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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2012</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:384px; font-size:16px">Registration No. </P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>UNITED STATES</B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>Washington, D. C. &nbsp;&nbsp;20549</B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>FORM &nbsp;&nbsp;S-8</B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE </B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; font-size:16px"><B><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Delaware &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:306px; font-size:16px"><B><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;31-0596149</U>__________</B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:306px; font-size:16px">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; font-size:16px"><B><U>11 KEEWAYDIN DRIVE, SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE</U></B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:408px; font-size:16px"><B><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;03079____</U></B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION </B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>2008 LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN</B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center>(Full Title of Plan)</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center>Deborah A. Rosen</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center>c/o Standex International Corporation</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center>11 Keewaydin Drive, Suite 300</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center>Salem, New Hampshire &nbsp;&nbsp;03079</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center>(Name and Address of agent for service)</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center>603-893-9701</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; font-size:16px">Securities</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:264px; font-size:16px">Offering</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:126px; font-size:16px">Amount to be</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:504px; font-size:16px">Registration</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; font-size:16px"><U>Registered</U></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:126px; font-size:16px"><U>Registered (1)</U></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:264px; font-size:16px"><U>Share (2)</U></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:384px; font-size:16px"><U>Price (2) &nbsp;&nbsp;</U></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:504px; font-size:16px"><U>Fee (2)</U>___</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; font-size:16px">Common Stock</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:126px; font-size:16px">600,000</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:264px; font-size:16px">$ 40.94</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:384px; font-size:16px">$24,564,000</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:504px; font-size:16px">$2,815.00</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; padding-left:96px; text-indent:-96px; font-size:16px">NOTES:</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; padding-left:96px; text-indent:-24px; font-size:16px">1.</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; padding-left:96px; font-size:16px">Together with additional shares of Common Stock which may become issueable under the Company's 2008 Long Term Incentive Plan, stock dividend or similar transaction affecting the Common Stock, pursuant to Rule 426(a) and (b) under the Securities Act of 1933.</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; padding-left:96px; text-indent:-24px; font-size:16px">2.</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; padding-left:96px; font-size:16px">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act upon the basis of the average of the high and low sale price of the Company&#146;s Common Stock, par value $1.50 per share (the &#147;Common Stock&#148;) as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on February 9, 2012.</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>STATEMENT UNDER GENERAL INSTRUCTION E</B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES</B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px">Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement is filed solely to register an additional 600,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $1.50 per share, of the Company reserved for issuance under the Company&#146;s 2008 Long Term Incentive Plan as amended. &nbsp;The Company&#146;s Board of Directors and its stockholders have approved the registration and issuance of such additional shares. &nbsp;Pursuant to and as permitted by General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-161647, including all periodic reports that the Company has filed, or will file, subsequent to the filing of such Registration Statement Form S-8 to maintain current information about the Company are hereby incorporated by reference herein, and the opinions and consents listed in Item 8 below are attached hereto.</P>
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<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px; page-break-before:always" align=center><B>PART II.</B></P>
<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px" align=center><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:48px; font-size:16px">All information required in this Registration Statement (other than the information included or referenced in Item 8 below or otherwise set forth on the signature page) is set forth in the Registration Statement (File No. 333-161647), all of which is incorporated by reference herein.</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px"><B>ITEM 8. &nbsp;&nbsp;EXHIBITS.</B></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:48px; font-size:16px">See Index to Exhibits which is incorporated herein by this reference.</P>
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<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; font-size:16px"><B>SIGNATURES</B></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:48px; font-size:16px">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Salem, County of Rockingham and the State of New Hampshire, on the 14th day of February, 2012.</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:264px; font-size:16px">STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:300px; font-size:16px"><I>/s/ &nbsp;Roger L. Fix</I></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:264px; font-size:16px">By:</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:300px; font-size:16px">________________________<I>___________</I> </P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:300px; font-size:16px">Roger L. Fix, President/CEO</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:42px; font-size:16px">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; font-size:16px">February 14, 2012</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:156px; font-size:16px">_____________________________</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:156px; font-size:16px">Roger L. Fix</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:156px; font-size:16px"><I>/s/ &nbsp;Thomas D. DeByle</I></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; font-size:16px">February 14, 2012</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:156px; font-size:16px">_____________________________</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:408px; font-size:16px">Vice President/CFO/</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:156px; font-size:16px">Thomas D. DeByle</P>
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<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:42px; font-size:16px">Roger L. Fix has signed below on February 14, 2012 as attorney-in-fact for the following Directors of the Registrant:</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:132px; font-size:16px">Charles H. Cannon, Jr.</P>
<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:408px; font-size:16px">Daniel B. Hogan</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:132px; font-size:16px">Thomas E. Chorman</P>
<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:408px; font-size:16px">H. Nicholas Muller, III</P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:132px; font-size:16px">William R. Fenoglio</P>
<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:408px; font-size:16px">Edward J. Trainor</P>
<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:132px; font-size:16px">Gerald H. Fickenscher</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:288px; font-size:16px"><I>/s/ &nbsp;Roger L. Fix</I></P>
<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:288px; font-size:16px"><I>_______________________________</I></P>
<P style="line-height:34.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:288px; font-size:16px">Roger L. Fix</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin:0px; text-indent:527.2px; font-size:16px">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>PAGE NO.</U></P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; text-indent:96px; font-size:16px">Opinion Letter of Deborah A. Rosen, Vice President/CLO </P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; padding-left:96px; text-indent:117.8px; font-size:16px">Consent of Deloitte &amp; Touche LLP, Independent Registered</P>
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<P style="line-height:18.667px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:-18.667px; padding-left:96px; text-indent:112.333px; font-size:16px">Powers of Attorney from Charles H. Cannon, Jr., Thomas E. </P>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January __, 1998
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2012
Registration No.
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C.   20549
FORM   S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of issuer as specified in its Certificate of Incorporation)
Delaware
31-0596149
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(State of Incorporation)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
11 KEEWAYDIN DRIVE, SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE
03079____
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
2008 LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full Title of Plan)
Deborah A. Rosen
c/o Standex International Corporation
11 Keewaydin Drive, Suite 300
Salem, New Hampshire   03079
(Name and Address of agent for service)
603-893-9701
(Telephone Number, including area code, of agent for service)
Calculation of Registration Fee
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Proposed
Proposed
Title of
Maximum
Maximum
Securities
Offering
Aggregate
Amount of
to be
Amount to be
Price Per
Offering
Registration
Registered
Registered (1)
Share (2)
Price (2)
Fee (2)
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Common Stock
600,000
$ 40.94
$24,564,000
$2,815.00
par value
$1.50 per share
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NOTES:
1.
Together with additional shares of Common Stock which may become issueable under the Company's 2008 Long Term Incentive Plan, stock dividend or similar transaction affecting the Common Stock, pursuant to Rule 426(a) and (b) under the Securities Act of 1933.
2.
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act upon the basis of the average of the high and low sale price of the Company's Common Stock, par value $1.50 per share (the "Common Stock") as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on February 9, 2012.
STATEMENT UNDER GENERAL INSTRUCTION E
REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement is filed solely to register an additional 600,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $1.50 per share, of the Company reserved for issuance under the Company's 2008 Long Term Incentive Plan as amended.  The Company's Board of Directors and its stockholders have approved the registration and issuance of such additional shares.  Pursuant to and as permitted by General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-161647, including all periodic reports that the Company has filed, or will file, subsequent to the filing of such Registration Statement Form S-8 to maintain current information about the Company are hereby incorporated by reference herein, and the opinions and consents listed in Item 8 below are attached hereto.
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PART II.
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT
All information required in this Registration Statement (other than the information included or referenced in Item 8 below or otherwise set forth on the signature page) is set forth in the Registration Statement (File No. 333-161647), all of which is incorporated by reference herein.
ITEM 8.   EXHIBITS.
See Index to Exhibits which is incorporated herein by this reference.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Salem, County of Rockingham and the State of New Hampshire, on the 14th day of February, 2012.
STANDEX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
/s/  Roger L. Fix
By:
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Roger L. Fix, President/CEO
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
Date
Signature
Title
/s/  Roger L. Fix
February 14, 2012
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President/CEO
Roger L. Fix
/s/  Thomas D. DeByle
February 14, 2012
_____________________________
Vice President/CFO/
Thomas D. DeByle
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Roger L. Fix has signed below on February 14, 2012 as attorney-in-fact for the following Directors of the Registrant:
Charles H. Cannon, Jr.
Daniel B. Hogan
Thomas E. Chorman
H. Nicholas Muller, III
William R. Fenoglio
Edward J. Trainor
Gerald H. Fickenscher
/s/  Roger L. Fix
_______________________________
Roger L. Fix
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EXHIBIT INDEX
SEQUENTIAL
EXHIBIT
PAGE NO.
5.
Opinion Letter of Deborah A. Rosen, Vice President/CLO
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and Secretary
23.
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered
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Public Accounting Firm.
24.
Powers of Attorney from Charles H. Cannon, Jr., Thomas E.
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Chorman, William R Fenoglio, Gerald H. Fickenscher,
Daniel B. Hogan, H. Nicholas Muller, III, and Edward J. Trainor.
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