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Vertiv Policy on Conflict Minerals
This document details Vertiv
’s
corporate policy regarding the use of conflict minerals. The
policy expressed in this document should be considered to cover Vertiv and Vertiv Eu-
rope divisions.
Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act which was passed by the US Congress in 2010 re-
quires certain companies to annually disclose their use of conflict minerals. Conflict min-
erals covered under this act include tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold.
Although Vertiv is not directly subjected to the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act, Ver-
tiv recognizes that all companies within the electronics manufacturing industry supply
chain are impacted by this legislation. Vertiv supports the intent of the law, which is the
reduction of violence within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and will take several
actions to both advance the goals of the Dodd-Frank Act and to provide exceptional sup-
port to our customers.
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Vertiv will work with our direct suppliers to identify purchased components and
materials that contain tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold.
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Vertiv will work with our direct suppliers to trace sources of any tin, tantalum,
tungsten or gold used in our products back to the smelter.
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Vertiv will document our efforts to trace tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold miner-
als back to the smelter and will accurately report the results to our customers.
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Vertiv will continue to monitor industry progress in identifying conflict-free smel-
ters and will adjust corporate policy as the electronics supply chain becomes
more fully documented.
Vertiv will not require that our direct suppliers source only conflict-free minerals until an
adequate number of smelters has been reliably identified and audited by The Electronic
Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) to ser-
vice the electronic industry supply chain. Mandating a conflict-free supply chain before an
adequate number of smelters has been identified will prohibit the use of all tin, tantalum,
tungsten, and gold originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding
countries. This prohibition would cut off the sole income source for many artisanal miners
within the region and may result in increased violence within the Democratic Republic of
the Congo in direct opposition to the goals of the Dodd-Frank Act. Vertiv will work contin-
uously with our direct suppliers in order to annually increase the percentage of docu-
mented conflict-free minerals that are used in our products until all products can be certi-
fied as conflict-free.
