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guscrown:
'm getting pushed by our legal department to start utilizing vendors that can confidently certify that they are NOT using raw material from the "Conflict Mines" in Congo. I use mainly two fab houses for all of our boards and one of them basically said they couldn't really determine where their raw material was coming from. The other at least said that they purchase all of their raw material from mainland China, but this is not so reassuring.

I'm basically looking for a US based fab house that can certify that they are NOT using "conflict minerals" in their process.

Some info on conflict minerals:

http://www.sourceintelligence.com/what-are-conflict-minerals/

LabSpokane:
As for tantalum, I thought I heard Kemet supposedly purged their supply chain a while back.
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In fact Kemet guarantees conflict free tantalum. The rest of it is nearly impossible to fully verify. And I honestly believe that Kemet made a valiant effort to vet the tin, tungsten, and gold supply chains. Even they couldn't do it and many suppliers are reported as "undeterminable". 

guscrown:
"Undeterminable" is what I am getting from my US based PCB Fab house, but this ain't cutting it for my company's legal department. I need to find a fab house that is actively eliminating conflict minerals from their supply chain.

timofonic:
How this can be checked? There's tons of ways to lie about it if you apply some social engineering . If there isn't a way to check it scientifically, this is just marketing bullshit.

mikeselectricstuff:

--- Quote from: guscrown on June 25, 2015, 09:27:10 pm ---"Undeterminable" is what I am getting from my US based PCB Fab house, but this ain't cutting it for my company's legal department. I need to find a fab house that is actively eliminating conflict minerals from their supply chain.

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..so tell them there isn't one. If they have a problem, they should tell the MD why all production has just stopped....

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