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Form SD Seagate Technology plc

May 27, 2016 2:41 PM EDT

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM SD

 

SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT

 

Seagate Technology Public Limited Company

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

 

Ireland

 

001-31560

 

98-0648577

(State or other jurisdiction of

 

(Commission

 

(IRS Employer

incorporation or organization)

 

File Number)

 

Identification No.)

 

38/39 Fitzwilliam Square

 

 

Dublin 2

 

 

Ireland

 

N/A

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip code)

 

Regan J MacPherson (408) 658-1275

(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

 

Item 1.02 — Exhibit

 

A copy of Seagate Technology plc’s Conflict Minerals Report is provided as Exhibit 1.01 to this Report on Form SD and is publicly available on our website at http://www.seagate.com/about/global-citizenship/.

 

As a member of the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition, Seagate Technology (“Seagate”) has been actively involved in conflict mineral supply chain remediation since 2010. Seagate’s conflict minerals policy is publicly posted at http://www.seagate.com/about/global-citizenship/. Information contained on, or accessible through, our website is not a part of this Report.

 

Seagate’s hardware products in the aggregate contain tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold necessary to their functionality or production (as defined in Section 1, Item 1.01 (d)(3) of this form). The status of conflict minerals contained within our products is indeterminate for calendar year 2015.

 

Section 2 — Exhibit

 

Exhibit 1.01 — Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.

 

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

 

(Registrant)

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ DAVID H. MORTON, JR.

 

5/27/2016

 

 

 

(Date)

Name:

David H. Morton, Jr.

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

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Exhibit

 

Exhibit 1.01 — Conflict Minerals Report

 

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Exhibit 1.01

 

 

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PLC

 

CONFLICT MINERALS REPORT

 

FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD FROM

JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2015

 

INTRODUCTION

 

This Conflict Minerals Report (“Report”) for Seagate Technology Public Limited Company (the “Company,” “Seagate,” “we,” 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 to December 31, 2015 (the “Reporting Period”). This Report is being filed as Exhibit 1.01 to our Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD and is also posted on our website at http://www.seagate.com/about/global-citizenship/. Information contained on, or accessible through, our website is not a part of this Report.

 

The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold (“3TG,” also defined by the rule as “conflict minerals”). The Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) and its adjoining countries have extensive reserves of 3TG, some of which are illegally sourced and traded by armed groups who are responsible for significant human rights violations. The purpose of the Rule is to encourage companies whose products contain conflict minerals to endeavor to source from suppliers who do not directly or indirectly support such armed groups through their purchasing decisions. The Democratic Republic of the Congo and its adjoining countries, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, are sometimes referred to in this Report as the “Covered Countries.”

 

We are a leading provider of electronic data storage technology and solutions. Our principal products are hard disk drives, commonly referred to as disk drives, hard drives or HDDs. In addition to HDDs, we produce a broad range of electronic data storage products including solid state hybrid drives (“SSHD”), solid state drives (“SSD”), PCIe cards and SATA controllers. Our storage technology portfolio also includes storage subsystems and high performance computing solutions.

 

Hard disk drives are devices that store digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating disks with magnetic surfaces. Disk drives continue to be the primary medium of mass data storage due to their performance attributes, high quality and cost effectiveness. Complementing existing data center storage architecture, solid-state storage devices use integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data, and most SSDs use NAND-based flash memory. In addition to HDDs and SSDs, SSHDs combine the features of SSDs and HDDs in the same unit, containing a large hard disk drive and an SSD cache to improve performance of frequently accessed data.

 

Our products are designed for enterprise servers and storage systems in mission critical and nearline applications; client compute applications, where our products are designed primarily for desktop and mobile computing; and client non-compute applications, where our products are designed for a wide variety of end user devices such as digital video recorders, personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems, digital media systems and surveillance systems.

 



 

Our product and solution portfolio for the enterprise data storage industry includes storage enclosures, integrated application platforms and HPC data storage solutions. Our storage subsystems support a range of high-speed interconnect technologies to meet demanding cost and performance specifications. Our modular subsystem architecture allows us to support many segments within the networked storage market by enabling different specifications of storage subsystem designs to be created from a standard set of interlocking technology modules.

 

We are subject to the Conflict Minerals Rule because certain products that we manufacture or contract to be manufactured contain Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of the products. We do not directly source Conflict Minerals from mines, smelters or refiners.

 

Our focus on the responsible sourcing began well in advance of the adoption of the Rule. Seagate has been a member of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (“EICC”) since 2004 and our employees have worked closely with this organization to improve our global supply chain. The EICC is an industry collaboration with a focus on improving working conditions and environmental stewardship throughout the electronics supply chain. Through the EICC’s Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (the “CFSI”), we have worked and continue to work with other companies focusing on responsible Conflict Minerals sourcing.

 

We rely on our direct suppliers to provide information with respect to the origin of the 3TG contained in components and materials supplied to us. In all cases, the information relating to the 3TG contained in our products comes from lower tier suppliers and from information provided to us through our membership with EICC and the CFSI.

 

Contracts with our suppliers can be multi-year contracts and we cannot unilaterally impose new contract terms and flow-down requirements. As we enter into new contracts, or as our contracts renew, we endeavor to add a conflict minerals clause requiring suppliers to provide 3TG sourcing and smelter information. We believe that it will still take a number of years to ensure that substantially all of our supplier contracts contain appropriate flow-down clauses. As described below, we are encouraging our suppliers to provide the 3TG sourcing information even before contracts are renewed.

 

As of this writing we are unable to determine the origin of the 3TG in our products that are necessary to the functionality or production of the products (“necessary conflict minerals”) that we manufactured or contracted to manufacture during the Reporting Period. For that reason, we are required under the Rule to submit to the SEC a Conflict Minerals Report as an Exhibit to Form SD.

 

We believe the products that we manufactured or contracted to manufacture that are subject to the reporting obligations of the Rule contain 3TG of indeterminate origin because we have been unable to determine the origin of the 3TG they contain or to determine whether such minerals financed or benefitted armed groups in the Covered Countries.

 



 

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

 

Our products are designed for enterprise servers and storage systems in mission critical and nearline applications; client compute applications, where our products are designed primarily for desktop and mobile computing; and client non-compute applications, where our products are designed for a wide variety of end user devices such as digital video recorders, personal data backup systems, portable external storage systems, digital media systems and surveillance systems. Seagate’s hardware products in the aggregate contain all four of the conflict minerals, which are necessary to the functionality or production of the products.

 

Seagate is a partially vertically integrated company: we make our own recording heads and media, which are then assembled into finished functional memory devices. However, Seagate does not directly procure any metals from smelters or refiners; we only purchase parts, components, materials, and subassemblies containing these metals. As such, Seagate occupies the supply chain position of downstream company as defined by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, Second Edition (the “OECD Guidance”).

 

DUE DILIGENCE PROGRAM DESIGN

 

The OECD Guidance established a five-step framework for due diligence as a basis for responsible supply chain management of minerals from conflict-affected and high risk areas.  We outline select elements of our due diligence program design below.  However these are not all the elements of our due diligence program.  To determine the source and chain of custody of 3TG necessary to the production of our products, we conducted due diligence on our supply chain, using measures developed to ascertain whether the minerals originated from the Covered Countries and, if so, whether the purchase of such minerals directly or indirectly benefited non-governmental armed groups.

 

Due Diligence Design Framework

 

Our conflict minerals due diligence measures have been designed to conform to the OECD Guidance for 3TG for “downstream companies” (as defined in the OECD Guidance) in all material respects. Our due diligence measures addressed the following steps:

 

1.              Establishing strong Company management systems for 3TG supply chain due diligence;

 

a.              We have a team of senior staff who are members of working groups responsible for the management and continued implementation of our conflict minerals compliance strategy.  This involvement includes corporate compliance, financial reporting, internal audit, investor relations and legal.

b.              Employees receive training on the EICC Code of Conduct Requirements.

c.               Select individuals receive training on our compliance program and due diligence procedures for addressing certain aspects of our due diligence program including review and validation of suppliers conflict minerals reporting template responses.

d.              We utilize external counsel and consultants to assist us with our compliance efforts

e.               We have adopted a conflict minerals policy.  The policy is communicated on our corporate website and communicated to suppliers and employees.

f.                We utilize the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the “CMRT”) developed by the CFSI to identify smelters and refiners in our supply chain.  The CMRT requires that suppliers provide information concerning the usage and sourcing of conflict minerals in their materials, components, and products.

g.               Seagate is an active member of the EICC and CFSI.

h.              Certain purchase order terms and conditions specifically reference and require EICC Code of Conduct and conflict minerals compliance.

i.                  A third party was commissioned to perform a website, e-mail and direct contact search of over 200 smelters declared by Seagate’s supply chain.  This data was shared in consolidated form with the EICC CFSI smelter list.

 



 

2.              Identifying and assessing 3TG risks in our supply chain;

 

a.              We request suppliers provide us with CMRTs on the materials, components, parts and products they sell to us.

b.              Supplier CMRTs are reviewed for completeness against our internally written standard operating procedures and controls.  CMRTs that appear inaccurate or incomplete are rejected and the supplier is requested to perform additional due diligence to address identified issues.

c.               Smelters are critically reviewed for compliance to third party smelter certification guidelines and determined if they meet the compliant and active criteria as developed by the CFSI.

 

3.              Designing and implementing strategies to respond to 3TG risks identified;

 

a.              We have procedures for monitoring and reporting on risk to designated senior management

b.              Smelters that are determined to not be CFSI certified or actively pursuing third party certification are encouraged by our suppliers and our participation in CFSI to pursue third party certification.

 

4.              Contributing to independent third party audits of the due diligence practices of 3TG smelters and refiners by participating in industry organizations; and

 

a.              We support independent third party audits through our CFSI membership.

b.              We assess information provided the CFSI and other certification bodies to determine if a smelter or refiner is compliant with applicable third-party conflict free certification.

 

5.              Reporting on our 3TG supply chain due diligence activities.

 

a.              We file a Form SD and a Conflict Minerals Report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and make them publicly available on our website.

 

Due Diligence Measures Performed

 

Our due diligence measures for 2015 included the following activities:

 

·                                  We revised our Seagate Corporate Policy on Conflict Minerals (the “Policy”), posted it to our external website, and communicated it to Seagate’s direct suppliers. The Policy seeks to eliminate our use of 3TG that contribute to human rights abuses in the DRC and adjoining countries.

 

·                                  We updated our internal Corporate Standard Operating Procedure for Conflict Minerals Management (the “Standard Operating Procedure”) specifically designed to satisfy the OECD Guidance.

 

·                                  We developed and implemented a 2015 Seagate Conflict Minerals Management Plan (the “Management Plan”) in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedure.

 

·                                  We established an internal team to implement the Management Plan. That team has been involved in the following measures designed to support our compliance with the Rule and our Standard Operating Procedure:

 

1.      Establishing requirements in supplier contracts to define Seagate expectations of suppliers regarding sourcing of 3TG and reporting of information to Seagate.

 

2.      Conducting a review to identify relevant direct (i.e., first tier) suppliers of products containing necessary 3TG (“3TG Direct Suppliers”).

 



 

3.      Requesting that all 3TG direct suppliers provide information to us regarding their 3TG using the template developed by the EICC and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, known as the CMRT to ascertain, for each of the 3TG, the smelter or refiner where it was processed, the smelter or refiner’s country of origin, the mine(s) of origin, and the location of the mine(s). Our instructions to 3TG Direct Suppliers requested them to make similar efforts to survey their supply chain using the CMRT and to report the facilities and location of mines of origin for the minerals.

 

4.      Reviewing and attempting to validate the information provided by our 3TG Direct Suppliers by establishing a process that includes an assessment of the completeness and reasonableness of the information provided, then conducting follow-up communications to address deficiencies.

 

5.      Comparing the facilities identified by relevant 3TG Direct Suppliers via the supply chain survey against the list of facilities that the CFSI has validated as “conflict free.”

 

6.      Supporting the CFSI through membership in the EICC, participation in the CFSI committee and other sub-committees, and requests of our 3TG Direct Suppliers to encourage the mineral processing facilities in their supply chains to participate in the CFSI.

 

7.      Making periodic reports to Seagate senior management.

 

Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry

 

As a member of the EICC participating in the CFSI, we used due diligence the CFSI conducted on smelters and refiners together with the data our suppliers provided on their CMRTs. The CFSI trains auditors to audit the smelters and refiners. The smelters and refiners that are found to be CFSI compliant are those for which the CFSI auditor has verified that the smelter’s or refiner’s 3TG, if originating in the Covered Countries, came from conflict-free mines and trading.

 

Based on a “reasonable country of origin inquiry” Seagate does not know or have reason to believe that its necessary conflict minerals originated or may have originated in the Covered Countries, except where CFSI validated smelters or refiners have revealed sources within the Covered Countries that are verified as conflict-free. However, a significant portion of the Seagate supply chain remains undefined with respect to the country of origin of its 3TG, as described below.

 

Seagate has identified sources in all categories of countries per CFSI definition: L1 (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cote D’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guyana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vietnam, And Zimbabwe), L2 (Kenya, Mozambique, and South Africa), L3 (Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia), DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and R/S (recycled or scrap feedstock). However, all our known DRC and L3 sources have been CFSI validated as conflict-free.

 



 

ANALYSIS OF SUPPLIER DATA

 

The following table depicts the status of our efforts to determine the smelters and refiners in our supply chain as of the end of 2015 for the 3TG used in our hardware products. As noted elsewhere, we separated the smelters and refiners in our supply chain into three categories: (1) CFSI validated conflict- free smelters or refiners; (2) CFSI recognized smelters or refiners that have not yet been validated as conflict-free; and (3) entities not yet CFSI recognized as actual smelters or refiners.

 

Smelter/Refiner Totals

 

2013

 

2014

 

2015

 

CFSI Conflict Free

 

65

 

142

 

257

 

Validated

 

15

%

22

%

90

%

CFSI Recognized, not

 

97

 

109

 

30

 

Conflict Free validated

 

23

%

17

%

10

%

CFSI Unrecognized

 

266

62

%

395

61

%

0

0

%

Total

 

428

 

646

 

287

 

 

These totals reflect the sum of all our divisions in the past three years.  We made it a priority to eliminate smelters that were not recognized by CFSI or in the process of becoming validated by CFSI.

 

For Seagate products, 100% of our 3TG suppliers provided CMRT data to us for 2015.

 

For Seagate Systems products (formerly Xyratex LTD and Dot Hill Systems Corp.), due to the extensive nature of the inherited supply chain which is undergoing transition into more mainstream Seagate sources, we limited our investigation of that supply chain for 2015 to the top 99.5% of direct materials spending. 100% of those suppliers have provided us with their CMRT data.

 

For certain Solid State Drive products from our recently acquired Accelerated Solutions Division, where we inherited an extensive supply chain in 2014, we were also able to obtain data on 99.5% of the direct materials spending.  100% of those suppliers have provided us with their CMRT data.

 

DUE DILIGENCE DETERMINATION

 

We carried out the diligence process described above in order to ascertain the source and chain of custody of 3TG used in our supply chain. Based on the processes implemented and information gathered therefrom, we were unable to determine the origin of all of the 3TG used in our products, and therefore concluded that for the Reporting Period we were unable to determine whether the necessary 3TG in our products directly or indirectly financed or benefited armed groups in the DRC or any of its adjoining countries.  However, we found no evidence that any of our 3TG Direct Suppliers derived 3TG from sources within the DRC or adjoining countries other than from CFSI validated sources.

 



 

The list of smelters and refiners in the Seagate supply chain changed significantly in calendar 2015 and continues to change. The list of CFSI validated conflict-free sources has grown significantly in 2015 and continues to grow. Additionally, the list of unrecognized smelter and refiner names given in supplier CMRTs is growing, although we believe that growth was a temporary outcome of acquiring several new product supply chains in 2015. Given the dynamic nature of the smelter/refiner lists appearing on our outbound CMRTs, we provide the following snapshot list of smelters and refiners known to be in our supply chain at some time during calendar 2015:

 

SMELTER TABLE

 

Metal

 

Smelter

 

Smelter ID(1)

Gold

 

Advanced Chemical Company

 

CID000015

Gold

 

Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.

 

CID000019

Gold

 

Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.

 

CID000035

Gold

 

Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC)

 

CID000041

Gold

 

AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração

 

CID000058

Gold

 

Argor-Heraeus S.A.

 

CID000077

Gold

 

Asahi Pretec Corp.

 

CID000082

Gold

 

Asahi Refining Canada Ltd.

 

CID000924

Gold

 

Asahi Refining USA Inc.

 

CID000920

Gold

 

Asaka Riken Co., Ltd.

 

CID000090

Gold

 

Aurubis AG

 

CID000113

Gold

 

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines)

 

CID000128

Gold

 

Boliden AB

 

CID000157

Gold

 

C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG

 

CID000176

Gold

 

CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation

 

CID000185

Gold

 

Cendres + Métaux S.A.

 

CID000189

Gold

 

Chimet S.p.A.

 

CID000233

Gold

 

Daejin Indus Co., Ltd.

 

CID000328

Gold

 

DODUCO GmbH

 

CID000362

Gold

 

Dowa

 

CID000401

Gold

 

DSC (Do Sung Corporation)

 

CID000359

Gold

 

Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.

 

CID000425

Gold

 

Elemetal Refining, LLC

 

CID001322

Gold

 

Emirates Gold DMCC

 

CID002561

Gold

 

Faggi Enrico S.p.A.

 

CID002355

Gold

 

Geib Refining Corporation

 

CID002459

Gold

 

Heimerle + Meule GmbH

 

CID000694

Gold

 

Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong

 

CID000707

Gold

 

Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG

 

CID000711

Gold

 

Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.

 

CID000807

Gold

 

Istanbul Gold Refinery

 

CID000814

Gold

 

Japan Mint

 

CID000823

Gold

 

Jiangxi Dinghai Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.

 

CID000855

Gold

 

JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant

 

CID000927

Gold

 

JSC Uralelectromed

 

CID000929

Gold

 

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.

 

CID000937

Gold

 

Kazzinc

 

CID000957

Gold

 

Kennecott Utah Copper LLC

 

CID000969

Gold

 

KGHM Polska Miedź Spółka Akcyjna

 

CID002511

Gold

 

Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd.

 

CID000981

Gold

 

Korea Zinc Co., Ltd.

 

CID002605

Gold

 

LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.

 

CID001078

Gold

 

Materion

 

CID001113

 



 

Gold

 

Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.

 

CID001119

Gold

 

Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd.

 

CID001149

Gold

 

Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd.

 

CID001152

Gold

 

Metalor Technologies (Suzhou) Ltd.

 

CID001147

Gold

 

Metalor Technologies S.A.

 

CID001153

Gold

 

Metalor USA Refining Corporation

 

CID001157

Gold

 

Metalúrgica Met-Mex Peñoles S.A. De C.V.

 

CID001161

Gold

 

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation

 

CID001188

Gold

 

Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.

 

CID001193

Gold

 

MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd.

 

CID002509

Gold

 

Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant

 

CID001204

Gold

 

Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.

 

CID001220

Gold

 

Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat

 

CID001236

Gold

 

Nihon Material Co., Ltd.

 

CID001259

Gold

 

Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH

 

CID002779

Gold

 

Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd.

 

CID001325

Gold

 

OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastsvetmet)

 

CID001326

Gold

 

OJSC Novosibirsk Refinery

 

CID000493

Gold

 

PAMP S.A.

 

CID001352

Gold

 

Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals

 

CID001386

Gold

 

PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk

 

CID001397

Gold

 

PX Précinox S.A.

 

CID001498

Gold

 

Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd.

 

CID001512

Gold

 

Republic Metals Corporation

 

CID002510

Gold

 

Royal Canadian Mint

 

CID001534

Gold

 

Samduck Precious Metals

 

CID001555

Gold

 

SAXONIA Edelmetalle GmbH

 

CID002777

Gold

 

Schone Edelmetaal B.V.

 

CID001573

Gold

 

SEMPSA Joyería Platería S.A.

 

CID001585

Gold

 

Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd.

 

CID001622

Gold

 

Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd.

 

CID001736

Gold

 

Singway Technology Co., Ltd.

 

CID002516

Gold

 

SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals

 

CID001756

Gold

 

Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.

 

CID001761

Gold

 

Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.

 

CID001798

Gold

 

T.C.A S.p.A

 

CID002580

Gold

 

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.

 

CID001875

Gold

 

The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd.

 

CID001916

Gold

 

Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd.

 

CID001938

Gold

 

Torecom

 

CID001955

Gold

 

Umicore Brasil Ltda.

 

CID001977

Gold

 

Umicore Precious Metals Thailand

 

CID002314

Gold

 

Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining

 

CID001980

Gold

 

United Precious Metal Refining, Inc.

 

CID001993

Gold

 

Valcambi S.A.

 

CID002003

Gold

 

Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint

 

CID002030

Gold

 

WIELAND Edelmetalle GmbH

 

CID002778

Gold

 

Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd.

 

CID002100

Gold

 

Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd.

 

CID002129

 



 

Gold

 

Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation

 

CID002224

Gold

 

Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery

 

CID002243

Tantalum

 

Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd.

 

CID000211

Tantalum

 

Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry

 

CID000291

Tantalum

 

D Block Metals, LLC

 

CID002504

Tantalum

 

Duoluoshan

 

CID000410

Tantalum

 

Exotech Inc.

 

CID000456

Tantalum

 

F&X Electro-Materials Ltd.

 

CID000460

Tantalum

 

FIR Metals & Resource Ltd.

 

CID002505

Tantalum

 

Global Advanced Metals

 

CID002557

Tantalum

 

Global Advanced Metals

 

CID002558

Tantalum

 

Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd.

 

CID000616

Tantalum

 

H.C. Starck Co., Ltd.

 

CID002544

Tantalum

 

H.C. Starck GmbH

 

CID002546

Tantalum

 

H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg

 

CID002545

Tantalum

 

H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH

 

CID002547

Tantalum

 

H.C. Starck Inc.

 

CID002548

Tantalum

 

H.C. Starck Ltd.

 

CID002549

Tantalum

 

H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG

 

CID002550

Tantalum

 

Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd.

 

CID002492

Tantalum

 

Hi-Temp

 

CID000731

Tantalum

 

Jiangxi Guangzhou Qiye Co. Ltd

 

CID002512

Tantalum

 

JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

 

CID000914

Tantalum

 

Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd.

 

CID000917

Tantalum

 

Jiujiang Zhongao Tantalum & Niobium Co., Ltd.

 

CID002506

Tantalum

 

KEMET Blue Metals

 

CID002539

Tantalum

 

Kemet Blue Powder

 

CID002568

Tantalum

 

King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd.

 

CID000973

Tantalum

 

LSM Brasil S.A.

 

CID001076

Tantalum

 

Metallurgical Products India Pvt., Ltd.

 

CID001163

Tantalum

 

Mitsui Mining & Smelting

 

CID001192

Tantalum

 

Molycorp Silmet A.S.

 

CID001200

Tantalum

 

Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd.

 

CID001277

Tantalum

 

Plansee

 

CID002540

Tantalum

 

Plansee(2)

 

CID002556

Tantalum

 

QuantumClean

 

CID001508

Tantalum

 

RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd.

 

CID001522

Tantalum

 

Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO

 

CID001769

Tantalum

 

Taki Chemicals

 

CID001869

Tantalum

 

Telex Metals

 

CID001891

Tantalum

 

Tranzact, Inc.

 

CID002571

Tantalum

 

Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC

 

CID001969

Tantalum

 

XinXing HaoRong Electronic Material Co., Ltd.

 

CID002508

Tantalum

 

Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd.

 

CID002307

Tantalum

 

Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group Co., Ltd.

 

CID002232

Tin

 

Alpha

 

CID000292

Tin

 

An Thai Minerals Co., Ltd.

 

CID002825

Tin

 

An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company

 

CID002703

Tin

 

Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd.

 

CID000228

 



 

Tin

 

China Tin Group Co., Ltd.

 

CID001070

Tin

 

Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda.

 

CID000295

Tin

 

CV Ayi Jaya

 

CID002570

Tin

 

CV Gita Pesona

 

CID000306

Tin

 

CV Serumpun Sebalai

 

CID000313

Tin

 

CV United Smelting

 

CID000315

Tin

 

CV Venus Inti Perkasa

 

CID002455

Tin

 

Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company

 

CID002572

Tin

 

Elmet S.L.U.

 

CID002774

Tin

 

EM Vinto

 

CID000438

Tin

 

Fenix Metals

 

CID000468

Tin

 

Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC

 

CID000942

Tin

 

Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.

 

CID000538

Tin

 

Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd.

 

CID001908

Tin

 

Jiangxi Minmetals Gao’an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

 

CID000244

Tin

 

Magnu’s Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda.

 

CID002468

Tin

 

Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)

 

CID001105

Tin

 

Melt Metais e Ligas S.A.

 

CID002500

Tin

 

Metallic Resources, Inc.

 

CID001142

Tin

 

Metallo-Chimique N.V.

 

CID002773

Tin

 

Mineração Taboca S.A.

 

CID001173

Tin

 

Minsur

 

CID001182

Tin

 

Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company

 

CID002573

Tin

 

O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

 

CID001314

Tin

 

O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.

 

CID002517

Tin

 

Operaciones Metalurgical S.A.

 

CID001337

Tin

 

Phoenix Metal Ltd.

 

CID002507

Tin

 

PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera

 

CID000309

Tin

 

PT Artha Cipta Langgeng

 

CID001399

Tin

 

PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya

 

CID002503

Tin

 

PT Babel Inti Perkasa

 

CID001402

Tin

 

PT Bangka Prima Tin

 

CID002776

Tin

 

PT Bangka Tin Industry

 

CID001419

Tin

 

PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera

 

CID001421

Tin

 

PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari

 

CID001424

Tin

 

PT Bukit Timah

 

CID001428

Tin

 

PT Cipta Persada Mulia

 

CID002696

Tin

 

PT DS Jaya Abadi

 

CID001434

Tin

 

PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri

 

CID001438

Tin

 

PT Inti Stania Prima

 

CID002530

Tin

 

PT Justindo

 

CID000307

Tin

 

PT Karimun Mining

 

CID001448

Tin

 

PT Mitra Stania Prima

 

CID001453

Tin

 

PT Panca Mega Persada

 

CID001457

Tin

 

PT Prima Timah Utama

 

CID001458

Tin

 

PT Refined Bangka Tin

 

CID001460

Tin

 

PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa

 

CID001463

Tin

 

PT Sukses Inti Makmur

 

CID002816

Tin

 

PT Sumber Jaya Indah

 

CID001471

Tin

 

PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur

 

CID001477

 



 

Tin

 

PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok

 

CID001482

Tin

 

PT Tommy Utama

 

CID001493

Tin

 

PT Wahana Perkit Jaya

 

CID002479

Tin

 

Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda.

 

CID002706

Tin

 

Rui Da Hung

 

CID001539

Tin

 

Soft Metais Ltda.

 

CID001758

Tin

 

Thaisarco

 

CID001898

Tin

 

Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company

 

CID002574

Tin

 

VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC

 

CID002015

Tin

 

White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda.

 

CID002036

Tin

 

Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

 

CID002158

Tin

 

Yunnan Tin Company Limited

 

CID002180

Tungsten

 

A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp.

 

CID000004

Tungsten

 

Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.

 

CID002502

Tungsten

 

Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.

 

CID002513

Tungsten

 

Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID000258

Tungsten

 

Dayu Jincheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.

 

CID002518

Tungsten

 

Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID000345

Tungsten

 

Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID000499

Tungsten

 

Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.

 

CID000875

Tungsten

 

Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID002315

Tungsten

 

Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd.

 

CID000868

Tungsten

 

Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd.

 

CID002494

Tungsten

 

Ganzhou Yatai Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID002536

Tungsten

 

Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.

 

CID000568

Tungsten

 

Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID000218

Tungsten

 

H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar

 

CID002541

Tungsten

 

Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.

 

CID000766

Tungsten

 

Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Yanglin

 

CID002579

Tungsten

 

Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

 

CID000769

Tungsten

 

Hydrometallurg, JSC

 

CID002649

Tungsten

 

Japan New Metals Co., Ltd.

 

CID000825

Tungsten

 

Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.

 

CID002551

Tungsten

 

Jiangxi Jiangwu Cemented Carbide Co., Ltd.

 

CID002321

Tungsten

 

Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.

 

CID002318

Tungsten

 

Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID002317

Tungsten

 

Jiangxi Yichun

 

CID002316

Tungsten

 

Jiangxi Yichun

 

CID002535

Tungsten

 

Kennametal Fallon

 

CID000966

Tungsten

 

Kennametal Huntsville

 

CID000105

Tungsten

 

Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID002319

Tungsten

 

Niagara Refining LLC

 

CID002589

Tungsten

 

Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC

 

CID002543

Tungsten

 

Pobedit, JSC

 

CID002532

Tungsten

 

Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID001889

Tungsten

 

Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.

 

CID002011

Tungsten

 

Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG

 

CID002044

Tungsten

 

Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.

 

CID002320

Tungsten

 

Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID002082

Tungsten

 

Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd.

 

CID002095

 



 

Our direct suppliers have named these smelters or refiners as their sources of tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold in the products we buy from them. We have subjected each incoming CMRT to systematic scrutiny often followed by additional supplier communication. This list of 3TG smelter/refiner sources in our supply chain is not exhaustive. Some suppliers still have only partial lists available. As noted, many have provided unrecognized names which we have not yet been able to resolve, so those names are not included here. Nor does the inclusion of any name on our list imply that its products necessarily comprise portions of our products. Inclusion only implies that the 3TG in all our products comes from these sources or from others yet to be determined.

 

FUTURE PLANS TO IMPROVE DUE DILIGENCE AND SUPPLIER RESPONSIVENESS

 

Seagate expects to pursue several initiatives to attain a conflict-free 3TG supply chain, including the following:

 

·                  Although the number of validated conflict-free 3TG smelters and refiners is climbing steadily, there are still not enough conflict-free validated sources to go around for all industries. As more smelters and refiners become validated, we all benefit. Nevertheless, we continue to seek supplier commitments to conflict-free 3TG, to request suppliers to have their smelters and refiners engage in the validation audit process, and then if necessary to convert to other preferred sources.

 

·                  We are also working on developing software to accelerate and track progress, to make our information more complete, accurate, timely and specific using greater automation.

 

·                  In 2016, we are in the process of refreshing all our direct supplier data using CMRT 4.0, with which we expect to enhance the quality of the information we obtain this year. We continue to work with the EICC and CFSI to improve processes that encourage responsible sourcing of 3TG in a manner that avoids de facto boycott of legitimate minerals from Covered Countries.

 



 

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This Conflict Minerals Report contains forward-looking statements, including, in particular, statements about our future plans to improve due diligence and supplier responsiveness and to seek supplier commitments in this regard. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to us as of the date of this Conflict Mineral Report and are based on management’s current views and assumptions. These forward-looking statements also involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from our expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include the veracity of information directly or indirectly provided to us by others and expectations regarding future smelter and refiner participation in conflict-free verification regimens. Except as may be required by law, we undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

 




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