Wisconsin | 39-0178960 | |
(State of Incorporation) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
þ | Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2014 |
Item 1.01 | Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report |
Item 1.02 | Exhibit |
Item 2.01 | Exhibits |
BRADY CORPORATION | ||
/s/ AARON J. PEARCE | Date: June 1, 2015 | |
Aaron J. Pearce | ||
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
• | Compared smelter listings from our supply chain with the CFSI list of validated conflict free and verified facilities and the U.S. Department of Commerce "Reporting Requirements Under Section 1502(d)(3)(C) of the Dodd-Frank Act World-Wide Conflict Mineral Processing Facilities"; (http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/forestprod/DOC-ConflictMineralReport.pdf) to verify smelter status; |
• | Supported the development and implementation of independent third-party audits of smelters/refiners through each of our 3TG Minerals policy and procurement practices, which encourages suppliers to purchase materials from audited smelters/refiners; and |
• | Reported to senior management and the Board of Directors on the status of direct supplier responses. |
CFSI Conflict Free Smelter and Refiner List | |||
3TG | Smelter name | Smelter Country | Comment* |
Gold | Aida Chemical Industries Co. Ltd. | JAPAN | Active |
Gold | Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt A.G. | GERMANY | |
Gold | AngloGold Ashanti Córrego do Sítio Minerção | BRAZIL | |
Gold | Argor-Heraeus SA | SWITZERLAND | |
Gold | Asahi Pretec Corp | JAPAN | |
Gold | Asaka Riken Co Ltd | JAPAN | Active |
Gold | Atasay Kuyumculuk Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. | TURKEY | |
Gold | Aurubis AG | GERMANY | |
Gold | Boliden AB | SWEDEN | |
Gold | C. Hafner GmbH + Co. KG | GERMANY | |
Gold | CCR Refinery - Glencore Canada Corporation | CANADA | |
Gold | Cendres + Métaux SA | SWITZERLAND | Active |
Gold | Chimet SpA | ITALY | |
Gold | Dowa | JAPAN | |
Gold | Eco-System Recycling Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | |
Gold | Heimerle + Meule GmbH | GERMANY | |
Gold | Heraeus Ltd Hong Kong | HONG KONG | |
Gold | Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG | GERMANY | |
Gold | Ishifuku Metal Industry Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | |
Gold | Istanbul Gold Refinery | TURKEY | |
Gold | Japan Mint | JAPAN | |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Inc | UNITED STATES | |
Gold | Johnson Matthey Ltd | CANADA | |
Gold | JSC Ekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | |
Gold | JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | |
Gold | Kazzinc Ltd | KAZAKHSTAN | |
Gold | Kennecott Utah Copper | UNITED STATES | |
Gold | Kojima Chemicals Co., Ltd | JAPAN | |
Gold | L' azurde Company For Jewelry | SAUDI ARABIA | |
Gold | LS-Nikko Copper Inc | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF | |
Gold | Materion | UNITED STATES | |
Gold | Matsuda Sangyo Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | |
Gold | Metalor Technologies (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | SINGAPORE | |
Gold | Metalor Technologies SA | SWITZERLAND | |
Gold | Metalor Technologies(HongKong)Limited | HONG KONG | |
Gold | Metalor USA Refining Corporation | UNITED STATES | |
Gold | Met-Mex Peñoles, S.A. | MEXICO | |
Gold | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | |
Gold | Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | |
Gold | Nadir Metal Rafineri San. Ve Tic. A.ª. | TURKEY | |
Gold | Nihon Material Co. LTD | JAPAN | |
Gold | Ohio Precious Metals LLC. | UNITED STATES | |
Gold | Ohura Precious Metal Industry Co., Ltd | JAPAN | |
Gold | OJSC “The Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant” (OJSC Krastvetmet) | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | |
Gold | PAMP SA | SWITZERLAND |
Gold | PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk | INDONESIA | |
Gold | PX Précinox SA | SWITZERLAND | |
Gold | Rand Refinery (Pty) Ltd | SOUTH AFRICA | |
Gold | Royal Canadian Mint | CANADA | |
Gold | Sabin Metal Corp. | UNITED STATES | Active |
Gold | Schone Edelmetaal | NETHERLANDS | |
Gold | SEMPSA Joyería Platería SA | SPAIN | |
Gold | Shandong Zhaojin Gold & Silver Refinery Co., Ltd | CHINA | |
Gold | SOE Shyolkovsky Factory of Secondary Precious Metals | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Active |
Gold | Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp. | TAIWAN | |
Gold | Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. | JAPAN | |
Gold | Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. | JAPAN | |
Gold | The Refinery of Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd | CHINA | |
Gold | Tokuriki Honten Co., Ltd | JAPAN | |
Gold | Umicore Brasil Ltda | BRAZIL | |
Gold | Umicore SA Business Unit Precious Metals Refining | BELGIUM | |
Gold | United Precious Metal Refining, Inc. | UNITED STATES | |
Gold | Valcambi SA | SWITZERLAND | |
Gold | Western Australian Mint trading as The Perth Mint | AUSTRALIA | |
Gold | YAMAMOTO PRECIOUS METAL CO., LTD. | JAPAN | Active |
Gold | Yokohama Metal Co Ltd | JAPAN | Active |
Tantalum | Conghua Tantalum and Niobium Smeltry | CHINA | |
Tantalum | Duoluoshan | CHINA | |
Tantalum | Exotech Inc. | UNITED STATES | |
Tantalum | F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals | UNITED STATES | |
Tantalum | Hi-Temp | UNITED STATES | |
Tantalum | Jiujiang Tanbre Co., Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Powder | UNITED STATES | |
Tantalum | King-Tan Tantalum Industry Ltd | CHINA | Active |
Tantalum | Metallurgical Products India (Pvt.) Ltd. | INDIA | |
Tantalum | Mitsui Mining & Smelting | JAPAN | |
Tantalum | Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tantalum | QuantumClean | UNITED STATES | |
Tantalum | RFH Tantalum Smeltry Co., Ltd | CHINA | |
Tantalum | Taki Chemicals | JAPAN | |
Tantalum | Telex | UNITED STATES | |
Tantalum | Ulba | KAZAKHSTAN | |
Tin | Alpha- Cookson | UNITED STATES | |
Tin | China Rare Metal Materials Company | CHINA | Active |
Tin | Cooper Santa | BRAZIL | Active |
Tin | CV JusTindo | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | CV Nurjanah | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | CV Serumpun Sebalai | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | CV United Smelting | INDONESIA | |
Tin | EM Vinto | BOLIVIA | |
Tin | Fenix Metals | POLAND | Active |
Tin | Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co. Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tin | Liuzhou nChina Tin Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tin | Magnu's Minerais Metais e Ligas LTDA | BRAZIL |
Tin | Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC) | MALAYSIA | |
Tin | Melt Metais e Ligas S/A | BRAZIL | |
Tin | Metallo Chimique | BELGIUM | |
Tin | Mineração Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL | |
Tin | Minsur | PERU | |
Tin | Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | JAPAN | |
Tin | O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | THAILAND | Active |
Tin | OMSA | BOLIVIA | |
Tin | PT Artha Cipta Langgeng | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | PT Babel Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Bangka Putra Karya | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Bangka Tin Industry | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Belitung Industri Sejahtera | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | PT BilliTin Makmur Lestari | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | PT Bukit Timah | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT DS Jaya Abadi | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Eunindo Usaha Mandiri | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Karimun Mining | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | PT Mitra Stania Prima | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | PT Panca Mega Persada | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | PT Prima Timah Utama | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Refined Banka Tin | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Sariwiguna Binasentosa | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Sumber Jaya Indah | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | PT Tambang Timah | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Timah | INDONESIA | |
Tin | PT Tinindo Inter Nusa | INDONESIA | Active |
Tin | Rui Da Hung | TAIWAN | Active |
Tin | Soft Metais, Ltda. | BRAZIL | Active |
Tin | Thaisarco | THAILAND | |
Tin | White Solder Metalurgia e Mineração Ltda. | BRAZIL | |
Tin | Yunnan Chengfeng | CHINA | Active |
Tin | Yunnan Tin Company Limited | CHINA | |
Tungsten | A.L.M.T. Corp. | JAPAN | Active |
Tungsten | Chaozhou Xianglu Tungsten IND Co., LTD. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Dayu Weiliang Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Fujian Jinxin Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Huaxin Tungsten Products Ltd | CHINA | |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Non-ferrous Metals Smelting Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tungsten | Global Tungsten & Powders Corp | UNITED STATES | |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck GmbH | GERMANY | Active |
Tungsten | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG | GERMANY | Active |
Tungsten | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tungsten | Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. | JAPAN |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
Tungsten | Kennametal Fallon | UNITED STATES | Active |
Tungsten | Kennametal Huntsville | UNITED STATES | Active |
Tungsten | Tejing (Vietnam) Tungsten Co., Ltd. | VIET NAM | Active |
Tungsten | Vietnam Youngsun Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd | VIET NAM | |
Tungsten | Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG | AUSTRIA | Active |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd. | CHINA | |
Tungsten | Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd | CHINA | |
Tungsten | Xinhai Rendan Shaoguan Tungsten Co., Ltd. | CHINA | Active |
* All smelters/refiners on this list are certified by CFSI as conflict free, except for those identified as "Active". Smelters/refiners identified as "Active" are currently in the conflict free audit certification process being conducted by CFSI. |
CFSI Indeterminate Smelter and Refiner List* | ||
3TG | Smelter name | Smelter Country |
Gold | Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) | UZBEKISTAN |
Gold | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) | PHILIPPINES |
Gold | Bauer Walser AG | GERMANY |
Gold | Caridad | MEXICO |
Gold | Chugai Mining | JAPAN |
Gold | Codelco | CHILE |
Gold | Daejin Indus Co. Ltd | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining Ltd. | CHINA |
Gold | Do Sung Corporation | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Doduco | GERMANY |
Gold | FSE Novosibirsk Refinery | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Guangdong Jinding Gold Limited | CHINA |
Gold | Hunan Chenzhou Mining Group Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Gold | Hwasung CJ Co. Ltd | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Inner Mongolia Qiankun Gold and Silver Refinery Share Company Limited | CHINA |
Gold | Jiangxi Copper Company Limited | CHINA |
Gold | JSC Uralelectromed | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Korea Metal Co. Ltd | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Kyrgyzaltyn JSC | KYRGYZSTAN |
Gold | Lingbao Jinyuan Tonghui Refinery Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Gold | Luoyang Zijin Yinhui Metal Smelt Co Ltd | CHINA |
Gold | Moscow Special Alloys Processing Plant | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat | UZBEKISTAN |
Gold | OJSC Kolyma Refinery | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | Prioksky Plant of Non-Ferrous Metals | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Gold | SAMWON METALS Corp. | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | So Accurate Group, Inc. | UNITED STATES |
Gold | The Great Wall Gold and Silver Refinery of China | CHINA |
Gold | Tongling nonferrous Metals Group Co.,Ltd | CHINA |
Gold | Torecom | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF |
Gold | Xstrata Canada Corporation | CANADA |
Gold | Yunnan Copper Industry Co Ltd | CHINA |
Gold | Zhaojin Group&Gold Mineral China Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Gold | Zhongyuan Gold Smelter of Zhongjin Gold Corporation | CHINA |
Gold | Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd | CHINA |
Tantalum | Changsha South Tantalum Niobium Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Aizu | JAPAN |
Tantalum | Global Advanced Metals Boyertown | UNITED STATES |
Tantalum | Guangdong Zhiyuan New Material Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH | GERMANY |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH | GERMANY |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck GmbH Goslar | GERMANY |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Hermsdorf GmbH | GERMANY |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Ltd. | JAPAN |
Tantalum | H.C. Starck Smelting GmbH & Co.KG | GERMANY |
Tantalum | HC Starck | Germany |
Tantalum | Hengyang King Xing Lifeng New Materials Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tantalum | JiuJiang JinXin Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tantalum | KEMET Blue Metals | MEXICO |
Tantalum | LSM Brasil S.A. | BRAZIL |
Tantalum | Mineração Taboca S.A. | BRAZIL |
Tantalum | Molycorp Silmet A.S. | ESTONIA |
Tantalum | Nippon Mining & Metals | JAPAN |
Tantalum | Plansee SE Liezen | AUSTRIA |
Tantalum | Plansee SE Reutte | AUSTRIA |
Tantalum | Shanghai Jiangxi Metals Co. Ltd | CHINA |
Tantalum | Solikamsk Magnesium Works OAO | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Tantalum | Tantalite Resources | SOUTH AFRICA |
Tantalum | Yichun Jin Yang Rare Metal Co., Ltd | CHINA |
Tantalum | Zhuzhou Cement Carbide | CHINA |
Tin | CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Tin | CV Makmur Jaya | INDONESIA |
Tin | Estanho de Rondônia S.A. | BRAZIL |
Tin | Gejiu Zi-Li | CHINA |
Tin | Huichang Jinshunda Tin Co. Ltd | CHINA |
Tin | Jiangxi Nanshan | CHINA |
Tin | Kai Unita Trade Limited Liability Company | CHINA |
Tin | KOBA | INDONESIA |
Tin | Linwu Xianggui Smelter Co | CHINA |
Tin | Minmetals Ganzhou Tin Co. Ltd. | CHINA |
Tin | Novosibirsk Integrated Tin Works | RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
Tin | PT Bangka Kudai Tin | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Bangka Timah Utama Sejahtera | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT HP Metals Indonesia | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Koba Tin | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Pelat Timah Nusantara Tbk | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa | INDONESIA |
Tin | PT Yinchendo Mining Industry | INDONESIA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou Grand Sea W & Mo Group Co Ltd | CHINA |
Tungsten | Ganzhou sinda W&Mo Co.,Ltd | CHINA |
Tungsten | Hunan Chun-Chang Nonferrouse Smelting & Concentrating Co Ltd | CHINA |
Tungsten | Jiangxi Minmetals Gao'an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | CHINA |
Tungsten | Nanchang Cemented Carbide Limited Liability Company | CHINA |
* All smelters/refiners on this list have not been identified by CFSI as conflict free. |