Exhibit 1.01
COHERENT CORP.
Conflict
Minerals
Report
For the reporting period from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023
Overview
This Conflict Minerals Report
(the Report) of Coherent Corp. (Coherent or the Company) has been prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD (the Rule) promulgated under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 (the 2023 Reporting Period).
The 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, which are limited to tantalum, tin and
tungsten (the Conflict Minerals or 3TGs). The Covered Countries for purposes of Rule 13p-1 are the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the
Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.
As further described in this
Report, the Company has determined that certain of its divisions manufacture, or contract to manufacture, products containing 3TGs that are necessary to the functionality or production of such products.
Description of the Companys Products Covered by this Report
Coherent, a global leader in materials, networking and lasers, is a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops, manufactures and
markets engineered materials, optoelectronic components and devices, and lasers for use in industrial materials processing, optical communications, aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, semiconductor capital equipment, medical diagnostics and
life sciences, automotive applications, machine tools, consumer goods and medical device manufacturing. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the Company has research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, and distribution
facilities worldwide. The Company produces a wide variety of lasers, along with application-specific photonic and electronic materials and components, and deploys them in various forms, including integrated with advanced software to enable its
customers.
This Report relates to products (i) for which 3TGs are necessary to the functionality or production of that product,
(ii) that were manufactured, or contracted to be manufactured, by the Company, and (iii) for which the manufacture was completed during calendar year 2023.
These products, which are referred to in the remainder of this Report as the Covered Products, are as follows: (i) certain
laser optics whose coatings contain gold, tantalum or tungsten, (ii) certain machined parts that may contain gold plating or tin solder, and (iii) various parts and components containing gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten that are
incorporated into products offered by the Company (collectively referred to herein as the Covered Products).
Reasonable Country of Origin
Inquiry
For the 2023 Reporting Period, the Company conducted an internal survey of its divisions and required each division to
disclose whether any products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured by the division contained 3TGs and, if so, to identify the suppliers of such 3TGs (Suppliers). As a result of this internal survey, the Company determined that
certain of its divisions manufacture, or contract to manufacture, products containing 3TGs which are necessary to the functionality or production of such products, as follows: (i) certain laser optics whose coatings contain gold, tantalum or
tungsten, (ii) certain machined parts that may contain gold plating or tin solder, and (iii) various parts and components containing gold, tin, tantalum and tungsten that are incorporated into products offered by the Company.
Based upon the determination that the Rule applies to the above-referenced Covered Products, the Company undertook, with the assistance of
Assent, a good-faith reasonable country of origin inquiry (RCOI) designed to determine whether any of the 3TGs included in such Covered Products originated in the Covered Countries, and whether any of the 3TGs may be from recycled or
scrap sources.
To collect data on the materials sources of origin procured by the supply chain, the Company utilized the Conflict
Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT) version 6.31 to conduct a survey of all in-scope Suppliers. The CMRT was developed to facilitate disclosure and communication of information regarding smelters and refiners that provide Conflict
Minerals into a companys supply chain. It includes questions regarding the origin of 3TGs included in a companys products, including the identity of smelters and refiners, a companys conflict-free policy, and a companys
engagement and due diligence with respect to its suppliers.
During the Supplier survey, the Company contacted its Suppliers via the
Assent Sustainability Manager (ASM), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform provided by Assent that enables users to
complete and track Supplier communications and allows Suppliers to upload completed CMRTs directly to the platform for validation, assessment and management. The ASM automatically evaluated the quality of each Supplier response and assigned a health
score based on the Suppliers declaration of process engagement. Additionally, the step-by-step process for Supplier engagement and upstream due diligence
investigations performed, were managed through this platform.