Specialized Disclosure Report (sd)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549



	FORM SD
Specialized Disclosure Report


MTS SYSTEMS CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



MINNESOTA	0-02382	41-0908057
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(Commission file number)	(IRS employee Identification No.)



14000 Technology Drive, Eden Prairie, MN		55344
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip code)

Bhavini Charadva (952) 937-4000

(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:



x	Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2018.

Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure

Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report

Introduction

This Specialized Disclosure Form (“Form SD”) of MTS Systems Corporation (the “Company” or “MTS”) has been prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Rule”) for the reporting period from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018.

The Rule requires disclosure of the use of certain minerals, namely, gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (collectively referred to herein as “conflict minerals”) that are necessary to the functionality or production of products that MTS manufactures or contracts to manufacture.

The objective of the Rule is to have manufactures of products that may contain conflict minerals disclose the source of these conflict minerals. To furnish the requirements of the Rule, manufacturers have to determine whether the conflict minerals in their products originate from and are being used to support armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries (collectively referred to herein as “covered countries”). The “covered countries” for the purposes of the Report are the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.

As described in the Report, MTS manufactures products for which the conflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of those products.

Company Overview

MTS Systems Corporation’s testing and simulation hardware, software and service solutions help customers accelerate and improve their design, development and manufacturing processes and are used for determining the mechanical behavior of materials, products and structures. MTS’s high-performance sensors provide measurement of vibration, pressure, position, force and sound in a variety of applications.

Products Overview

This Form SD and the Conflict Minerals Report for the reporting period from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018 (the “Report”) filed as an exhibit to this Form SD relates to products: (i) for which the conflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of that product; (ii) that were manufactured by MTS; and (iii) for which the manufacture was completed during calendar year 2018. These products, which are referred to in this Form SD and the Report collectively as the “covered products” are the following: test and simulation equipment and systems for the ground vehicles, materials and structures markets in addition to high-performance sensors for a variety of position, test and industrial applications.

Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry

MTS has conducted a good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) for the conflict minerals contained in the covered products. This good faith RCOI was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the conflict minerals contained in the covered products originated in the covered countries and whether any of those conflict minerals may be from recycled or scrap sources. As discussed in more detail in the Report, based on these responses, and in light of the complexity of its supply chain, MTS was unable to fully determine at this time that its necessary conflict minerals did not originate in the covered countries or are from recycled or scrap sources. Accordingly, MTS has conducted due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the necessary conflict minerals contained in the covered products as described in the Report.

A copy of the Report is attached as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD and is publicly available at the following website: http://www.mts.com/en/about/Ethics/index.htm.

Item 1.02 Exhibit

A copy of the Report is attached as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.

Section 2 - Exhibits

Item 2.01 Exhibits

The following exhibit is attached to this Form SD:

Exhibit 1.01 - Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 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.