SECTION 1. CONFLICT MINERALS DISCLOSURE
Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
Company
Overview
3D Systems Corporation (3D Systems, the Company, we, our, or us) is a holding
company incorporated in Delaware in 1993. We market our products and services through subsidiaries in North America and South America, Europe and the Middle East, and Asia Pacific and Oceania. We provide comprehensive 3D printing and digital
manufacturing solutions, including 3D printers for plastics and metals, materials, software, and services, including maintenance, advanced manufacturing and applications engineering. Our solutions support advanced applications in two key industry
verticals: Healthcare Solutions (which includes dental, medical devices, personalized health services, and regenerative medicine) and Industrial Solutions (which includes aerospace, defense, transportation and general manufacturing). We have over 35
years of experience and expertise which have proven vital to our development of an ecosystem and end-to-end digital workflow solutions which enable customers to optimize
product designs, transform workflows, bring innovative products to market, and drive new business models.
Products Overview
We design, manufacture, sell, and service 3D printers (additive manufacturing devices). We offer a broad range of 3D printing technologies including
Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Direct Metal Printing (DMP), MultiJet Printing (MJP), ColorJet Printing (CJP), polymer extrusion, and extrusion and SLA-based bioprinting. Our printers
utilize a wide range of materials, the majority of which are proprietary materials that we develop, blend, and market. Our comprehensive range of materials includes plastic, nylon, metal, composite, elastomeric, wax, polymeric dental materials and
biocompatible materials. We augment and complement our portfolio of engineered materials with materials that we purchase or develop with third parties under private label and distribution arrangements. We source parts and materials to support our
innovations and the business needs of our customers. Additionally, our products are complex and consist of materials and parts sourced from hundreds of suppliers. We determined that during the 2023 calendar year, we manufactured and sub-contracted to manufacture certain components for our products containing conflict minerals (as defined below) and that the use of these minerals is sometimes necessary to the functionality or production of these
products.
Conflict Minerals Disclosure
The
disclosure on this Form SD for 3D Systems is being filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursuant to Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
Rule) for the reporting period from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. The Rule was adopted by the SEC to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. The
specified conflict minerals, which we collectively refer to in this Report as conflict minerals, are defined by the SEC as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite (coltan), gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum,
tin, and tungsten, and gold for the purposes of this assessment.
Under SEC regulations, if any conflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or
production of a product manufactured by 3D Systems or contracted by us to be manufactured, we must conduct in good faith a reasonable country of origin inquiry (RCOI) regarding those conflict minerals that is reasonably designed to
determine whether any of the conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (Covered Countries), or are from recycled or scrap sources. If a registrant can establish that conflict minerals
originated from sources other than the Covered Countries, or from recycled and scrap sources, they must submit a Form SD which describes the RCOI completed.