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DEBT
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
DEBT 10. DEBT
ABL Facility
In December 2023, the Company entered into Amendment No. 3 to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the "Credit Agreement”), which, prior to the ABL Adjustment Date (as defined below), provided the Company with a $180 million senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility. In April 2024, the Company entered into Amendment No. 4 to the Credit Agreement (as amended by Amendment No. 3 and Amendment No. 4, the “ABL Facility”) that, among other items: (i) moved the ABL Adjustment Date (defined below) from March 31, 2025 to September 30, 2025 and (ii) required weekly reporting of the borrowing base financial covenant until the ABL Adjustment Date. The ABL Facility is secured by substantially all assets of the Company and its domestic subsidiaries, including equity in certain material first-tier foreign subsidiaries. Availability for borrowings under the ABL Facility is governed by a borrowing base, determined by the application of specified advance rates against eligible assets, including a portion of trade accounts receivable, inventory, cash and cash equivalents, owned real properties, and owned machinery and equipment. Upon the earlier of September 30, 2025 or the date the Company received the proceeds from the sale of Terphane (the “ABL Adjustment Date”), the $180 million ABL Facility was to be reduced to $125 million. On November 1, 2024, with the closing of the sale of Terphane, the ABL Adjustment Date occurred. The ABL Facility was to expire on June 30, 2026. As of March 31, 2025, funds available to borrow under the ABL Facility was $50.9 million, or 40.7% of the aggregate commitment of $125 million.
Outstanding borrowings accrue interest at the rates elected by the Company depending on the type of loan and denomination of such borrowing. With respect to revolving loans denominated in U.S. Dollars, the Company may elect interest rates at:
•Alternate Base Rate (“ABR”) Spread (as defined in the ABL Facility) is determined in accordance with an excess availability-based pricing grid. ABR is defined, in part, as the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1% and (c) the Adjusted Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR Rate") (defined below) for a one-month period plus 1%; or
•The Term Benchmark Spread (as defined in the ABL Facility) is determined in accordance with an excess availability-based pricing grid. Adjusted Term SOFR Rate is defined as the Term SOFR Rate plus 0.10%, subject to an initial Floor (as defined in the ABL Facility) of 0%.
Based upon the quarterly average of daily availability under the ABL Facility, the interest rate pricing grid applicable after the ABL Adjustment Date is as follows:
Pricing under the ABL Facility (Basis Points)
Quarter Average of Daily AvailabilityTerm Benchmark
Spread		ABR
Spread		Commitment
Fee
> 66% of $125 million aggregate commitment225.0125.040.0
≤ 66% but > 33% of $125 million aggregate commitment250.0150.040.0
≤ 33% of $125 million aggregate commitment275.0175.040.0
The financial covenant is a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio (as defined in the ABL Facility) of 1.00:1.00 that will be triggered in the event that availability is less than 10% of the $125 million commitment amount and continuing thereafter until availability is greater than 10% of the $125 million commitment amount for 30 consecutive days.
If at any time the availability under the ABL Facility is less than 20% of the maximum aggregate principal amount in effect at such time or an Event of Default occurs, the Company’s current monthly reporting requirements to lenders changes to a weekly cadence until the Event of Default is waived, cured or the availability under the ABL Facility is above 20% of the maximum aggregate principal amount for 30 consecutive days.
A Cash Dominion Period goes into effect if availability under the ABL Facility falls below 12.5% of the aggregate commitment or an Event of Default (as defined in the ABL Facility) occurs. The Company would then be subject to the Cash Dominion Period until the Event of Default is waived, cured or the availability under the ABL Facility is above 12.5% of the maximum aggregate principal amount for 30 consecutive days. During a Cash Dominion Period, receipts that have not yet been applied to the ABL Facility are classified as restricted cash in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.
The ABL Facility has customary representations and warranties including, as a condition to each borrowing, that all such representations and warranties are true and correct in all material respects (including a representation that no Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the ABL Facility) has occurred since December 31, 2022). In the event that the Company cannot certify that all conditions to the borrowing have been met, the lenders can restrict the Company’s future borrowings under the ABL Facility.
In accordance with the ABL Facility, the lenders have been provided with the Company’s financial statements, covenant compliance certificates and projections to facilitate their ongoing assessment of the Company. Accordingly, the Company believes the likelihood that lenders would exercise the subjective acceleration clause whereby prohibiting future borrowings is remote. As of March 31, 2025, the Company was in compliance with all debt covenants.
On May 6, 2025, the Company entered into Amendment No. 5 (the "Amended ABL Facility") to the Credit Agreement. The material terms of the Amended ABL Facility include the following:
•Provides for a $125 million asset-based facility.
•The maturity date was extended to May 6, 2030.
•The interest rate margins were reduced to a range between 1.75%-2.25% for any Term Benchmark Loan and any RFR Loan (each as defined in the Amended ABL Facility) and 0.75%-1.25% for any ABR Loan (as defined in the Amended ABL Facility), in each case, based on average quarterly availability.
•The commitment fee was decreased from 0.40% to (i) 0.25% if the Average Usage (as defined in the Amended ABL Facility) is greater than or equal to 50% and (ii) 0.375% if Average Usage is less than 50%.
•The borrowing base calculation was amended as follows: (i) real property is no longer eligible to be included in the borrowing base, (ii) the PP&E Component (as defined in the Amended ABL Facility), as included in the borrowing base, was changed to the lesser of (a) 60% of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value (as defined in the Amended ABL Facility) in place of eligible equipment and (b) 30% of the borrowing base and (iii) the amount of eligible cash included in the borrowing base is now capped at 15% of the borrowing base.
•A Cash Dominion Period is now triggered when (x) availability falls below the greater of (i) 12.5% of the Line Cap (as defined in the Amended ABL Facility) and (ii) $12.6 million or (y) during the continuation of an event of default and continuing until (x) availability is above the greater of (i) 12.5% of the Line Cap and (ii) $12.6 million for 30 consecutive days and (y) no events of default are continuing.
•Compliance with the fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.00 to 1.00 is now triggered upon the occurrence of availability being less than the greater of (x) 10% of the Line Cap and (y) $10 million and will continue until availability is equal to or greater than the greater of (x) 10% of the Line Cap and (y) $10 million for 30 consecutive days, as long as no events of default are continuing.
PE Films Guangzhou Loan
On June 25, 2024, PE Films' business location in Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou Tredegar Film Products Co., Ltd. (“Guangzhou Tredegar”), entered into a 9.5 million Chinese Yuan revolving loan with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The loan matures on July 3, 2025. The interest rate is the one year loan prime rate published by the National Interbank Funding Center for the working day immediately preceding the drawdown date, minus 0.45%. As of March 31, 2025, the interest rate on the outstanding loan balance was 2.90%. The revolving loan is secured by a mortgage contract listing the Guangzhou Tredegar factory building as collateral. The mortgage contract has a maximum value of 30 million Chinese Yuan and is effective from June 25, 2024 through May 31, 2027. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, this loan is presented as current debt on the consolidated balance sheets.