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FILED AS OF DATE:		20160531
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20160531

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CVD EQUIPMENT CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000766792
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SPECIAL INDUSTRY MACHINERY, NEC [3559]
		IRS NUMBER:				112621692
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NY
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-16525
		FILM NUMBER:		161685151

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1860 SMITHTOWN AVE
		CITY:			RONKONKOMA
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11779-7321
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6319817081

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1860 SMITHTOWN AVE
		CITY:			RONKONKOMA
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11779-7321
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt">The Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products.&#160;&#160;The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (the &#8220;Conflict Minerals&#8221;).&#160;&#160;The &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221; for purposes of Rule 13p-1 are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola. CVD manufactures, or contracts to manufacture, products for which Conflict Minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. CVD has conducted a good faith, reasonable country of origin inquiry regarding the Conflict Minerals used by CVD for the functionality or production of CVD&#8217;s products.&#160;&#160;This good faith, reasonable country of origin inquiry was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals used by CVD in the manufacture of its products originated in the Covered Countries.&#160;&#160;Based on this reasonable country of origin inquiry, the Company is unable to determine whether Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of Company products manufactured in calendar year 2015 originated in the Covered Countries.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt">Pursuant to the Rule, CVD undertook due diligence measures on the source of the Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of CVD&#8217;s products, which CVD had reason to believe may have originated from the Covered Countries and which may not have come from recycled or scrap sources, to determine whether such products were &#8220;DRC Conflict Free.&#8221;</div>

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