Saturday, August 28, 2010

Xerium plans failure filing

Xerium Technologies voiced this sunrise it is headed toward restructuring the debt by a Chapter eleven failure filing after reaching an agreement with a steering cabinet representing lenders.

The Raleigh-based company, that creates apparatus for the papermaking industry, pronounced the agreement in element with lenders will capacitate it to have a pre-packaged failure filing. A pre-packaged bankruptcy, that hinges on an allege agreement with lenders, enables a association to drive by failure most faster and save mega-bucks in costs.

Xerium pronounced the agreement would capacitate it to revoke the debt by about $150 million and would "strengthen the long-term monetary help." The agreement calls for exchanging $620 million of existent debt for $10 million in cash, $410 million in new loans and about 82.6 percent of the publicly hold companys usual stock.

Current shareholders would embrace about 17.4 percent of the companys shares, and warrants to squeeze up to an one more 10 percent. Bankruptcies mostly clean out the land of shareholders.

Last year Xerium separated jobs and implemented alternative cost-cutting measures as sales slumped during the recession. Third-quarter sales totaled $130.3 million, down eighteen percent from a year ago.

The association has about 3,300 employees worldwide.

The association pronounced that the restructuring plan is upheld by lenders who hold a infancy of the companys comparison cumulative debt. It is looking the capitulation of alternative lenders.

"We design that this questionnaire routine will produce the await we would need to fast and successfully exercise the due restructuring by a pre-packaged plan or reorder underneath section eleven of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code," CEO Stephen Light pronounced in a rebuilt statement.

Xerium had been negotiating with creditors and had performed waivers of loan covenants enabling it to equivocate delinquent on $604 million in debt. The ultimate waiver was set to end Monday.

The association is looking the await of alternative lenders by Mar 22.

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