Dorman Products (DORM) SDConflict minerals disclosure

DORMAN PRODUCTS, INC.

Conflict Minerals Report

Explanatory Note

This Conflict Minerals Report (the “Report”) of Dorman Products, Inc. (the “Company,” “Dorman,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) 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 “Reporting Period”).

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

Company and Product Overview

The Company is one of the leading suppliers of replacement and upgrade parts in the motor vehicle aftermarket industry, serving passenger cars, light-, medium-, and heavy-duty trucks, as well as specialty vehicles, including utility terrain vehicles (UTVs) and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). During calendar year 2023, many of our products were manufactured in third party vendor facilities (referred to hereafter as “contract manufacturers”) and certain of our products were manufactured or remanufactured by the Company. This Report relates to products (i) for which Conflict Minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of those products, (ii) that were manufactured, remanufactured or contracted for manufacture by Dorman, and (iii) for which the manufacture was completed during calendar year 2023 (the “Covered Products”). We market and sell the Covered Products in three different sectors of the motor vehicle aftermarket industry: light-duty, heavy-duty and powersports (i.e., specialty vehicles).

The Covered Products include products in the following product categories:

We do not purchase Conflict Minerals directly from mines or smelters/refiners. The Company’s supply chain with respect to the Covered Products is complex and, often times, there are many parties in the supply chain between the Company and the original source of the Conflict Minerals. Therefore, the Company must rely on its supply chain to provide information regarding the origin of the Conflict Minerals that are included in such Covered Products. We believe that the smelters/refiners of the Conflict Minerals are best suited to identify the sources of such minerals, and we have requested that our vendors take steps to identify the applicable smelters/refiners of the Conflict Minerals in our supply chain.

II.    Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry

The Company conducted a good faith Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (“RCOI”) with respect to the Conflict Minerals included in the Covered Products. Such RCOI was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals included in the Covered Products may have originated in the Covered Countries and whether any of the Conflict Minerals may be from scrap or recycled sources.

We began this year’s RCOI by using internal product expertise to update our list of products that we manufacture, remanufacture or contract to manufacture which may contain Conflict Minerals. We then identified the names of our largest seventy-two (72) vendors that accounted for greater than 90% of dollars spent on (i) Covered Products contracted for manufacture by Dorman, and (ii) Conflict Minerals used in the manufacture and remanufacture of Covered Products by Dorman. Once identified, we sent each such vendor a Conflict Minerals reporting template (described below) and a letter with instructions on how to complete the reporting template. We have adopted the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (the “Template”) developed by the Responsible Minerals Initiative, formerly the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, as a standard questionnaire for conducting inquiries into our vendors’ sources of metals. This Template was created as a common means for the collection of sourcing information related to Conflict Minerals.

After reviewing the results of our RCOI and comparing the smelters/refiners identified in the supply-chain survey against verified lists produced by the Responsible Minerals Initiative (“RMI”), we determined that we had reason to believe that some of the Conflict Minerals necessary for the functionality of our Covered Products may have originated in a Covered Country. Therefore, we determined that the Rule required that we exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of such Conflict Minerals.

Our Vice President, Supply Chain oversaw the due diligence measures that we performed for Covered Products. Those measures included, but were not limited to, the following:

Appendix A contains a list of known smelters/refiners reported by the Company’s vendors which have been determined to be legitimate mineral processing operations and may have been used to process the Conflict Minerals utilized in the Covered Products. Based on the information obtained pursuant to the due diligence process, the Company does not have sufficient information with respect to products or components supplied to it or manufactured for it to determine the country of origin of the Conflict Minerals in all Covered Products. At the same time, to the extent that vendors supplied information, the Company received no information from its vendors indicating that the Conflict Minerals in the Company’s Covered Products directly or indirectly financed or benefitted armed groups in the Covered Countries. In some cases, information was provided to us for the entire supply chain of a vendor and was not necessarily limited to facilities that have been confirmed to contribute necessary Conflict Minerals to a Covered Product. Accordingly, we have been unable to definitely link the identified smelters/refiners to only those products/materials in our supply chain; therefore, our smelter/refiner list likely contains more processing facilities than are actually in our supply chain or Covered Products. However, based on the information that was obtained, the Company has reasonably determined that countries of origin of the Conflict Minerals may include the countries listed within Appendix A.

We are a downstream purchaser of Conflict Minerals. Accordingly, the efforts we have undertaken to identify the source and chain of custody of the Conflict Minerals in our Covered Products reflect our circumstances and position in the supply chain. As a result, our inquiry can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance regarding the source and chain of custody of the Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality of the Covered Products. Our process relies on data obtained directly from our vendors who seek similar information within their supply chain to identify the original sources of the necessary Conflict Minerals. Such sources of information may yield inaccurate or incomplete information.

V.    Steps to Further Mitigate Risk and Improve Due Diligence in 2024

The Company expects to take the following steps, among others, to improve its due diligence measures and to further mitigate the risk that the necessary Conflict Minerals contained in the Company’s products finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries: