UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM SD

 

Specialized Disclosure Report

 

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pennsylvania

 

001-00898

25-1117717

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

 

726 Bell Avenue, Suite 301, Carnegie, Pennsylvania

15106

(Address of principal executive office)

(Zip Code)

 

(412) 456-4400

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

Kimberly P. Knox

Corporate Secretary

(412) 429-2454

(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)

 

 

 

Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:

Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2022.

 

 

 

 


 

Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure

Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report

Conflict Minerals Disclosure

Introduction

This Specialized Disclosure Report on Form SD (this “Report”) is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 (the “Rule”) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), for the reporting period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, wolframite, or their derivatives, which are currently limited to tantulum, tin and tungsten (collectively, the “Conflict Minerals”) are contained in, and necessary to the functionality or production of, such products. The Rule requires that SEC registrants conduct in good faith a reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) designed to determine whether any such Conflict Minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo or any “adjoining country” (as defined by the SEC) (collectively, the “Covered Countries”) or are from recycled or scrap sources.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation (including its consolidated subsidiaries as the context may require, the “Corporation” or the “Registrant”) has determined that tin and tungsten (together, the “Identified Minerals”) were contained in, and necessary to the functionality or production of, one or more products manufactured by the Corporation or contracted by the Corporation to be manufactured (the “Covered Products”) during the period covered by this Report. As such, the Corporation has conducted in good faith an RCOI designed to determine whether any of the Identified Minerals in the Covered Products (1) originated in a Covered Country or (2) are from recycled or scrap sources.

As discussed more fully below, based on the Corporation’s RCOI, the Corporation has concluded that (a) it does not have any reason to believe that any of the Identified Minerals used in connection with the Covered Products may have originated in a Covered Country or (b) it has reason to believe that the Identified Minerals used in connection with the Covered Products may be from recycled or scrap sources.

The Corporation and its Business Segments

The Corporation was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1929 and manufactures and sells highly engineered, high performance specialty metal products and customized equipment utilized by industry throughout the world. The Corporation classifies its business in two segments: Forged and Cast Engineered Products and Air and Liquid Processing.

Forged and Cast Engineered Products Segment

The Forged and Cast Engineered Products segment, consisting of Union Electric Steel Corporation and its direct and indirect subsidiaries (collectively, “UES”), has operations in the United States, England, Sweden, and Slovenia and has an equity interest in three joint-venture companies in China. The companies comprising this segment produce forged and cast products that service a wide variety of industries globally. The Forged and Cast Engineered Products segment specializes in the production of forged hardened steel rolls used mainly for cold rolling by producers of steel, aluminum, and other metals and cast rolls for hot and cold strip mills, medium/heavy section mills and plate mills in a variety of iron and steel qualities. In addition, this segment produces open-die forged products which are used in the gas and oil industry and the aluminum and plastic extrusion industries.

Air and Liquid Processing Segment

The Air and Liquid Processing segment consists of Aerofin, Buffalo Air Handling, and Buffalo Pumps, all divisions of Air & Liquid Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Corporation. This segment has operations in Virginia and New York, with headquarters in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and distributes a significant portion of its products through a common independent group of sales offices located throughout the United States and Canada.

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Aerofin produces custom-engineered finned tube heat exchange coils and related heat transfer products for a variety of industries including OEM/commercial, fossil fuel power generation, nuclear power generation and industrial manufacturing.

Buffalo Air Handling produces large custom-designed air handling systems for institutional markets (e.g., hospitals and universities), pharmaceutical markets and general industrial building markets.

Buffalo Pumps manufactures centrifugal pumps for the fossil fuel power generation, marine defense, and industrial refrigeration industries.

Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry

In accordance with the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, including the Rule, the Corporation performed an assessment of its product line to examine which of the products manufactured by it or contracted to be manufactured by it contained one or more Conflict Minerals that were necessary for the functionality or production of such identified products. The Corporation concluded that the Covered Products contained one or more of the Identified Minerals of tin and tungsten. Consequently, the Corporation conducted in good faith an RCOI with respect to the Identified Minerals in such Covered Products. The purpose of the RCOI was to determine whether any of such Identified Minerals (1) originated in a Covered Country or (2) are from recycled or scrap sources.

After identifying the Covered Products, in furtherance of its RCOI efforts, the Corporation identified which suppliers may have provided materials included in the Covered Products that potentially contained any of the Identified Minerals (the “Covered Suppliers”), and conducted a supply-chain survey by contacting each Covered Supplier and providing them with the most recent due diligence template developed by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (the “EICC”) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (the “GeSI”), commonly referred to as the Conflict Mineral Report Template (the “CMRT”). The Corporation also informed the Covered Suppliers of the Corporation’s obligations with respect to conducting an RCOI and filing this Report pursuant to the Exchange Act.

The Corporation uses a network of materials suppliers from numerous countries across multiple continents. The materials sourced from Covered Suppliers are not purchased directly from the smelters where such materials originated. As such, the Corporation relies on information provided by the Covered Suppliers through the supply-chain survey. In many cases, the Covered Suppliers are several tiers separated from the smelter at which the original minerals were smelted. The Covered Suppliers (many of whom are not subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act) rely on their own respective sub-suppliers to provide them with information regarding the materials sourced by such sub-suppliers, or the Covered Suppliers may purchase the materials on the secondary market from recycled or scrap sources.

The Corporation compiled and analyzed all of the CMRTs and related information received from Covered Suppliers and compared the smelters and refiners identified in the CMRT supply-chain survey against the list of smelter facilities which have been identified as “conflict free” by programs such as the Conflict-Free Smelter Program of the EICC/GeSI Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (the “CFSI”).

Results of the Corporation’s Good Faith RCOI and Due Diligence Process

Suppliers & Smelters

As a result of the RCOI and the Corporation’s due diligence process in connection with its use of the Identified Minerals in the Covered Products, the Corporation identified a total of 19 Covered Suppliers:

six suppliers of tungsten to UES;
one supplier of tungsten and two suppliers of tin to Aerofin;
two suppliers of tungsten to Buffalo Air Handling; and
one supplier of tungsten and six suppliers of tin to Buffalo Pumps.

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Each of these Covered Suppliers represented to the Corporation that the supplied Identified Minerals were (1) not sourced from a Covered Country or (2) originated from recycled or scrap sources.

Despite the Corporation’s best efforts to follow up with certain Covered Suppliers, the Corporation did not receive complete and thorough responses from all Covered Suppliers. There are numerous reasons for the Corporation’s inability to receive complete responsiveness from all Covered Suppliers and to identify the full supply chain or originating smelter:

the Corporation is wholly dependent on information received from its direct suppliers to conduct its good faith RCOI process;
many Covered Suppliers are not subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act;
the Covered Suppliers operate with varying levels of sophistication and contact with the parties necessary to provide accurate information regarding the smelter name and location for all of the Identified Minerals; and
it is difficult to require cooperation from suppliers who are, in some cases, multiple tiers away from the smelter of the Identified Minerals.

As a result, the Corporation has not been able to identify all of the smelters from which certain Covered Suppliers sourced the Identified Minerals (other than those identified as from recycled or scrap sources). With respect to the Identified Minerals for which the Corporation was able to identify information about the smelter through the relevant Covered Supplier, the name and location of that smelter is indicated in the tables below. Because this information is provided by the Covered Suppliers, the Corporation cannot be certain that such smelters were, in fact, in the Corporation’s supply chain.

The Corporation has noted that each of the smelters identified below (the “Identified Smelters”), is currently on the conflict-free smelters list published by the CFSI. In addition, each Covered Supplier who sourced Identified Minerals from the Identified Smelters has represented to the Corporation that the applicable Identified Smelter does not source the Identified Mineral from any Covered Country.

1. The following smelters were responsible for the tungsten sourced by suppliers of UES:

Smelter Name

Location of Smelter

 

 

Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.

Viet Nam

Fujian Ganmin RareMetal Co., Ltd.

China

Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.

China

H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH

Germany

2. The following smelters were responsible for the tungsten sourced by suppliers of Aerofin:

Smelter Name

Location of Smelter

 

 

China Molybdenum Co., Ltd.

China

Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.

China

 

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3. The following smelters were responsible for the tin sourced by suppliers of Aerofin:

 

Smelter Name

Location of Smelter

 

 

Alpha

United States

An Vinh Joint Stock Mineral Processing Company

Viet Nam

Chengfeng Metals Co. Pte Ltd.

China

Chenzhou Yunxiang Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd.

China

Chifeng Dajingzi Tin Industry Co., Ltd.

China

China Tin Group Co., Ltd.

China

Cookson

United States

CRM Fundicao De Metais E Comercio De Equipamentos

  Eletronicos Do Brasil Ltda.

Brazil

CRM Synergies

Spain

CV Venus Inti Perkasa

Indonesia

Dongguan CiEXPO Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd.

China

Dowa

Japan

Electro-Mechanical Facility of the Cao Bang Minerals

  & Metallurgy Joint Stock Company

Viet Nam

Empresa Metalúrgica Vinto

Bolivia

EM Vinto

Bolivia

ENAF

Bolivia

Estanho de Rondônia S.A.

Brazil

Fenix Metals

Poland

 

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Gejiu City Fuxiang Industry and Trade Co., Ltd.

China

Gejiu Kai Meng Industry and Trade LLC

China

Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.

China

Gejiu Yunxin Nonferrous Electrolysis Co., Ltd.

China

Gejiu Zili Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd.

China

Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd.

China

HuiChang Hill Tin Industry Co., Ltd.

China

Indonesian State Tin Corporation Mentok Smelter

Indonesia

Jiangxi New Nanshan Technology Ltd.

China

Kundur Smelter

Indonesia

Luna Smelter, Ltd.

Rwanda

Ma’anshan Weitai Tin Co., Ltc.

China

Magnu’s Minerais Metais e Ligas Ltda.

Brazil

Malaysia Smelting Corporation (MSC)

Malaysia

Melt Metais e Ligas S.A.

Brazil

Metallic Resources, Inc.

United States

Metallo Belgium N.V.

Belgium

Metallo Spain S.L.U.

Spain

Mineracao Taboca S.A.

Brazil

Minsur

Peru

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation

Japan

Modeltech Sdn Bhd

Malaysia

Nghe Tinh Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company

Viet Nam

Novosibirsk Processing Plant Ltd.

Russian Federation

O.M. Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

Thailand

O.M. Manufacturing Philippines, Inc.

Philippines

OMSA

Bolivia

Operaciones Metalurgicas S.A.

Bolivia

Pongpipat Company Limited

Myanmar

Precious Minerals and Smelting Limited

India

PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera

Indonesia

PT Artha Cipta Langgeng

Indonesia

PT ATD Makmur Mandiri Jaya

Indonesia

PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari

Indonesia

PT Bangka Serumpun

Indonesia

PT Menara Cipta Mulia

Indonesia

PT Mitra Stania Prima

Indonesia

PT Mitra Sukses Globalindo

Indonesia

PT Prima Timah Utama

Indonesia

PT Rajawali Rimba Perkasa

Indonesia

PT Refined Bangka Tin

Indonesia

PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa

Indonesia

PT Tambang Timah

Indonesia

PT Timah Tbk Kundur

Indonesia

PT Timah Tbk Mentok

Indonesia

PT Timah Nusantara

Indonesia

PT Tinindo Inter Nusa

Indonesia

Resind Industria e Comercio Ltda.

Brazil

Rui Da Hung

Taiwan

Soft Metais Ltda.

Brazil

Super Ligas

Brazil

Thai Nguyen Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd.

Viet Nam

Thaisarco

Thailand

Tin Technology & Refining

United States

Toboca/ Paranapenema

Brazil

Tuyen Quang Non-Ferrous Metals Joint Stock Company

Viet Nam

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VQB Mineral and Trading Group JSC

Viet Nam

White Solder Metalurgia e Mineracao Ltda.

Brazil

Yunnan Chengfeng Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

China

Yunnan Tin Company, Ltd.

China

Yunnan Yunfan Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

China

4. The following smelters were responsible for the tungsten sourced by suppliers of Buffalo Air Handling:

Smelter Name

Location of Smelter

 

 

A.L.M.T. Corp.

Japan

ACL MetaiXs Eireli

Brazil

Albasteel Industria e Comercio de Ligas Para Fundicao Ltd.

Brazil

Artek LLC

Russian Federation

Asia Tungsten Products Vietnam Ltd.

Viet Nam

Guangdong Xianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.

China

China Molybdenum Tungsten Co., Ltd

China

Chongyi Zhangyuan Tungsten Co. Ltd.

China

CNMC (Guangxi) PGMA Co., Ltd.

China

Cronimet Brasil Ltda.

Brazil

Fujian Ganmin RareMetal Co., Ltd.

China

Fujian Xinlu Tungsten

China

Ganzhou Haichuang Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

Ganzhou Huaxing Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.

China

Ganzhou Jiangwu Ferrotungsten Co., Ltd.

China

Ganzhou Seadragon W & Mo Co., Ltd.

China

 

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Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.

United States

Guangdong Zianglu Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

HANNAE FOR T Co., Ltd.

Korea

H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH

Germany

Hunan Chunchang Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

China

Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd.

China

Hydrometallurg, JSC

Russian Federation

Japan New Metals Co., Ltd.

Japan

Jingmen Dewei GEM Tungsten Resources Recycling Co., Ltd.

China

JSC “Kirovgrad Hard Alloys Plant”

Russian Federation

TANIOBIS Smelting GmbH & Co. KG

Germany

Jiangwu H.C. Starck Tungsten Products Co., Ltd.

China

Jiangxi Minmetals Gao’an Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd.

China

Jiangxi Gan Bei Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

Jiangxi Tonggu Non-ferrous Metallurgical & Chemical Co., Ltd.

China

Jiangxi Xinsheng Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd.

China

Jiangxi Yaosheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

Kennametal Fallon

United States

Kennametal Huntsville

United States

KGETS Co., Ltd.

Korea

Lianyou Metals Co., Ltd.

Taiwan

LLC Vostok

Russian Federation

Malipo Halyu Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

Masan High-Tech Materials

Viet Nam

Moliren Ltd.

Russian Federation

Niagara Refining LLC

United States

NPP Tyazhmetprom LLC

Russian Federation

Masan High-Tech Materials

Viet Nam

OOO “Technolom” 1

Russian Federation

OOO “Technolom” 2

Russian Federation

Philippine Chuangxin Industrial Co., Inc.

Philippines

Unecha Refractory Metals Plant

Russian Federation

Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten Ag

Austria

Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.

China

Xinfeng Huarui Tungsten & Molybdenum New Material Co., Ltd.

China

Yudu Ansheng Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

 

5. The following smelters were responsible for the tungsten sourced by suppliers of Buffalo Pumps:

Smelter Name

Location of Smelter

 

 

H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH

Germany

Kennametal Huntsville

United States

Xiamen Tungsten (H.C.) Co., Ltd.

China

Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd.

China

6. The following smelters were responsible for the tin sourced by suppliers of Buffalo Pumps:

Smelter Name

Location of Smelter

 

 

Alpha

United States

Aurubis Berango S.L.U. (previously Metallo Spain S.L.U.)

Spain

Aurubis Beerse N.V. (previously Metallo Belgium N.V.)

Belgium

CV Venus Inti Perkasa

Indonesia

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EM Vinto

Bolivia

Fenix Metals

Poland

Gejiu Non-Ferrous Metal Processing Co., Ltd.

China

Guangdong Hanhe Non-Ferrous Metal Co., Ltd.

China

GuangXi China Tin

China

Jiangxi Nanshan

China

Luna Smelter, Ltd.

Rwanda

Malaysia Smelting Corp.

Malaysia

Metallic Resources Inc.

United States

Metallo Belgium N.V.

Belgium

Mineracao Taboca S.A.

Brazil

Minsur

Peru

Operaciones Metalurgicas S.A.

Bolivia

PT Aries Kencana Sejahtera

Indonesia

PT Artha Cipta Langgeng

Indonesia

PT ATD Makmur Mindiri Jaya

Indonesia

PT Babel Surya Alam Lestari

Indonesia

PT Bangka Serumpun

Indonesia

PT Menara Cipta Mulia

Indonesia

PT Mitra Stania Prima

Indonesia

PT Prima Timah Utama

Indonesia

PT Rajawali Rimba Perkasa

Indonesia

PT Refined Bangka Tin

Indonesia

PT Sari Wiguna Binasentosa

Indonesia

PT Stanindo Inti Perkasa

Indonesia

PT Timah Tbk Kundur

Indonesia

PT Timah Tbk Mentok

Indonesia

PT Tinindo Inter Nusa

Indonesia

Rui Da Hung

Taiwan

Thailand Smelting & Refining Co. Ltd.

Thailand

Thaisarco

Thailand

Tin Technology & Refining

United States

White Solder Metalurgica e Mineracao Ltda.

Brazil

Yunnan Chengfeng

China

Yunnan Tin Company Ltd.

China

 

Conclusion

Based on the information obtained pursuant to the good faith RCOI and due diligence processes described above, the Corporation has concluded that:

it does not have any reason to believe that any of the Identified Minerals used in connection with the Covered Products may have originated in a Covered Country; or
it has reason to believe that the Identified Minerals used in connection with the Covered Products may be from recycled or scrap sources.

Website Disclosure

This Report, including this Conflict Minerals Disclosure, is available at the Corporation’s website at www.ampcopittsburgh.com. The information on, or otherwise available through, the Corporation’s website is not part of this Report.

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Forward-Looking Statements

This Report includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve various risks and uncertainties. All statements in this Report other than statements of historical fact are statements that are, or could be, deemed forward-looking statements within the meaning of such Act. Words such as “may,” “intend,” “will,” “believe” and “expect,” and other terms of similar meaning that indicate future events and trends are also generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Except as required by applicable law, the Corporation assumes no obligation, and disclaims any obligation, to update forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.

Item 1.02 Exhibit

None.

 

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Section 2 - Exhibits

Item 2.01 Exhibits

None.

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMPCO-PITTSBURGH CORPORATION

 

 

 

(Registrant)

 

 

 

 

Date

May 31, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Michael G. McAuley

 

 

 

(Signature)

 

 

 

Michael G. McAuley

 

 

 

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

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