conflict Minerals Committee comprised of individuals in management positions across multiple departments, namely Legal, Supply Chain, and Compliance. The Committee members are the (1) Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, (2) Vice President, Manufacturing & Procurement, (3) Assistant General Counsel, Products & Healthcare Services, and (4) Vice President, Ethics, Compliance and Privacy. The Committee leads our conflict minerals compliance effort and is responsible for implementing our conflict minerals compliance strategy and for overseeing the program.
b. Control Systems
We have applicable policies and statements such as a Code of Honor that outlines expected behaviors for all Owens & Minor employees, a Supplier Social Compliance Standard that outlines expected behaviors for all Owens & Minor vendors, and a Conflict Minerals Policy Statement (“Statement”). All three items are available on our website. The Statement, in particular, can be found at https://compliance.owens-minor.com/EthicsAndCompliance.html#en-US.
c. Supplier Engagement
We utilized the CMRT version 6.22 and our Service Provider’s software reporting tool for collecting Conflict Minerals declarations from our supply base. Using these tools has allowed us to assist our suppliers in understanding our expectations and requirements and increase the rate of responses we have received from our suppliers to our survey requests. We have also communicated with relevant suppliers our expectation that they assist us in complying with our efforts related to our conflict minerals program. This includes obtaining information from them to support the chain of custody of the 3TGs identified in our products.
d. Grievance Mechanisms
We have several mechanisms that allow people to alert Company management about any concerns they may have about our compliance or ethics. Our Code of Honor sets out ways to report concerns, including a Code of Conduct Hotline and Online Reporting tool, which both allow reports, in any language, to be made confidentially and anonymously at the election of the person making the report. We also have made publicly available on our website policies for communicating with our Board of Directors and with our compliance-oversight Committees of the Board, namely the Audit Committee and the Governance & Nominating Committee. These mechanisms are available to people who may be concerned about compliance with our conflict minerals program or with any other compliance matter.
e. Maintain Records
We maintain a company-wide document retention policy. The policy extends to the documents accumulated in performing our due diligence for this Report and requires that the documents be retained for a period of ten years. In addition, our Service Provider stores all of the information and findings from this process in a database that can be audited by internal or external parties.
Step 2. Identify and Assess Risks in the Supply Chain
Due to the complexity of our products and supply chain, it is difficult for us to identify indirect suppliers. We have relied on responses from our direct suppliers to provide us with information about the source of conflict minerals contained in the parts and components they supply to us.
Similarly, our direct suppliers also rely on information provided to them by their suppliers. This chain of information creates a level of uncertainty and risk about the accuracy of the information. We will continue to monitor, adapt, and modify our due diligence practices to conform to recognized industry best practices.
In accordance with the Guidance, it is important to understand risk levels associated with conflict minerals in the supply chain. Each facility that meets the Responsible Minerals Initiative (“RMI”) definition of a smelter or refiner of a 3TG mineral is assigned a risk of high, medium or low based on three scoring criteria, namely: (1) geographic proximity to the DRC and covered countries; (2) Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) audit status; and (3) known or plausible evidence of unethical or conflict sourcing.
Based on these criteria, the following facilities have been identified with red-flag risks in their supply chain:
• OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) - CID001326
• Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals - CID001386
• Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd. - CID002515
• Sudan Gold Refinery - CID002567
• Hydrometallurg, JSC - CID002649
• African Gold Refinery - CID003185
If any of these facilities were reported on a CMRT by one of our suppliers, our Service Provider initiated risk mitigation activities, including instructing the supplier to submit a product-specific CMRT to better identify any connection between the facilities and our products, and escalating up to requesting removal of these high-risk smelters from their supply chain.
As per the OECD Guidance, risk mitigation will depend on the supplier’s specific context. Suppliers are given clear performance objectives within reasonable timeframes with the ultimate goal of progressive elimination of these red flags from the supply chain. In addition, suppliers are guided to the Service Provider’s online learning platform to engage in educational materials on mitigating the risk of smelters or refiners on the supply chain.
Additionally, we evaluated suppliers on their conflict minerals program strength. Many companies continue to develop their programs and still provide an answer of “unknown” in response to our survey questions. We used the following criteria to evaluate the strength of their programs, with the capital letters, below, corresponding to the ones in the CMRT declaration tab:
A. Have you established a responsible minerals sourcing policy?
D. Have you implemented due diligence measures for responsible sourcing?
F. Do you review due diligence information received from your suppliers against your company's expectations?
G. Does your review process include corrective action management?
When suppliers meet or exceed those criteria (Yes to A, D, F, G), they are deemed to have a strong program. When suppliers do not meet those criteria, they are deemed to have a weak program.
Our identification and risk assessment process also involves: (1) seeking information about 3TG smelters or refiners in our supply chain by requesting that our suppliers complete the CMRT, (2) verifying those smelters or refiners with RMI lists, (3) conducting the due diligence review, and (4) obtaining additional documentation and verification, as applicable. We believe that the inquiries and analysis described above represent a reasonable effort to determine the mines or locations of origin of the 3TGs in our Covered Products.
Step 3. Design and Implement a Strategy to Respond to Identified Risks
Our Supplier Social Compliance Standards and Conflict Minerals Policy Statement set out our expectations for our suppliers. If these expectations are not met, the business relationship between us and the supplier will be evaluated. For example, if we find that we source 3TGs that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries, we will encourage the applicable supplier to establish an alternative source of the minerals that does not support such conflict. If an alternative source cannot be found or the supplier chooses not to respond to this risk, we will assess whether or not we can replace the supplier. We have found no instance to date where we believed it was necessary to implement such risk mitigation efforts.
Step 4. Utilize Independent Third Party Audits
We do not have a direct relationship with smelters or refiners (“SORs”) and do not perform or direct audits of these entities. Instead, we rely on third party assurances and certifications such as from the RMI’s Responsible Minerals Assurance Process, which uses independent private sector auditors to audit the source, including the mines of origin, and the chain of custody of the conflict minerals used by smelters or refiners that agree to participate in the program.
Step 5. Publicly Report on Supply Chain Due Diligence
This Report, which constitutes our annual report on our due diligence efforts, is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to our Form SD which is available on our website in the Investor Relations section, under SEC Filings, at www.owens-minor.com.
V. Results of Due Diligence
A. Survey Results
As of May 10, 2023, we received responses from 83.5 % of our 176 surveyed suppliers. Of those, 131 suppliers claimed no 3TGs in their products, and 16 claimed that they did have 3TGs. (The numbers do not sum to 176 because not all surveyed suppliers responded.)
As described above, we surveyed our supply chain and reviewed the responses to determine whether further engagement with them was required. The determination to further engage with them was based on criteria such as untimely responses, incomplete responses, and inconsistencies within the data reported. Suppliers who provided a CMRT were asked to submit SOR information. The results are discussed in the Smelters or Refiners section below.
B. Efforts to Determine Mine or Location of Origin
Because we do not have relationships with the smelters or refiners, we relied on requests to our suppliers that they complete the RMI template. We believe that process suffices as a good faith effort to determine the identity of the mines or the locations of origin of 3TGs in our supply chain.
C. Smelters or Refiners
Of the suppliers we surveyed, many completed the RMI template at the company or business unit level, and they were unable to represent that 3TGs from the processing facilities they listed were in components they supplied to us. The quality of the responses we received from suppliers varied.
Many responses provided via the CMRT included the names of facilities listed by the suppliers as SORs. The CMRT responses that did not list at least one smelter for each 3TG were considered invalid, and our Service Provider followed up on these responses, urging suppliers to resubmit the form and include the smelter information. There are still suppliers that were unable to provide SORs used for the materials supplied to us.
For all the CMRT responses that indicated a smelter, our Service Provider compared them to the list of smelters maintained by the RMI. As of May 10, 2023, we validated 342 SORs in our supply chain, and we are working to validate the additional SOR entries. Appendix A lists only the SORs that our suppliers reported as being in their supply chains and that we validated. Appendix B is a compilation of countries of origin, setting out the countries from which the reported facilities source their conflict minerals.
As our suppliers have been largely unable to provide us with the information necessary to determine country of origin at the product level, we are unable to provide additional SOR names or country of origin information at this time. We will continue to work with our suppliers to obtain smelter information at the product level.
VI. Future Steps to be Taken
We are committed to complying with the provisions of the Rule and expect to continue our efforts to improve our conflict minerals program. As we further develop our program, we intend to take the following steps to mitigate the risk that any of the 3TGs contained in our products could benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries. These may include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Further engage with suppliers and direct them to training resources to increase our survey response rate and improve the content of the responses;
• Continue to invest in due diligence tools for our conflict minerals program;
• If applicable, engage any of our suppliers found to be supplying us with 3TGs from sources that support conflict in the Covered Countries to establish an alternative source of 3TGs that does not support such conflict;
• Continue to respond to industry trends and legal requirements to improve the traceability of 3TGs in our supply chain; and
• Further encourage suppliers to provide responses at the product level to enable us to determine which smelters or refiners actually process 3TGs contained in our products.
APPENDIX A
The table below lists, the smelters or refiners (“SORs”) identified by our direct suppliers that may have been used to process 3TGs necessary to the functionality or production of our products in 2022.
Metal | Standard Smelter Name | Smelter Facility Location | Smelter ID | ||||||||
Gold | 8853 S.p.A. | Italy | CID002763 | ||||||||
Gold | ABC Refinery Pty Ltd. | Australia | CID002920 | ||||||||
Gold | Abington Reldan Metals, LLC | United States Of America | CID002708 | ||||||||
Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | United States Of America | CID000015 | ||||||||
Gold | African Gold Refinery | Uganda | CID003185 | ||||||||
Gold | Agosi AG | Germany | CID000035 | ||||||||
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID000019 | ||||||||
Gold | Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC | United Arab Emirates | CID002560 | ||||||||
Gold | Albino Mountinho Lda. | Portugal | CID002760 | ||||||||
Gold | Alexy Metals | United States Of America | CID003500 | ||||||||
Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | Uzbekistan | CID000041 | ||||||||
Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Corrego do Sitio Mineracao | Brazil | CID000058 | ||||||||
Gold | Argor-Heraeus S.A. | Switzerland | CID000077 | ||||||||
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corp. | Japan | CID000082 | ||||||||
Gold | Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. | Canada | CID000924 | ||||||||
Gold | Asahi Refining USA Inc. | United States Of America | CID000920 | ||||||||
Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID000090 | ||||||||
Gold | Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. | Turkey | CID000103 | ||||||||
Gold | AU Traders and Refiners | South Africa | CID002850 | ||||||||
Gold | Augmont Enterprises Private Limited | India | CID003461 | ||||||||
Gold | Aurubis AG | Germany | CID000113 | ||||||||
Gold | Bangalore Refinery | India | CID002863 | ||||||||
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | Philippines | CID000128 | ||||||||
Gold | Boliden AB | Sweden | CID000157 | ||||||||
Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | Germany | CID000176 | ||||||||
Gold | C.I Metales Procesados Industriales SAS | Colombia | CID003421 | ||||||||
Gold | Caridad | Mexico | CID000180 | ||||||||
Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | Canada | CID000185 | ||||||||
Gold | Cendres + Metaux S.A. | Switzerland | CID000189 | ||||||||
Gold | CGR Metalloys Pvt Ltd. | India | CID003382 | ||||||||
Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | Italy | CID000233 | ||||||||
Gold | Chugai Mining | Japan | CID000264 | ||||||||
Gold | Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. | China | CID000343 | ||||||||
Gold | Degussa Sonne / Mond Goldhandel GmbH | Germany | CID002867 | ||||||||
Gold | Dijllah Gold Refinery FZC | United Arab Emirates | CID003348 | ||||||||
Gold | Dongwu Gold Group | China | CID003663 | ||||||||
Gold | Dowa | Japan | CID000401 | ||||||||
Gold | DSC (Do Sung Corporation) | Korea, Republic Of | CID000359 | ||||||||
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. East Plant | Japan | CID000425 | ||||||||
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. North Plant | Japan | CID003424 | ||||||||
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. West Plant | Japan | CID003425 | ||||||||
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 1) | India | CID003487 | ||||||||
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 2) | India | CID003488 | ||||||||
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 3) | India | CID003489 | ||||||||
Gold | Emerald Jewel Industry India Limited (Unit 4) | India | CID003490 | ||||||||
Gold | Emirates Gold DMCC | United Arab Emirates | CID002561 | ||||||||
Gold | Fidelity Printers and Refiners Ltd. | Zimbabwe | CID002515 | ||||||||
Gold | Fujairah Gold FZC | United Arab Emirates | CID002584 | ||||||||
Gold | Geib Refining Corporation | United States Of America | CID002459 | ||||||||
Gold | GGC Gujrat Gold Centre Pvt. Ltd. | India | CID002852 |
Gold | Gold by Gold Colombia | Colombia | CID003641 | ||||||||
Gold | Gold Coast Refinery | Ghana | CID003186 | ||||||||
Gold | Gold Refinery of Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. | China | CID002243 | ||||||||
Gold | Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM | China | CID001909 | ||||||||
Gold | Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited | China | CID002312 | ||||||||
Gold | Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd. | China | CID000651 | ||||||||
Gold | Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd. | China | CID000671 | ||||||||
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | Germany | CID000694 | ||||||||
Gold | Heraeus Germany GmbH Co. KG | Germany | CID000711 | ||||||||
Gold | Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. | China | CID000707 | ||||||||
Gold | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | China | CID000767 | ||||||||
Gold | Hunan Guiyang yinxing Nonferrous Smelting Co., Ltd. | China | CID000773 | ||||||||
Gold | HwaSeong CJ CO., LTD. | Korea, Republic Of | CID000778 | ||||||||
Gold | Industrial Refining Company | Belgium | CID002587 | ||||||||
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. | China | CID000801 | ||||||||
Gold | International Precious Metal Refiners | United Arab Emirates | CID002562 | ||||||||
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID000807 | ||||||||
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | Turkey | CID000814 | ||||||||
Gold | Italpreziosi | Italy | CID002765 | ||||||||
Gold | JALAN & Company | India | CID002893 | ||||||||
Gold | Japan Mint | Japan | CID000823 | ||||||||
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | China | CID000855 | ||||||||
Gold | JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant | Russian Federation | CID000927 | ||||||||
Gold | JSC Novosibirsk Refinery | Russian Federation | CID000493 | ||||||||
Gold | JSC Uralelectromed | Russian Federation | CID000929 | ||||||||
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID000937 | ||||||||
Gold | K.A. Rasmussen | Norway | CID003497 | ||||||||
Gold | Kaloti Precious Metals | United Arab Emirates | CID002563 | ||||||||
Gold | Kazakhmys Smelting LLC | Kazakhstan | CID000956 | ||||||||
Gold | Kazzinc | Kazakhstan | CID000957 | ||||||||
Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | United States Of America | CID000969 | ||||||||
Gold | KGHM Polska Miedz Spolka Akcyjna | Poland | CID002511 | ||||||||
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID000981 | ||||||||
Gold | Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. | Korea, Republic Of | CID002605 | ||||||||
Gold | Kundan Care Products Ltd. | India | CID003463 | ||||||||
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | Kyrgyzstan | CID001029 | ||||||||
Gold | Kyshtym Copper-Electrolytic Plant ZAO | Russian Federation | CID002865 | ||||||||
Gold | L'azurde Company For Jewelry | Saudi Arabia | CID001032 | ||||||||
Gold | Lingbao Gold Co., Ltd. | China | CID001056 | ||||||||
Gold | Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd. | China | CID001058 | ||||||||
Gold | L'Orfebre S.A. | Andorra | CID002762 | ||||||||
Gold | LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | Korea, Republic Of | CID001078 | ||||||||
Gold | LT Metal Ltd. | Korea, Republic Of | CID000689 | ||||||||
Gold | Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd. | China | CID001093 | ||||||||
Gold | Marsam Metals | Brazil | CID002606 | ||||||||
Gold | Materion | United States Of America | CID001113 | ||||||||
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001119 | ||||||||
Gold | MD Overseas | India | CID003548 | ||||||||
Gold | Metal Concentrators SA (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | CID003575 | ||||||||
Gold | Metallix Refining Inc. | United States Of America | CID003557 | ||||||||
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. | China | CID001149 | ||||||||
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. | Singapore | CID001152 | ||||||||
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd. | China | CID001147 | ||||||||
Gold | Metalor Technologies S.A. | Switzerland | CID001153 | ||||||||
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | United States Of America | CID001157 | ||||||||
Gold | Metalurgica Met-Mex Penoles S.A. De C.V. | Mexico | CID001161 |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan | CID001188 | ||||||||
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001193 | ||||||||
Gold | MKS PAMP SA | Switzerland | CID001352 | ||||||||
Gold | MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. | India | CID002509 | ||||||||
Gold | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | Malaysia | CID002857 | ||||||||
Gold | Morris and Watson | New Zealand | CID002282 | ||||||||
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | Russian Federation | CID001204 | ||||||||
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.S. | Turkey | CID001220 | ||||||||
Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | Uzbekistan | CID001236 | ||||||||
Gold | NH Recytech Company | Korea, Republic Of | CID003189 | ||||||||
Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001259 | ||||||||
Gold | Ogussa Osterreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH | Austria | CID002779 | ||||||||
Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001325 | ||||||||
Gold | OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) | Russian Federation | CID001326 | ||||||||
Gold | Pease & Curren | United States Of America | CID002872 | ||||||||
Gold | Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd. | China | CID001362 | ||||||||
Gold | Planta Recuperadora de Metales SpA | Chile | CID002919 | ||||||||
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | Russian Federation | CID001386 | ||||||||
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | Indonesia | CID001397 | ||||||||
Gold | PX Precinox S.A. | Switzerland | CID001498 | ||||||||
Gold | QG Refining, LLC | United States Of America | CID003324 | ||||||||
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | CID001512 | ||||||||
Gold | Refinery of Seemine Gold Co., Ltd. | China | CID000522 | ||||||||
Gold | REMONDIS PMR B.V. | Netherlands | CID002582 | ||||||||
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | Canada | CID001534 | ||||||||
Gold | SAAMP | France | CID002761 | ||||||||
Gold | Sabin Metal Corp. | United States Of America | CID001546 | ||||||||
Gold | Safimet S.p.A | Italy | CID002973 | ||||||||
Gold | SAFINA A.S. | Czechia | CID002290 | ||||||||
Gold | Sai Refinery | India | CID002853 | ||||||||
Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | Korea, Republic Of | CID001555 | ||||||||
Gold | Samwon Metals Corp. | Korea, Republic Of | CID001562 | ||||||||
Gold | Sancus ZFS (L’Orfebre, SA) | Colombia | CID003529 | ||||||||
Gold | Sellem Industries Ltd. | Mauritania | CID003540 | ||||||||
Gold | SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria S.A. | Spain | CID001585 | ||||||||
Gold | Shandong Gold Smelting Co., Ltd. | China | CID001916 | ||||||||
Gold | Shandong Humon Smelting Co., Ltd. | China | CID002525 | ||||||||
Gold | Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd. | China | CID001619 | ||||||||
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | China | CID001622 | ||||||||
Gold | Shenzhen CuiLu Gold Co., Ltd. | China | CID002750 | ||||||||
Gold | Shenzhen Zhonghenglong Real Industry Co., Ltd. | China | CID002527 | ||||||||
Gold | Shirpur Gold Refinery Ltd. | India | CID002588 | ||||||||
Gold | Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. | China | CID001736 | ||||||||
Gold | Singway Technology Co., Ltd. | Taiwan, Province Of China | CID002516 | ||||||||
Gold | SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | Russian Federation | CID001756 | ||||||||
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | Taiwan, Province Of China | CID001761 | ||||||||
Gold | Sovereign Metals | India | CID003383 | ||||||||
Gold | State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology | Lithuania | CID003153 | ||||||||
Gold | Sudan Gold Refinery | Sudan | CID002567 | ||||||||
Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001798 | ||||||||
Gold | SungEel HiMetal Co., Ltd. | Korea, Republic Of | CID002918 | ||||||||
Gold | Super Dragon Technology Co., Ltd. | Taiwan, Province Of China | CID001810 | ||||||||
Gold | T.C.A S.p.A | Italy | CID002580 | ||||||||
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | Japan | CID001875 | ||||||||
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001938 |
Gold | Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. | China | CID001947 | ||||||||
Gold | TOO Tau-Ken-Altyn | Kazakhstan | CID002615 | ||||||||
Gold | Torecom | Korea, Republic Of | CID001955 | ||||||||
Gold | Umicore Precious Metals Thailand | Thailand | CID002314 | ||||||||
Gold | Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | Belgium | CID001980 | ||||||||
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | United States Of America | CID001993 | ||||||||
Gold | Valcambi S.A. | Switzerland | CID002003 | ||||||||
Gold | WEEEREFINING | France | CID003615 | ||||||||
Gold | Western Australian Mint (T/a The Perth Mint) | Australia | CID002030 | ||||||||
Gold | WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH | Germany | CID002778 | ||||||||
Gold | Yamakin Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID002100 | ||||||||
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID002129 | ||||||||
Gold | Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. | China | CID000197 | ||||||||
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | China | CID002224 | ||||||||
Tantalum | 5D Production OU | Estonia | CID003926 | ||||||||
Tantalum | AMG Brasil | Brazil | CID001076 | ||||||||
Tantalum | D Block Metals, LLC | United States Of America | CID002504 | ||||||||
Tantalum | F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | China | CID000460 | ||||||||
Tantalum | FIR Metals & Resource Ltd. | China | CID002505 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Aizu | Japan | CID002558 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | United States Of America | CID002557 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | China | CID002492 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | China | CID002512 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Jiangxi Tuohong New Raw Material | China | CID002842 | ||||||||
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China | CID000914 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | China | CID000917 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | China | CID002506 | ||||||||
Tantalum | KEMET de Mexico | Mexico | CID002539 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Materion Newton Inc. | United States Of America | CID002548 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd. | India | CID001163 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | Brazil | CID001175 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001192 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | China | CID001277 | ||||||||
Tantalum | NPM Silmet AS | Estonia | CID001200 | ||||||||
Tantalum | QuantumClean | United States Of America | CID001508 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | Brazil | CID002707 | ||||||||
Tantalum | RFH Yancheng Jinye New Material Technology Co., Ltd. | China | CID003583 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | Russian Federation | CID001769 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Taki Chemical Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID001869 | ||||||||
Tantalum | TANIOBIS Co., Ltd. | Thailand | CID002544 | ||||||||
Tantalum | TANIOBIS GmbH | Germany | CID002545 | ||||||||
Tantalum | TANIOBIS Japan Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID002549 | ||||||||
Tantalum | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | CID002550 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Telex Metals | United States Of America | CID001891 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | Kazakhstan | CID001969 | ||||||||
Tantalum | XIMEI RESOURCES (GUANGDONG) LIMITED | China | CID000616 | ||||||||
Tantalum | XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd. | China | CID002508 | ||||||||
Tantalum | Yanling Jincheng Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd. | China | CID001522 | ||||||||
Tin | Alpha | United States Of America | CID000292 | ||||||||
Tin | An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company | Viet Nam | CID002703 | ||||||||
Tin | Aurubis Beerse | Belgium | CID002773 | ||||||||
Tin | Aurubis Berango | Spain | CID002774 | ||||||||
Tin | Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | China | CID000228 | ||||||||
Tin | Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd. | China | CID003190 | ||||||||
Tin | China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | China | CID001070 |
Tin | CRM Fundicao De Metais E Comercio De Equipamentos Eletronicos Do Brasil Ltda | Brazil | CID003486 | ||||||||
Tin | CRM Synergies | Spain | CID003524 | ||||||||
Tin | CV Ayi Jaya | Indonesia | CID002570 | ||||||||
Tin | CV Venus Inti Perkasa | Indonesia | CID002455 | ||||||||
Tin | Dongguan CiEXPO Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd. | China | CID003356 | ||||||||
Tin | Dowa | Japan | CID000402 | ||||||||
Tin | DS Myanmar | Myanmar | CID003831 | ||||||||
Tin | Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company | Viet Nam | CID002572 | ||||||||
Tin | EM Vinto | Bolivia (Plurinational State Of) | CID000438 | ||||||||
Tin | Estanho de Rondonia S.A. | Brazil | CID000448 | ||||||||
Tin | Fabrica Auricchio Industria e Comercio Ltda. | Brazil | CID003582 | ||||||||
Tin | Fenix Metals | Poland | CID000468 | ||||||||
Tin | Gejiu City Fuxiang Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. | China | CID003410 | ||||||||
Tin | Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC | China | CID000942 | ||||||||
Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | China | CID000538 | ||||||||
Tin | Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd. | China | CID001908 | ||||||||
Tin | Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | China | CID000555 | ||||||||
Tin | Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd. | China | CID003116 | ||||||||
Tin | Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd. | China | CID001231 | ||||||||
Tin | Luna Smelter, Ltd. | Rwanda | CID003387 | ||||||||
Tin | Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. | Brazil | CID002468 | ||||||||
Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | Malaysia | CID001105 | ||||||||
Tin | Melt Metais e Ligas S.A. | Brazil | CID002500 | ||||||||
Tin | Metallic Resources, Inc. | United States Of America | CID001142 | ||||||||
Tin | Mineracao Taboca S.A. | Brazil | CID001173 | ||||||||
Tin | Minsur | Peru | CID001182 | ||||||||
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan | CID001191 | ||||||||
Tin | Modeltech Sdn Bhd | Malaysia | CID002858 | ||||||||
Tin | Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | Viet Nam | CID002573 | ||||||||
Tin | Novosibirsk Tin Combine | Russian Federation | CID001305 | ||||||||
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | Thailand | CID001314 | ||||||||
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | Philippines | CID002517 | ||||||||
Tin | Operaciones Metalurgicas S.A. | Bolivia (Plurinational State Of) | CID001337 | ||||||||
Tin | Pongpipat Company Limited | Myanmar | CID003208 | ||||||||
Tin | Precious Minerals and Smelting Limited | India | CID003409 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera | Indonesia | CID000309 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | Indonesia | CID001399 | ||||||||
Tin | PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya | Indonesia | CID002503 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Babel Inti Perkasa | Indonesia | CID001402 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari | Indonesia | CID001406 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Bangka Prima Tin | Indonesia | CID002776 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Bangka Serumpun | Indonesia | CID003205 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Bangka Tin Industry | Indonesia | CID001419 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | Indonesia | CID001421 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Bukit Timah | Indonesia | CID001428 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Cipta Persada Mulia | Indonesia | CID002696 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Menara Cipta Mulia | Indonesia | CID002835 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | Indonesia | CID001453 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Mitra Sukses Globalindo | Indonesia | CID003449 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Panca Mega Persada | Indonesia | CID001457 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Premium Tin Indonesia | Indonesia | CID000313 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Prima Timah Utama | Indonesia | CID001458 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Putera Sarana Shakti (PT PSS) | Indonesia | CID003868 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Rajawali Rimba Perkasa | Indonesia | CID003381 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Rajehan Ariq | Indonesia | CID002593 |
Tin | PT Refined Bangka Tin | Indonesia | CID001460 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa | Indonesia | CID001463 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | Indonesia | CID001468 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Sukses Inti Makmur | Indonesia | CID002816 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Timah Nusantara | Indonesia | CID001486 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Timah Tbk Kundur | Indonesia | CID001477 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Timah Tbk Mentok | Indonesia | CID001482 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | Indonesia | CID001490 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Tirus Putra Mandiri | Indonesia | CID002478 | ||||||||
Tin | PT Tommy Utama | Indonesia | CID001493 | ||||||||
Tin | Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda. | Brazil | CID002706 | ||||||||
Tin | Rui Da Hung | Taiwan, Province Of China | CID001539 | ||||||||
Tin | Super Ligas | Brazil | CID002756 | ||||||||
Tin | Thaisarco | Thailand | CID001898 | ||||||||
Tin | Tin Smelting Branch of Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd. | China | CID002180 | ||||||||
Tin | Tin Technology & Refining | United States Of America | CID003325 | ||||||||
Tin | Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | Viet Nam | CID002574 | ||||||||
Tin | VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC | Viet Nam | CID002015 | ||||||||
Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineracao Ltda. | Brazil | CID002036 | ||||||||
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China | CID002158 | ||||||||
Tin | Yunnan Yunfan Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China | CID003397 | ||||||||
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. Corp. | Japan | CID000004 | ||||||||
Tungsten | ACL Metais Eireli | Brazil | CID002833 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Albasteel Industria e Comercio de Ligas Para Fundicao Ltd. | Brazil | CID003427 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Artek LLC | Russian Federation | CID003553 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd. | Viet Nam | CID002502 | ||||||||
Tungsten | China Molybdenum Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID002641 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID000258 | ||||||||
Tungsten | CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd. | China | CID000281 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Cronimet Brasil Ltda | Brazil | CID003468 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Fujian Xinlu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID003609 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID002645 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China | CID000875 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID002315 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | China | CID002494 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders LLC | United States Of America | CID000568 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID000218 | ||||||||
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH | Germany | CID002541 | ||||||||
Tungsten | HANNAE FOR T Co., Ltd. | Korea, Republic Of | CID003978 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Hubei Green Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID003417 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | China | CID000766 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Hunan Jintai New Material Co., Ltd. | China | CID000769 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Hunan Shizhuyuan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. Chenzhou Tungsten Products Branch | China | CID002513 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Hydrometallurg, JSC | Russian Federation | CID002649 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | Japan | CID000825 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China | CID002551 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID002321 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China | CID002313 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd. | China | CID002318 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | China | CID002317 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID002316 | ||||||||
Tungsten | JSC "Kirovgrad Hard Alloys Plant" | Russian Federation | CID003408 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Kennametal Fallon | United States Of America | CID000966 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | United States Of America | CID000105 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Lianyou Metals Co., Ltd. | Taiwan, Province Of China | CID003407 |
Tungsten | LLC Vostok | Russian Federation | CID003643 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID002319 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Masan High-Tech Materials | Viet Nam | CID002543 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Moliren Ltd. | Russian Federation | CID002845 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Niagara Refining LLC | United States Of America | CID002589 | ||||||||
Tungsten | NPP Tyazhmetprom LLC | Russian Federation | CID003416 | ||||||||
Tungsten | OOO “Technolom” 1 | Russian Federation | CID003614 | ||||||||
Tungsten | OOO “Technolom” 2 | Russian Federation | CID003612 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc. | Philippines | CID002827 | ||||||||
Tungsten | TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | CID002542 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Tungsten Vietnam Joint Stock Company | Viet Nam | CID003993 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Unecha Refractory metals plant | Russian Federation | CID002724 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten AG | Austria | CID002044 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | China | CID002320 | ||||||||
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | CID002082 | ||||||||
Tungsten | YUDU ANSHENG TUNGSTEN CO., LTD. | China | CID003662 |
APPENDIX B
This list of potential countries of origin is populated based on publicly available information, our RCOI and due diligence. It is important to note that this is also based on company level responses and therefore, it is not certain which of these countries of origin can be linked to our products.
Afghanistan, Ãland Islands, Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia (Plurinational State Of), Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Czechia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Republic of Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Province of China), Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe