CHICAGO, IL — (Marketwire) — 01/29/13 — Publicly traded manufacturing companies and their supply chains face a big challenge in 2013 to meet reporting requirements established by the SEC in the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Section 1502, better known as the Conflict Minerals Rule. The regulated metals include tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold — commonly referred to as the 3Ts/G. These metals appear in hundreds of semi-finished forms and thousand
