Exhibit 10.2

 

[Execution]

 

AMENDMENT NO. 7 TO
LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

AMENDMENT NO. 7 TO LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (“Amendment No. 7”) dated
October 28, 2005 by and among AEP Industries, Inc. (“Borrower”), the parties
from time to time to the Loan Agreement (as hereinafter defined) as lenders
(each individually, a “Lender” and collectively, “Lenders”) and Wachovia Bank,
National Association, successor by merger to Congress Financial Corporation, in
its capacity as agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Agent”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H

 

WHEREAS, Agent, Lenders and Borrower have entered into financing arrangements
pursuant to which Agent and Lenders have made and may make loans and advances
and provide other financial accommodations to Borrower as set forth in the Loan
and Security Agreement, dated November 20, 2001, by and among Agent, Lenders and
Borrower, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Loan and Security Agreement dated
December 9, 2001, Amendment No. 2 dated July 10, 2002, Amendment No. 3 dated
October 16, 2002, Amendment No. 4 to Loan and Security dated February 3, 2005,
Consent and Amendment No. 5 dated as of February 25, 2005 and Amendment No. 6
dated May 12, 2005 (as amended hereby and as the same may hereafter be further
amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced, the
“Loan Agreement”) and the agreements, documents and instruments at any time
executed and/or delivered in connection therewith or related thereto
(collectively, together with the Loan Agreement, the “Financing Agreements”);
and

 

WHEREAS, Borrower has requested that Agent and Lenders agree to increase the
Maximum Credit and make certain other amendments to the Loan Agreement;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements and
covenants set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the
adequacy and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
agree as follows:

 

1. Definitions.

 

(a) Additional Definitions. As used herein, the following terms shall have the
meanings given to them below and the Loan Agreement and the other Financing
Agreements are hereby amended to include, in addition and not in limitation, the
following definitions:

 

(i) “Amendment No. 7” shall mean this Amendment No. 7 to Loan and Security
Agreement by and between Agent and Borrower as the same now exists or may
hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or
replaced.

 

(ii) “Borrowing Base Certificate” shall mean a certificate substantially in the
form of Exhibit A to Amendment No. 7, as such form may from time to time be
modified by Agent,

 

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which is duly completed (including all schedules thereto) and executed by the
vice-president-finance, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer,
controller or other financial or senior officer of Borrower and delivered to
Agent.

 

(iii) “Capital Expenditures” shall mean all expenditures for or contracts for
any fixed or capital assets or improvements, or for replacements, substitutions
or additions thereto, which have a useful life of more than one (1) year,
including, but not limited to, the direct or indirect acquisition of such assets
by way of offset items or otherwise and shall include the principal amount of
capitalized lease payments.

 

(b) Amendments to Definitions.

 

(i) The definition of “Applicable Margin” set forth in Section 1.6 of the Loan
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting such Section in its entirety and
substituting the following therefor:

 

“1.6 “Applicable Margin” shall mean, at any time, as to the Interest Rate for
Prime Rate Loans and the Interest Rate for Eurodollar Rate Loans, the applicable
percentage (on a per annum basis) set forth below if the Quarterly Average
Excess Availability for the immediately preceding fiscal quarter is at or within
the amounts indicated for such percentage:

 

Quarterly Excess
Average Availability

 

Applicable Prime Rate
Margin

 

Applicable Eurodollar
Rate Margin

 

$40,000,000 or more

 

0

%

1.25

%

Greater than or equal to $20,000,000 and less than $40,000,000

 

0

%

1.50

%

Less than $20,000,000

 

.25

%

2.00

%

 

Provided, that, (i) the Applicable Margin shall be calculated and established
once each fiscal quarter (commencing with the fiscal quarter ending on or about
October 31, 2005) and shall remain in effect until such date thereafter as it
may be adjusted in accordance with Sections 1.58(b) or 1.58(c) hereof.”

 

(ii) The definition of “Borrowing Base” in Section 1.9(a) of the Loan Agreement
is hereby amended by deleting “sixty (60%)” from clause (B) of such Section and
replacing it with “sixty-five (65%)”.

 

(iii) The definition of “Commitment” in Section 1.18 of the Loan Agreement is
hereby amended by deleting “below such Lender’s signature on the signature
pages hereto” and replacing it with “opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1
to Amendment No. 7”.

 

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(iv) The definition of “Consolidated Net Income” in Section 1.20 of the Loan
Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the period at the end of such
section with a semicolon and adding the following clause (i) immediately at the
end thereof:

 

“(i) as to Borrower, non-cash gains and losses due solely to fluctuations in
currency value shall be excluded.”

 

(v) The definition of “Equipment Availability” set forth in Section 1.34 of the
Loan Agreement is hereby amended by deleting such Section in its entirety and
replacing it with the following:

 

“1.34 “Equipment Availability” shall mean $14,200,000; as reduced effective as
of the first day of each month commencing November 1, 2005 by an amount equal to
$200,000.”

 

(vi) The definition of “Inventory Loan Limit” set forth in Section 1.60 of the
Loan Agreement is hereby amended by deleting “$40,000,000” from such Section and
replacing it with “$50,000,000”.

 

(vii) The definition of “Material Adverse Effect” in Section 1.67 of the Loan
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting such Section in its entirety and
replacing it with the following:

 

“1.67 ‘Material Adverse Effect’ shall mean the occurrence of any one or more of
the following events: (i) in any calendar year Borrower shall lose a customer
the sales to whom for the immediately preceding calendar year accounted for
forty (40%) percent or more of Borrower’s total sales volume for such
immediately preceding year; (ii) Borrower is at any time required to purchase
forty (40%) percent or more of its raw materials on a cash on delivery or cash
in advance basis as the result of one or more vendor’s unwillingness to extend
credit to Borrower; (iii) any of the President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief
Financial Officer or Chief Operating Officer of Borrower is convicted of a
felony criminal offense; (iv) the loss of production of Borrower of twenty (40%)
percent or more of Inventory (measured in tons) from the average weekly amounts
produced based on the immediately preceding four (4) weeks for a period of
greater than five (5) consecutive days due to either or both of equipment
failure or labor strike, stoppage, walkout or other labor related reason; or
(v) a “force majeure event” occurs which results in Borrower’s revenues being
forty (40%) percent or more less than Borrower’s revenues in the immediately
preceding fiscal month, which is not fully covered by insurance.”

 

(viii) The definition of “Maximum Credit” set forth in Section 1.69 of the Loan
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting “$100,000,000” in such section and
replacing it with “$125,000,000”.

 

(ix) The definition of “New Equipment Availability” set forth in Section 1.74 of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by:

 

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(A) deleting each of the references to “sixty (60%)” in such Section and
replacing each such reference with “seventy-five (75%)”;

 

(B) deleting each of the references to “eighty (80%)” in such Section and
replacing each such reference with “eighty-five (85%)”;

 

(C) deleting “$3,000,000” from subsection (b) of such Section and replacing it
with “$15,000,000”;

 

(D) adding the following immediately before the semicolon at the end of
subsection (b) of such Section: “and in no event shall the aggregate amount of
all tranches of New Equipment Availability exceed $25,000,000 for the term of
this Agreement”; and

 

(E) deleting “sixty (60)” from subsection (f) of such Section and replacing it
with “seventy two (72)”.

 

(x) The definition of “Obligations” set forth in Section 1.75 of the Loan
Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following after the last sentence
thereof:

 

“Without limiting the foregoing, the term “Obligations” shall include, without
limitation, all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of every kind, nature
and description owing by Borrower to Agent or any Affiliate of Agent arising
under or in connection with cash management or related services provided by
Agent or such Affiliate to Borrower or any swap agreement or similar agreements
for the purposes of protecting against or managing exposure to fluctuations in
interest or exchange rates or currency valuations. Agent may establish Reserves
in respect of such obligations to the extent that Agent or such Affiliate, as
the case may be, agree with Borrower that such Obligations will be paid other
than after all of the other Obligations under Section 6.4(a) hereof; provided,
that, as of the effective date of Amendment No. 7 Agent has not established such
a Reserve and Agent will not establish such a Reserve unless and until Borrower
has agreed that such Obligations will be paid other than after all other
Obligations. For purposes of Section 5.1 hereof, the term Lenders shall be
deemed to include any Affiliates of Agent providing such services or entering
into such agreements.”

 

(xi) The definition of “Real Property Availability” set forth in Section 1.89 of
the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by deleting such Section in its entirety
and replacing it with the following:

 

“1.89 ‘Real Property Availability’ shall mean $13,000,000, as reduced effective
as of the first day of each month commencing November 1, 2005 by an amount equal
to $154,500.”

 

(c) Interpretation. For purposes of this Amendment No. 7, all terms used herein,
including but not limited to, those terms used and/or defined herein or in the
recitals hereto shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Loan
Agreement as amended by this Amendment No. 7.

 

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2. Letter of Credit Accommodation Fees. Section 2.2(b) of the Loan Agreement is
hereby amended by: (a) deleting “two (2%)” and replacing it with “one and one
half (1 1/2%)”, (b) by deleting “two and one half (2 1/2%)” and replacing it
with “two (2%)”, (c) by deleting “four (4%)” and replacing it with “three and
one half (3 1/2%)” and (d) by deleting “five and one half (5 1/2%)” and
replacing it with “five (5%)”.

 

3. Unused Line Fee. Section 3.2(a) of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting “the Maximum Credit as then in effect” and replacing it with
“$100,000,000”.

 

4. Collection Accounts. Section 6.3(a) of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended
by deleting “$20,000,000” and replacing it with “$15,000,000”.

 

5. Borrowing Base Certificate. Section 7. l(a) of the Loan Agreement is hereby
amended by deleting clause (i) of such Section in its entirety and replacing it
with the following:

 

“(i) as soon as possible after the end of each calendar month (but in any event
within fifteen (15) days after the end thereof), or more frequently as Agent may
request at any time Excess Availability is less than $20,000,000 or a Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, a Borrowing Base Certificate
setting forth Borrower’s calculation of the Loans and Letter of Credit
Accommodations available to Borrower duly completed and executed by the
vice-president-finance, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer,
controller or other financial or senior officer of Borrower, together with all
schedules required pursuant to the terms of the Borrowing Base Certificate duly
completed (including schedules of sales made, credits issued and cash
received);”

 

6. Minimum EBITDA. Section 9.17 of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting such Section in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

 

“9.17 Minimum EBITDA. At any time that Excess Availability is less than
$20,000,000, (a) the EBITDA of Borrower (on a stand-alone basis) for the twelve
(12) consecutive month period ending as of the last day of the month for which
financial statements of Borrower have been received by Agent (treated as a
single accounting period) shall be not less than $30,000,000 and (b) the EBITDA
of Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, for the twelve (12)
consecutive month period ending as of the last day of the month for which
financial statements of Borrower have been received by Agent (treated as a
single accounting period) shall be not less than $30,000,000.” ‘

 

7. Indebtedness. Section 9.9(o) of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting clause (vi) of such Section in its entirety and replacing it with the
following:

 

“(vi) redeem, retire, defease, purchase or otherwise acquire such Indebtedness,
or set aside or otherwise deposit or invest any sums for such purpose, except
that Borrower may redeem, retire, defease, purchase or otherwise acquire such
Indebtedness, either (A) with proceeds of Refinancing Indebtedness with respect
thereto to the extent permitted under Section 9.9(1) hereof, or (B) otherwise
with funds of Borrower, provided, that, as of

 

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the date of any such redemption, retirement, defeasance, purchase or other
acquisition or any payment in respect thereof (other than pursuant to
Refinancing Indebtedness) and after giving effect thereto, if there are any
Loans or Letter of Credit Accommodations outstanding as of such date after
giving effect to any such payment, (1) as of the date of any such payment and
after giving effect thereto, Excess Availability shall be not less than
$20,000,000, (2) as of the date of any such payment and after giving effect
thereto, the aggregate amount of all payments in respect of Permitted
Transactions shall not exceed $50,000,000 in any fiscal year and (3) as of the
date of any such payment and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of
Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing; except further that, at
any time the aggregate amount of all such payments together with the aggregate
amount of all payments in respect of Permitted Transactions exceed $50,000,000
in any fiscal year, Borrower may only redeem, retire, defease, purchase or
otherwise acquire such Indebtedness so long as Borrower shall have received
current, updated projections of the amount of the Borrowing Base and Excess
Availability for the (12) twelve month period after the date of such payment, in
a form reasonably satisfactory to Agent, representing Borrowers’ reasonable best
estimate of the future Borrowing Base and Excess Availability for the period set
forth therein as of the date not more than ten (10) days prior to the date of
such payment, which projections shall have been prepared on the basis of the
assumptions set forth therein which Borrower believes are fair and reasonable as
of the date of preparation in light of current and reasonably foreseeable
business conditions and which projections shall show Excess Availability shall
not be less than $20,000,000 at any time during such period.”

 

8. Acquisitions.

 

(a) Section 9.10(g) of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by deleting clause
(iii) of such Section in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

 

“(iii) as of the date of such loan or investment Agent shall have received
current, updated projections of the amount of the Borrowing Base and Excess
Availability for the six (6) month period after the date of such acquisition, in
a form reasonably satisfactory to Agent, representing Borrower’s reasonable best
estimate of the future Borrowing Base and Excess Availability for the period set
forth therein as of the date not more than ten (10) days prior to the date of
such acquisition, which projections shall have been prepared on the basis of the
assumptions set forth therein which Borrower believes are fair and reasonable as
of the date of preparation in light of current and reasonably foreseeable
business conditions and which projections shall show Excess Availability shall
not be less than $30,000,000 at any time during such period,”; and

 

(b) Section 9.10(i) of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by deleting clause
(xi) of such Section in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

 

“(xi) as of the date of such acquisition Agent shall have received current,
updated projections of the amount of the Borrowing Base and Excess Availability
for the six (6) month period after the date of such acquisition, in a form
reasonably satisfactory to Agent, representing Borrower’s reasonable best
estimate of the future Borrowing Base and Excess Availability for the period set
forth therein as of the date not more than ten

 

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(10) days prior to the date of such acquisition, which projections shall have
been prepared on the basis of the assumptions set forth therein which Borrower
believes are fair and reasonable as of the date of preparation in light of
current and reasonably foreseeable business conditions and which projections
shall show Excess Availability shall not be less than $30,000,000 at any time
during such period,”;

 

9. Cost and Expenses. Section 9.19 of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by
amended by deleting “on demand” from the first sentence of such Section and
replacing it with “, within two (2) days of written demand from Agent to
Borrower,”.

 

10. Capital Expenditures. Section 9 of the Loan Agreement is amended by adding
the following Section 9.21 to the end thereto:

 

“9.21 Capital Expenditures. At any time Excess Availability is less than
$20,000,000, Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall not directly or indirectly make
or commit to make, whether through purchase, capital leases or otherwise,
Capital Expenditures in any fiscal year of Borrower in excess of $35,000,000.”

 

11. Term. Section 13.1 of the Loan Agreement is hereby amended by deleting
“three (3)” and replacing it with “nine (9)”.

 

12. Amendment Fee. In addition to all other fees, charges, interest and expenses
payable by Borrower to Agent under the Loan Agreement and the other Financing
Agreements, Borrower shall pay to Agent, for the account of Lenders, an
amendment fee in the amount of $250,000 which shall be fully earned, due and
payable as of the date hereof and which may be charged directly to any loan
account of Borrower maintained by Agent.

 

13. Representations and Warranties. Borrower represents and warrants with and to
Agent and Lenders as follows, which representations and warranties shall survive
the execution and delivery hereof, the truth and accuracy of, or compliance with
each, together with the representations, warranties and covenants in the other
Financing Agreements, being a continuing condition of the making of any Loans by
Agent (or Agent on behalf of Lenders) to Borrower:

 

(a) As of the date hereof and after giving effect to the consents provided for
herein, no Default or Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing.

 

(b) This Amendment No. 7 and each other agreement or instrument to be executed
and delivered by Borrower in connection herewith have been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by all necessary action on the part of Borrower and the
agreements and obligations of Borrower contained herein constitute legal, valid
and binding obligations of Borrower enforceable against Borrower in accordance
with their respective terms.

 

14. Conditions Precedent. The effectiveness of the consents contained herein
shall only be effective upon the satisfaction of each of the following
conditions precedent in a manner satisfactory to Agent:

 

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(a) Agent shall have received an executed original or executed original
counterparts of this Amendment No. 7 (as the case may be), duly authorized,
executed and delivered by Borrower;

 

(b) Agent shall have received written appraisals as to the Equipment and Real
Property, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, addressed to Agent and
upon which Agent is expressly permitted to rely;

 

(c) Agent shall have received such approvals of the Lenders to the terms of this
Amendment No. 7 as may be required in the determination of Agent under the terms
of the Loan Agreement; and

 

(d) Agent shall have received a true and correct copy of any consent, waiver or
approval to or of this Amendment No. 7 which Borrower is required to obtain from
any other Person, and such consent, waiver or approval shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to Agent.

 

15. Delivery of Additional Agreements,  Borrower hereby agrees that, in addition
to all other terms, conditions and provisions set forth herein and in the other
Financing Agreements, Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered the
following to Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, as soon as
possible but in any event by no later than:

 

(a) November 15, 2005, amendments to each of the Mortgages, as duly authorized,
executed and delivered by Borrower that Agent may require to reflect the
increase in the amount of the Maximum Credit as provided in
Section 1(b)(viii) above and, if required by applicable local statute, the
extension of the term as provided in Section 11 above ; and

 

(b) November 15, 2005, endorsements to the existing title insurance policies
issued (i) insuring the priority and amount of the Mortgages and (ii) containing
any legally available endorsements, assurances or affirmative coverage requested
by Agent for the protection of its interest with respect to the Mortgages.

 

16. Provisions of General Application.

 

(a) Effect of this Amendment, Except as modified pursuant hereto, no other
changes or modifications to the Financing Agreements are intended or implied and
in all other respects the Financing Agreements are hereby specifically ratified,
restated and confirmed by all parties hereto as of the effective date hereof. To
the extent of conflict between the terms of this Amendment No. 7 and the other
Financing Agreements, the terms of this Amendment No. 7 shall control. The Loan
Agreement and this Amendment No. 7 shall be read and construed as one agreement.

 

(b) Governing Law. The rights and obligations hereunder of each of the parties
hereto shall be governed by and interpreted and determined in accordance with
the laws of the State of New York, but excluding any principles of conflicts of
law or other rule of law that would result in the application of the law of any
jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of New York.

 

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(c) Binding Effect. This Amendment No. 7 shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns.

 

(d) Counterparts. This Amendment No. 7 may be executed in any number of
counterparts, but all of such counterparts shall together constitute but one and
the same agreement. In making proof of this Amendment No. 7, it shall not be
necessary to produce or account for more than one counterpart thereof signed by
each of the parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this
Amendments No. 7 by telefacsimile shall have the same force and effect as
delivery of an original manually executed counterpart of this Amendment No. 7.
Any party delivering any executed counterpart of this Amendment No. 7 by
telefacsimilc shall also deliver an original manually executed counterpart, but
the failure to do so shall not affect the validity, enforceability and binding
effect of this Amendment No. 7 as to such party or any other party.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment No. 7 to be
duly executed and delivered by their authorized officers as of the date and year
first above written.

 

 

WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

successor by merger to Congress Financial Corporation,
as Agent and as Lender

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas Grabosky

 

 

 

 

Title:

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

AEP INDUSTRIES, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ James B. Rafferty

 

 

 

 

Title:

Vice President & Treasurer

 

 

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SCHEDULE 1

TO

AMENDMENT NO. 7

 

Commitments

 

Wachovia Bank, National Association

 

$

50,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Electric Capital Corporation

 

$

37,500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

LaSalle Business Credit, LLC

 

$

37,500,000

 

 

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SCHEDULE 1

TO

AMENDMENT NO. 7

 

Commitments

 

Wachovia Bank, National Association

 

$

50,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Electric Capital Corporation

 

$

37,500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

LaSalle Business Credit, LLC

 

$

37,500,000

 

 

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