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Note 9 - Notes Payable and Capital Leases
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Debt and Capital Leases Disclosures [Text Block]
9.
   Notes Payable and Capital Leases
 
 
Long term debt consists of:
 
   
Dec. 31, 201
9
   
Dec. 31, 201
8
 
Subordinated Notes (Officers) due on demand, interest at 4%, which consolidated prior Subordinated Notes (Officers). During January 2019, $600,000 of this balance was exchanged for 181,000 shares of our common stock at then market value
   
1,058,000
     
1,597,000
 
Notes Payable (Affiliates) due 2021, interest at 11.75% (see Note 12) (Related Party).
   
14,000
     
28,000
 
Term Loan with PNC, payable in monthly installments of $100,000 amortized over 5 years, interest at 8.25%, balance due December 2022, which uses balloons and related equipment as collateral
   
3,500,000
     
4,700,000
 
Total debt from deconsolidated VIE and other subs    
 
     
198,000
 
Total long-term debt
   
4,572,000
     
6,532,000
 
Less current portion
   
(3,488,000
)
   
(4,432,000
)
Total Long-term debt, net of current portion
  $
1,084,000
    $
2,091,000
 
 
Until
December 2017,
we had in place a series of credit facility and related agreements with BMO Harris Bank, N.A. and BMO Private Equity (U.S.), (collectively, “BMO”), in the aggregate amount of approximately
$17
million. During
December 2017,
we terminated those agreements and fully repaid all amounts owed BMO under those agreements, including the outstanding warrant note payable and associated fees and costs related to termination, as we entered into new financing agreements with PNC Bank, National Association (“PNC”). The “PNC Agreements” include a
$6
million term loan and an
$18
million revolving credit facility, with a termination date of
December 2022.
 
Available credit under the Revolving Credit facility is determined by eligible receivables and inventory at
Yunhong CTI, LTD (f/k/a CTI Industries Corporation)
(U.S.) and Flexo Universal (Mexico). We notified PNC of our failure to meet
two
financial covenants as of
March 31, 2018.
On
June 8, 2018,
we entered into Waiver and Amendment
No.
1
(the “Amendment
1”
) to our PNC Agreements. The Amendment modified certain covenants, added others, waived our failure to comply as previously reported, and included an amendment fee and temporary increase in interest rate. During
September 2018,
we filed a preliminary prospectus on Form S-
1
for a planned equity issuance. On
October 8, 2018,
we entered into Consent and Amendment
No.
2
(the “Amendment
2”
) to our PNC Agreements. Amendment
2
reduced the amount of new funding proceeds that must be used to repay the term loan from
$5
million to
$2
million and waived the calculation of financial ratios for the period ended
September 30, 2018,
in exchange for a new covenant committing to raise at least
$7.5
million in gross proceeds from our equity issuance by
November 15, 2018
and pay an amendment fee. Market conditions ultimately forced us to postpone the offering, and thus
no
proceeds were received by the
November 15, 2018
requirement.
 
We engaged PNC to resolve this failure to meet our amended covenant, and as of
March 2019
entered into a forbearance agreement. Under the terms of this agreement, previously identified compliance failures were waived and financial covenants as of
March 31, 2019
were
not
to be considered, with the next calculation due for the period ending
June 30, 2019.
We received a temporary over-advance of
$1.2
million, declining to
zero
over a
six
-week period, under the terms of this agreement and paid a fee of
$250,000.
As forbearance is a temporary condition and we remain out of compliance with the terms of our facility, we reclassified long-term bank debt to current liabilities on our balance sheet.
 
We entered into a new forbearance agreement during
October 2019
which completed
January 2020.
In conjunction with new equity financing, on
January 13, 2020,
a Limited Waiver, Consent, Amendment
No.
5
and Forbearance Agreement (the “Forbearance Agreement”) between Lender and the Company became effective, pursuant to which Lender agreed to (i) waive the Loan Agreement’s requirement that the Company apply the net proceeds of the Offering
first
to the Term Loans (as defined in the Loan Agreement), and agreed that the Company shall instead apply the net proceeds of the Offering to the Revolving Advances (as defined in the Loan Agreement) and in connection therewith the Revolving Commitment Amount (as defined in the Loan Agreement) shall be reduced on a dollar for dollar basis by the amount so applied to the Revolving Advances, and (ii) forebear from exercising the rights and remedies in respect of the Existing Defaults afforded to Lender under the Loan Agreement for a period ending
no
later than
December 31, 2020.
See Note
3
for a related discussion of the impact of these events.
 
Available credit under the Revolving Credit facility is determined by eligible receivables and inventory at
Yunhong CTI, LTD (f/k/a CTI Industries Corporation)
(U.S.) and Flexo Universal (Mexico).
 
Certain terms of the PNC Agreements include:
 
 
Restrictive Covenants
: The Credit Agreement includes several restrictive covenants under which we are prohibited from, or restricted in our ability to:
 
o
Borrow money;
 
o
Pay dividends and make distributions;
 
o
Make certain investments;
 
o
Use assets as security in other transactions;
 
o
Create liens;
 
o
Enter into affiliate transactions;
 
o
Merge or consolidate; or
 
o
Transfer and sell assets.
 
 
Financial Covenants
: The Credit Agreement includes a series of financial covenants we are required to meet including:
 
o
We are required to maintain a "Leverage Ratio", which is defined as the ratio of (a) Funded Debt (other than the Shareholder Subordinated Loan) as of such date of determination to (b) EBITDA (as defined in the PNC Agreements) for the applicable period then ended. The highest values for this ratio allowed by the PNC Agreements are:
 
Fiscal Quarter Ratio
       
         
March 31, 2019
not applicable
 
June 30, 2019
 3.00
to
1.00
 
September 30, 2019
 2.75
to
1.00
 
January, 2020 and thereafter
not applicable
 
 
 
o
We are required to maintain a "Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio", which is defined as the ratio of (a) EBITDA for such fiscal period, minus Unfinanced Capital Expenditures made during such period, minus distributions (including tax distributions) and dividends made during such period, minus cash taxes paid during such period to (b) all Debt Payments made during such period. This ratio must
not
exceed the following for any quarterly calculation.
 
Fiscal Quarter Ratio
       
         
March 31, 2020
 0.75
to
1.00
 
June 30, 2020
 0.85
to
1.00
 
September 30, 2020
 0.95
to
1.00
 
December 31, 2020
 1.05
to
1.00
 
March 31, 2021 and thereafter
 1.15
to
1.00
 
 
The credit agreement provides for interest at varying rates in excess of the prime rate, depending on the level of senior debt to EBITDA over time. We also entered into a swap agreement with PNC Bank to fix the rate of interest for
$3
million of the notes over
3
years at
2.25%.
This contract was made at market value upon
December 14, 2017
execution and accounted for as a hedge. This contract terminated during
2019
under the terms of the forbearance agreement.
 
Failure to comply with these covenants has caused us to pay a higher rate of interest (now
4%
per the Agreements), and other potential penalties
may
impact the availability of the credit facility itself, and thus might negatively impact our ability to remain a going concern. As described above in this Note as well as in Note
3,
we believe that we were
not
in compliance with this credit facility as of
December 31, 2018,
were
not
in compliance as of
December 31, 2019,
and now have entered into a new amendment and Forbearance Agreement as of
January 2020.