In September 2012, a number of “smelter-level” tungsten producers met...on the margins of the International Tungsten Industry Association Annual Meeting to discuss possible tungsten-specific approaches to meeting...requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act provisions for conflict minerals...[A] working group of representatives from ATI, Global Tungsten & Powders/Plansee Group/Ceratizit, H.C. Starck, Kennametal and Wolfram Bergbau & Hütten/Sandvik, in conjunction with the Metal Powder Industries Federation’s Refractory Metals Association (RMA) and the International Tungsten Industry Association (ITIA), met and crafted the Tungsten Industry—Conflict Minerals Council (TI-CMC) to address the above mentioned needs...The basis for the TI-CMC can be found in the Tungsten Industry—Conflict Minerals Commitment...TI-CMC is expected to list compliant companies by August 2013.