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January 31, 2013
Re: Conflict Minerals
Dear Valued Customer:
As you may know, recently-enacted U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations will
require publicly-traded companies, such as Worthington, to soon make periodic public disclosures with
respect to any manufactured products that contain tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold (“conflict minerals”). For
those products that do contain conflict minerals, we will have to disclose whether such conflict minerals
originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjourning country in Africa (the “covered
countries”). These new disclosure requirements reflect the concerns of the U.S. Government that revenues
generated from conflict minerals are helping to finance armed-conflict in the covered countries.
Precision Specialty Metals, A Worthington Industries Company intends to fully comply with these new
disclosure requirements, by purchasing the material that we use in our products from suppliers who
expressed the same commitment.
Frida Vaserman
For and on behalf of Precision Specialty Metals
A Worthington Industries Company