NEWMARKET
CORPORATION
(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)
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Virginia
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1-32190
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20-0812170
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(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
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330 South Fourth Street, Richmond, Virginia
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23219
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(Zip code)
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Brian D. Paliotti (804)
788-5000
(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:
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Rule
13p-1
under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.13p-1)
for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2017.
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Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01
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Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
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Conflict Minerals Disclosure
NewMarket Corporation, including its subsidiaries (the Company), is filing this Form SD for the reporting period of January 1, 2017 to
December 31, 2017 (the Reporting Period) pursuant to and in accordance with Rule
13p-1
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Rule
13p-1).
Rule
13p-1
requires disclosure of certain information related to a product manufactured or contracted to be manufactured by an issuer where conflict
minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. As defined in the Rule, conflict minerals means gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are
limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten.
Based on a review of the Companys products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured during the
Reporting Period, including a review of the raw materials used to produce those products, the Company determined that one vendor supplied a
tin-based
compound necessary to the functionality or production of
the final product (necessary conflict mineral). The product in question was a metalworking fluid additive (the Specified Product). The results of the Companys review are consistent with its belief, based on the nature
of its business, that its products generally did not contain conflict minerals.
Because the Specified Product contained a necessary conflict mineral, the
Company conducted a good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry, which was designed to determine whether any necessary conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic,
South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia or Angola (the Covered Countries). A brief description of the reasonable country of origin inquiry is as follows:
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The Companys team overseeing its conflict minerals diligence efforts is a global interdisciplinary team comprised of personnel representing the Companys procurement, research and development, legal and
manufacturing functions. The team oversaw a diligence process designed to determine if any conflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of its products manufactured during the Reporting Period.
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The Company maintains a comprehensive database of raw materials used to manufacture its products. The Companys procurement director reviewed this database to determine if there were any necessary conflict minerals
in the Companys products. The procurement director also surveyed the Companys global research and development directors to identify any products they believe may include necessary conflict minerals.
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This diligence process identified the Specified Product as the only product manufactured during the Reporting Period that included a necessary conflict mineral and determined the necessary conflict mineral was provided
by a single vendor (the Supplier).
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In December 2017, the Supplier certified to the Company that the necessary conflict mineral supplied to it during the Reporting Period did not originate in the Covered Countries.
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The Company periodically asks its Supplier for additional documentation in support of such certification, and in December 2017, the Supplier provided the Company with a copy of its completed Conflict-Free Sourcing
Initiatives Conflict Minerals Reporting template, including smelter information.
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Based on the Companys reasonable country of
origin inquiry described above, the Company determined that it has no reason to believe that any necessary conflict mineral within any products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured in the Reporting Period may have originated in the Covered
Countries.
This information is also publicly available on the Companys website at: www.newmarket.com. Information on the Companys website
does not constitute a part of this Form SD.
SIGNATURES
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 duly
authorized undersigned.
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Date: May 31, 2018
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NEWMARKET CORPORATION
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By:
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/s/ Brian D. Paliotti
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Brian D. Paliotti
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Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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