UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM SD
Specialized Disclosure Report
Qorvo, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 001-36801 | 46-5288992 |
(State or Other Jurisdiction | (Commission File | (I.R.S. Employer |
of Incorporation) | Number) | Identification No.) |
7628 Thorndike Road, Greensboro, North Carolina 27409-9421 | ||
and | ||
2300 N.E. Brookwood Parkway, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 | ||
(Address of principal executive offices) | ||
(Zip Code) | ||
Steven J. Buhaly | (503) 615-9000 | |
(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 Disclosure and Report
Company Overview
Qorvo, Inc. (herein referred to as the “Company,” “Qorvo,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is filing this Form SD pursuant to Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule 13p-1”) with respect to its management of conflict minerals during the year ended December 31, 2015.
Conflict Minerals are Necessary to the Function and Production of Qorvo Parts
As defined by the content requirements of Form SD, “conflict minerals” include Columbite-tantalum (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite, or their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten. Almost all Qorvo products intentionally contain tantalum, tin, tungsten, or gold (also known as “3TG metals”), as these metals are necessary to the functionality and production of our products. All parts do not contain all four 3TG metals, but all parts contain at least one of the 3TG metals.
Therefore, we have conducted a good faith Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (“RCOI”) to determine whether any of these conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the “DRC”) or an adjoining country (collectively, the “Covered Countries”), or are from recycled or scrap sources.
Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (RCOI)
We maintain a robust database of the composition of components and materials used to manufacture our products. Our RCOI process began with an analysis of this data to determine which of our components and materials contained a 3TG metal. We utilized the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (“CFSI”) Conflict Mineral Reporting Template (“CMRT”) to engage the suppliers of those components and materials, in addition to using this tool to perform a robust survey our supply chain. The CFSI is a leading industry program that helps manage risk by improving supply chain transparency on conflict minerals.
Through our membership and participation in the activities of the CFSI, we have access to sourcing information for those smelters in our supply chain that have been validated as compliant to the Conflict-Free Smelter Program (“CFSP”) requirements. This information is presented as L1, L2, L3, DRC, or R/S:
• | L1 – the smelter is sourcing from countries not identified as conflict regions or plausible countries for smuggling DRC & adjoining country materials |
• | L2 – the smelter is sourcing from a country known to be or plausible for smuggling materials that may be sourced from the DRC & adjoining countries |
• | L3 – the smelter is sourcing from an adjoining country to the DRC |
• | DRC – the smelter is sourcing from the DRC |
• | R/S – the smelter processes only recycled or scrap material |
This level of sourcing detail is only available for those smelters that have been found to be compliant to the CFSP. CFSI members do not know the actual mine or even the country (other than if the smelter sourcing is listed as “DRC”) that a smelter may source from.
The use of sourcing information from the CFSI is subject to the terms of the relevant Agreements of the Exchange of Confidential Information between the CFSI and the individual smelters. Those terms prohibit CFSI members from disclosing the sourcing of conflict minerals by individual smelters, even if the disclosure is necessary to meet the member’s SEC reporting obligations. The information may only be aggregated - i.e., “smelters in Qorvo’s supply chain source from the DRC or
Covered Countries.” The terms do not allow CFSI members to state that Smelter A sources from the DRC or Covered Countries and Smelter B does not source from the DRC or Covered Countries.
The country of origin sourcing information from the CFSI can be different from the information given by suppliers in their CMRTs to Qorvo. As a result, we used the RCOI information from the CFSI as the primary source of sourcing information.
Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Through our RCOI process, we have become aware of at least one smelter in our suppliers’ supply chains that is sourcing from the Covered Countries for each of the 3TG metals. Our knowledge of these smelters is obtained through our direct involvement in the CFSI and, as a condition of this participation, the identification of an individual smelter as sourcing from the Covered Countries is prohibited by confidentiality agreements. However, as of the date of this report, all smelters in our supply chain that we know or believe source from the Covered Countries are on the CFSP Conflict Free Smelter Lists, which can be accessed at http://www.conflictfreesourcing.org/conflict-free-smelter-refiner-lists/.
Below is a summary of the country of origin information for the smelters that have been identified in Qorvo’s supply chain as a result of our 2015 RCOI.
Conflict Mineral | Countries of origin may include the following |
Gold | L1, L2, L3; DRC; R/S |
Tantalum | L1, L2, L3; DRC; R/S |
Tin | L1, L2, L3; DRC; R/S |
Tungsten | L1; L3; R/S |
Level Sourcing | Countries of origin may include the following |
L1 | Argentina, Australia, Austria; Belgium; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Côte D'Ivoire; Czech Republic; Djibouti; 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 of America; Vietnam; Zimbabwe |
L2 | Kenya; Mozambique; South Africa |
L3 | Angola; Burundi; Central African Republic; Republic of Congo; Rwanda; South Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia |
DRC | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Because we know that some of the 3TG metals in our supply chain came from the Covered Countries (even though the relevant smelters are on the CFSP Conflict Free Smelter Lists), and because some suppliers have not identified all of the smelters in their supply chain, or we are uncertain as to the smelter’s source of the conflict minerals, we are required to exercise due diligence on the source and custody of the sourcing of these conflict minerals. We are filing a Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD to describe our due diligence process. The Conflict Minerals Report is also available on our website at http://ir.qorvo.com/sec.cfm. The content of any website referred to in this Form SD is included for general information only and is not incorporated by reference in this Form SD.
Item 1.02 Exhibit
The Conflict Minerals Report required by Item 1.01 is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.
Section 2 Exhibits
Item 2.01 Exhibits
Exhibit 1.01 Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form SD
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 undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Qorvo, Inc. | ||
By: | /s/ Steven J. Buhaly | |
Steven J. Buhaly | ||
Chief Financial Officer | ||
Date: May 31, 2016
Exhibit 1.01
Qorvo, Inc.
Conflict Minerals Report
For the Year Ended December 31, 2015
Introduction
Products of Qorvo, Inc. (referred to collectively with its wholly owned subsidiaries in this report as the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) intentionally contain tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (“3TG metals” or “conflict minerals”), and these metals are necessary to the functionality and production of our products. We have conducted a good faith Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (“RCOI”) to determine whether any of these conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the “DRC”) or an adjoining country (collectively, the “Covered Countries”), or are from recycled or scrap sources. As a result of the RCOI, we have determined that at least one of the smelters or refiners (herein collectively referred to as “smelters”) in our suppliers’ supply chains is sourcing conflict minerals from the Covered Countries. Further, some of our suppliers have not yet identified all of the smelters in their supply chains, and we are uncertain as to some smelters’ origins of conflict minerals. Therefore, we are required to exercise “due diligence” on the sourcing of the 3TG metals used in our products, and report on that due diligence in this Conflict Minerals Report.
Qorvo (NASDAQ:QRVO) is a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications. Qorvo has more than 7,300 global employees dedicated to delivering solutions for everything that connects the world. Qorvo has the industry's broadest portfolio of products and core technologies; world-class ISO9001-, ISO 14001- and ISO/TS 16949-certified manufacturing facilities; and is a DoD-accredited 'Trusted Source' (Category 1A) for GaAs, GaN and BAW products and services. For the industry's leading core RF solutions, visit www.qorvo.com.
In this Conflict Minerals Report, we will address the following:
• | The due diligence design of our Conflict Minerals Program; |
• | A description of due diligence measures taken; |
• | The results of and conclusion of our due diligence measures; |
• | The processing facilities used in our supply chain (i.e., “smelters”); and |
• | Steps to be taken to improve our due diligence measures for the year ending December 31, 2016. |
We are providing this Conflict Minerals Report pursuant to Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule 13p-1”).
Due Diligence Design
Qorvo’s Conflict Minerals Program was designed to conform to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (the “OECD Guidance”). Currently, this is the foremost internationally recognized due diligence framework. The OECD framework encompasses the following steps:
1. | Establish strong company management systems; |
2. | Identify and assess risk in the supply chain; |
3. | Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks; |
4. | Carry out independent third-party audit of supply chain due diligence at identified points in the supply chain; and |
5. | Report on supply chain due diligence. |
As outlined in the OECD Guidance, the internationally recognized standard on which our system is based, we support an industry initiative that audits smelters’ due diligence activities. That industry initiative is the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (“EICC”) and Global e-Sustainability Initiative (“GeSI”) Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (“CFSI”). The data on which we relied for certain statements in this Conflict Minerals Report was obtained through our membership in the CFSI, using the RCOI report for QRVO.
Due Diligence Measures Taken
1. Establish strong company management systems.
Qorvo has adopted and continues to maintain a Conflict Mineral Policy, which is publicly available, and can be obtained by emailing a request to ConflictMinerals@qorvo.com. Key elements of our policy include:
• | Our commitment to ensure that our products are not contributing to the ongoing conflict in the Covered Countries; |
• | Our commitment to responsible sourcing within the Covered Countries; and |
• | Our commitment to inform stakeholders of pertinent sourcing information learned as we survey our supply chain (i.e., whether any 3TG metals came from the Covered Countries). |
We have maintained an internal Conflict Minerals team to support supply chain due diligence and implement our Conflict Mineral Policy. The Conflict Minerals team periodically reports on the status of Qorvo’s Conflict Minerals Program to senior management.
We engaged a third party auditor to review the Qorvo Conflict Minerals Program’s due diligence design and implementation. This review was not a complete Independent Private Sector Audit (“IPSA”) as required to declare products “DRC Conflict Free.” Rather, the purpose of this review was to prepare for potential future declarations and serve as an independent review of and provide continued improvement to our Conflict Minerals Program.
We are an active member of the CFSI and participate on several sub-teams. Through our CFSI membership, we are able to contribute to the organization’s ongoing work in identifying and auditing due diligence practices of smelters. We participate on teams that:
• | Determine if facilities are smelters; |
• | Engage smelters in the Conflict-Free Smelter Program; |
• | Manage tools for CFSI members to determine the status of facilities provided to them by their supply chains; |
• | Manage the development of the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (“CMRT”) form; and |
• | Develop best practices for supply chain due diligence. |
We are also a member of IPC (an electronics industry trade group and standards making body – see www.ipc.org ) and participate in the development of standards guiding the exchange of conflict mineral data within the supply chain.
Qorvo has established an anonymous “whistleblower” policy for employees and external parties to submit any concerns about ethical issues, or any grievances regarding our policies and practices (see http://ir.qorvo.com/corporate-governance.cfm and select “Whistleblower Policy” under “Policies and Procedures”).
2. Identify and assess risk in the supply chain
We use our internal product compliance tool to identify which suppliers provide us with components or materials that contain any of the 3TG metals. We use the CFSI CMRT to collect sourcing information from these suppliers, and we evaluate their responses for completeness, logic, and degree of smelter identification based on established criteria. We have implemented a third party software solution to help collect and manage supplier CMRT data. This software solution performs an analysis on supplier CMRTs based on a set of validation rules that we designed in collaboration with the third party.
The CMRT analysis is broken into three categories:
1. | Errors – this includes checking for all mandatory fields in a supplier’s template, and any logical inconsistences with their data. A CMRT will not be accepted to the system until errors are corrected. |
2. | Actions required – this includes asking the supplier to perform further due diligence or provide additional information regarding its CMRT. |
3. | Smelter Actions required – this includes asking the supplier to perform further actions on specific smelter listings. |
All suppliers are emailed the results of their CMRT analysis through our third party software solution.
We also utilize several tools available to CFSI members to review our suppliers’ smelter lists and assess the level to which they have vetted their own supply chain relative to the originating smelter.
3. Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks.
We do not directly purchase from any smelters, nor do the majority of our suppliers. Because the electronics industry is not the most significant industry for any of the conflict minerals, except for tantalum, and we are not direct customers of smelters, we have very little influence over the smelters’ sourcing.
For those smelters that are sourcing from, or for which there is reason to believe they may be sourcing from the Covered Countries, and are not on the CFSP lists or active in the CFSP, we engage the direct supplier and perform further due diligence. Based on information provided by the direct supplier, including information it provides about its supply chain, our normal operating procedures are to:
1. | Continue trade with the direct supplier, while the direct supplier continues to work the risk mitigation process through its supply chain. Such steps would include communicating with and beginning engagement in the CFSP. |
2. | If the mitigation process failed and the smelter refused to engage with the CFSP, we would require the direct suppliers to identify and use alternate suppliers whose conflict mineral-processing smelters participate in the CFSP. |
Our Product Compliance Team reports to senior management semi-annually regarding the status of our Conflict Minerals Program. Our Product Compliance team further reports the findings of the supply chain assessment to the Chief Financial Officer of Qorvo, who is the executive sponsor of our conflict minerals initiatives.
4. Carry out independent third-party audit of supply chain due diligence at identified points in the supply chain.
We do not have the resources or expertise to audit the smelters in our supply chain. We use the resources available from our participation in the CFSI to provide more information to our suppliers to help them get the smelters in their supply chain to participate in the CFSP. We encourage smelters in our supply chain both directly and through our direct suppliers to participate in the CFSP.
5. Report on supply chain due diligence.
We have filed this Conflict Minerals Report with the SEC, and it is available on our website at http://ir.qorvo.com/sec.cfm.
Findings
Qorvo made great progress in 2015 with respect to identifying the sourcing of conflict minerals in our products. Although all of the suppliers have not yet identified all of the smelters in their supply chains, we continue to progress towards this goal.
At the end of 2015, 253 facilities were identified as possible smelters in Qorvo’s supply chain. As of April 18, 2016, of these 253 facilities:
• | 248 are known smelters by the CFSI: |
◦ | 190 are compliant to the CFSP; |
◦ | 29 are active in the CFSP or are Tungsten Industry-Conflict Minerals Council (“TI-CMC”) members who will undergo a CFSP Audit in the near future; |
◦ | 12 are in communication with the CFSI and are interested in joining the CFSP; and |
◦ | 17 facilities require further outreach to bring them into the CFSP. |
• | 5 facilities are known to not be legitimate smelters. |
In addition to the foregoing data regarding the facilities of which we are aware, we have five suppliers that have not yet identified 100% of their smelters, and one supplier that did not provide any sourcing information for 2015.
Unfortunately, due to these limitations in our sourcing information, we are unable to determine the origin of all of the conflict minerals contained in our products at this time. Although we have not identified any conflict minerals in our supply chain that have supported the ongoing conflict in the Covered Countries, we cannot affirm that our products are “DRC conflict free” at this time (this can be considered as equivalent to stating our products are “DRC conflict undeterminable”). This determination is made with respect to all Qorvo products.
Processing Facilities (Smelters) not known to be “DRC Conflict Free”
Since we have determined that we are unable to identify the sourcing information for all of the smelters in our supply chain, we are required to identify, if known, the facilities (i.e., smelters) that processed the 3TG metals in our products, and if known, the country of origin of those metals, and to describe the efforts to determine the mine or location of origin with the greatest possible specificity.
As a member of the CFSI, we rely on the sourcing information disclosed during the CFSP’s third party auditing process. We believe this to be the most reasonable and accurate method of determining the mines or locations of origin for conflict minerals. In addition to the smelters listed in the tables below, our suppliers submitted other facilities that we believe are not smelters at this time. They are not listed in this Conflict Minerals Report as being “processing facilities” under Rule 13p-1. We continue to work with our suppliers to identify the legitimate smelters in our supply chain.
In the section above, we have stated that 190 smelters in our supply chain are compliant to the CFSP. These smelters are listed in Table 1 below.
Of the 58 remaining known smelters, we classify another 29 smelters as “active” in the CFSP. They are either working with the CFSP on completing their sourcing audits, or are working to close any findings. Of these active smelters, six are TI-CMC members (see www.ti-cmc.org ). TI-CMC members have agreed to undergo a sourcing audit within two years of becoming a TI-CMC category A member (see http://www.ti-cmc.org/ti-cmc_framework.pdf). These six TI-CMC members have self-declared their sourcing, and none of them have declared they are sourcing from the Covered Countries. These smelters are listed in Table 2 below.
For the remaining 29 smelters, 12 smelters are in communications with the CFSP. These smelters are listed in Table 3 below.
Of the remaining 17 smelters, 3 smelters are London Bullion Market Association (“LBMA”) members in various stages of getting their Responsible Gold certificate (either setting up the audit, reviewing or closing findings of the audit, or have passed the audit but not yet listed in the CFSI list for gold smelters). The status of these smelters, listed in Table 4 below, can be found at http://www.lbma.org.uk/Default.aspx?CCID=21993&FID=141296&ExcludeBoolFalse=True&ID=/refiners-gold-current.
For the remaining 14 smelters, we do not have any sourcing information, and we do not have any supplemental information to provide any risk indications that these smelters are not sourcing from the Covered Countries in a responsible manner. These smelters are listed in Table 5 below.
Calendar Year 2016 Due Diligence Planned Improvements
For the year ending December 31, 2016, we plan to take the following actions to mitigate the risk that our necessary conflict minerals benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries:
• | Provide additional guidance to relevant suppliers on conflict minerals reporting and the use of the CMRT; |
• | Simplify the process by which we gather, maintain and monitor the conflict minerals data from our suppliers; |
• | Continue to work with those suppliers who have provided incomplete smelter information, or have identified facilities that are not smelters in their CMRT and drive them to 100% identification of the smelters in their supply chains; |
• | Further communicate to suppliers the importance of using smelters that are compliant to the CFSP, or equivalent; |
• | Continue our active participation in the CFSI, including the engagement of smelters in the CFSP; and |
• | Continue to work towards making our supplier resources more readily available. |
Table 1. Smelters that are compliant to the CFSP (as of 18-Apr-2016)
Metal | Standard Smelter Name | Smelter ID | Country where smelter is located |
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | CID000019 | JAPAN |
Gold | Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. | CID000035 | GERMANY |
Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração | CID000058 | BRAZIL |
Gold | Argor-Heraeus S.A. | CID000077 | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corp. | CID000082 | JAPAN |
Gold | Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. | CID000924 | CANADA |
Gold | Asahi Refining USA Inc. | CID000920 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | CID000090 | JAPAN |
Gold | Aurubis AG | CID000113 | GERMANY |
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | CID000128 | PHILIPPINES |
Gold | Boliden AB | CID000157 | SWEDEN |
Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | CID000176 | GERMANY |
Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | CID000185 | CANADA |
Gold | Chimet S.p.A. | CID000233 | ITALY |
Gold | DODUCO GmbH | CID000362 | GERMANY |
Gold | Dowa | CID000401 | JAPAN |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. | CID000425 | JAPAN |
Gold | Elemetal Refining, LLC | CID001322 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | CID000694 | GERMANY |
Gold | Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong | CID000707 | CHINA |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | CID000711 | GERMANY |
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | CID000807 | JAPAN |
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | CID000814 | TURKEY |
Gold | Japan Mint | CID000823 | JAPAN |
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | CID000855 | CHINA |
Gold | JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant | CID000927 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | JSC Uralelectromed | CID000929 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | CID000937 | JAPAN |
Gold | Kazzinc | CID000957 | KAZAKHSTAN |
Metal | Standard Smelter Name | Smelter ID | Country where smelter is located |
Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | CID000969 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | CID000981 | JAPAN |
Gold | LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | CID001078 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Materion | CID001113 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | CID001119 | JAPAN |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. | CID001149 | CHINA |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. | CID001152 | SINGAPORE |
Gold | Metalor Technologies S.A. | CID001153 | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | CID001157 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Metalúrgica Met-Mex Peñoles S.A. De C.V. | CID001161 | MEXICO |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | CID001188 | JAPAN |
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | CID001193 | JAPAN |
Gold | MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. | CID002509 | INDIA |
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | CID001204 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. | CID001220 | TURKEY |
Gold | Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | CID001259 | JAPAN |
Gold | Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH | CID002779 | AUSTRIA |
Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | CID001325 | JAPAN |
Gold | OJSC "The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant" (OJSC Krastsvetmet) | CID001326 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery | CID000493 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | PAMP S.A. | CID001352 | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | CID001386 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | CID001397 | INDONESIA |
Gold | PX Précinox S.A. | CID001498 | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | CID001512 | SOUTH AFRICA |
Gold | Republic Metals Corporation | CID002510 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | CID001534 | CANADA |
Gold | Schone Edelmetaal B.V. | CID001573 | NETHERLANDS |
Gold | SEMPSA Joyería Platería S.A. | CID001585 | SPAIN |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | CID001622 | CHINA |
Gold | Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. | CID001736 | CHINA |
Gold | Singway Technology Co., Ltd. | CID002516 | TAIWAN |
Gold | SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | CID001756 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | CID001761 | TAIWAN |
Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | CID001798 | JAPAN |
Gold | T.C.A S.p.A | CID002580 | ITALY |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | CID001875 | JAPAN |
Gold | The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. | CID001916 | CHINA |
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | CID001938 | JAPAN |
Gold | Umicore Brasil Ltda. | CID001977 | BRAZIL |
Gold | Umicore Precious Metals Thailand | CID002314 | THAILAND |
Gold | Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | CID001980 | BELGIUM |
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | CID001993 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Valcambi S.A. | CID002003 | SWITZERLAND |
Metal | Standard Smelter Name | Smelter ID | Country where smelter is located |
Gold | Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint | CID002030 | AUSTRALIA |
Gold | Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd. | CID002100 | JAPAN |
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | CID002129 | JAPAN |
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | CID002224 | CHINA |
Gold | Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery | CID002243 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | CID000211 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry | CID000291 | CHINA |
Tantalum | D Block Metals, LLC | CID002504 | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Duoluoshan | CID000410 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Exotech Inc. | CID000456 | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | CID000460 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Aizu | CID002558 | JAPAN |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | CID002557 | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. | CID000616 | CHINA |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. | CID002544 | THAILAND |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar | CID002545 | GERMANY |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg | CID002546 | GERMANY |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | CID002547 | GERMANY |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Inc. | CID002548 | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Ltd. | CID002549 | JAPAN |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | CID002550 | GERMANY |
Tantalum | Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | CID002492 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Hi-Temp Specialty Metals, Inc. | CID000731 | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CID000914 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | CID000917 | CHINA |
Tantalum | LSM Brasil S.A. | CID001076 | BRAZIL |
Tantalum | Mineração Taboca S.A. | CID001175 | BRAZIL |
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining & Smelting | CID001192 | JAPAN |
Tantalum | Molycorp Silmet A.S. | CID001200 | ESTONIA |
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | CID001277 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Plansee SE Liezen | CID002540 | AUSTRIA |
Tantalum | Plansee SE Reutte | CID002556 | AUSTRIA |
Tantalum | Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | CID001769 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Tantalum | Taki Chemicals | CID001869 | JAPAN |
Tantalum | Telex Metals | CID001891 | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | CID001969 | KAZAKHSTAN |
Tantalum | Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd. | CID002307 | CHINA |
Tantalum | Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide | CID002232 | CHINA |
Tin | Alpha | CID000292 | UNITED STATES |
Tin | China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | CID001070 | CHINA |
Tin | Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda. | CID000295 | BRAZIL |
Tin | CV Ayi Jaya | CID002570 | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV Gita Pesona | CID000306 | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV Serumpun Sebalai | CID000313 | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV United Smelting | CID000315 | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV Venus Inti Perkasa | CID002455 | INDONESIA |
Tin | Dowa | CID000402 | JAPAN |
Metal | Standard Smelter Name | Smelter ID | Country where smelter is located |
Tin | Elmet S.L.U. | CID002774 | SPAIN |
Tin | EM Vinto | CID000438 | BOLIVIA |
Tin | Fenix Metals | CID000468 | POLAND |
Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | CID000538 | CHINA |
Tin | Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd. | CID000244 | CHINA |
Tin | Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. | CID002468 | BRAZIL |
Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | CID001105 | MALAYSIA |
Tin | Melt Metais e Ligas S.A. | CID002500 | BRAZIL |
Tin | Metallic Resources, Inc. | CID001142 | UNITED STATES |
Tin | Metallo-Chimique N.V. | CID002773 | BELGIUM |
Tin | Mineração Taboca S.A. | CID001173 | BRAZIL |
Tin | Minsur | CID001182 | PERU |
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | CID001191 | JAPAN |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | CID001314 | THAILAND |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | CID002517 | PHILIPPINES |
Tin | Operaciones Metalurgical S.A. | CID001337 | BOLIVIA |
Tin | PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera | CID000309 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | CID001399 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya | CID002503 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Babel Inti Perkasa | CID001402 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Bangka Prima Tin | CID002776 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Bangka Tin Industry | CID001419 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | CID001421 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari | CID001424 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Bukit Timah | CID001428 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Cipta Persada Mulia | CID002696 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT DS Jaya Abadi | CID001434 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri | CID001438 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Inti Stania Prima | CID002530 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Justindo | CID000307 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | CID001453 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Panca Mega Persada | CID001457 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Prima Timah Utama | CID001458 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Refined Bangka Tin | CID001460 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa | CID001463 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | CID001468 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Sumber Jaya Indah | CID001471 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur | CID001477 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok | CID001482 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | CID001490 | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Wahana Perkit Jaya | CID002479 | INDONESIA |
Tin | Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda. | CID002706 | BRAZIL |
Tin | Rui Da Hung | CID001539 | TAIWAN |
Tin | Soft Metais Ltda. | CID001758 | BRAZIL |
Tin | Thaisarco | CID001898 | THAILAND |
Tin | VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC | CID002015 | VIETNAM |
Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda. | CID002036 | BRAZIL |
Tin | Yunnan Tin Company Limited | CID002180 | CHINA |
Metal | Standard Smelter Name | Smelter ID | Country where smelter is located |
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp. | CID000004 | JAPAN |
Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CID002513 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CID000258 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CID000499 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CID000875 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. | CID002315 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | CID002494 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | CID000568 | UNITED STATES |
Tungsten | Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CID000218 | CHINA |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck GmbH | CID002541 | GERMANY |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG | CID002542 | GERMANY |
Tungsten | Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CID000769 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Hydrometallurg, JSC | CID002649 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | CID000825 | JAPAN |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CID002321 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | CID000105 | UNITED STATES |
Tungsten | Niagara Refining LLC | CID002589 | UNITED STATES |
Tungsten | Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC | CID002543 | VIETNAM |
Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CID001889 | VIETNAM |
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG | CID002044 | AUSTRIA |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | CID002320 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CID002082 | CHINA |
Table 2. Smelters that are active in the CFSP (as of 18-Apr-2016), including TI-CMC Members
Gold | Advanced Chemical Company | CID000015 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | CID000041 | UZBEKISTAN |
Gold | Cendres + Métaux S.A. | CID000189 | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Daejin Indus Co., Ltd. | CID000328 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | DSC (Do Sung Corporation) | CID000359 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Faggi Enrico S.p.A. | CID002355 | ITALY |
Gold | Geib Refining Corporation | CID002459 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | KGHM Polska Miedź Spółka Akcyjna | CID002511 | POLAND |
Gold | Korea Zinc Co., Ltd | CID002605 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd. | CID001147 | CHINA |
Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | CID001236 | UZBEKISTAN |
Gold | Samduck Precious Metals | CID001555 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH | CID002777 | GERMANY |
Gold | Torecom | CID001955 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH | CID002778 | GERMANY |
Tin | An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company | CID002703 | VIETNAM |
Tin | Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company | CID002572 | VIETNAM |
Tin | Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC | CID000942 | CHINA |
Tin | Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | CID002573 | VIETNAM |
Tin | Phoenix Metal Ltd. | CID002507 | RWANDA |
Tin | Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company | CID002574 | VIETNAM |
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CID002158 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd. | CID000868 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji | CID002579 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CID002551 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | CID002317 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CID002316 | CHINA |
Tungsten | Kennametal Fallon | CID000966 | UNITED STATES |
Tungsten | Pobedit, JSC | CID002532 | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Table 3. Smelters that are in Communication with the CFSP (as of 18-Apr-2016)
Gold | Caridad | CID000180 | MEXICO |
Gold | Chugai Mining | CID000264 | JAPAN |
Gold | Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. | CID000343 | CHINA |
Gold | Guoda Safina High-Tech Environmental Refinery Co., Ltd. | CID000651 | CHINA |
Gold | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | CID000767 | CHINA |
Gold | Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd. | CID000778 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Kazakhmys Smelting LLC | CID000956 | KAZAKHSTAN |
Gold | Korea Metal Co., Ltd. | CID000988 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Morris and Watson | CID002282 | NEW ZEALAND |
Gold | SAMWON Metals Corp. | CID001562 | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Shandong Tiancheng Biological Gold Industrial Co., Ltd. | CID001619 | CHINA |
Tin | Gejiu Zili Mining And Metallurgy Co., Ltd. | CID000555 | CHINA |
Table 4. Smelters that are LBMA Members (as of 18-Apr-2016)
Gold | Great Wall Precious Metals Co., Ltd. of CBPM | CID001909 | CHINA |
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Co., Ltd. | CID000801 | CHINA |
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | CID001029 | KYRGYZSTAN |
Table 5. Remaining Smelters in Qorvo’s Supply Chain (as of 18-Apr-2016)
Gold | Al Etihad Gold Refinery DMCC | CID002560 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
Gold | Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. | CID000103 | TURKEY |
Gold | Gansu Seemine Material Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. | CID000522 | CHINA |
Gold | Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited | CID002312 | CHINA |
Gold | Hangzhou Fuchunjiang Smelting Co., Ltd. | CID000671 | CHINA |
Gold | L'azurde Company For Jewelry | CID001032 | SAUDI ARABIA |
Gold | Lingbao Gold Co., Ltd. | CID001056 | CHINA |
Gold | Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co., Ltd. | CID001058 | CHINA |
Gold | Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Gold Refinery Co., Ltd. | CID001093 | CHINA |
Gold | Penglai Penggang Gold Industry Co., Ltd. | CID001362 | CHINA |
Gold | Sabin Metal Corp. | CID001546 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | So Accurate Group, Inc. | CID001754 | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. | CID001947 | CHINA |
Gold | Yunnan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. | CID000197 | CHINA |
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