UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM SD

Specialized Disclosure Report

 

 

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-35451   27-0306875

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

100 Chelmsford Street

Lowell, Massachusetts

  01851
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

John Croteau

President and Chief Executive Officer

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.

(978) 656-2500

(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, 2014.

 

 

 


Section 1—Conflict Minerals Disclosure

 

Item 1.01. Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report.

Conflict Minerals Disclosure

This Form SD is filed by M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014.

A copy of the Company’s Conflict Minerals Report is provided as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD, and is publicly available at http://www.macom.com/about/sustainability-quality--reliabil.

 

Item 1.02. Exhibit.

As specified in Section 2, Item 2.01 of this Form SD, the Company is hereby filing its Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this report.

Section 2—Exhibits

 

Item 2.01. Exhibits.

The following exhibit is filed as part of this report.

 

Exhibit

No.

  

Description

1.01    Conflict Minerals Report of M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.


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 duly authorized undersigned.

 

M/A-COM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC.

Dated: May 29, 2015

By:

/s/ John Croteau

John Croteau
President and Chief Executive Officer


Exhibit 1.01

M/A-COM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC.

Conflict Minerals Report

For the reporting period from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 (the “Reporting Period”).

This Conflict Minerals Report (the “Report”) of M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (“we,” “us,” or the “Company”) has been prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD (the “Conflict Minerals Rule” or simply “the Rule”) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or “SEC,” under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014.

The Conflict Minerals Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures, or contracts to manufacture, products for which the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives tantalum, tin and tungsten (“3TG”). The “Covered Countries” for the purposes of the Conflict Minerals Rule are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola. As described in this Report, certain of the Company’s operations manufacture, or contract to manufacture, products for which 3TG are necessary to their functionality or production.

 

I. Description of the Company’s Products Covered by this Report

We design, develop and manufacture, or contract for the manufacture of, high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeter wave and photonic semiconductor products. At December 31, 2014, we offered more than 3,500 individual standard and custom products including integrated circuits (IC), multi-chip modules, power pallets and transistors, diodes, switches and switch limiters, passive and active components, Indium Phosphide (InP) high-performance laser semiconductors and complete subsystems, across 43 product lines.

Although a number of acquisitions and divestitures in 2014 resulted in the addition of some product families1 and the subtraction of others, we believe that substantially all of our products contain one or more of the 3TG, and that those 3TGs are in most cases necessary to their functionality.

 

II. Summary Results of our Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry and Due Diligence

The Company has worked to identify the 3TGs necessary to the functionality of its products and has developed a process to help identify relevant suppliers and smelters. We have created a Conflict Minerals vendor database to ensure relevant vendors are identified, and we assess supplier data to ensure traceability throughout the supply chain, so that mineral origin and smelters can be identified. However, our supply chain is complex; we do not purchase 3TG

 

1  Pursuant to the Rule, this Report does not cover products from certain companies that we acquired during the last eight months of 2014.


directly from mines, smelters or refiners, and there are many intervening steps in our supply chain between the original sources of these minerals and our receipt of the materials we use to manufacture our covered products. We must therefore rely on our suppliers, and their respective suppliers further upstream to provide information regarding the origin of 3TG that are included in our products and engage directly with them in this regard. We have relied on the EICC-GeSI Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative (or “CFSI”) audits. Based on the results of our inquiries and the EICC-GeSI CFSI audits, we formed a reasonable belief as to certain countries of origin and certain smelters that are sources of 3TG included in our covered products. This information is set forth in Appendix A to this Conflict Minerals Report.

The Company utilized the measures discussed below to exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of any 3TG used by it for the Reporting Period, which it believes conform to the Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, or “Due Diligence Guidelines,” of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or “OECD” (collectively, its “RCOI Analysis”). Despite these efforts, we were unable to obtain responses sufficient to form the basis for a reasonable belief either that none of the necessary 3TG included in our covered products originated in a Covered Country, or that all such necessary 3TG were from recycled or scrap sources.

Our due diligence efforts fell into the following categories described in the OECD Due Diligence Guidelines:

Step I: Establish strong management systems;

Step II: Assess risk in the supply chain;

Step III: Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risk; and

Step IV: Report on supply chain due diligence.

After exercising this due diligence, as described more fully below, we were unable to determine whether any of our covered products qualify as “DRC conflict free,” or “not DRC conflict free,” as defined under the Conflict Minerals Rule. Accordingly, we concluded that, based on the information currently available to us, each of our covered products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured in 2014 is “DRC conflict undeterminable.”


III. Our Due Diligence Efforts

 

  1. Establishing a strong Company Management System

MACOM’s Conflict Minerals Management System has been designed to incorporate the recommendations made by the OECD guidance as described more particularly below.

Adopt a company policy.

The Company adopted a Conflict Minerals Policy, which is posted on its website http://www.macom.com/about/sustainability-quality--reliabil. This policy is available to its customers and to the general public.

Structure internal management to support supply chain due diligence.

Senior members of the Company’s management team have been assigned the authority and the responsibility to oversee the Conflict Minerals program and resources have been made available to implement, support and monitor the operation of the program.

Establish a system of controls and transparency over the mineral supply chain

The Company developed its Conflict Minerals program to facilitate transparency in its supply chain and ensure adequate controls over the data returning from the supply chain. We actively review and update our Conflict Minerals data referencing the compliant smelter and refiner lists, as well as the active smelter and refiner lists. We use data obtained through the CFSI, have systems in place to obtain data from our supply chain and maintain all relevant documents and data for five (5) years.

Strengthen company engagement with suppliers

Contract language mandating the flow-down of Conflict Minerals-related requirements has been incorporated into our contract templates for vendor and supplier agreements. We continue to refine our Conflict Minerals training material and reporting requirements. We created and use a dedicated email address to manage all Conflict Minerals supply chain communication. Conflict Minerals team members interact with our supply chain to ensure the quality of conflict mineral data is continuously improving.

Grievance Mechanism

Any interested party may use the dedicated Conflict Minerals email address to voice concerns regarding mineral sourcing. Our Conflict Minerals teams proactively engage when concerns are voiced.

 

  2. Identify and assess risk in the supply chain

As discussed above in Section II, the Company’s complex supply chain requires that it rely on its suppliers and their respective suppliers further upstream to provide information regarding the origin of 3TG that are included in its products and engage directly with them in this regard. In certain cases, however, such information was either not forthcoming or appeared to us to be inaccurate or incomplete, and we therefore relied on the EICC-GeSI Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative audits. Based on the results of our inquiries and the EICC-GeSI CFSI audits, we formed a reasonable belief as to certain countries of origin and certain smelters that are sources of 3TG included in our covered products, which is summarized in Appendix A to this Conflict Minerals Report.


  3. Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks

Conflict Minerals program findings are periodically reported to supply chain management and senior management responsible for the oversight of the program. A risk rating system has been developed and each vendor has been assigned a rating dependent on the quality of the data provided. A risk rating report is communicated to our senior management and to supply chain management with recommended actions. Continuous monitoring of supplier’s Conflict Minerals data and continuous communication with our supply chain allows us to respond and mitigate risk.

 

  4. Report publically on due diligence

The Company’s Conflict Minerals Policy is reviewed on an annual basis and made available on the Company’s corporate Internet website. The Company also provides its customers and others with its corporate Conflict Minerals report, along with customer and product-specific reports. As with the instant report, the Company prepares and submits its Conflict Minerals Report on an annual basis, according to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD, promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

IV. Measures to improve our future due diligence

We expect to take the following steps, among others, to improve our due diligence measures and to further mitigate the risk that 3TG contained in our products finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries:

 

  Continue to engage with suppliers to obtain current, accurate and complete information about the supply chain;

 

  Include Conflict Minerals content in supply chain audit procedures;

 

  Consider the need to encourage suppliers to implement responsible sourcing and to have them encourage smelters and refiners to obtain a “conflict-free” designation from an independent, third-party auditor; and

 

  Consider enhancing the integration of our Conflict Minerals policy into our ERP system.


APPENDIX A

Certain Identified Facilities and Countries of Origin

Based on the results of our due diligence inquiries, we identified certain smelters and countries of origin that we believe are sources of 3TGs included in our covered products. This information is set forth in the table below.

 

Metal (*)    Smelter Reference List (*)    Smelter Country (*)
Gold    Allgemeine Gold-und Silberscheideanstalt A.G.    GERMANY
Gold    AngloGold Ashanti Mineração Ltda    BRAZIL
Gold    Argor-Heraeus SA    SWITZERLAND
Gold    Asahi Pretec Corporation    JAPAN
Gold    Aurubis AG    GERMANY
Gold    Boliden AB    SWEDEN
Gold    Xstrata Canada Corporation    CANADA
Gold    Chimet S.p.A.    ITALY
Gold    Dowa    JAPAN
Gold    Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd.    JAPAN
Gold    Heimerle + Meule GmbH    GERMANY
Gold    Heraeus Ltd. Hong Kong    HONG KONG
Gold    Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG    GERMANY
Gold    Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd.    JAPAN
Gold    Istanbul Gold Refinery    TURKEY
Gold    Japan Mint    JAPAN
Gold    JM USA    UNITED STATES
Gold    Johnson Matthey Canada    CANADA
Gold    JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.    JAPAN
Gold    Kazzinc Ltd    KAZAKHSTAN
Gold    Kennecott Utah Copper LLC    UNITED STATES
Gold    Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd    JAPAN
Gold    LS-NIKKO Copper Inc.    KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold    Materion    UNITED STATES
Gold    Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd.    JAPAN
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Hong Kong) Ltd    HONG KONG
Gold    Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.    SINGAPORE
Gold    Metalor Switzerland    SWITZERLAND
Gold    Metalor USA Refining Corporation    UNITED STATES
Gold    Met-Mex Peñoles, S.A.    MEXICO
Gold    Mitsubishi Materials Corporation    JAPAN
Gold    Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.    JAPAN
Gold    Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.Ş.    TURKEY
Gold    Nihon Material Co. LTD    JAPAN
Gold    Ohio Precious Metals, LLC    UNITED STATES
Gold    Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd    JAPAN
Gold    OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastvetmet)    RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold    PAMP SA    SWITZERLAND
Gold    PX Précinox SA    SWITZERLAND
Gold    Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd    SOUTH AFRICA
Gold    Royal Canadian Mint    CANADA
Gold    Schone Edelmetaal    NETHERLANDS
Gold    SEMPSA Joyería Platería SA    SPAIN
Gold    Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp.    TAIWAN
Gold    Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.    JAPAN
Gold    Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K.    JAPAN


Gold Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd JAPAN
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 C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG GERMANY
Gold Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co. Ltd CHINA
Gold YAMAMOTO PRECIOUS METAL CO., LTD. JAPAN
Gold Yokohama Metal Co Ltd JAPAN
Gold Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) UZBEKISTAN
Gold Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. TURKEY
Gold Central Bank of the Philippines Gold Refinery & Mint PHILIPPINES
Gold Cendres & Métaux SA SWITZERLAND
Gold FSE Novosibirsk Refinery RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited CHINA
Gold Jiangxi Copper Company Limited CHINA
Gold JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold JSC Uralectromed RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold Kyrgyzaltyn JSC KYRGYZSTAN
Gold Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold OJSC Kolyma Refinery RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk INDONESIA
Gold SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Gold The Great Wall Gold and Silver Refinery of China CHINA
Gold The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd CHINA
Gold Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation CHINA
Gold Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd CHINA
Gold Asaka Riken Co Ltd JAPAN
Gold Advanced Chemical Company UNITED STATES
Gold Aida Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. JAPAN
Gold Caridad MEXICO
Gold Chugai Mining JAPAN
Gold Daejin Indus Co. Ltd KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold Do Sung Corporation KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold FAGGI ENRICO SPA ITALY
Gold Hwasung CJ Co. Ltd KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold Korea Metal Co. Ltd KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co. Ltd. CHINA
Gold Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat UZBEKISTAN
Gold Sabin Metal Corp. UNITED STATES
Gold SAMWON METALS Corp. KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Gold Torecom KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Tantalum Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tantalum Douluoshan Sapphire Rare Metal Co Ltd CHINA
Tantalum Exotech Inc. UNITED STATES


Tantalum F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. CHINA
Tantalum Global Advanced Metals UNITED STATES
Tantalum Global Advanced Metals Boyertown UNITED STATES
Tantalum Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tantalum H.C. Starck Co., Ltd. THAILAND
Tantalum H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar GERMANY
Tantalum H.C. Starck GmbH Laufenburg GERMANY
Tantalum H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH GERMANY
Tantalum H.C. Starck Inc. UNITED STATES
Tantalum H.C. Starck Ltd. JAPAN
Tantalum H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG GERMANY
Tantalum Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tantalum Hi-Temp UNITED STATES
Tantalum JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co. Ltd. CHINA
Tantalum Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tantalum Kemet Blue Powder UNITED STATES
Tantalum LSM Brasil S.A. BRAZIL
Tantalum Metallurgical Products India (Pvt.) Ltd. INDIA
Tantalum Mineração Taboca S.A. BRAZIL
Tantalum Mitsui Mining & Smelting JAPAN
Tantalum Molycorp Silmet ESTONIA
Tantalum Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tantalum Plansee AUSTRIA
Tantalum Plansee SE Liezen AUSTRIA
Tantalum RFH CHINA
Tantalum Solikamsk Metal Works RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tantalum Taki Chemicals JAPAN
Tantalum Telex UNITED STATES
Tantalum Ulba KAZAKHSTAN
Tantalum Zhuzhou Cement Carbide CHINA
Tin Alpha UNITED STATES
Tin CV United Smelting INDONESIA
Tin Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co. Ltd. CHINA
Tin Magnu’s Minerais Metais e Ligas LTDA BRAZIL
Tin Malaysia Smelting Corp MALAYSIA
Tin Mineração Taboca S.A. BRAZIL
Tin Minsur PERU
Tin Mitsubishi Materials Corporation JAPAN
Tin OMSA BOLIVIA
Tin PT Babel Inti Perkasa INDONESIA
Tin PT Bangka Putra Karya INDONESIA
Tin PT Bangka Tin Industry INDONESIA
Tin PT Bukit Timah INDONESIA
Tin PT DS Jaya Abadi INDONESIA
Tin PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri INDONESIA
Tin PT Refined Bangka TIN (RBT) INDONESIA
Tin PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa INDONESIA


Tin PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa INDONESIA
Tin PT Tambang Timah INDONESIA
Tin Thailand Smelting and Refining Co. Ltd. THAILAND
Tin White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda. BRAZIL
Tin Yunnan Tin Company, Ltd. CHINA
Tin Best Metais BRAZIL
Tin Liuzhou China Tin CHINA
Tin Cooper Santa BRAZIL
Tin CV Serumpun Sebalai INDONESIA
Tin EM Vinto BOLIVIA
Tin Fenix Metals POLAND
Tin PT Alam Lestari Kencana INDONESIA
Tin PT Bangka Kudai Tin INDONESIA
Tin PT Bangka Timah Utama Sejahtera INDONESIA
Tin PT Karimun Mining INDONESIA
Tin PT Mitra Stania Prima INDONESIA
Tin PT Prima Timah Utama INDONESIA
Tin PT Tinindo Inter Nusa INDONESIA
Tin Rui Da Hung TAIWAN
Tin Soft Metais, Ltda. BRAZIL
Tin Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co.,Ltd. CHINA
Tin Jean Goldschmidt International BELGIUM
Tin CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co. Ltd. CHINA
Tin CV Nurjanah INDONESIA
Tin Gejiu Zi-Li CHINA
Tin Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co. Ltd CHINA
Tin Smelter Not Listed BRAZIL
Tin Kai Unita Trade Limited Liability Company CHINA
Tin Linwu Xianggui Smelter Co CHINA
Tin Lübeck GmbH GERMANY
Tin Metallo Chimique BELGIUM
Tin Novosibirsk Integrated Tin Works RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tin O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. THAILAND
Tin PT Artha Cipta Langgeng INDONESIA
Tin PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari INDONESIA
Tin PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera INDONESIA
Tin PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari INDONESIA
Tin PT Fang Di Mul Tindo INDONESIA
Tin PT HP Metals Indonesia INDONESIA
Tin PT Koba Tin INDONESIA
Tin PT Pelat Timah Nusantara Tbk INDONESIA
Tin PT Sumber Jaya Indah INDONESIA
Tin PT Yinchendo Mining Industry INDONESIA
Tungsten Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten GTP UNITED STATES


Tungsten Hunan Chun-Chang Nonferrous Smelting & Concentrating Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Japan New Metals Co Ltd JAPAN
Tungsten Malipo Haiyu Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd CHINA
Tungsten Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten H.C. Starck GmbH GERMANY
Tungsten Kennametal Fallon UNITED STATES
Tungsten Kennametal Huntsville UNITED STATES
Tungsten Wolfram Company CJSC RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tungsten Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. CHINA
Tungsten Hunan Chenzhou Mining Group Co CHINA
Tungsten Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. VIET NAM
Tungsten A.L.M.T. Corp. JAPAN
Tungsten Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co Ltd CHINA
Tungsten Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry CHINA
Tungsten Ganzhou Grand Sea W and Mo Company CHINA
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