UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM SD
SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT
SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| DELAWARE | 000-49602 | 77-0118518 | ||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
1251 McKay Drive
San Jose, California 95131
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(408) 904-1100
(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:
| ☒ | Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2016. |
Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure
| Item 1.01. | Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report. |
Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Synaptics Incorporated (including its consolidated subsidiaries, the “Registrant”) is filing this Form SD pursuant to Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the reporting period from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 (the “Reporting Period”).
For the Reporting Period, the Registrant conducted, in good faith, a reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding the conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of products that the Registrant manufactures or contracts to manufacture (the “Minerals”). The inquiry was reasonably designed to determine if the Minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country or are from recycled or scrap sources.
The Registrant has determined that it is required to file a Conflict Minerals Report, which is attached as Exhibit 1.01 to this report. The Conflict Minerals Report is also publicly available at http://www.synaptics.com. The content on, or accessible through, any website referred to in this Form SD is not incorporated by reference into this Form SD unless expressly noted.
| Item 1.02. | Exhibit. |
The Registrant’s Conflict Minerals Report is included as Exhibit 1.01 to this report.
Section 2 – Exhibits
| Item 2.01. | Exhibits. |
| Exhibit |
Description | |
| 1.01 | Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form. | |
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.
| Synaptics Incorporated | ||
| By: /s/ Alex Wong | ||
| Alex Wong | ||
| Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations | ||
| May 31, 2017 | ||
EXHIBIT 1.01
CONFLICT MINERALS REPORT
This Conflict Minerals Report (“Report”) of Synaptics Incorporated and its consolidated subsidiaries (“Synaptics,” the “Registrant” or “we”) for the year ended December 31, 2016 (the “Reporting Period”), is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Rule”), the instructions to Form SD, and the Public Statement on the Effect of the Recent Court of Appeals Decision on the Conflict Minerals Rule issued by the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2014. Please refer to the Rule, Form SD, and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Release No. 34-67716 issued by the SEC on August 22, 2012 for definitions to the terms used in this Report, unless otherwise defined herein.
Synaptics is a leading worldwide developer and supplier of custom-designed human interface product solutions that enable people to interact more easily and intuitively with a wide variety of mobile computing, communications, entertainment, and other electronic devices. Synaptics currently generates revenue from the markets for smartphones, tablets, personal computer, or PC, products, primarily notebook computers, and other select electronic devices, including devices in automobiles, with our customized human interface solutions. Every solution we deliver either contains or consists of our touch-, display driver- or fingerprint authentication-based semiconductor solutions, which includes our chip, customer-specific firmware, and software. We generally supply our human interface product solutions to our original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers through their contract manufacturers, which take delivery of our products and pay us directly for such products.
Synaptics does not engage in the actual mining of conflict minerals (the “Minerals”), does not make purchases of raw ore or unrefined Minerals from mines, and is many steps removed in the supply chain from the mining of the Minerals. We purchase the materials used in our products from a large network of suppliers, who may contribute necessary Minerals to our products. The smelters and refiners used by our suppliers are in the best position in the total supply chain to know the origin of ores, which cannot be determined with any certainty once the ores are smelted, refined and converted to ingots, bullions or other Minerals-containing derivatives. We rely on our suppliers to assist with our due diligence efforts, including our suppliers’ self-identification of the smelters and refiners used in their supply chain, and the countries from which the Minerals used in their supply chain may originate.
| I. | Products |
The following products were identified during the Reporting Period as products that may contain conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of products manufactured, or contracted to manufacture, by Synaptics:
| • | Our mobile solutions include our ClearPadTM product line, designed for clear, capacitive touchscreen solutions that enable the user to interact directly with the |
| display on electronic devices, such as mobile smartphones and tablets, and our family of ClearViewTM Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display drivers. We typically sell our ClearPad products as a chip, together with customer-specific firmware, to sensor manufacturers or OLED or LCD manufacturers to integrate into their touch-enabled products. A discrete touchscreen product typically consists of a transparent, thin capacitive sensor that can be placed over any display, such as an LCD or OLED and combined with a flexible circuit material and a touch controller chip. A display integrated touchscreen product typically consists of a capacitive touch sensor embedded into the LCD panel, combined with a flexible circuit material and a touch controller chip. |
| • | Our personal computer, or PC, solutions, include our TouchPadTM, ClickPadTM, ForcePadTM, SecurePadTM, Dual Pointing Solutions, and TouchStykTM product lines, which are touch-sensitive pads and other interfaces that sense the position, movement, force, or a combination thereof, applied by one or more fingers on its surface through the measurement of capacitance. We typically sell our PC solutions as a module to the contract manufacturers of OEMs for assembly into notebook computers or other PC products. |
| • | Our ClearViewTM display driver products offer advanced image processing and low power technology for entry-level smartphones through high-resolution tablets. The adaptive image processing works in concert with proprietary customization options enabling development of efficient and cost-effective high performance solutions and faster time to market. |
| • | Our TouchViewTM products integrate touch and display technologies to deliver advanced performance and simplified design. Our proprietary algorithms synchronize touch sensing with display driving, effectively eliminating display-induced noise and improving capacitive sensing performance. TouchView is available in two-chip and single-chip (touch and display integration (TDDI)) configurations; both configurations reduce manufacturing complexity and simplify the supply chain for OEM manufacturers. |
| • | Our Natural IDTM Fingerprint Identification products, used in both our mobile and PC solutions, are fingerprint authentication solutions that use capacitive imaging technology, along with sophisticated digital image processing to unlock devices and access online services such as retail, banking, and social media portals. We typically sell our Natural ID Fingerprint products as a module to the contract manufacturers of OEMs or directly to the OEM for assembly into mobile or PC products. |
| II. | Due Diligence |
Based on the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chain of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas (Third Edition OECD 2016) and the due diligence framework published by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), including the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) current template for calendar year 2016 as developed jointly by the EICC-GeSI (the “Template”), the Registrant took the following measures, during
the Reporting Period, to determine the source and chain of custody for the Minerals which the Registrant believed necessary to the functionality or production of products manufactured, or contracted to be manufactured, by the Registrant in the Reporting Period.
| 1. | The Registrant identified 65 suppliers, whom the Registrant believed could provide materials containing the Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of products manufactured by the Registrant, or contracted by the Registrant to be manufactured. |
| 2. | The Registrant sent out a Conflict Minerals survey, based on the Template, to the suppliers described in No. 1 above requesting them to (a) determine whether they supplied the Registrant with metals or materials containing the Minerals; (b) conduct independent due diligence on their own supply chain; (c) using EICC-GeSI resources, identify all smelters in their supply chain that supply products containing the Minerals to Registrant; and (d) download, complete and return the Template to the Registrant identifying all smelters and determining whether such smelters were certified as conflict-free. For any non-conflict free certified smelters identified, the Registrant strongly recommended the supplier remove such non-conflict free certified smelters from the supplier’s supply chain and required the supplier to submit a plan detailing its efforts to remove or replace the non-conflict free certified smelter. In addition, Registrant’s suppliers were required to establish and document a policy on conflict minerals. |
| 3. | All suppliers identified in No. 1 above completed the steps described in No. 2 above. Nine suppliers declared that their products did not contain any conflict minerals. Of the 56 suppliers who stated their products may contain conflict minerals, approximately 67% stated gold may be in the products supplied to Registrant; approximately 79% stated tin may be in the products supplied to Registrant; approximately 19% stated tantalum may be in the products supplied to Registrant; and approximately 30% stated tungsten may be in the products supplied to Registrant. |
| 4. | All of the suppliers who responded identified all smelters used in their supply chain in accordance with the Template and its instructions and of these suppliers, 97% certified that the metals or materials they supplied to Synaptics were conflict-free Minerals. The two suppliers who could not certify that 100% of their smelters were CFSI-compliant sourced from a combined 174 different smelters, of which four smelters had operations which were closed or idle during calendar year 2016, resulting in such smelters’ removal from the CFSI-compliant list, as idle or closed operations do not meet the CFSI’s definition of a smelter. All four of these smelters were valid CFSI-compliant smelters prior to idling operations or closure. |
| 5. | Synaptics compared the smelters identified by each of our suppliers to the list of smelters identified as conflict-free or “Active” by CFSI. Approximately 98% of the smelters used by our suppliers appeared on this list and are certified by the CFSI as conflict-free smelters. Based on the information provided by our suppliers, Synaptics believes that the facilities used to process the Minerals contained in Synaptics’ products include the smelters listed in Exhibit A below. |
| 6. a. | Our suppliers used approximately 35 different smelters located in 11 different countries for tantalum. These countries include Austria, Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russian Federation, Thailand and the United States of America. Of these smelters, 91% are certified conflict-free smelters as defined by the CFSI. The three smelters who were not certified conflict-free smelters had operations which closed or became idle during calendar year 2016. |
| b. | Our suppliers used approximately 68 different smelters located in 25 different countries for gold. Those countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States of America. Of these smelters, 100% are certified conflict-free smelters as defined by the CFSI. |
| c. | Our suppliers used approximately 57 different smelters located in 15 different countries for tin. These countries include Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States of America, and Vietnam. Of these smelters, approximately 98% are certified conflict-free smelters as defined by the CFSI. The only smelter who was not certified conflict-free had operations which closed or became idle during calendar year 2016. |
| d. | Our suppliers used approximately 27 different smelters located in 7 different countries for tungsten. These countries include Austria, China, Germany, Japan, Russian Federation, the United States of America, and Vietnam. Of these smelters, 100% are certified conflict-free smelters as defined by the CFSI. |
| 7. | The Registrant’s reasonable country of origin inquiry is based on surveys of its smelters. Certain smelters’ country of origin information was not available because the particular smelter had, among other reasons, gone out of operation before the end of calendar year 2016. Therefore, the Registrant is unable, at this time, to conclusively determine the countries of origin of all the Minerals used in its products. |
During the Reporting Period, we conducted the due diligence efforts described in this Report to determine the mine or location of the Minerals in our products. We relied on the information provided by independent third party audit programs, such as the CFSI, to determine whether the smelters disclosed by our suppliers had been conflict-free certified or were “Active smelters” who had committed to undergo a Conflict-Free Smelter Program audit, according to the CFSI’s standards. For the current Reporting Period, certain smelters, who had previously been listed as CFSI conflict-free smelters, were no longer listed as CFSI conflict-free smelters due to closure of the smelter or the smelter idling its operations during calendar year 2016.
We continue to recommend to, and put pressure on, our suppliers who had non-conflict free certified smelters in their supply chain in calendar year 2016 to remove such non-conflict free certified smelters from their supply chain as soon as possible and we require such suppliers to submit a plan to the Registrant detailing their efforts to either remove or replace such smelter. We also have an audit plan in place, which was created to specifically audit the design, performance and effectiveness of our due diligence framework and due diligence measures as they relate to the Minerals.
As discussed above, where possible, the Registrant has relied on third party assurances and certifications. For example, the Registrant accepts as reliable any smelter that is a member of the CFSI program. To the extent that other audited supplier certifications are provided to the Registrant, the Registrant may consider reliance on such certifications on a case-by-case basis.
| III. | Additional Due Diligence and Risk Mitigation |
We will continue to monitor our supply chain, including smelters used by our suppliers, to ensure that all smelters used by our suppliers continue to remain conflict-free. We will continue to monitor and pressure our supply chain to provide complete and accurate information regarding their smelters who provide the Minerals; continue to pressure our supply chain to either remove or replace non-conflict free certified smelters from their own supply chain; remove from our supply chain those suppliers who refuse to or who are unable to provide complete information regarding their smelters; remove from our supply chain those suppliers who continue to maintain non-conflict free certified smelters in their supply chain; and audit the results of supplier responses to the Template, including potential site visits to our supplier locations around the world, as required.
Due to the size, breadth and complexity of our supply chain, the process of successfully tracing all of the necessary Minerals used in our products back to their country of origin will require additional time and resources. Our ability to make determinations about the presence and source of origin of such Minerals in our products depends upon a number of factors including, but not limited to: (i) the respective due diligence efforts of our tier one suppliers and their supply chain, as well as their willingness to disclose such information to us, and (ii) the ability and willingness of our supply chain to adopt the OECD Guidance and other initiatives or guidance that may develop over time with respect to responsible sourcing. The inability to obtain reliable information from any level of our supply chain could have a material impact on our
ability to provide meaningful information on the presence and origin of necessary Minerals in our products’ supply chain with any reasonable degree of certainty. There can be no assurance that our suppliers will continue to cooperate with our diligence inquiries and our requests for certifications, or to provide us with the documentation or other evidence that we consider reliable in a timeframe sufficient to allow us to make a reasonable and reliable assessment following appropriate further diligence measures, as may be required.
Exhibit A
Smelters reported in Registrant’s Supply Chain as of December 31, 2016:
| Smelter Name |
Smelter Country | |
| A.L.M.T. TUNGSTEN Corp. | Japan | |
| Aida Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. | Germany | |
| Alpha | United States | |
| AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Mineração | Brazil | |
| Argor-Heraeus S.A. | Switzerland | |
| Asahi Pretec Corp. | Japan | |
| Asahi Refining Canada Ltd. | Canada | |
| Asahi Refining USA Inc. | United States | |
| Asaka Riken Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Aurubis AG | Germany | |
| Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | Philippines | |
| Boliden AB | Sweden | |
| C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | Germany | |
| CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | Canada | |
| Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Chimet S.p.A. | Italy | |
| China Tin Group Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry | China | |
| Cooperativa Metalurgica de Rondônia Ltda. | Brazil | |
| CV Ayi Jaya | Indonesia | |
| CV Gita Pesona | Indonesia | |
| CV Serumpun Sebalai | Indonesia | |
| CV United Smelting | Indonesia | |
| CV Venus Inti Perkasa | Indonesia | |
| D Block Metals, LLC | United States | |
| DODUCO GmbH | Germany | |
| Dowa | Japan | |
| Duoluoshan | China | |
| Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Elemetal Refining, LLC | United States | |
| Elmet S.L.U. | Spain | |
| EM Vinto | Bolivia | |
| Exotech Inc. | United States | |
| F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | China | |
| Fenix Metals | Poland | |
| Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Global Advanced Metals Aizu | Japan | |
| Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | United States | |
| Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. | United States | |
| Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. | China | |
| H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. | Thailand | |
| H.C. Starck GmbH | Germany | |
| H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar | Germany | |
| H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg | Germany | |
| H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | Germany | |
| H.C. Starck Inc. | United States | |
| H.C. Starck Ltd. | Japan | |
| H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | |
| H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG | Germany | |
| Heimerle + Meule GmbH | Germany | |
| Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Heraeus Metals Hong Kong Ltd. | China | |
| Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | |
| Hi-Temp Specialty Metals, Inc. | United States | |
| Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Hunan Chuangda Vanadium Tungsten Co., Ltd. Wuji | China | |
| Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Hydrometallurg, JSC | Russian Federation | |
| Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Istanbul Gold Refinery | Turkey | |
| Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Jiangxi Ketai Advanced Material Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | China | |
| JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | China | |
| JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| KEMET Blue Metals | Mexico | |
| KEMET Blue Powder | United States | |
| Kennametal Fallon | United States | |
| Kennametal Huntsville | United States | |
| Kennecott Utah Copper LLC | United States | |
| Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| LSM Brasil S.A. | Brazil | |
| LS-NIKKO Copper Inc. | South Korea | |
| Magnu’s Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda. | Brazil | |
| Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | Malaysia | |
| Materion | United States | |
| Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Melt Metais e Ligas S.A. | Brazil | |
| Metallic Resources, Inc. | United States | |
| Metallo-Chimique N.V. | Belgium | |
| Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd. | China | |
| Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. | Singapore | |
| Metalor Technologies S.A. | Switzerland | |
| Metalor USA Refining Corporation | United States | |
| Metalúrgica Met-Mex Peñoles S.A. De C.V. | Mexico | |
| Mineração Taboca S.A. | Brazil | |
| Minsur | Peru | |
| Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | Japan | |
| Mitsui Mining & Smelting | Japan | |
| Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| MMTC-PAMP India Pvt., Ltd. | India | |
| Molycorp Silmet A.S. | Estonia | |
| Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş. | Turkey | |
| Niagara Refining LLC | United States | |
| Nihon Material Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Nui Phao H.C. Starck Tungsten Chemicals Manufacturing LLC | Vietnam | |
| O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | Thailand | |
| O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc. | Philippines | |
| Ögussa Österreichische Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt GmbH | Austria | |
| Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Operaciones Metalurgical S.A. | Bolivia | |
| PAMP S.A. | Switzerland | |
| Plansee SE Liezen | Austria | |
| Plansee SE Reutte | Austria | |
| PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | Indonesia | |
| PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera | Indonesia | |
| PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | Indonesia | |
| PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya | Indonesia | |
| PT Babel Inti Perkasa | Indonesia | |
| PT Bangka Prima Tin | Indonesia | |
| PT Bangka Tin Industry | Indonesia | |
| PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | Indonesia | |
| PT Bukit Timah | Indonesia | |
| PT Cipta Persada Mulia | Indonesia | |
| PT DS Jaya Abadi | Indonesia | |
| PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri | Indonesia | |
| PT Inti Stania Prima | Indonesia | |
| PT Justindo | Indonesia | |
| PT Mitra Stania Prima | Indonesia | |
| PT Panca Mega Persada | Indonesia | |
| PT Prima Timah Utama | Indonesia | |
| PT Refined Bangka Tin | Indonesia | |
| PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa | Indonesia | |
| PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | Indonesia | |
| PT Sukses Inti Makmur | Indonesia | |
| PT Sumber Jaya Indah | Indonesia | |
| PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Kundur | Indonesia | |
| PT Timah (Persero) Tbk Mentok | Indonesia | |
| PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | Indonesia | |
| PT Wahana Perkit Jaya | Indonesia | |
| PX Précinox S.A. | Switzerland | |
| Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd. | South Africa | |
| Republic Metals Corporation | United States | |
| Resind Indústria e Comércio Ltda. | Brazil | |
| Royal Canadian Mint | Canada | |
| Rui Da Hung | Taiwan | |
| Schone Edelmetaal B.V. | Netherlands | |
| SEMPSA Joyería Platería S.A. | Spain | |
| Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Sichuan Tianze Precious Metals Co., Ltd. | China | |
| SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | Russian Federation | |
| Soft Metais Ltda. | Brazil | |
| Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | Taiwan | |
| Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | Russian Federation | |
| Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Taki Chemical Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | Japan | |
| Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | Vietnam | |
| Telex Metals | United States | |
| Thaisarco | Thailand | |
| The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC | Kazakhstan | |
| Umicore Brasil Ltda. | Brazil | |
| Umicore Precious Metals Thailand | Thailand | |
| Umicore S.A. Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | Belgium | |
| United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | United States | |
| Valcambi S.A. | Switzerland | |
| VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC | Vietnam | |
| Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint | Australia | |
| White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda. | Brazil | |
| Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG | Austria | |
| Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Yamamoto Precious Metal Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Yokohama Metal Co., Ltd. | Japan | |
| Yunnan Tin Company Limited | China | |
| Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | China | |
| Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group Co., Ltd. | China | |
| Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd. Gold Refinery | China | |
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