Specialized Disclosure Report (sd)
May 30 2017 - 4:19PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM SD
SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT
Commission file number:
001-16429
ABB Ltd
(Exact name of registrant as
specified in its charter)
Switzerland
(Jurisdiction of incorporation
or organization)
Affolternstrasse 44
CH-8050 Zurich
Switzerland
(Address of principal
executive offices)
Richard A.
Brown
Affolternstrasse
44
CH-8050
Zurich
Switzerland
Telephone:
+41-43-317-7111
Facsimile:
+41-43-317-7992
(Name, Telephone, E-mail
and/or Facsimile number and Address of Company Contact Person)
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.
Introduction
ABB
Ltd is a corporation organized under the laws of Switzerland. In this Form SD
and the attached Conflict Minerals Report (included as Exhibit 1.01), “ABB”,
the “Company”, “we”, and “our” refer to ABB Ltd and its consolidated
subsidiaries. ABB is a foreign private issuer as defined under Rule 405 of
Regulation C under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-4 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Our shares are currently listed on the SIX
Swiss Exchange, the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Exchange and the New York Stock
Exchange (in the form of American Depositary Shares). We are a pioneering
technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial
automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and
transport & infrastructure globally. For more than four decades, we have
been part of the industrial digitalization. With more than 70 million devices
connected through our installed base of more than 70,000 control systems across
all customer segments we serve, we are well-positioned to benefit from the
Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolution. With a heritage of more than 130
years, we operate in more than 100 countries with about 132,000 employees.
Conflict
minerals are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite and wolframite, and
their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum and tungsten, as well as
gold (3TG). The functionality of a substantial portion of our global product
portfolio relies on the use of direct materials, especially electronic
components, which include amounts of tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold (
necessary
conflict minerals
). For example, tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold are each
contained respectively in weld wire, capacitors, electronic contacts and
electrical connection coatings, each of which are components in many of our products. Our
operating divisions and their products are described in more detail below.
In
2016 we operated in a structure with four operating divisions. Effective
January 1, 2017, as part of the ABB Next Level Strategy, the structure of these
four operating divisions has been further focused. The changes in the
divisional structure did not affect the range of our consolidated product
portfolio or our overall conflict minerals due diligence program. The
description of our current operating divisions and their main products is as
follows:
·
Electrification Products:
manufactures and sells products and services including
electric vehicle charging, solar inverters, modular substation packages,
switchgear, UPS solutions, circuit breakers, control products, wiring
accessories, enclosures and cabling systems, and intelligent home and building
solutions designed to integrate and automate the lighting, heating and
ventilation, and security and data communication networks.
·
Robotics and Motion:
manufactures and sells robotics, motors, generators, drives,
wind converters, components and systems for railways and related services and
digital solutions for a wide range of applications in industry, transportation
and infrastructure, and utilities.
·
Industrial Automation:
develops and sells integrated automation and electrification
systems and solutions, a comprehensive range of services ranging from repair to
advanced services such as remote monitoring and preventive maintenance and
cybersecurity services, process and discrete control solutions, advanced
process control software and manufacturing execution systems, sensing,
measurement and analytics, electric ship propulsion systems and large turbochargers.
·
Power Grids:
offers a range of products, systems, service and software
solutions across the power value chain of generation, transmission and
distribution, to utility, industry, transportation and infrastructure
customers. These offerings address existing and evolving grid needs such as the
integration of renewables, network control, digital substations, microgrids and
asset management. The division portfolio includes turnkey grid integration,
transmission systems and substation solutions as well as a wide range of power,
distribution and traction transformers, and an array of high-voltage products,
such as circuit breakers, switchgear and capacitors.
As ABB files reports with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 13(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, and is a user of
necessary conflict minerals
to
produce its manufactured products, ABB is subject to Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (17 CFR Parts 240
and 249b). ABB’s Policy on Conflict Minerals can be found at new.abb.com/about/supplying/conflict-minerals-policy
The
content of any Web site referred to in this Form SD is included for general
information only and is not incorporated by reference in this Form SD.
Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosures
a.
We have concluded that during the
2016 calendar year:
i.
based on an analysis of our global product offering,
we have manufactured products containing conflict minerals and have determined
that the use of these minerals is necessary to the functionality or production
of these products.
ii.
based on the Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry
(RCOI) conducted (see below), we have reason to believe that a portion of the
Company’s
necessary conflict minerals
originated or may have originated
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or an adjoining country
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(collectively the “covered countries”) and may not be from recycled or scrap
sources.
b.
Description of RCOI
We are a large
organization and have manufacturing facilities located around the world. We
manufacture products in more than 500 product lines and have approximately
70,000 unique direct material suppliers. In 2015, we had significantly expanded
the assessment of our product portfolio to identify the use of 3TG in our
products. This process was performed to identify the use of 3TG in our products
and utilized ABB product experts, including representatives from supply chain
management, engineering, and research and development, in making these component
assessments. During 2016, we completed the remaining detailed assessments for
our product portfolio such that a detailed component and supplier listing is
available for our products. In our global product portfolio, only a small
portion of our products have been determined not to contain any 3TG.
To assess whether the
necessary
conflict minerals
in our products originated from the covered countries, we
performed a RCOI by identifying direct suppliers of products likely to contain
3TG and surveying a sample of these suppliers using the Conflict Minerals
Reporting Template (CMRT) as developed and issued by the Conflict-Free Sourcing
Initiative (CFSI) of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the
Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI).
In 2016, we determined
the scope of the RCOI procedures based on the results of the product-level
component assessments described above. We continued to focus our supplier
selection procedures to increase the coverage of suppliers providing us with
components likely to contain 3TG. Our efforts focused on identifying the
specific components containing 3TG across our product portfolio and selecting
those suppliers for inclusion in the RCOI procedures. In 2016, we selected
approximately 6,200 suppliers to be surveyed. Our efforts to refine the
supplier selection process has resulted in increasing the coverage of our
purchases containing 3TG included in the RCOI to a sufficient level that we
believe could allow us to appropriately assess the conflict status of our
products.
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Adjoining
countries of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are: Angola, Burundi,
Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania,
Uganda and Zambia.
Most of the selected suppliers who
confirmed that they supplied us with products containing 3TG were able to
provide us with the names of the original smelters/refiners used to process 3TG
contained in their products. Based on the list of processing facilities we have
compiled and based on smelter/refiner-specific country sourcing information we
have received through our membership in the CFSI, we believe that some of the
necessary
conflict minerals
in our products may have originated from the covered
countries and were not from recycled or scrap sources. Although most suppliers
who responded to our survey were able to provide us with a list of the original
smelters/refiners that they identified as being used to process 3TG contained
in their products, most of our suppliers were unable to identify and represent
which smelters/refiners were specifically used for 3TG in the products or
materials supplied to ABB. Therefore, the lists of smelters/refiners provided
by suppliers may contain facilities that were not used to process 3TG contained
in the components they provided to us.
c.
Disclosure of this Form and the
Conflict Minerals report
In
accordance with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this
Specialized Disclosure Form (Form SD) and the associated Conflict Minerals
Report are available on our Web site at www.abb.com/investorrelations under
“Quarterly results and annual reports”, “2016”, “SEC Filings”.
Section 2 -
Exhibits
Exhibit
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 duly authorized
undersigned.
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ABB LTD
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By:
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Date:
May 30, 2017
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Name:
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Timo
Ihamuotila
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Title:
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Executive
Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
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By:
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Date: May 30, 2017
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Name:
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Richard A.
Brown
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Title:
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Group
Senior Vice President and
Chief Counsel Corporate & Finance
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