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Konica Minolta, Inc.

electronics·🇯🇵 Japan·✓ Company-verified

Konica Minolta, Inc. (TSE: 4902) is a Japan-headquartered imaging and electronics group. It exited the consumer camera/photo business to Sony in 2006; today it makes office/production multifunction printers and presses (e.g.

Supply-risk report · CRMA Art. 20–25 assessment Policy outlook · threats, impact & strategy

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Critical

Binding chokepoint

tungsten 88

Controller

🇨🇳 CN 90%

Measures, 24m

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Scored exposures

5 materials

Its binding exposure, tungsten, is controlled by CN at 90% of refined output.

Material exposure

5scored materials

Every exposure is read as a buyer dependency; the top 3 are its binding chokepoints.

tungsten🇨🇳 CN 88

silicon🇨🇳 CN 77

cobalt🇨🇳 CN 75

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tin🇨🇳 CN 66

tantalum🇨🇳 CN 53

Supply-pressure direction · as consumer

rising2 of 5 exposures computable

As a buyer, policy pressure across its consumed materials is rising.

tungsten🇨🇳 CN · bindingrising

silicon🇨🇳 CNrising

cobalt🇨🇳 CNcoverage-limited

Descriptive trend in official policy actions on this company’s materials — a policy-pressure trend, not a price or trading signal. No forward probability is implied. Direction is measured on actions we have discovered, and discovery lags events: where the recent window is too thin to support a calm reading, the row says coverage-limited instead of easing.

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tantalum🇨🇳 CNtoo few actions

tin🇨🇳 CNtoo few actions

Policy measures, last 24 months

No actions in the register have named or swept this company in the last 24 months.

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If passed, would hit their inputs

27proposals matching this company's materials

DRC — Interministerial Arrêté Banning Export of Unprocessed Copper and Cobalt Concentrates (29 June 2026, replaces 4 August 2023 framework)🇨🇩 highcopper, cobalt

Zambia SI No. 43 of 2026 — Customs and Excise (Suspension) (Copper Concentrates) (No. 2) Regulations, 2026🇿🇲 highcopper, cobalt

African Union / AfDB — continental harmonisation of mining legislation toward a ban on unprocessed critical-mineral ore exports (Abidjan Ministerial Forum outcome) lowcobalt, copper, lithium, manganese, bauxite, graphite, rare-earths

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DRC — ARECOMS forfeiture & reallocation of unused H1-2026 cobalt export quotas to the state strategic reserve (in force ~29 June 2026)🇨🇩 highcobalt

Tanzania Critical & Strategic Minerals Strategy + statutory critical/strategic minerals LIST (Ministry of Minerals, Mavunde) — beneficiation-mandate licensing instrument🇹🇿 moderategraphite, nickel, rare-earths, lithium, niobium, cobalt, titanium, helium

Manara Minerals (Saudi PIF / Ma'aden JV) — 15-20% stake acquisition in First Quantum Minerals' Zambian copper-nickel assets🇸🇦 lowcopper, nickel, cobalt

Supplier alternatives

5of 5 exposures have a viable non-dominant substitute · avg lead 7mo

tungsten🇨🇳 CN 90% → 🇦🇹 AT6-12mo

silicon🇨🇳 CN 80% → 🇩🇪 DE6-12mo

cobalt🇨🇳 CN 78% → 🇫🇮 FI6-12mo

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tin🇨🇳 CN 55% → 🇮🇩 ID0-6mo

tantalum🇨🇳 CN 50% → 🇺🇸 US0-6mo

Traders & procurement channels

1named-material houses of 3 tracked

Lipmann WaltonHenley-on-Thames, UKtungsten, cobalt

TraxysLuxembourgbroad universe

Tradium GmbHFrankfurtbroad universe

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No dated actions on record. Material exposures are company-verified; scores are footprint-adjusted and buyer-relative.

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Konica Minolta, Inc.

electronics·🇯🇵 Japan·✓ Company-verified