Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure
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Item 1.01 |
Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
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Kewaunee Scientific Corporation shares the concerns of Congress and
the international business community that profits from the mining
of certain minerals (“3TGs,” as defined below) in the Democratic
Republic of Congo or its adjoining countries may be aiding human
rights abuses. The term “3TGs” refers to columbite-tantalite
(coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite or their derivatives, which
are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten.
We have established a committee, comprised of our Vice President of
Manufacturing, Vice President of Product Development and
International Sourcing, Global Sourcing Manager, Research and
Development Manager and Environmental & Safety Manager, that is
responsible for determining if 3TGs are present in, and necessary
to the functionality or production of, any of our
products. Based on the Committee’s work, we determined that
several of our products may contain small traces of one or more of
3TGs that may be necessary to their functionality or
production.
Accordingly, we have established a process whereby we conduct a
country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) reasonably designed to determine
whether 3TGs contained in or used to produce these products, if
any, originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo or an adjoining
country (the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic,
South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia or Angola),
or were from recycled or scrap sources.
Information about our RCOI, as well as the steps we have taken to
exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the
3TGs, is included in our Conflict Minerals Disclosure, which is
included as an exhibit to this Form SD. In addition, our
Conflict Minerals Disclosure is publicly available on our website
at www.kewaunee.com, as well as the SEC’s EDGAR database at
www.sec.gov.
Our Conflict Minerals Disclosure required by Item 1.01 above
is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.
