UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM SD
Specialized Disclosure Report
Kewaunee Scientific Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 0-5286 | 38-0715562 | ||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
| 2700 West Front Street Statesville, North Carolina |
28677 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
D. Michael Parker; 704-873-7202
(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)
Check the appropriate box to indicated the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:
| x | Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17CFR 240.13p-1) for the report period from January 1 to December 31, 2013. |
Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure
| Item 1.01 | Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report |
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 established a committee comprised of our Vice President of Manufacturing, Vice President of Engineering and Product Development, Global Sourcing Manager, Research and Development Manager and Environmental, Health, & Safety Manager to determine if 3TGs are 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.
Accordingly, we have conducted a country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) that was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the 3TGs contained in or used to produce these products 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 Report, which is included as an exhibit to this Form SD. In addition, our Conflict Minerals Report is publicly available on our website at www.kewaunee/aboutus/investorinformation/, as well as the SEC’s EDGAR database at www.sec.gov.
| Item 1.02 | Exhibit. |
Our Conflict Minerals Report required by Item 1.01 above is filed as Exhibit 1.02 to this Form SD.
Section 2 – Exhibits
| Item 2.01 | Exhibits |
Exhibit 1.02 — Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form.
Signature
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 undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| (Registrant) | ||||||
| Kewaunee Scientific Corporation | ||||||
| Date: May 29, 2014 | /s/ D. Michael Parker | |||||
| D. Michael Parker Senior Vice President, Finance | ||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||||
EXHIBIT INDEX
| 1.02 Conflict | Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of Form SD. |