SigmaTron International, Inc.
Conflict Minerals Report
For The Year Ended December 31, 2014
This Conflict Minerals Report of SigmaTron International, Inc. (herein referred to as “we,” “our” or “us”) (this “CMR”) is presented in compliance with Rule 13p-1 (“Rule 13p-1”) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “1934 Act”) for the year ended December 31, 2014. Please refer to Rule 13p-1, Form SD and the 1934 Act Release No. 34-67716 for definitions to the terms used in this CMR, unless otherwise defined herein.
1. Due Diligence
We surveyed our supply chain to gather information and confirm whether Conflict Minerals used in our products are procured from the Covered Countries. This survey was conducted using the CFSI Reporting Template developed jointly by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (“EICC”) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (“GeSI”) (the “Template”).
Utilizing the Template, a reasonable country of origin inquiry was conducted across our supply chain to determine the sourcing of the Conflict Minerals used in our products. To date, we have received responses from approximately 90% of our supply chain. Of the responses we have received, approximately 30% of our suppliers are reporting DRC conflict undeterminable and approximately 70% of our suppliers are reporting DRC conflict free.
We compiled a list of all smelters and refiners used by our suppliers that have provided responses, including all smelters and refiners which have not completed certification under the EICC/GeSI Conflict Free Smelter program. 192 unique, real smelters or refiners were reported by our suppliers. Of these 192 smelters and refiners, 175 are certified as “conflict free” by the EICC/GeSI Conflict Free Smelter program. After reviewing the 2014 interim and 2014 final reports by the UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo and other publications, we found no reasonable basis for concluding that the uncertified smelters and refiners sourced Conflict Minerals that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups, however we cannot say with certainty that the uncertified smelters and refiners are DRC conflict free.
In light of the responses that we have not yet received from our suppliers, in light of the approximately 30% of our suppliers reporting DRC conflict undeterminable, and in light of the 17 uncertified smelters and refiners, our supply chain remains DRC conflict undeterminable at this time for all of our products.
We re-communicated to our suppliers that they must (i) familiarize themselves and comply with the regulations set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act; (ii) implement Conflict Mineral policies that are consistent with our policy; (iii) provide us with all necessary declarations; (iv) pass all of the requirements set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act on to their supply chain if they don’t source directly from smelters or refiners; (v) determine the source of the Conflict Minerals they use; and
(vi) maintain reviewable business records for not less than seven (7) years supporting the source of Conflict Minerals. We affirmatively notified suppliers that those who are found to be non-compliant to the requirements imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act and our policy shall be reviewed to determine suitability for future business.
The use of the Template provided by EICC/GeSI and our other due diligence steps conform in material aspects to the standards set forth by the second edition of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (OECD 2011).
In the future, we intend to complete the collection of all survey responses from our suppliers. Additionally, we will continue to assess our suppliers with respect to our compliance requirements referenced above. We have instituted policies and procedures requiring suppliers to provide affirmative notification if they begin sourcing Conflict Minerals from any facilities which have not been identified as “conflict free” by the EICC/GeSI Conflict Free Smelter Program. We have included Conflict Minerals flow-down clauses in all new and renewing supplier contracts. And, we are working with trade associations and industry groups to further improve our due diligence and best practices.
2.Product Description/Overview
We manufacture electronic assemblies made up of printed circuit boards, semiconductors and passive electronic components soldered together utilizing tin-based alloys for a wide variety of customers that use electronics in the products they design, manufacture and sell. Our customers serve many different industries. Most of the electronic components we purchase to build the assemblies we manufacture contain one or more of the Conflict Minerals.
As a result of the aforementioned in-depth due diligence measures, we have determined that all of our products are DRC conflict undeterminable. Based on lack of all information from our suppliers, based on our suppliers which have provided a DRC conflict undeterminable response, and based on the uncertified smelters and refiners, at this time we cannot identify whether any of the Conflict Minerals contained in our products originated in the Covered Countries and, if so, whether such Conflict Minerals were from recycle or scrap sources, were DRC conflict free or have not been found to be DRC conflict free.
Based on the responses received from our suppliers to-date, the following is a list of facilities used to process the necessary Conflict Minerals in our products.
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Conflict Mineral | Smelter Facility Name | Smelter Country |
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. | JAPAN |
Gold | Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. | GERMANY |
Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | UZBEKISTAN |
Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Mineração Ltda | BRAZIL |
Gold | Argor-Heraeus SA | SWITZERLAND |
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Conflict Mineral | Smelter Facility Name | Smelter Country |
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corp (Asahi Pretec Corp koube koujyo) | JAPAN |
Gold | Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | JAPAN |
Gold | Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. | TURKEY |
Gold | Aurubis AG | GERMANY |
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | PHILIPPINES |
Gold | Boliden AB | SWEDEN |
Gold | Caridad | MEXICO |
Gold | Cendres & Métaux SA | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Chimet SpA | ITALY |
Gold | Chugai Mining Co., Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | Codelco | CHILE |
Gold | Daejin Indus | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | DAERYOUNG E&C | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | DO SUNG CORPORATION | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Dowa Metals & Mining Co. Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | EM Vinto | BOLIVIA |
Gold | FSE Novosibirsk Refinery | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | GERMANY |
Gold | Heraeus Ltd Hong Kong | HONG KONG |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY |
Gold | Heraeus Zhaoyuan (Changshu) Electronic Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Gold | Hwasung CJ Co., Ltd | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited | CHINA |
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN |
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | TURKEY |
Gold | Japan Mint | JAPAN |
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Company Limited | CHINA |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Inc | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Limited | CANADA |
Gold | JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | Kazzinc Ltd | KAZAKHSTAN |
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Conflict Mineral | Smelter Facility Name | Smelter Country |
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co. Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | Korea Metal | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | KYRGYZSTAN |
Gold | L'azurde Company for Jewelry | SAUDI ARABIA |
Gold | LS-Nikko Copper Inc | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Materion | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co. Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | Metalor - North attleboro/ME | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd | HONG KONG |
Gold | Metalor Technologies SA | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Met-Mex Peñoles, S.A. | MEXICO |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN |
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | JAPAN |
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. | TURKEY |
Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | UZBEKISTAN |
Gold | Nihon Material Co. LTD | JAPAN |
Gold | Ohio Precious Metals LLC. | UNITED STATES |
Gold | OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastvetmet) | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | OJSC Kolyma Refinery | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | PAMP SA | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Pan Pacific Copper Co. LTD | JAPAN |
Gold | Perth Mint | AUSTRALIA |
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | INDONESIA |
Gold | PX Précinox SA | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd | SOUTH AFRICA |
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | CANADA |
Gold | Sabin Metal Corp. | UNITED STATES |
Gold | SAMWON METALS CORP. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Schone Edelmetaal | NETHERLANDS |
Gold | SEMPSA Joyeria Plateria SA | SPAIN |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co. Ltd | CHINA |
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Conflict Mineral | Smelter Facility Name | Smelter Country |
Gold | SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | TAIWAN |
Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. | JAPAN |
Gold | Suzhou Xingrui Noble | CHINA |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | JAPAN |
Gold | The Great Wall Gold and Silver Refinery of China | CHINA |
Gold | The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd | CHINA |
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co. Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | Torecom | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Umicore Brasil Ltda | BRAZIL |
Gold | Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | BELGIUM |
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Valcambi SA | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint | AUSTRALIA |
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | CHINA |
Gold | Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd | CHINA |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | JAPAN |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY |
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co. Ltd | JAPAN |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN |
Gold | Xstrata Canada Corporation | CANADA |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Inc | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Limited | CANADA |
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | UNITED STATES |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co. Ltd | CHINA |
Gold | Qiankun Gold and Silver | CHINA |
Gold | JCC | CHINA |
Tantalum | Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry | CHINA |
Tantalum | Duoluoshan | CHINA |
Tantalum | Exotech Inc. | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | F&X | CHINA |
Tantalum | Gannon & Scott | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Cabot Corporation | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals (Cabot) | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH | GERMANY |
Tantalum | Hi-Temp | UNITED STATES |
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Conflict Mineral | Smelter Facility Name | Smelter Country |
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Tantalum | Kemet Blue Powder | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining & Smelting | JAPAN |
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tantalum | Plansee | AUSTRIA |
Tantalum | RFH | CHINA |
Tantalum | Solikamsk Metal Works | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Tantalum | Taki Chemicals | JAPAN |
Tantalum | Telex | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Ulba | KAZAKHSTAN |
Tantalum | Ulba Metallurgical Plant, jsc | KAZAKHSTAN |
Tantalum | Zhuzhou Cement Carbide | CHINA |
Tin | CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Tin | Cookson | UNITED STATES |
Tin | Coopersanta | BRAZIL |
Tin | CV DS Jaya Abadi | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV DS Jaya Abadi (PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa) | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV Duta Putra Bangka | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV JusTindo | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV Makmur Jaya | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV Prima Timah Utama | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV Serumpun Sebalai | INDONESIA |
Tin | CV United Smelting | INDONESIA |
Tin | EM Vinto | BOLIVIA |
Tin | FENIX METALS | POLAND |
Tin | Geiju Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Tin | Gejiu Zi-Li | CHINA |
Tin | Gold Bell Group | CHINA |
Tin | Jiangxi Nanshan | CHINA |
Tin | Linwu Xianggui Ore Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tin | Liuzhou China Tin | CHINA |
Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | MALAYSIA |
Tin | Metallo Chimique | BELGIUM |
Tin | Mineração Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL |
Tin | Minmetals Ganzhou Tin Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Tin | Minsur | PERU |
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN |
Tin | Novosibirsk Integrated Tin Works | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
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Conflict Mineral | Smelter Facility Name | Smelter Country |
Tin | OMSA | BOLIVIA |
Tin | PT Alam Lestari Kencana | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Babel Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Bangka Putra Karya | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Bukit Timah | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Fang Di MulTindo | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT HP Metals Indonesia | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Koba Tin | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Refined Banka Tin | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Sumber Jaya Indah | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Tambang Timah | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Yinchendo Mining Industry | INDONESIA |
Tin | Thailand Smelting and Refining Co. Ltd. (Thaisarco) | THAILAND |
Tin | White Solder Metalurgia | BRAZIL |
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng | CHINA |
Tin | Yunnan Tin Company Limited | CHINA |
Tin | PT Timah | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Koba Tin | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Bangka Kudai Tin | INDONESIA |
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. via Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | JAPAN |
Tungsten | ATI Tungsten Materials | UNITED STATES |
Tungsten | Chaozhou Xianglu Tungsten Industry Co Ltd | CHINA |
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co Ltd | CHINA |
Tungsten | Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Grand Sea W & Mo Group Co Ltd | CHINA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp | UNITED STATES |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck GmbH | GERMANY |
Tungsten | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Group Co | CHINA |
Tungsten | Hunan Chun-Chang Nonferrous Smelting & Concentrating Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co Ltd | JAPAN |
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Conflict Mineral | Smelter Facility Name | Smelter Country |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Rare Earth & Rare Metals Tungsten Group Corp | CHINA |
Tungsten | Minmetals Ganzhou Tin Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Tungsten | Sichuan Metals & Materials Imp & Exp Co | CHINA |
Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co Ltd | VIETNAM |
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG | AUSTRIA |
Tungsten | Wolfram Company CJSC | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co Ltd | CHINA |
Tungsten | Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group Corp Ltd (Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Works Imp. & Exp. Co.) | CHINA |
The statements above are based on our due diligence and available information. A number of factors could affect our conclusions, including: gaps in supplier and/or smelter and refiner data, errors or omissions by suppliers and/or smelters and refiners, errors in public data, language barriers and translation, illegally tagged Conflict Minerals being introduced into our supply chain, etc.
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