# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000072331
**File Stem:** 0000072331-26-000029
**Filing Date:** 2026-5
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000072331-26-000029.hdr.sgml**: 20260528

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000072331-26-000029

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: SD

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260528

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260528

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** NORDSON CORP
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000072331
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** GENERAL INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT, NEC [3569]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 06 Technology
- **EIN:** 340590250
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** OH
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1031

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** SD
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 000-07977
- **FILM NUMBER:** 261035355

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 28601 CLEMENS RD
- **CITY:** WESTLAKE
- **STATE:** OH
- **ZIP:** 44145
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 4408921580

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 28601 CLEMENS ROAD
- **CITY:** WESTLAKE
- **STATE:** OH
- **ZIP:** 44145

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

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**FORM SD**

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**SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT**

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**NORDSON CORPORATION**

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

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| **Ohio** | **000-07977** | **34-0590250** |
| (State or Other<br>Jurisdiction of Incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (I.R.S. Employer<br>Identification Number) |

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28601 Clemens Road<br>Westlake**,** Ohio 44145<br>(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)<br>

Jennifer L. McDonough

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

440-892-1580

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

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Check the appropriate box below 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, 2025 to December 31, 2025. <br> ☐ Rule 13q-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13q-1) for the fiscal year ended ________.

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**<u>Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure</u>**

**Item 1.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report**

Our Conflict Minerals Report is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD, and is available on our website at <u>www.nordson.com</u>. Information found on or accessed through this website is not considered part of this Conflict Minerals Report and is not incorporated by reference herein.

**Item 1.02&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exhibit**

Our Conflict Minerals Report is filed as <u>[Exhibit 1.01](exhibit101may2026.htm)</u> to this Form SD.

**<u>Section 3 - Exhibits</u>**

**Item 3.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exhibits**

<u>[Exhibit 1.01](exhibit101may2026.htm)</u> – Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form SD.

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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 duly authorized undersigned.

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| | **NORDSON CORPORATION** | **NORDSON CORPORATION** |
| Date: May 28, 2026 | By: | /s/ Jennifer L. McDonough |
|  |  | Jennifer L. McDonough |
|  |  | *Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary* |

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## Exhibit 1.01

Exhibit 1.01

<u>Conflict Minerals Report of Nordson Corporation</u> 

<u>For The Year Ended December 31,</u> <u>2025</u>

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**I.Introduction**

Nordson Corporation ("our," "we" or "us") engineers, manufactures and markets differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing, applying and controlling of adhesives, coatings, polymers, sealants, biomaterials, and other fluids, to test and inspect for quality, and to treat and cure surfaces and various medical products such as: catheters, cannulas, medical balloons and medical tubing. These products are supported with extensive application expertise and direct global sales and service. We serve a wide variety of consumer non-durable, consumer durable and technology end markets including packaging, electronics, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, precision agriculture, building and construction, and general product assembly and finishing

Headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, our products are marketed through a network of direct operations in more than 35 countries. Our principal manufacturing facilities are located in the United States, the People's Republic of China, Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) conflict minerals rule adopted pursuant to Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Rule") and to the guidance provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission in its *Statement on the Effect of the Recent Court of Appeals Decision on the Conflict Minerals Rule* issued on April 29, 2014, this Report was not subject to an independent private sector audit.

Statements in this report, which express a belief, expectation or intention, as well as those that are not historical fact, are forward-looking statements, including statements related to our compliance efforts and expected actions. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including, among other matters, our suppliers' responsiveness and cooperation with our due diligence efforts, our ability to implement improvements in our supplier programs and our ability to identify and mitigate related risks in our supply chain. If one or more of these or other risks materialize, actual results may vary materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of these and other risk factors, see our other filings with the SEC. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this report, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except to the extent required by applicable law.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**II. Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry**

<u>O</u>rg<u>anization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Step 1 – Establish strong management systems</u> <u>Internal Management</u>

We have established a Conflict Minerals Reporting Oversight Committee. The team members include representatives from our Supply Chain Management, one of whom is our designated member of senior management, Legal, Product Compliance, Finance and Internal Audit departments.

We have been an active member of the Responsible Materials Initiative (RMI), formerly known as the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI), since 2015. Through the RMI, we participate in the monthly RMI Plenary Call.

<u>External Communications and Supply Chain Engagemen</u>t

Our customers can access our conflict minerals statement on our public website, <u>https://www.nordson.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility/code-of-ethics</u> Information found on or accessed through our website is not considered part of this report and is not incorporated by reference herein. Our conflict minerals statement informs customers of where we are in our Rule compliance efforts. Customer inquiries are handled on a case by case basis, utilizing the conflict minerals statement or customized responses using the conflict mineral reporting template (CMRT) developed by the RMI, as appropriate.

Because we are an industrial equipment supplier, many of our products are not incorporated into our customers' products and, therefore, do not fall within the scope of the Rule as applied to our customers.

In addition to our conflict minerals statement, our Conflict Minerals Policy, adopted on May 6, 2014, is available on our website, <u>https://www.nordson.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility/code-of-ethics</u>. In conjunction with the adoption of the Conflict Minerals Policy, we revised our Supplier Code of Ethics, which outlines the ethical standards with which we expect our suppliers to comply, to reflect our expectations that our suppliers procure materials from sources that do not directly or indirectly support non-state armed groups. The Conflict Minerals Policy and Supplier Code of Ethics have been distributed to our suppliers.

<u>Reasonable Country of Origin Survey Process</u>

We evaluated our products and determined that certain products manufactured during calendar year 2025 were manufactured with materials or components that contain, or likely contain, conflict minerals, i.e., tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, that are necessary to

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the functionality or production of those products. The areas of conflict mineral usage within our supply chain were identified based on the results of previous surveys. We expect to focus efforts on these areas in connection with future surveys.

We identified in-scope suppliers that we believed provided materials or components containing conflict minerals. Based on commodity analysis, responses from prior years, and a focus on the highest spend suppliers, 33% of our total direct material spend was classified as in-scope. Given the size and complexity of our supply chain, we focused on our largest suppliers, ranked by the amount that we paid to each supplier.

We partnered with an external service provider to survey our suppliers and manage the supplier CMRTs. Suppliers were provided with training materials and had access to a helpline through the provider's website regarding conflict minerals and the CMRT.

As part of our grievance mechanism, we rely on RMI to provide us with information regarding grievances shared among group members, and we encourage our suppliers to send inquiries or other information concerning conflict minerals to <u>productcompliance@nordson.com</u>.

For the period covered by this Report, we prioritized collection of responses from in-scope suppliers representing approximately 33% of our total direct material spend. For this group of suppliers, we had about an 91% response rate. Based on the information obtained pursuant to the reasonable country of inquiry process described above, we do not have sufficient information to determine the country of origin of all of the conflict minerals in our supply chain. We continue to work to improve our reasonable country of origin process as described in more detail below.

<u>OECD Step 2 – Identify and assess risk in the supply chain</u>

An escalation process was initiated with those surveyed suppliers who continued to be nonresponsive after the above contacts were made, or whose initial (or subsequent) response was not complete or otherwise warranted clarification or confirmation. We, with the assistance of the service provider, evaluated responses from the surveyed suppliers for plausibility, consistency, and gaps both in terms of which materials or components were stated to contain or not contain conflict minerals and the origin of such conflict minerals. We expect to engage certain surveyed suppliers, including holding discussions and reviewing the results of their internal due diligence efforts, to ensure that our inquiries regarding conflict minerals were understood and complied with.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**III. Due Diligence Framework**

Our due diligence process has been designed to conform, in all material respects relevant to the disclosure requirements under the Rule, with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; **IV. Due Diligence Undertaken**

<u>OECD Step 3 – Design and implement a strategy to respond to identified risks</u>

We supported audits of conflict mineral smelters and refiners conducted by third parties through our participation in the RMI. Suppliers were evaluated based on their smelter and refiner information obtained from CMRT declarations. If supplier information indicated that they used conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia (collectively, the "Covered Countries"), then we used the flagship program of the RMI, the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) and general public information to determine a smelter or refiner's conflict minerals program status.

If, through our smelters lists, we discover that certain of our products contain conflict minerals that finance or benefit armed groups in the Covered Countries we will analyze the adverse impact of this determination pursuant to the standards set forth in our Conflict Minerals Policy and Supplier Code of Ethics.

Findings regarding the compiled supply chain information through the processes described above will be reported to our executive officer committee. Identified areas of risk in our supply chain will be subject to a risk management plan developed pursuant to our Supplier Code of Ethics and Conflict Minerals Policy. Such risk management plan may include continuing trade throughout the course of measurable risk mitigation efforts, temporarily suspending trade while pursuing ongoing measurable risk mitigation, or disengaging with a supplier after failed attempts at mitigation or where we deem risk mitigation not feasible or unacceptable.

Once our risk management plan is implemented, we will track performance of our risk mitigation efforts and report the results back to our executive officer committee. For risks requiring additional mitigation, or after a change of circumstances, we will undertake additional fact and risk assessments.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**V. Results of Due Diligence Undertaken**

<u>OECD Step 4 – Carry out independent third-party audit of supply chain due diligence at identified points in the supply chain</u>

We will rely on third party assurances and certifications. For example, if a supplier provides the name of a smelter or source mine, we would compare that reply to the listing of smelters from the RMI thereby relying on the program's processes.

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<u>OECD Step 5 – Report on supply chain due diligence</u>

We have taken the information gathered through the above-described due diligence process and compiled this Report. In the future, we will take such information and compile it in a Report or in our specialized disclosure report as required by the Rule, whichever is applicable.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**VI. Smelter and Refiner Disclosures**

Despite receiving responses from suppliers listing smelter or refiner names in their supply chain, the vast majority of our suppliers provided data at a "company" or "divisional" level, or otherwise were unable to accurately report which specific smelters were part of the supply chain for the components or parts containing the conflict minerals that were supplied to us. As is a common practice when requests are sent upstream in the supply chain, those who purchase materials from smelters are typically unable to discern which company's product lines the materials may end up in. As a result, our suppliers typically list all smelters/refiners they may purchase from within the reporting period. Therefore, we are not able to identify the specific facilities that processed the conflict minerals in our supply chain or to conclusively determine the country of origin of such conflict minerals.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**VII. Future Improvements**

We intend to undertake the following steps during the next compliance period:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ Continue to collect conflict minerals information from all suppliers included in our conflict mineral survey process.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ Strive to improve the response rate from our suppliers.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ Continue to engage with relevant trade associations to define and improve best practices.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ Continue to support the RMI through our membership and participation in monthly meetings.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;◦ Direct suppliers to the RMI organization for information.

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