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EXHIBIT 4.5

$200,000,000

CPM HOLDINGS, INC.

105/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2014

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

     August 18, 2009

JEFFERIES & COMPANY, INC.
 as
representative of the
 Initial
Purchasers named on
 Schedule I
to the Purchase Agreement

520 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     CPM Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), is issuing and selling to
Jefferies & Company, Inc. and the other initial purchasers listed on Schedule I to the Purchase
Agreement (as defined below) (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”), upon the terms set
forth in the Purchase Agreement, dated August 11, 2009, by and among the Company, the Initial
Purchasers and the guarantors named therein (the “Purchase Agreement”), $200,000,000
aggregate principal amount of 105/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2014 issued by the Company (each,
together with the related guarantees, a “Note” and collectively, the “Notes”). As
an inducement to the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company and the
Guarantors (as defined below) agree with the Initial Purchasers, for the benefit of the Holders (as
defined below) of the Notes (including, without limitation, the Initial Purchasers), as follows:

	1.	 	Definitions

     Capitalized terms that are used herein without definition and are defined in the Purchase
Agreement shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Purchase Agreement. As used in
this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

     Advice: See Section 5(v).

     Agreement: This Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the
Company, the Guarantors party hereto and the Initial Purchasers.

     Applicable Period: See Section 2(e).

     Blackout Period: See Section 3(e).

     Business Day: A day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in
the City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to be closed.

     Closing Date: August 18, 2009.

 

 

     Company: See the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

     Effectiveness Date: The 90th day following the date that the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement is filed with the SEC.

     Effectiveness Period: See Section 3(a).

     Event: See Section 4(a).

     Event Date: See Section 4(a).

     Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations
of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

     Exchange Notes: Senior Secured Notes due 2014 of the Company registered under the Securities
Act, identical in all material respects to the Notes, including the guarantees relating thereto,
except for restrictive legends and Special Interest provisions.

     Exchange Offer: See Section 2(a).

     Exchange Offer Registration Statement: See Section 2(a).

     Filing Date: December 31, 2010.

     FINRA: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

     Guarantors: Each subsidiary of the Company that guarantees the obligations of the Company
under the Notes and the Indenture.

     Holder: Any registered holder of Registrable Notes.

     Indemnified Party: See Section 7(c).

     Indemnifying Party: See Section 7(c).

     Indenture: The Indenture, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Company, the Guarantors and
Wilmington Trust FSB, as trustee, pursuant to which the Notes are being issued, as amended or
supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

     Initial Purchasers: See the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

     Initial Shelf Registration Statement: See Section 3(a).

     Inspectors: See Section 5(o).

     Issue Date: August 18, 2009.

     Lien: Has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

     Losses: See Section 7(a).

     Maximum Contribution Amount: See Section 7(d).

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     Notes: See the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

     Participating Broker-Dealer: See Section 2(e).

     Person: An individual, trustee, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint
stock company, trust, unincorporated association, union, business association, firm, government or
agency or political subdivision thereof, or other legal entity.

     Private Exchange: See Section 2(f).

     Private Exchange Notes: See Section 2(f).

     Prospectus: The prospectus included in any Registration Statement (including, without
limitation, a prospectus that discloses information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as
part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A promulgated under the
Securities Act), as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, with respect to the terms
of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Notes covered by such Registration Statement, and
all other amendments and supplements to the Prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and
all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such
Prospectus.

     Purchase Agreement: See the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

     Records: See Section 5(o).

     Registrable Notes: Notes and Private Exchange Notes received in the Exchange Offer, in each
case, until they have been sold, exchanged or transferred pursuant to an effective Registration
Statement or pursuant to Rule 144.

     Registration Statement: Any registration statement of the Company and the Guarantors filed
with the SEC under the Securities Act (including, but not limited to, the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement, the Shelf Registration Statement and any Subsequent Shelf Registration
Statement) that covers any of the Registrable Notes pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement,
including the Prospectus, amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including
post-effective amendments, all exhibits and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be
incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

     Rule 144: Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from
time to time, or any similar rule (other than Rule 144A) or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC
providing for offers and sales of securities made in compliance therewith resulting in offers and
sales by subsequent holders that are not affiliates of an issuer of such securities being free of
the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act.

     Rule 144A: Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from
time to time, or any similar rule (other than Rule 144) or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.

     Rule 415: Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from
time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.

     Rule 430A: Rule 430A promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from
time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.

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     SEC: The United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

     Securities: The Notes, the Exchange Notes and the Private Exchange Notes.

     Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the
SEC promulgated thereunder.

     Shelf Notice: See Section 2(i).

     Shelf Registration Statement: The Initial Shelf Registration Statement and any Subsequent
Shelf Registration Statement.

     Special Interest: See Section 4(a).

     Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement: See Section 3(b).

     TIA: The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

     Trustee: The trustee under the Indenture and, if existent, the trustee under any indenture
governing the Exchange Notes and Private Exchange Notes (if any).

     Underwritten Registration or Underwritten Offering: A registration in which securities of the
Company are sold to an underwriter for reoffering to the public.

	2.	 	Exchange Offer

	 	(a)	 	Unless the Exchange Offer would not be permitted by applicable laws or a
policy of the SEC, the Company shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to) (i) no later
than the Filing Date, prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement (the
“Exchange Offer Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the
Securities Act with respect to an offer (the “Exchange Offer”) to exchange the
Notes for Exchange Notes guaranteed by the Guarantors which shall have terms
substantially identical in all material respects to the Notes, (ii) use all
commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to
become effective no later than the Effectiveness Date, (iii) use all commercially
reasonable efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement effective until
the consummation of the Exchange Offer in accordance with its terms, and (iv) commence
the Exchange Offer and use all commercially reasonable efforts to issue, on or prior to
30 Business Days after the date that the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is
declared effective by the SEC (or such longer period if required by applicable
securities laws), Exchange Notes in exchange for all Notes tendered prior thereto in
the Exchange Offer. The Exchange Offer shall not be subject to any conditions, other
than that the Exchange Offer does not violate applicable law or any applicable
interpretation of the staff of the SEC.

	 	(b)	 	The Exchange Notes and the Private Exchange Notes shall be issued under, and
entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture or a trust indenture that is identical to
the Indenture (other than such changes as are necessary to comply with any requirements
of the SEC to effect or maintain the qualifications thereof under the TIA), which in
either case will provide that (i) the Exchange Notes will not be subject to the
registration rights, transfer restrictions or Special Interest provisions set forth in
the Indenture, (ii) the Private Exchange Notes will be subject to the transfer
restrictions set forth in the Indenture and

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	 	 	 	(iii) the Exchange Notes, the Private Exchange Notes and the Notes, if any, will be
deemed one class of security (subject to the provisions of the Indenture) and
entitled to participate in all the security granted by the Company pursuant to the
Collateral Agreements (to the extent provided therein) and in any Guarantee (as such
terms are defined in the Indenture) on an equal and ratable basis.

	 	(c)	 	Interest on the Exchange Notes and Private Exchange Notes will accrue from (i)
the later of (x) the last interest payment date on which interest was paid on the Notes
surrendered in exchange therefor or (y) if the Note is surrendered for exchange on a
date in a period which includes the record date for an interest payment date to occur
on or after the date of such exchange and as to which interest will be paid, the date
of such interest payment date or (ii) if no interest has been paid on the Notes, from
the Issue Date. Each Exchange Note and Private Exchange Note shall bear interest at
the rate set forth thereon.

	 	(d)	 	The Company may require each Holder as a condition to participation in the
Exchange Offer to represent to the Company that at the time of the commencement and
consummation of the Exchange Offer, (i) any Exchange Notes received by such Holder will
be acquired in the ordinary course of its business, (ii) such Holder has not entered
into any arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the
distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Notes in
violation of the provisions of the Securities Act, (iii) such Holder is not an
“affiliate” (as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act) of the Company or if such
Holder is an affiliate such Holder will comply with the registration and prospectus
delivery requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable, (iv) if such
Holder is not a broker-dealer, that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage
in, the distribution of the Exchange Notes and (v) if such Holder is a Participating
Broker-Dealer that will receive Exchange Notes for its own account in exchange for
Notes that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, that
it will deliver a Prospectus in connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes.

	 	(e)	 	The Company shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to) include within the
Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement a section entitled
“Plan of Distribution” reasonably acceptable to the Initial Purchasers which shall
contain all of the information that the SEC may require with respect to the potential
“underwriter” status of any broker-dealer that is the beneficial owner (as defined in
Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of Exchange Notes received by such broker-dealer in
the Exchange Offer for its own account in exchange for Notes that were acquired by it
as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities (a
“Participating Broker-Dealer”), whether such positions or policies have been
publicly disseminated by the staff of the SEC or such positions or policies, in the
judgment of the Initial Purchasers, represent the prevailing views of the staff of the
SEC. Such “Plan of Distribution” section shall also allow, to the extent permitted by
applicable policies and regulations of the SEC, the use of the Prospectus by all
Persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act,
including, to the extent so permitted, all Participating Broker-Dealers, and include a
statement describing the manner in which Participating Broker-Dealers may resell the
Exchange Notes. The Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to keep the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement effective and to amend and supplement the
Prospectus contained therein, in order to permit such Prospectus to be lawfully
delivered by all Persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the
Securities Act for such period of time as such Persons must comply with such
requirements in order to resell the Exchange Notes (the “Applicable Period”).

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	 	(f)	 	If, upon consummation of the Exchange Offer, the Initial Purchasers hold any
Notes acquired by them and having the status of an unsold allotment in the initial
distribution, the Company (upon the written request from an Initial Purchaser) shall,
simultaneously with the delivery of the Exchange Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer,
issue and deliver to such Initial Purchaser in exchange (the “Private
Exchange”) for the Notes held by such Initial Purchaser, a like principal amount of
debt securities of the Company, including guarantees relating thereto (issued under the
same Indenture as the Exchange Notes) that are identical in all material respects to
the Exchange Notes except for the existence of restrictions on transfer thereof under
the Securities Act and securities laws of the several states of the United States (the
“Private Exchange Notes”). The Private Exchange Notes shall bear the same CUSIP
number as the Exchange Notes.

	 	(g)	 	In connection with the Exchange Offer, the Company shall (and shall cause each
Guarantor to):

	 	(i)	 	mail or cause to be mailed to each Holder a copy of the Prospectus
forming part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an
appropriate letter of transmittal (substantially in the form attached as an
exhibit to the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) and any related
documents;

	 	(ii)	 	keep the Exchange Offer open for not less than 20 Business Days (or
longer if required by applicable law) after the date notice thereof is mailed
to the Holders;

	 	(iii)	 	utilize the services of a depository for the Exchange Offer with an
address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which may be the
Trustee or an affiliate thereof;

	 	(iv)	 	permit Holders to withdraw tendered Registrable Notes at any time
prior to the close of business, New York time, on the last Business Day on
which the Exchange Offer shall remain open; and

	 	(v)	 	otherwise comply in all material respects with all applicable laws.

	 	(h)	 	As soon as practicable after the close of the Exchange Offer or the Private
Exchange, as the case may be, the Company shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to):

	 	(i)	 	accept for exchange all Registrable Notes validly tendered and not
validly withdrawn pursuant to the Exchange Offer or the Private Exchange, as
the case may be;

	 	(ii)	 	deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all
Registrable Notes so accepted for exchange; and

	 	(iii)	 	cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each
Holder tendering such Registrable Notes, Exchange Notes or Private Exchange
Notes, as the case may be, equal in principal amount to the Notes of such
Holder so accepted for exchange; provided, that, in the case of any Notes held
in global form by a depositary, authentication and delivery to such depositary
of one or more replacement Notes in global form in an equivalent principal
amount thereto for

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	 	 	 	the account of such Holders in accordance with the Indenture shall satisfy
such authentication and delivery requirement.

	 	(i)	 	If (i) any change in law or in applicable interpretations thereof by the staff
of the SEC would not permit the consummation of the Exchange Offer, (ii) any Initial
Purchaser so requests with respect to the Notes (or the Private Exchange Notes) not
eligible to be exchanged for Exchange Notes in the Exchange Offer and held by it
following consummation of the Exchange Offer, or (iii) either (A) any Holder is
prohibited by applicable law or SEC policy from participating in the Exchange Offer,
(B) any Holder participating in the Exchange Offer may not resell the Exchange Notes
received by it in the Exchange Offer to the public without delivering a prospectus and
the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is not
appropriate or available for such resales (other than due solely to the status of such
Holder as an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of Rule 405 the Securities
Act) or (C) any Participating Broker-Dealer holds Notes acquired directly from the
Company or one of its affiliates, and, in each case contemplated by clause (ii) or
(iii) above, such Initial Purchaser or such Holder notifies the Company in writing
thereof prior to the 20th Business Day following consummation of the
Exchange Offer, then in each case the Company shall promptly (and in any event within
five Business Days of such notification) deliver to the Holders and the Trustee notice
thereof (the “Shelf Notice”) and shall as promptly as practicable and at its
sole expense use all commercially reasonable efforts to file an Initial Shelf
Registration Statement pursuant to Section 3 hereof.

	3.	 	Shelf Registration

     If a Shelf Notice is delivered pursuant to Section 2(i)(i), then this Section
3 shall apply to all Registrable Notes. Otherwise, upon consummation of the Exchange Offer in
accordance with Section 2, the provisions of this Section 3 shall apply solely with
respect to (i) Notes held by any Holder thereof not permitted to participate in the Exchange Offer,
(ii) Private Exchange Notes, and (iii) Exchange Notes that are not freely tradable as contemplated
by Section 2(i)(iii)(B) hereof.

	 	(a)	 	Initial Shelf Registration. The Company shall, and shall cause each
Guarantor to, use all commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC a
Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to
Rule 415 covering all of the Registrable Notes (the “Initial Shelf Registration
Statement”) within 45 days of the delivery of the Shelf Notice and shall (and shall
cause each Guarantor to) use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Initial
Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as
promptly as practicable thereafter (but in no event more than 120 days after delivery
of the Shelf Notice); provided, however, that if the Company (and each
Guarantor) has not filed an Exchange Offer Registration Statement prior to the delivery
of the Shelf Notice, then the Company shall use its best efforts to file (and shall
cause each Guarantor to file) with the SEC the Initial Shelf Registration Statement on
or prior to the Filing Date and shall use its best efforts to cause such Initial Shelf
Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act on or prior to
the Effectiveness Date. The Initial Shelf Registration Statement shall be on Form S-1
or another appropriate form permitting registration of such Registrable Notes for
resale by Holders in the manner or manners reasonably designated by them (including,
without limitation, one or more Underwritten Offerings). The Company and Guarantors
shall not permit any securities other than the Registrable Notes to be included in any
Shelf Registration Statement. The Company shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to) use
its best efforts to keep the Initial Shelf Registration Statement continuously

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	 	 	 	effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years from the Issue
Date (the “Effectiveness Period”), or such shorter period ending when (i)
all Registrable Notes covered by such Shelf Registration Statement cease to be
Registrable Notes, (ii) all Registrable Notes covered by the Initial Shelf
Registration Statement have been sold in the manner set forth and as contemplated in
the Initial Shelf Registration Statement, (iii) a Subsequent Shelf Registration
Statement covering all of the Registrable Notes covered by and not sold under the
Initial Shelf Registration Statement or an earlier Subsequent Shelf Registration
Statement has been declared effective under the Securities Act or (iv) there cease
to be any outstanding Registrable Notes.

	 	(b)	 	Subsequent Shelf Registrations. If the Initial Shelf Registration
Statement or any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective for any
reason at any time during the Effectiveness Period (other than during a Blackout Period
or because of the sale of all of the Securities registered thereunder), the Company
shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to) use all commercially reasonable efforts to
obtain the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness thereof, and in
any event shall within 30 days of such cessation of effectiveness amend such Shelf
Registration Statement in a manner designed to obtain the withdrawal of the order
suspending the effectiveness thereof, or file (and cause each Guarantor to file) an
additional “shelf” registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 covering all of the
Registrable Notes covered by and not sold under the Initial Shelf Registration
Statement or any earlier Registration Statement (a “Subsequent Shelf Registration
Statement”). If a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement is filed, the Company
shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to) use all commercially reasonable efforts to
cause the Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective as soon as
practicable after such filing and to keep such Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement
continuously effective for a period equal to the number of days in the Effectiveness
Period less the aggregate number of days during which the Initial Shelf Registration
Statement or any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement was previously continuously
effective.

	 	(c)	 	Supplements and Amendments. The Company shall promptly amend any
Shelf Registration Statement and/or amend or supplement the Prospectus constituting a
part thereof if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the
registration form used for such Shelf Registration Statement, if required by the
Securities Act, or if reasonably requested in writing by the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Notes covered by such Shelf Registration
Statement or by any underwriter of such Registrable Notes.

	 	(d)	 	Provision of Information. No Holder shall be entitled to include any
of its Registrable Notes in any Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement
unless such Holder furnishes to the Company and the Trustee in writing, within 20 days
after receipt of a written request therefor, such information as the Company or the
Trustee, after conferring with counsel with regard to information relating to Holders
that would be required by the SEC to be included in such Shelf Registration Statement
or Prospectus included therein, may reasonably request for inclusion in any Shelf
Registration Statement or Prospectus included therein, and no such Holder shall be
entitled to Special Interest pursuant to Section 4 hereof unless and until such
Holder shall have provided such information.

	 	(e)	 	Blackout Periods. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in this Agreement, upon notice to Holders, the Company may suspend use of the
Prospectus included in any Shelf Registration Statement in the event that and for a
period of time (a “Blackout

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	 	 	 	Period”) not to exceed an aggregate of 90 days in any 12-month period if the
board of directors of the Company determines in good faith that (1) the disclosure
of an event, occurrence or other item at such time could reasonably be expected to
have a material adverse effect on the business, operations or prospects of the
Company and the Guarantors, taken as a whole, or (2) the disclosure otherwise
relates to a material business transaction which has not been publicly disclosed and
that any such disclosure would jeopardize the success of the transaction or that
disclosure of the transaction is prohibited pursuant to the terms thereof.

	4.	 	Special Interest

	 	(a)	 	Events. The Company and each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that
the Holders of Registrable Notes will suffer damages if the Company or any Guarantor
fails to fulfill its material obligations under Section 2 or Section 3
hereof and that it would not be feasible to ascertain the extent of such damages with
precision. Accordingly, the Company and the Guarantors agree to pay additional cash
interest on the Notes (“Special Interest”) under the circumstances and to the
extent set forth below (each of which shall be given independent effect):

	 	(i)	 	if the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has not been filed with
the SEC on or prior to the Filing Date;

	 	(ii)	 	if the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has not been declared
effective by the SEC on or prior to the Effectiveness Date;

	 	(iii)	 	if the Exchange Offer Registration Statement ceases to be effective
at any time prior to the consummation of the Exchange Offer;

	 	(iv)	 	if the Company (and any Guarantor) has not exchanged Exchange Notes
for all Notes validly tendered in accordance with the terms of the Exchange
Offer on or prior to 30 Business Days after the date that the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC (or such longer period
if required by applicable securities laws);

	 	(v)	 	if obligated to file an Initial Shelf Registration Statement, if the
Initial Shelf Registration Statement has not been filed with the SEC on or
prior to 45 days after delivery of the Shelf Notice;

	 	(vi)	 	if obligated to file an Initial Shelf Registration Statement, if the
Initial Shelf Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the SEC
on or prior to 120 days after delivery of the Shelf Notice;

	 	(vii)	 	if a Shelf Registration Statement is filed and declared effective by
the SEC but thereafter is withdrawn or ceases to be effective without being
succeeded within 30 days after such withdrawal or cessation of effectiveness by
a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement filed and declared effective; or

	 	(viii)	 	if the Company issues a valid notice to suspend the use of the
Prospectus included in any Shelf Registration Statement and such suspension,
when taken together with all other suspensions, if any (but solely to the
extent not concurrent), during any 12 month period exceeds 90 days

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	 	 	 	(each of the foregoing an “Event” and the date on which any such Event
occurs, an “Event Date”).

	 	(b)	 	Damages. Upon the occurrence of any Event, the Company shall pay, or
cause to be paid (and the Guarantors hereby guarantee the payment of), in addition to
amounts otherwise due under the Indenture and the Registrable Notes, Special Interest
to each Holder, which shall accrue on the Notes over and above any stated interest at a
rate of 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of such Notes for the first 90 days
immediately following any Event Date, such Special Interest rate increasing by an
additional 0.25% per annum at the beginning of each subsequent 90-day period;
provided, that the amount of Special Interest accruing on the Notes shall not
exceed at any one time in the aggregate 1.0% per annum; provided
further, that Special Interest will not accrue under more than one of
Sections 4(a) (i) through (viii) at any one time;
provided further, that such Special Interest will, in each case, cease
to accrue (subject to the occurrence of another Event) on the date on which all Events
have been cured pursuant to Section 4(c) hereof.

	 	(c)	 	Cure. An Event under:

	 	(i)	 	Section 4(a)(i) above shall be cured upon the earlier of the
date that (A) the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is filed with the SEC
or, (B) if required pursuant to Section (2)(i), the Initial Shelf
Registration Statement is filed with the SEC;

	 	(ii)	 	Section 4(a)(ii) above shall be cured upon the earlier of the
date that (A) the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective
by the SEC or, (B), if required pursuant to Section (2)(i), the Initial
Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective;

	 	(iii)	 	Section 4(a)(iii) above shall be cured upon the earlier of
(A) the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement which had
ceased to remain effective or, (B) if required pursuant to Section
(2)(i), the date that the Initial Shelf Registration Statement is declared
effective;

	 	(iv)	 	Section 4(a)(iv) above shall be cured upon the earlier of the
date that (A) the Exchange Offer is consummated with respect to all Notes
validly tendered or, (B) if required pursuant to Section (2)(i), the
date that the Initial Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective;

	 	(v)	 	Section 4(a)(v) above shall be cured upon the date that the
Initial Shelf Registration Statement is filed with the SEC;

	 	(vi)	 	Section 4(a)(vi) above shall be cured upon the date that the
Initial Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC;

	 	(vii)	 	Section 4(a)(vii) above shall be cured upon the
effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement which had ceased to remain
effective; and

	 	(viii)	 	Section 4(a)(viii) above shall be cured upon the day the
Prospectus in any Shelf Registration Statement the use of which was previously
suspended may be used again.

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	 	(d)	 	The Company shall notify the Trustee within five Business Days after each and
every Event Date. Any amounts of Special Interest due pursuant to this Section
4(a) will be payable in cash, on the dates and in the manner provided in the
Indenture for interest payments on the Notes and whether or not any cash interest would
then be payable on such date, commencing with the first such semi-annual date occurring
after any such Special Interest commences to accrue. The amount of Special Interest
will be determined by multiplying the applicable Special Interest rate by the principal
amount of the Notes, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of
days such Special Interest rate was applicable during such period (determined on the
basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of a partial
month, the actual number of days elapsed), and the denominator of which is 360.

	5.	 	Registration Procedures

     In connection with the filing of any Registration Statement pursuant to Sections 2 or
3 hereof, the Company shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to) effect such registrations
to permit the sale of such Securities covered thereby in accordance with the intended method or
methods of disposition thereof, and pursuant thereto and in connection with any Registration
Statement filed by the Company hereunder, the Company shall (and shall cause each Guarantor to):

	 	(a)	 	Prepare and file with the SEC on or prior to the Filing Date, the Exchange
Offer Registration Statement or, if the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is not
filed because of the circumstances contemplated by Section 2(i), a Shelf
Registration Statement as prescribed by Section 3, and use all commercially
reasonable efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to become effective and
remain effective as provided herein; provided that, if (i) a Shelf Registration
Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 or (ii) a Prospectus contained in an
Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 is required
to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks
to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, before filing any Registration
Statement or Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto the Company shall (and
shall cause each Guarantor to), if requested, furnish at no charge to Holders of the
Registrable Notes to be registered pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement, each
Participating Broker-Dealer, the managing underwriters, if any, and each of their
respective counsel, a reasonable opportunity to review copies of all such documents
(including copies of any documents to be incorporated by reference therein and all
exhibits thereto) proposed to be filed (in each case at least five Business Days prior
to such filing). The Company and each Guarantor shall not (and shall not allow any of
the other Guarantors to) file any such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any
amendments or supplements thereto in respect of which the Holders must provide
information for the inclusion therein without the Holders being afforded an opportunity
to review such documentation if the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Registrable Notes covered by such Registration Statement, or any such
Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, or the managing underwriters, if any,
or any of their respective counsel shall reasonably object in writing on a timely
basis. A Holder shall be deemed to have reasonably objected to such filing if such
Registration Statement, amendment, Prospectus or supplement, as applicable, as proposed
to be filed, contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any
material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or fails to
comply with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act.

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	 	(b)	 	Provide an indenture trustee for the Registrable Notes, the Exchange Notes or
the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be, and cause the Indenture (or other
indenture relating to the Registrable Notes) to be qualified under the TIA not later
than the effective date of the first Registration Statement; and in connection
therewith, to effect such changes to such indenture as may be required for such
indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the TIA; and execute, and
use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such trustee to execute, all documents
as may be required to effect such changes, and all other forms and documents required
to be filed with the SEC to enable such indenture to be so qualified in a timely
manner.

	 	(c)	 	Other than during a Blackout Period, prepare and file with the SEC such
pre-effective amendments and post-effective amendments to each Shelf Registration
Statement or Exchange Offer Registration Statement, as the case may be, as may be
necessary to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective for the
Effectiveness Period or the Applicable Period, as the case may be; cause the related
Prospectus to be supplemented by any Prospectus supplement required by applicable law,
and as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (or any similar provisions then
in force) promulgated under the Securities Act; and comply with the provisions of the
Securities Act and the Exchange Act applicable to them with respect to the disposition
of all securities covered by such Registration Statement as so amended or in such
Prospectus as so supplemented and with respect to the subsequent resale of any
securities being sold by a Participating Broker-Dealer covered by any such Prospectus.
The Company and each Guarantor shall not (and shall not allow any other Guarantor to),
during the Applicable Period, voluntarily take any action that would result in selling
Holders of the Registrable Notes covered by a Registration Statement or Participating
Broker-Dealers seeking to sell Exchange Notes not being able to sell such Registrable
Notes or such Exchange Notes during that period, unless such action is required by
applicable law, rule or regulation or permitted by this Agreement.

	 	(d)	 	Furnish to such selling Holders and Participating Broker-Dealers who so
request in writing (i) upon the Company’s receipt, a copy of the order of the SEC
declaring such Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto
effective, (ii) such reasonable number of copies of such Registration Statement and of
each amendment and supplement thereto (in each case including any documents
incorporated therein by reference and all exhibits), (iii) such reasonable number of
copies of the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement (including each
preliminary Prospectus) and each amendment and supplement thereto, and such reasonable
number of copies of the final Prospectus as filed by the Company and each Guarantor
pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, in conformity with the requirements
of the Securities Act and each amendment and supplement thereto, and (iv) such other
documents (including any amendments required to be filed pursuant to clause (c) of this
Section 5), as any such Person may reasonably request in writing. The Company
and the Guarantors hereby consent to the use of the Prospectus by each of the selling
Holders of Registrable Notes or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may
be, and the underwriters or agents, if any, and dealers, if any, in connection with the
offering and sale of the Registrable Notes covered by, or the sale by Participating
Broker-Dealers of the Exchange Notes pursuant to, such Prospectus and any amendment or
supplement thereto.

	 	(e)	 	If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3,
or (2) a Prospectus contained in an Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed
pursuant to Section 2 is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by
any Participating Broker-Dealer who

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	 	 	 	seeks to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period relating thereto, the
Company shall notify in writing the selling Holders of Registrable Notes, or each
such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, and the managing underwriters,
if any, promptly (but in any event within two Business Days) (i) when a Prospectus
or any Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with
respect to a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the same
has become effective (including in such notice a written statement that any Holder
may, upon request, obtain, without charge, one conformed copy of such Registration
Statement or post-effective amendment including financial statements and schedules,
documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference and exhibits), (ii)
of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a
Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any
Prospectus or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (iii) if at any
time when a Prospectus is required by the Securities Act to be delivered in
connection with sales of the Registrable Notes the representations and warranties of
the Company and any Guarantor contained in any agreement (including any underwriting
agreement contemplated by Section 5(n)) hereof cease to be true and correct
in all material respects, (iv) of the receipt by the Company or any Guarantor of any
notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from
qualification of a Registration Statement or any of the Registrable Notes or the
Exchange Notes to be sold by any Participating Broker-Dealer for offer or sale in
any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such
purpose, (v) of the happening of any event, the existence of any condition of any
information becoming known to the Company that makes any statement made in such
Registration Statement or related Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed
to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that
requires the making of any changes in, or amendments or supplements to, such
Registration Statement, Prospectus or documents so that, in the case of the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, it will not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading, (vi) of any reasonable determination by the
Company or any Guarantor that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement
would be appropriate and (vii) of any request by the SEC for amendments to the
Registration Statement or supplements to the Prospectus or for additional
information relating thereto.

	 	(f)	 	Use all commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any order
suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or of any order preventing or
suspending the use of a Prospectus or suspending the qualification (or exemption from
qualification) of any of the Registrable Notes or the Exchange Notes to be sold by any
Participating Broker-Dealer, for sale in any jurisdiction, and, if any such order is
issued, use all commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any such
order at the earliest possible date.

	 	(g)	 	If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3,
(2) a Prospectus contained in an Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant
to Section 2 is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any
Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable
Period or (3) reasonably requested in writing by the managing underwriters, if any, or
the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Notes being
sold in connection with an Underwritten Offering, other than during a Blackout Period,
(i) promptly incorporate in a Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such
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	 	 	 	therein relating to such underwriters or selling Holders as the managing
underwriters, if any, or such Holders or any of their respective counsel reasonably
request in writing to be included or made therein and (ii) make all required filings
of such Prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment as soon as
practicable after the Company has received notification of the matters to be
incorporated in such Prospectus supplements or post-effective amendment;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to take
any action hereunder that would, in the written opinion of counsel to the Company,
violate applicable laws.

	 	(h)	 	Prior to any public offering of Registrable Notes or any delivery of a
Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement by any Participating
Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, use all
commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify, and cooperate with the selling
Holders of Registrable Notes or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may
be, the underwriters, if any, and their respective counsel in connection with the
registration or qualification (or exemption from such registration or qualification) of
such Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes, as the case may be, for offer and sale under
the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States as any
selling Holder, Participating Broker-Dealer or any managing underwriter or
underwriters, if any, reasonably request in writing; and, if Exchange Notes held by
Participating Broker-Dealers or Registrable Notes are offered other than through an
Underwritten Offering, the Company and each Guarantor shall use all commercially
reasonable efforts to cause its counsel to perform Blue Sky investigations and use all
commercially reasonable efforts to file any registrations and qualifications required
to be filed pursuant to this Section 5(h), use all commercially reasonable
efforts to keep each such registration or qualification (or exemption therefrom)
effective during the period such Registration Statement is required to be kept
effective and use its best efforts to do any and all other acts or things reasonably
necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Exchange
Notes held by Participating Broker-Dealers or the Registrable Notes covered by the
applicable Registration Statement; provided that neither the Company nor any
Guarantor shall be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction
where it is not then so qualified, (ii) take any action that would subject it to
general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject or
(iii) subject itself to taxation in excess of a nominal dollar amount in any such
jurisdiction where it is not then so subject.

	 	(i)	 	If (i) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3
or (ii) a Prospectus contained in an Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed
pursuant to Section 2 is requested to be delivered under the Securities Act by
any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable
Period, cooperate with the selling Holders of Registrable Notes and the managing
underwriter or underwriters, if any, to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery
of certificates representing Registrable Notes to be sold, which certificates shall not
bear any restrictive legends and shall be in a form eligible for deposit with The
Depository Trust Company, and enable such Registrable Notes to be in such denominations
and registered in such names as the managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, or
Holders may reasonably request in writing.

	 	(j)	 	Use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registrable Notes covered
by any Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such United States
governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the seller or
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	 	 	 	thereof or the underwriter, if any, to consummate the disposition of such
Registrable Notes, except as may be required solely as a consequence of the nature
of such selling Holder’s business, in which case the Company shall (and shall cause
each Guarantor to) cooperate in all respects with the filing of such Registration
Statement and the granting of such approvals; provided that neither the Company nor
any Guarantor shall be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any
jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified, (ii) take any action that would
subject it to general service of process in any jurisdiction where it is not then so
subject or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not
then so subject.

	 	(k)	 	If (i) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3
or (ii) a Prospectus contained in an Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed
pursuant to Section 2 is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by
any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable
Period, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 5(e)(v) or
(vi) hereof, other than during a Blackout Period, as promptly as practicable,
prepare and file with the SEC, at the expense of the Company and the Guarantors, a
supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a supplement to
the related Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated
therein by reference, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter
delivered to the purchasers of the Registrable Notes being sold thereunder or to the
purchasers of the Exchange Notes to whom such Prospectus will be delivered by a
Participating Broker-Dealer, such Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading, and, if SEC review is required, use all commercially
reasonable efforts to cause such post-effective amendment to be declared effective as
soon as possible.

	 	(l)	 	Use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registrable Notes covered
by a Registration Statement to be rated with such appropriate rating agencies, if so
requested in writing by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Registrable Notes covered by such Registration Statement or the managing underwriter or
underwriters, if any.

	 	(m)	 	Prior to the initial issuance of the Exchange Notes, (i) provide the Trustee
with one or more certificates for the Registrable Notes in a form eligible for deposit
with The Depository Trust Company and (ii) provide a CUSIP number for the Exchange
Notes.

	 	(n)	 	If a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3,
enter into such agreements (including an underwriting agreement in form, scope and
substance as is customary in underwritten offerings of debt securities similar to the
Notes, as may be appropriate in the circumstances) and take all such other actions in
connection therewith (including those reasonably requested in writing by the managing
underwriters, if any, or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Registrable Notes being sold) in order to expedite or facilitate the registration or
the disposition of such Registrable Notes, and in such connection, whether or not an
underwriting agreement is entered into and whether or not the registration is an
Underwritten Registration, (i) make such representations and warranties to the Holders
and the underwriters, if any, with respect to the business of the Company and its
subsidiaries as then conducted, and the Registration Statement, Prospectus and
documents, if any, incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, in
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	 	 	 	customarily made by issuers to underwriters in underwritten offerings of debt
securities similar to the Notes, as may be appropriate in the circumstances, and
confirm the same if and when reasonably required; (ii) use all commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain an opinion of counsel to the Company and the Guarantors
and updates thereof (which counsel and opinions (in form, scope and substance) shall
be reasonably satisfactory to the managing underwriters, if any, and the Holders of
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Notes being sold),
addressed to each selling Holder and each of the underwriters, if any, covering the
matters customarily covered in opinions of counsel to the Company and the Guarantors
requested in underwritten offerings of debt securities similar to the Notes, as may
be appropriate in the circumstances; (iii) use all commercially reasonable efforts
to obtain “cold comfort” letters and updates thereof (which letters and updates (in
form, scope and substance) shall be reasonably satisfactory to the managing
underwriters) from the independent certified public accountants of the Company and
the Guarantors (and, if necessary, any other independent certified public
accountants of any subsidiary of the Company or of any business acquired by the
Company for which financial statements and financial data are, or are required to
be, included in the Registration Statement), addressed to each of the underwriters,
such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily
covered in “cold comfort” letters in connection with underwritten offerings of debt
securities similar to the Notes, as may be appropriate in the circumstances, and
such other matters as reasonably requested in writing by the underwriters; and (iv)
deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested in writing by
the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Notes
being sold and the managing underwriters, if any, to evidence the continued validity
of the representations and warranties of the Company and its subsidiaries made
pursuant to clause (i) above and to evidence compliance with any conditions
contained in the underwriting agreement or other similar agreement entered into by
the Company or any Guarantor.

	 	(o)	 	If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3,
or (2) a Prospectus contained in an Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed
pursuant to Section 2 is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by
any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable
Period, make available for inspection by any selling Holder of such Registrable Notes
being sold, or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, any
underwriter participating in any such disposition of Registrable Notes, if any, and any
attorney, accountant or other agent retained by any such selling Holder or each such
Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, or underwriter (collectively, the
“Inspectors”), at the offices where normally kept, during reasonable business
hours, all financial and other records and pertinent corporate documents of the Company
and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Records”) as shall be reasonably
necessary to enable them to exercise any applicable due diligence responsibilities, and
cause the officers, directors and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries to
supply all information reasonably requested in writing by any such Inspector in
connection with such Registration Statement. Each Inspector shall agree in writing that
it will keep the Records confidential and that it will not disclose, or use in
connection with any market transactions in violation of any applicable securities laws
any of the Records unless (i) the disclosure of such Records is necessary to avoid or
correct a misstatement or omission in such Registration Statement, (ii) the release of
such Records is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court of competent
jurisdiction, (iii) the information in such Records is public or has been made
generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or failure to
safeguard by such Inspector or (iv) disclosure of such information is, in the
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	 	 	 	Inspector, necessary or advisable in connection with any action, claim, suit or
proceeding, directly or indirectly, involving or potentially involving such
Inspector and arising out of, based upon, related to, or involving this Agreement,
or any transaction contemplated hereby or arising hereunder. Each selling Holder of
such Registrable Notes and each such Participating Broker-Dealer will be required to
agree that information obtained by it as a result of such inspections shall be
deemed confidential and shall not be used by it as the basis for any market
transactions in the securities of the Company unless and until such information is
made generally available to the public. Each Inspector, each selling Holder of such
Registrable Notes and each such Participating Broker-Dealer will be required to
further agree that it will, upon learning that disclosure of such Records is sought
in a court of competent jurisdiction, give notice to the Company and, to the extent
practicable, use its best efforts to allow the Company, at its expense, to undertake
appropriate action to prevent disclosure of the Records deemed confidential at its
expense.

	 	(p)	 	Comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and make generally
available to the security holders of the Company with regard to any applicable
Registration Statement earning statements satisfying the provisions of section 11(a) of
the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder.

	 	(q)	 	Upon consummation of an Exchange Offer or Private Exchange, use all
commercially reasonable efforts to obtain an opinion of counsel to the Company and the
Guarantors (in form, scope and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial
Purchasers), addressed to the Trustee for the benefit of all Holders participating in
the Exchange Offer or Private Exchange, as the case may be, to the effect that (i) the
Company and the Guarantors have duly authorized, executed and delivered the Exchange
Notes or the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be, and the Indenture, (ii) the
Exchange Notes or the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be, and the Indenture
constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantors,
enforceable against the Company and the Guarantors in accordance with their respective
terms, except as such enforcement may be subject to customary United States and foreign
exceptions and (iii) all obligations of the Company and the Guarantors under the
Exchange Notes or the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be, and the Indenture are
secured by Liens on the assets securing the obligations of the Company and the
Guarantors under the Notes, the Indenture and the Collateral Agreements to the extent
and as discussed in the Registration Statement.

	 	(r)	 	If the Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be consummated, upon
delivery of the Registrable Notes by the Holders to the Company and the Guarantors (or
to such other Person as directed by the Company and the Guarantors) in exchange for the
Exchange Notes or the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be, the Company and the
Guarantors shall mark, or cause to be marked, on such Registrable Notes that the
Exchange Notes or the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be, are being issued as
substitute evidence of the indebtedness originally evidenced by the Registrable Notes;
provided that in no event shall such Registrable Notes be marked as paid or otherwise
satisfied.

	 	(s)	 	Cooperate with each seller of Registrable Notes covered by any Registration
Statement and each underwriter, if any, participating in the disposition of such
Registrable Notes and their respective counsel in connection with any filings required
to be made with the FINRA.

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	 	(t)	 	Use all commercially reasonable efforts to take all other steps reasonably
necessary to effect the registration of the Registrable Notes covered by a Registration
Statement contemplated hereby.

	 	(u)	 	The Company may require each seller of Registrable Notes or Participating
Broker-Dealer as to which any registration is being effected to furnish to the Company
such information regarding such seller or Participating Broker-Dealer and the
distribution of such Registrable Notes as the Company may, from time to time,
reasonably request in writing. The Company may exclude from such registration the
Registrable Notes of any seller who fails to furnish such information within a
reasonable time (which time in no event shall exceed 30 days) after receiving such
request. Each seller of Registrable Notes or Participating Broker-Dealer as to which
any registration is being effected agrees to furnish promptly to the Company all
information required to be disclosed in order to make the information previously
furnished by such seller not materially misleading.

	 	(v)	 	Each Holder of Registrable Notes and each Participating Broker-Dealer agrees
by acquisition of such Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes to be sold by such
Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, that, upon receipt of any notice from
the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section
5(e)(ii), (iv), (v), or (vi) or the commencement of a
Blackout Period, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of such Registrable
Notes covered by a Registration Statement and such Participating Broker-Dealer will
forthwith discontinue disposition of such Exchange Notes pursuant to any Prospectus
and, in each case, forthwith discontinue dissemination of such Prospectus until such
Holder’s or Participating Broker-Dealer’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or
amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 5(k), or until it is advised in
writing (the “Advice”) by the Company and the Guarantors that the use of the
applicable Prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any amendments or
supplements thereto and, if so directed by the Company and the Guarantors, such Holder
or Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, will deliver to the Company all
copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s or Participating
Broker-Dealer’s possession, of the Prospectus covering such Registrable Notes current
at the time of the receipt of such notice. In the event the Company and the Guarantors
shall give any such notice, the Applicable Period shall be extended by the number of
days during such periods from and including the date of the giving of such notice to
and including the date when each Participating Broker-Dealer shall have received (x)
the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section
5(k) or (y) the Advice.

	6.	 	Registration Expenses

	 	(a)	 	All fees and expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with this
Agreement (other than the underwriting discounts or commissions) by the Company and the
Guarantors shall be borne by the Company and the Guarantors, whether or not the
Exchange Offer or a Shelf Registration Statement is filed or becomes effective,
including, without limitation, (i) all registration and filing fees, including, without
limitation, (A) fees with respect to filings required to be made with the FINRA in
connection with any Underwritten Offering and (B) fees and expenses of compliance with
state securities or Blue Sky laws as provided in Section 5(h) hereof
(including, without limitation, reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel in
connection with Blue Sky qualifications of the Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes and
determination of the eligibility of the Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes for
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	 	 	 	(x) where the Holders are located, in the case of the Exchange Notes, or (y) as
provided in Section 5(h), in the case of Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes
to be sold by a Participating Broker-Dealer during the Applicable Period), (ii)
printing expenses, including, without limitation, expenses of printing Prospectuses
if the printing of Prospectuses is requested by the managing underwriter or
underwriters, if any, or by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Registrable Notes included in any Registration Statement or by any
Participating Broker-Dealer during the Applicable Period, as the case may be, (iii)
messenger, telephone and delivery expenses incurred in connection with the
performance of their obligations hereunder, (iv) fees and disbursements of counsel
for the Company, the Guarantors and, subject to Section 6(b), the Holders,
(v) fees and disbursements of all independent certified public accountants referred
to in Section 5 (including, without limitation, the expenses of any special
audit and “cold comfort” letters required by or incident to such performance), (vi)
rating agency fees and the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing
of the Securities to be registered on any securities exchange, (vii) Securities Act
liability insurance, if the Company and the Guarantors desire such insurance, (viii)
fees and expenses of all other Persons retained by the Company and the Guarantors,
(ix) fees and expenses of any “qualified independent underwriter” or other
independent appraiser participating in an offering pursuant to the bylaws of the
FINRA, but only where the need for such a “qualified independent underwriter” arises
due to a relationship with the Company and the Guarantors, (x) internal expenses of
the Company and the Guarantors (including, without limitation, all salaries and
expenses of officers and employees of the Company or the Guarantors performing legal
or accounting duties), (xi) the expense of any annual audit, (xii) the fees and
expenses of the Trustee and the exchange agent and (xiii) the expenses relating to
printing, word processing and distributing all Registration Statements, underwriting
agreements, securities sales agreements, indentures and any other documents
necessary in order to comply with this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing or
anything to the contrary, each Holder shall pay all underwriting discounts and
commissions of any underwriters with respect to any Registrable Notes sold by or on
behalf of it.

	 	(b)	 	The Company and the Guarantors shall reimburse the Holders for the reasonable
fees and disbursements of not more than one counsel chosen by the Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Notes to be included in any
Registration Statement. The Company and the Guarantors shall pay all documentary,
stamp, transfer or other transactional taxes attributable to the issuance or delivery
of the Exchange Notes or Private Exchange Notes in exchange for the Notes;
provided, that the Company shall not be required to pay taxes payable in
respect of any transfer involved in the issuance or delivery of any Exchange Note or
Private Exchange Note in a name other than that of the Holder of the Note in respect of
which such Exchange Note or Private Exchange Note is being issued. The Company and the
Guarantors shall reimburse the Holders for reasonable fees and expenses (including
reasonable and fees and expenses of counsel to the Holders) relating to any enforcement
of any rights of the Holders under this Agreement.

	7.	 	Indemnification

	 	(a)	 	Indemnification by the Company and the Guarantors. The Company and
the Guarantors jointly and severally agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder
of Registrable Notes, Exchange Notes or Private Exchange Notes and each Participating
Broker-Dealer selling Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, each Person, if any,
who controls

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	 	 	 	each such Holder (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section
20(a) of the Exchange Act) and the officers, directors and partners of each such
Holder, Participating Broker-Dealer and controlling person, to the fullest extent
lawful, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs
(including, without limitation, reasonable costs of preparation and reasonable
attorneys’ fees as provided in this Section 7) and reasonable expenses
(including, without limitation, reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection
with investigating, preparing, pursuing or defending against any of the foregoing)
(collectively, “Losses”), as incurred, directly or indirectly caused by,
related to, based upon, arising out of or in connection with any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement,
Prospectus or form of prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, or in
any preliminary prospectus, or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading,
except insofar as such Losses are based upon information relating to such Holder or
Participating Broker-Dealer and furnished in writing to the Company and the
Guarantors (or reviewed and approved in writing) by such Holder or Participating
Broker-Dealer or their counsel expressly for use therein; provided,
however, that the Company and the Guarantors will not be liable to any
Indemnified Party under this Section 7 to the extent Losses were caused by
an untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission that was
contained or made in any preliminary prospectus and corrected in the Prospectus or
any amendment or supplement thereto if (i) the Prospectus does not contain any other
untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission of a material
fact that was the subject matter of the related proceedings, (ii) any such Losses
resulted from an action, claim or suit by any Person who purchased Registrable Notes
or Exchange Notes which are the subject thereof from such Indemnified Party and
(iii) it is established in the related proceeding that such Indemnified Party failed
to deliver or provide a copy of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) to such
Person with or prior to the confirmation of the sale of such Registrable Notes or
Exchange Notes sold to such Person if required by applicable law, unless such
failure to deliver or provide a copy of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented)
was a result of noncompliance by the Company with Section 5 of this
Agreement. The Company and the Guarantors also agree to indemnify underwriters,
selling brokers, dealer managers and similar securities industry professionals, in
each case, that are engaged by the Company and participating in the distribution,
their officers, directors, agents and employees and each Person who controls such
Persons (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20(a) of
the Exchange Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the
indemnification of the Holders or the Participating Broker-Dealer.

	 	(b)	 	Indemnification by Holder. In connection with any Registration
Statement, Prospectus or form of prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or
any preliminary prospectus in which a Holder is participating, such Holder shall
furnish to the Company and the Guarantors in writing such information as the Company
and the Guarantors reasonably request for use in connection with any Registration
Statement, Prospectus or form of prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or
any preliminary prospectus, and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the
Guarantors, their respective directors and officers and each Person, if any, who
controls the Company and the Guarantors (within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act and Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers and
partners of such controlling persons, to the fullest extent lawful, from and against
all Losses arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in any

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	 	 	 	Registration Statement, Prospectus or form of prospectus or in any amendment or
supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or any omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading to the extent, but only to the extent, that such Losses
are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or
omission or alleged omission of a material fact contained in or omitted from any
information so furnished in writing (or reviewed and approved in writing) by such
Holder to the Company and the Guarantors expressly for use therein. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, in no event shall the liability of any selling Holder be greater in
amount than such Holder’s Maximum Contribution Amount.

	 	(c)	 	Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings. If any proceeding shall be
brought or asserted against any Person entitled to indemnity hereunder (an
“Indemnified Party”), such Indemnified Party shall promptly notify the party or
parties from which such indemnity is sought (the “Indemnifying Party” or
“Indemnifying Parties”, as applicable) in writing; provided, that the failure
to so notify the Indemnifying Parties shall not relieve the Indemnifying Parties from
any obligation or liability except to the extent (but only to the extent) that it shall
be finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction (which determination is not
subject to appeal) that the Indemnifying Parties have been prejudiced materially by
such failure.
	 
	 	 	 	The Indemnifying Party shall have the right, exercisable by giving written notice to
an Indemnified Party, within 20 Business Days after receipt of written notice from
such Indemnified Party of such proceeding, to assume, at its expense, the defense of
any such proceeding, provided, that an Indemnified Party shall have the right to
employ separate counsel in any such proceeding and to participate in the defense
thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such
Indemnified Party or parties unless: (i) the Indemnifying Party has agreed to pay
such fees and expenses; or (ii) the Indemnifying Party shall have failed promptly to
assume the defense of such proceeding or shall have failed to employ counsel
reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party; or (iii) the named parties to any
such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both such Indemnified
Party and the Indemnifying Party or any of its affiliates or controlling persons,
and such Indemnified Party shall have been advised by counsel that there may be one
or more defenses available to such Indemnified Party that are in addition to, or in
conflict with, those defenses available to the Indemnifying Party or such affiliate
or controlling person (in which case, if such Indemnified Party notifies the
Indemnifying Parties in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the
expense of the Indemnifying Parties, the Indemnifying Parties shall not have the
right to assume the defense and the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel
shall be at the expense of the Indemnifying Party; it being understood, however,
that, the Indemnifying Party shall not, in connection with any one such proceeding
or separate but substantially similar or related proceedings in the same
jurisdiction, arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be
liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys
(together with appropriate local counsel) at any time for such Indemnified Party).
	 
	 	 	 	No Indemnifying Party shall be liable for any settlement of any such proceeding
effected without its written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, but
if settled with its written consent, or if there be a final judgment for the
plaintiff in any such proceeding, each Indemnifying Party jointly and severally
agrees, subject to the exceptions and

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	 	 	 	limitations set forth above, to indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Party
from and against any and all Losses by reason of such settlement or judgment. The
Indemnifying Party shall not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any
settlement that does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the
claimant or plaintiff to each Indemnified Party of a release, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party, from all liability in respect of
such proceeding for which such Indemnified Party would be entitled to
indemnification hereunder (whether or not any Indemnified Party is a party thereto).

	 	(d)	 	Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in this Section
7 is unavailable to an Indemnified Party or is insufficient to hold such
Indemnified Party harmless for any Losses in respect of which this Section 7
would otherwise apply by its terms (other than by reason of exceptions provided in this
Section 7), then each applicable Indemnifying Party, in lieu of indemnifying
such Indemnified Party, shall have a joint and several obligation to contribute to the
amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such Losses, in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party,
on the one hand, and such Indemnified Party, on the other hand, in connection with the
actions, statements or omissions that resulted in such Losses as well as any other
relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of such Indemnifying Party, on
the one hand, and Indemnified Party, on the other hand, shall be determined by
reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information supplied by such Indemnifying Party or Indemnified Party, and the parties’
relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent
any such statement or omission. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Party as
a result of any Losses shall be deemed to include any legal or other fees or expenses
incurred by such party in connection with any proceeding, to the extent such party
would have been indemnified for such fees or expenses if the indemnification provided
for in Section 7(a) or 7(b) was available to such party.
	 
	 	 	 	The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution
pursuant to this Section 7(d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by
another method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable
considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. Notwithstanding
the provisions of this Section 7(d), a selling Holder shall not be required
to contribute, in the aggregate, any amount in excess of such Holder’s Maximum
Contribution Amount. A selling Holder’s “Maximum Contribution Amount” shall
equal the excess of (i) the aggregate proceeds received by such Holder pursuant to
the sale of such Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes over (ii) the aggregate amount
of damages that such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such
untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person
guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the
Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty
of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Holders’ obligations to contribute
pursuant to this Section 7(d) are several in proportion to the respective
principal amount of the Registrable Notes held by each Holder hereunder and not
joint. The Company’s and Guarantors’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this
Section 7(d) are joint and several.
	 
	 	 	 	The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section 7 are in
addition to any liability that the Indemnifying Parties may have to the Indemnified
Parties.

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	8.	 	Rules 144 and 144A

     The Company covenants that it shall (a) file the reports required to be filed by it (if so
required) under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act in a timely manner and, if at any time the
Company is not required to file such reports, it will, upon the written request of any Holder of
Registrable Notes, make publicly available other information necessary to permit sales pursuant to
Rule 144 and 144A and (b) take such further action as any Holder may reasonably request in writing,
all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Registrable Notes
without registration under the Securities Act pursuant to the exemptions provided by Rule 144 and
Rule 144A. Upon the request of any Holder, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written
statement as to whether it has complied with such information and requirements.

	9.	 	Underwritten Registrations of Registrable Notes

     If any of the Registrable Notes covered by any Shelf Registration Statement are to be sold in
an Underwritten Offering, the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that
will manage the offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of such Registrable Notes to be included in such offering; provided,
however, that such investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers must be
reasonably acceptable to the Company.

     No Holder of Registrable Notes may participate in any Underwritten Registration hereunder
unless such Holder (a) agrees to sell such Holder’s Registrable Notes on the basis provided in any
underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements
and (b) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting
agreements and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

	10.	 	Miscellaneous

	 	(a)	 	Remedies. In the event of a breach by either the Company or any of
the Guarantors of any of their respective obligations under this Agreement, each
Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein, in the
Indenture or, in the case of the Initial Purchasers, in the Purchase Agreement, or
granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance
of its rights under this Agreement. The Company and the Guarantors agree that monetary
damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach
by either the Company or any of the Guarantors of any of the provisions of this
Agreement and hereby further agree that, in the event of any action for specific
performance in respect of such breach, the Company shall (and shall cause each
Guarantor to) waive the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

	 	(b)	 	No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company and each of the Guarantors
have not entered, as of the date hereof, and the Company and each of the Guarantors
shall not enter, after the date of this Agreement, into any agreement with respect to
any of its securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders in
this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. The Company and each
of the Guarantors have not entered and will not enter into any agreement with respect
to any of its securities that will grant to any Person piggy-back rights with respect
to a Registration Statement.

	 	(c)	 	Adjustments Affecting Registrable Notes. The Company shall not,
directly or indirectly, take any action with respect to the Registrable Notes as a
class that would adversely

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	 	 	 	affect the ability of the Holders to include such Registrable Notes in a
registration undertaken pursuant to this Agreement.

	 	(d)	 	Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be
amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to or departures from the
provisions hereof may not be given, other than with the prior written consent of the
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then
outstanding Registrable Notes in circumstances that would adversely affect any Holders
of Registrable Notes; provided, however, that any amendment or
supplement to or modification of Section 7 or this Section 10(d) shall
not be effective as to any Holder without the prior written consent of such Holder.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof
with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of Holders of
Registrable Notes whose securities are being tendered pursuant to the Exchange Offer or
sold pursuant to a Notes Registration Statement and that does not directly or
indirectly affect, impair, limit or compromise the rights of other Holders of
Registrable Notes may be given by Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Registrable Notes being tendered or being sold by such Holders pursuant
to such Notes Registration Statement.

	 	(e)	 	Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or
permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand delivery, registered first-class
mail, next-day air courier or telecopier:

	 	(i)	 	if to a Holder of Securities or to any Participating Broker-Dealer, at
the most current address of such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer, as the
case may be, set forth on the records of the registrar of the Notes, with a
copy in like manner to the Initial Purchasers as follows:

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

  as representative of the

  Initial Purchasers

520 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Facsimile No.: (212) 284-2280

Attention: General Counsel

	 	 	 	with a copy to:

Proskauer Rose LLP

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

Facsimile No.: (212) 969-2900

Attention: Ian Blumenstein

	 	(ii)	 	if to the Initial Purchasers, at the address specified in Section 10(e)(i);

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	 	 (iii)	 	if to the Company or any Guarantor, as follows:          

CPM Holdings, Inc.

2975 Airline Circle

Waterloo, Iowa 50703

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

	 	 	 	with a copy to:

Mayer Brown LLP

1675 Broadway

New York, New York 10019

Attention: Todd Bowen

     All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: when delivered by
hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the United States mail,
postage prepaid, if mailed; one Business Day after being timely delivered to a next-day air courier
guaranteeing overnight delivery; and when receipt is acknowledged by the addressee, if telecopied.

     Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by
the Person giving the same to the Trustee under the Indenture at the address specified in such
Indenture.

	 	(f)	 	Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of
and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties hereto,
including, without limitation and without the need for an express assignment,
subsequent Holders of Securities; provided, however, that this
Agreement shall not inure to the benefit of or be binding upon a successor or assign of
a Holder unless and to the extent such successor or assign acquired Registrable Notes
from such Holder.

	 	(g)	 	Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same agreement.

	 	(h)	 	Headings; Interpretation. The headings in this Agreement are for
convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning
hereof. When reference is made in this Agreement to a Section or clause, such
reference shall mean a Section or clause of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated.
The words “include,” “includes,” and “including” when used in this Agreement shall be
deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation.” The words
“hereof,” “herein,” “herewith,” “hereby” and “hereunder” and words of similar import
shall, unless otherwise stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole and
not to any particular provision of this Agreement. The definitions contained in this
Agreement are applicable to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and
to the masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such term. The
language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties
to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied
against any party. Any contract, statute or rule defined or referred to herein means
such contract, statute or rule as from time to time amended, modified or supplemented,
including (in the case of contracts) by waiver or consent and (in the case of statutes
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	 	 	 	comparable successor statutes or rules and references to all attachments thereto and
instruments incorporated therein.

	 	(i)	 	Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial. THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAW. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND
THE GUARANTORS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY NEW YORK STATE
COURT SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK OR ANY FEDERAL COURT
SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN RESPECT OF ANY SUIT,
ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, AND IRREVOCABLY
ACCEPTS FOR ITS AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY,
JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTORS
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY EFFECTIVELY DO SO UNDER APPLICABLE
LAW, TRIAL BY JURY AND ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF
VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT AND ANY CLAIM
THAT ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN
AN INCONVENIENT FORUM. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTORS IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS, TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY EFFECTIVELY DO SO UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, TO THE SERVICE OF
PROCESS OF ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COURTS IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE
MAILING OF COPIES THEREOF BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO THE
COMPANY AND THE GUARANTORS AT THEIR SAID ADDRESS, SUCH SERVICE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE 30
DAYS AFTER SUCH MAILING. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY HOLDER TO SERVE
PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR
OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST THE COMPANY OR THE GUARANTORS IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

	 	(j)	 	Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this
Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or
unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set
forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected,
impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their best efforts to find
and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as
that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby
stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have
executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including
any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

	 	(k)	 	Securities Held by the Company or Its Affiliates. Whenever the
consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Securities is required
hereunder, Securities held by the Company or its affiliates (as such term is defined in
Rule 405 under the Securities Act) shall not be counted in determining whether such
consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage.

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	 	(l)	 	Third Party Beneficiaries. Holders and Participating Broker-Dealers
are intended third party beneficiaries of this Agreement and this Agreement may be
enforced by such Persons. No other Person is intended to be, or shall be construed as,
a third party beneficiary of this Agreement.

	 	(m)	 	Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with the Purchase
Agreement, the Indenture and the Collateral Documents, is intended by the parties as a
final and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto
in respect of the subject matter contained herein and therein and any and all prior
oral or written agreements, representations, or warranties, contracts, understanding,
correspondence, conversations and memoranda between the Initial Purchasers on the one
hand and the Company and the Guarantors on the other, or between or among any agents,
representatives, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, predecessors in interest or
successors in interest with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof are merged
herein and replaced hereby.

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     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and
return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts,
will become a binding agreement among the Initial Purchasers, the Guarantors and the Company in
accordance with its terms.

	 	 	 	 	 

	THE COMPANY
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CPM HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 
 

Name: Douglas Ostrich
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Chief Financial Officer	 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 

	GUARANTORS
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CPM ACQUISITION CORP., a Delaware corporation
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Douglas Ostrich  

Name:
Douglas Ostrich
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Secretary	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CROWN ACQUISITION CORP., a Delaware corporation
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Douglas Ostrich  

Name:
Douglas Ostrich
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Secretary	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CPM WOLVERINE PROCTOR, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Douglas Ostrich  

Name:
Douglas Ostrich
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CROWN IRON WORKS COMPANY, a Delaware corporation
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Douglas Ostrich  

Name:
Douglas Ostrich
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Secretary	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CROWN BIOFUELS, LLC, a Minnesota limited liability company
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Douglas Ostrich  

Name:
Douglas Ostrich
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Secretary	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	CPM SA LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Douglas Ostrich  

Name:
Douglas Ostrich
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Authorized Signatory	 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 

	Accepted and Agreed to:
	 
	 	 	 	 
	JEFFERIES & COMPANY, INC.
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Craig Zaph 
 

Name: Craig Zaph
	 	 
	 

	 	Title: Managing Directorexv4w6

EXHIBIT 4.6

INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

     Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2009 (this “Agreement”), among
HARRIS N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, with its successors and assigns, and as
more specifically defined below, the “ABL Agent”) for itself and the other ABL Secured
Parties (as defined below), WILMINGTON TRUST FSB, solely in its capacity as collateral agent (in
such capacity, with its successors and assigns, and as more specifically defined below, the
“Indenture Agent”) for itself and the other Indenture Secured Parties (as defined below),
CPM HOLDINGS, INC. (the “Company”) and its Subsidiaries (such term and each other
capitalized term used herein having the meanings set forth in Section 1) listed on the
signature pages hereto (such Subsidiaries, together with the Company and each of its other
Subsidiaries that become parties hereto, the “Grantors”).

     WHEREAS, the Company, the other Debtor Parties, other Subsidiaries, the ABL Agent and certain
Lenders (as defined below) are parties to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2009 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, the “Existing ABL Agreement”), pursuant to which such Lenders have agreed to
make loans and extend other financial accommodations to the Company and certain other Debtor
Parties; and

     WHEREAS, the obligations of the Company and the other Debtor Parties under the Existing ABL
Agreement (including guarantees in respect thereof) will be secured (together with certain other
obligations) by various assets of the Company and such other Debtor Parties, including the Common
Collateral (as defined below);

     WHEREAS, the ABL Agent has been authorized to enter into this Agreement pursuant to the
Existing ABL Agreement;

     WHEREAS, the Company, the other Grantors, Wilmington Trust FSB, as trustee, and the Indenture
Agent are parties to the Indenture, dated as of August 18, 2009 (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and of this Agreement,
the “Existing Indenture”), pursuant to which the Company issued the Notes (as defined
below);

     WHEREAS, the obligations of the Company and the other Grantors under the Existing Indenture
(as in effect on the date hereof) (including guarantees in respect thereof) are secured (together
with certain other obligations) by various assets of the Company and such other Grantors, including
the Common Collateral;

     WHEREAS, the Indenture Agent has been authorized to enter into this Agreement pursuant to the
Existing Indenture; and

     WHEREAS, the Company, the other Grantors, the ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent are executing
and delivering this Agreement to set forth certain agreements in respect of the respective rights
of the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties, on the one hand, and the

 

 

Indenture Agent and the other Indenture Secured Parties, on the other hand, with respect to,
among other things, the Common Collateral.

     NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants herein contained and
other good and valuable consideration, the existence and sufficiency of which is expressly
recognized by all of the parties hereto, the parties agree as follows:

     SECTION 1. Definitions.

     1.1 UCC Definitions. The following terms which are defined in the Uniform Commercial
Code are used herein as so defined: Accounts, Chattel Paper, General Intangibles, Inventory,
Instruments, Deposit Accounts, Security Accounts, Investment Property, Letter of Credit Rights,
Records, Supporting Obligations and Proceeds.

     1.2 Defined Terms. The following terms, as used herein, have the following meanings:

     “ABL Agent” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof. In the
case of any Replacement ABL Agreement, the ABL Agent shall be the Person acting in the capacity as
administrative agent or collateral agent in such in such Agreement.

     “ABL Agreement” means the collective reference to (a) the Existing ABL Agreement, (b)
any Additional ABL Agreement and (c) any other credit agreement, loan agreement, note agreement,
promissory note, indenture or other agreement or instrument evidencing or governing the terms of
any indebtedness or other financial accommodation that has been incurred to extend, increase,
renew, refund, replace (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) or refinance (including by
means of sales of debt securities to institutional investors) in whole or in part from time to time
the indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under the ABL Agreement, any Additional ABL
Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to in this clause (c) (a “Replacement
ABL Agreement”) unless such agreement or instrument expressly provides that it is not intended
to be and is not an ABL Agreement hereunder. Any reference to the ABL Agreement hereunder shall,
except as otherwise provided, be deemed a reference to any ABL Agreement then existing.

     “ABL DIP Financing” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2(a).

     “ABL Documents” means, collectively, the ABL Agreement, each ABL Security Document,
each ABL Guarantee and each other loan document, identified or defined as a “Loan Document” in the
ABL Agreement.

     “ABL Guarantee” means any guarantee by any Grantor of any or all of the ABL
Obligations.

     “ABL Lien” means any Lien created by the ABL Security Documents.

     “ABL Mortgages” means a collective reference to each mortgage, deed of trust, deed to
secure debt and any other document or instrument under which any ABL Lien on real property

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owned by the Company or any Grantor is granted to secure any ABL Obligations or under which rights
or remedies with respect to any such ABL Liens are governed.

     “ABL Obligations” means, without duplication, any and all obligations with respect to
the payment of (a) any principal of or interest (including, without limitation, any Post-Petition
Interest) or premium on any obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of every nature, including
any reimbursement obligation in respect of any letter of credit, owed by the Debtor Parties under
the ABL Documents, (b) any fees, indemnification obligations, damages, expense reimbursement
obligations or other liabilities payable under the ABL Documents, (c) all Hedging Obligations
secured by the Liens granted under the ABL Security Documents, (d) all Cash Management Obligations
secured by the Liens granted under the ABL Security Documents and (e) all ABL Guarantees, fees,
expenses and other Obligations payable from time to time pursuant to the ABL Documents, in each
case whether now existing or hereafter arising, due or to become due, direct or indirect, absolute
or contingent, and howsoever evidenced, held or acquired under the ABL Documents and whether or not
allowed or allowable in an Insolvency Proceeding. To the extent any payment with respect to any
ABL Obligation (whether by or on behalf of any Debtor Party, as proceeds of security, enforcement
of any right of setoff or otherwise) is declared to be a fraudulent conveyance or a preference in
any respect, set aside or required to be paid to a debtor in possession, any Indenture Secured
Party, receiver or similar Person, then the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be
satisfied shall, for the purposes of this Agreement and the rights and obligations of the ABL
Secured Parties and the Indenture Secured Parties, be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if
such payment had not occurred.

     “ABL Obligations Payment Date” means the first date on which (a) the ABL Obligations
(other than those that constitute Unasserted Contingent Obligations) have been paid in cash in full
(or cash collateralized or defeased in accordance with the terms of the ABL Documents), (b) all
commitments to extend credit under the ABL Documents have been terminated, (c) there are no
outstanding letters of credit or similar instruments issued under the ABL Documents (other than
such as have been cash collateralized or defeased in accordance with the terms of the ABL Security
Documents) and (d) the ABL Agent has delivered a written notice to the Indenture Agent stating that
the events described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) have occurred to the satisfaction of the ABL
Secured Parties.

     “ABL Priority Collateral” means the following assets, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired by the Company or any other Debtor Party, in which a Lien is granted or purported to be
granted to any ABL Secured Party as security for any ABL Obligation:

     (1) all money, cash or cash equivalents; provided, however, to the extent any of the foregoing
constitutes, and has been identified as, Proceeds of the Indenture Priority Collateral, it shall be
excluded from the ABL Priority Collateral;

     (2) all Accounts;

     (3) all Inventory or documents of title, customs receipts, insurance certificates, shipping
documents and other written materials related to the purchase or import of any Inventory;

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     (4) all Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts (excluding any Securities Account (i) in
which only proceeds from the disposition of Indenture Priority Collateral are deposited and (ii)
which constitute payroll, tax or trust accounts), including all cash, marketable securities,
securities entitlements, financial assets and other funds or Investment Property held in or on
deposit in any or all of the foregoing;

     (5) all lockboxes;

     (6) all General Intangibles (excluding Intellectual Property), Documents, contract rights,
Instruments, Chattel Paper, drafts, acceptances, and all other forms of obligations owing to the
Company or the other Grantors, in each case solely to the extent arising out of or relating to
Accounts and/or Inventory;

     (7) all guarantees and other security therefor and Supporting Obligations and Letter of Credit
Rights to the extent relating to any or all of the foregoing;

     (8) all Records to the extent relating to any or all of the foregoing;

     (9) all other existing and future current assets within the meaning of GAAP (excluding
Intellectual Property);

     (10) current and related assets of the Company’s Foreign Subsidiaries (as defined in the
Existing Indenture as in effect on the date hereof) which are borrowers or guarantors under the
Existing ABL Agreement; and

     (11) all substitutions, replacements, accessions, products and Proceeds of any of the
foregoing (including, without limitation, proceeds of insurance, licenses, royalties, income,
payments, claims, damages and proceeds of suit) of any or all of the foregoing.

     “ABL Secured Parties” means the ABL Agent and the Lenders.

     “ABL Security Documents” means the Existing ABL Security Document and the other
security documents, identified or defined as “Collateral Documents” in the ABL Agreement, and any
other documents that are designated under the ABL Agreement as “ABL Security Documents” for
purposes of this Agreement, including the ABL Mortgages.

     “Access Period” means with respect to each parcel of Real Estate Assets, the period,
after the commencement of an Enforcement Action, which begins, with respect to such parcel of Real
Estate Assets, on the day that the ABL Agent provides the Indenture Agent with the notice of its
election to request access with respect to any such parcel of Real Estate Assets pursuant to
Section 4.4(d) below and ends on the earliest of (i) the 120th day after the ABL Agent obtains the
ability to use, take physical possession of, remove or otherwise control the use, production or
access to the ABL Priority Collateral located on such Real Estate Asset plus such number of
days, if any, after the ABL Agent obtains access to such ABL Priority Collateral that it is stayed
or otherwise prohibited by law or court order from exercising remedies with respect to the ABL
Priority Collateral located on such Real Estate Asset or (ii) the ABL Obligations Payment Date
occurs.

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     “Additional ABL Agreement” means any agreement designated, and permitted to be
designated, as such under the Indenture and the ABL Agreement then in effect.

     “Additional Debt” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.3(b).

     “Additional Indenture Agreement” means any agreement designated, and permitted to be
designated, as such under the ABL Agreement and the Indenture then in effect.

     “Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof.

     “Bankruptcy Code” means the United States Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. §101 et seq.), as
amended from time to time.

     “Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent
ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or
options to purchase any of the foregoing.

     “Cash Management Obligations” means, with respect to any Debtor Party, any obligations
of such Debtor Party owed to any ABL Secured Party (or any of its affiliates) in respect of (a)
electronic transfers of funds by automatic clearing house transfer, wire transfer or otherwise to
or from the deposit accounts of such Debtor Party now or hereafter maintained with any ABL Secured
Parties or their affiliates, (b) the acceptance for deposit or the honoring for payment of any
check, draft or other item with respect to any such deposit accounts, and (c) any other deposit,
disbursement, and cash management services afforded to such Debtor Party by any of such ABL Secured
Parties or their affiliates.

     “Collateral” means, collectively, the ABL Priority Collateral, the Indenture Priority
Collateral and the Common Collateral.

     “Common Collateral” means, collectively, the ABL Priority Collateral and the Indenture
Priority Collateral; provided, that neither the Indenture Agent nor any other Indenture
Secured Party shall have as security for any Indenture Obligation a Lien on (i) any current or
related assets of the Company’s Foreign Subsidiaries or (ii) any Deposit Accounts.

     “Copyrights” means all domestic and foreign copyrights, whether registered or
unregistered, including, without limitation, all copyright rights (whether now or hereafter
arising) in any and all media (whether now or hereafter developed), in and to all original works of
authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression (including computer software and internet
website content) now owned or hereafter owned, acquired or used by a Grantor, all applications,
registrations and recordings thereof (including, without limitation, applications, registrations
and recordings in the United States Copyright Office or in any similar office or agency of the
United States or any other country or any political subdivision thereof), all reissues, divisions,
continuations, continuations in part and extensions or renewals thereof, the right to recover for
all past, present and future infringements thereof, and all other rights of any kind whatsoever
accruing thereunder or pertaining thereto.

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     “Copyright Licenses” means any written agreement naming any Grantor as licensor or
licensee, granting any right under any Copyright, including, without limitation, the grant of
rights to manufacture, distribute, exploit and sell materials derived from any Copyright.

     “Credit Bid Rights” means, (a) in respect of any order relating to a sale of assets
constituting ABL Priority Collateral in any Insolvency Proceeding, that (i) such order grants the
Indenture Agent and the other Indenture Secured Parties (individually and in any combination) the
right to bid at the sale of such assets and the right to offset its claims secured by Indenture
Liens upon such assets against the purchase price of such assets if (A) the bid of the Indenture
Agent or such Indenture Secured Parties is determined by a court to be the best offer at a sale and
(B) the bid of the Indenture Agent or such Indenture Secured Parties includes a cash purchase price
component payable at the closing of the sale in an amount that would be sufficient on the date of
the closing of the sale, if such amount were applied to such payment on such date, to pay all
unpaid ABL Obligations (except Unasserted Contingent Obligations) and to satisfy all Liens entitled
to priority over the ABL Liens that attach to the proceeds of the sale, and such order requires
such amount to be so applied and (ii) such order allows the claims of the Indenture Agent and the
other Indenture Secured Parties in such Insolvency Proceeding to the extent required for the grant
of such rights, and (b) in respect of any order relating to a sale of assets constituting Indenture
Priority Collateral in any Insolvency Proceeding, that (i) such order grants the ABL Agent and the
ABL Secured Parties (individually and in any combination) the right to bid at the sale of such
assets and the right to offset its claims secured by ABL Liens upon such assets against the
purchase price of such assets if (A) the bid of the ABL Agent or the other ABL Secured Parties is
determined by a court to be the best offer at a sale and (B) the bid of the ABL Agent or such other
ABL Secured Parties includes a cash purchase price component payable at the closing of the sale in
an amount that would be sufficient on the date of the closing of the sale, if such amount were
applied to such payment on such date, to pay all unpaid Indenture Obligations (except Unasserted
Contingent Obligations) and to satisfy all Liens entitled to priority over the Indenture Liens that
attach to the proceeds of the sale, and such order requires such amount to be so applied and (ii)
such order allows the claims of the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties in such Insolvency
Proceeding to the extent required for the grant of such rights.

     “Debtor Party” means the Company, the other Grantors and each direct or indirect
Subsidiary that is now or hereafter becomes a party to any ABL Document or Indenture Document. All
references in this Agreement to any Debtor Party shall include such Debtor Party as a
debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for such Debtor Party in any Insolvency
Proceeding.

     “Enforcement Action” means, with respect to the ABL Obligations or the Indenture
Obligations, the exercise of any rights or remedies with respect to any Common Collateral securing
such Obligations or the commencement or prosecution of enforcement of any of the rights or remedies
under, as applicable, the ABL Documents or the Indenture Documents, or applicable law, including
without limitation the exercise of any rights of set-off or recoupment, and the exercise of any
rights or remedies of a secured creditor under the Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable
jurisdiction or under the Bankruptcy Code, in each case in accordance with the terms of the ABL
Documents or the Indenture Documents, as applicable, but in all cases excluding the imposition of
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continuance of an Event of Default under the ABL Documents and suspension of the revolving
commitments in connection therewith, until such time as no suspension of the revolving commitments
in connection therewith or with any other Event of Default is in effect) pursuant to the terms of
the ABL Documents, with respect to monies deposited from time to time in Deposit Accounts or
Securities Accounts.

     “Existing ABL Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the first recital of this
Agreement.

     “Existing ABL Security Document” means the Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of
November 20, 2009, by and among the ABL Agent and the Grantors.

     “Existing Indenture Security Document” means the Pledge and Security Agreement, dated
as of August 18, 2009, by and among the Indenture Agent and the Grantors.

     “Existing Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the fourth recital of this
Agreement.

     “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in effect in the United States
as of the date of each financial statement, as applicable, to which this Agreement refers.

     “Grantor” means the Company, CPM Acquisition Corp., Crown Acquisition Corp., CPM
Wolverine Proctor, LLC, Crown Iron Works Company, Crown Biofuels, LLC, CPM SA,LLC, and each direct
or indirect Domestic Subsidiary (as defined in the Existing Indenture as in effect on the date
hereof) that is now or hereafter becomes a party to any ABL Document or Indenture Document. All
references in this Agreement to any Grantor shall include such Grantor as a debtor-in-possession
and any receiver or trustee for such Grantor in any Insolvency Proceeding.

     “Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any Debtor Party, any obligations of such
Debtor Party owed to any ABL Secured Party (or any of its affiliates) under any agreements with
respect of any interest rate, foreign currency and/or commodity exchanges, swaps, caps, collars,
floors, forwards, options, or other similar arrangements as such Debtor Party may from time to time
enter into with any one or more of the ABL Secured Parties or their affiliates for the purpose of
hedging or otherwise protecting against interest rate, foreign currency and/or commodity exposure.

     “Holders” means the “Holders” as defined in the Indenture and any other holders of
Indenture Obligations.

     “Indebtedness” means and includes all ABL Obligations or Indenture Obligations that
constitute “Indebtedness” within the meaning of the ABL Agreement or the Indenture, as applicable.

     “Indenture” means the collective reference to (a) the Existing Indenture, (b) any
Additional Indenture Agreement and (c) any other credit agreement, loan agreement, note agreement,
promissory note, indenture, or other agreement or instrument evidencing or governing the terms of
any indebtedness or other financial accommodation that has been incurred to extend, replace,
refinance or refund in whole or in part the indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under
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agreement or instrument referred to in this clause (c) (a “Replacement Indenture”)
unless such agreement or instrument expressly provides that it is not intended to be and is not an
Indenture hereunder. Any reference to the Indenture hereunder, except as otherwise provided herein,
shall be deemed a reference to any Indenture then existing.

     “Indenture Agent” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof. In
the case of any Replacement Indenture, the Indenture Agent shall be the Person identified as such
in such Agreement.

     “Indenture Collateral Documents” means the “Collateral Documents” as defined in the
Indenture.

     “Indenture Documents” means each Indenture, each Indenture Collateral Document, each
Indenture Guarantee, the “Notes” as defined in the Indenture and each other “Second Priority
Document” as defined in the Indenture.

     “Indenture Guarantee” means any guarantee by any Grantor of any or all of the
Indenture Obligations.

     “Indenture Lien” means any Lien created by the Indenture Collateral Documents.

     “Indenture Obligations” means any and all obligations with respect to the payment of
(a) any principal of or interest (including, without limitation, any Post-Petition Interest) or
premium on any obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of every nature owed by the Grantors under
the Indenture Documents, (b) any fees, indemnification obligations, damages, expense reimbursement
obligations or other liabilities payable under the Indenture Documents and (c) all Indenture
Guarantees, fees, expenses and other Obligations payable from time to time pursuant to the
Indenture Documents, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising, due or to become due,
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and howsoever evidenced, held or acquired and whether
or not allowed or allowable in an Insolvency Proceeding. To the extent any payment with respect to
any Indenture Obligation (whether by or on behalf of any Grantor, as proceeds of security,
enforcement of any right of setoff or otherwise) is declared to be a fraudulent conveyance or a
preference in any respect, set aside or required to be paid to a debtor in possession, any ABL
Secured Party, receiver or similar Person, then the obligation or part thereof originally intended
to be satisfied shall, for the purposes of this Agreement and the rights and obligations of the
Indenture Secured Parties and the ABL Secured Parties, be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding
as if such payment had not occurred.

     “Indenture Obligations Payment Date” means the first date on which (a) the Indenture
Obligations (other than those that constitute Unasserted Contingent Obligations) have been paid in
cash in full (or cash collateralized or defeased in accordance with the terms of the Indenture
Documents) and (b) the Indenture Agent has delivered a written notice to the ABL Agent stating that
the foregoing has occurred.

     “Indenture Priority Collateral” means the following assets, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, by the Company or any other Grantor, in which a Lien is granted or purported to
be granted to any Indenture Secured Party as security for any Indenture Obligation:

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     (1) the “Collateral” (as such term is defined in the Existing Indenture Security Document);
and

     (2) the Real Estate Assets;

provided, however, “Indenture Priority Collateral” excludes all ABL Priority
Collateral.

     “Indenture Secured Parties” means the Indenture Agent and the other Second Priority
Obligees (as defined in the Indenture).

     “Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding in respect of bankruptcy, insolvency,
winding up, receivership, dissolution or assignment for the benefit of creditors, in each of the
foregoing events whether under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar federal, state or foreign
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership or similar law.

     “Intellectual Property” means the collective reference to all rights, priorities and
privileges constituting or consisting of intellectual property, whether arising under United
States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including, without limitation, the Copyrights,
the Copyright Licenses, the Patents, the Patent Licenses, the Trademarks and the Trademark
Licenses, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment
thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom.

     “Lenders” means the “Lenders” as defined in the ABL Agreement, together with any other
holders of ABL Obligations.

     “Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, encumbrance, lien
(statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any preference, priority or other
security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any capital lease having substantially the
same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

     “Notes” means those 10 5/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2014 issued by the Company under
the Indenture in the aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000, and shall include any notes
replacing such Notes in connection with any replacement, refinancing, extension or refunding
thereof made in compliance with the Indenture in effect on the date hereof and this Agreement.

     “Patent License” means all agreements, whether written or oral, providing for the
grant by or to any Grantor of any right to manufacture, use or sell any invention covered in whole
or in part by a Patent.

     “Patents” means letters patent of the United States or the equivalent thereof in any
other country and all registrations and applications therefor, including the patents and patent
applications listed on Schedule I attached hereto and made a part hereof, and (i) all
reissues, continuations, continuations-in-part, substitutes, extensions or renewals thereof and
improvements thereon, (ii) the inventions disclosed or claimed therein, (iii) the right to sue for
past, present and future infringements and dilutions thereof and (iv) all of each Grantor’s rights
corresponding thereto throughout the world.

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     “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, governmental
authority or other entity of whatever nature.

     “Post-Petition Interest” means any interest or entitlement to fees or expenses or
other charges that accrues after the commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding (or would accrue but
for the commencement of an Insolvency Proceeding), whether or not allowed or allowable in any such
Insolvency Proceeding.

     “Real Estate Asset” means, at any time of determination, any interest (fee, leasehold
or otherwise) then owned by any Grantor in any Real Property, including, without limitation,
distribution centers and warehouses and corporate headquarters and administrative offices, in each
case, to the extent that such interest constitutes ABL Priority Collateral and Indenture Priority
Collateral.

     “Real Property” shall mean, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any
leasehold, mineral or other estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property
owned, leased or operated by any Person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with,
in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and
appurtenant fixtures and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation
thereof.

     “Recovery” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5.

     “Recovery Event” means any settlement of or payment in respect of any property or
casualty insurance claim or any condemnation proceeding relating to any Common Collateral.

     “Replacement ABL Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “ABL
Agreement”.

     “Replacement Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Indenture”.

     “Secured Parties” means the ABL Secured Parties and the Indenture Secured Parties.

     “Subsidiary” means, as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability
company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having more than 50%
of the ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power
only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or
other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned directly or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise
qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a
Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.

     “Trademark License” means any agreement, whether written or oral, providing for the
grant by or to any Grantor of any right to use any Trademark.

     “Trademarks” means trademarks, trade names, registered trademarks, trademark
applications, service marks, registered service marks and service mark applications, brand

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names, certification marks, collective marks, d/b/a’s, Internet domain names, logos, symbols,
trade dress, assumed names, fictitious names, and other indicia of origin, including the trade
names, registered trademarks, trademark applications, registered service marks and service mark
applications, and (i) all extensions, modifications and renewals thereof, (ii) all income,
royalties, damages and payments now and hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto,
including payments under all licenses entered into in connection therewith and damages and payments
for past or future infringements or dilutions thereof, (iii) the right to sue for past, present and
future infringements and dilutions thereof, (iv) the goodwill of each Grantor’s business symbolized
by the foregoing and connected therewith and (v) all of each Grantor’s rights corresponding thereto
throughout the world.

     “Unasserted Contingent Obligations” shall mean, at any time, ABL Obligations or
Indenture Obligations, as the case may be, for taxes, costs, indemnifications, reimbursements,
damages and other liabilities (excluding (a) the principal of, and interest and premium (if any)
on, and fees and expenses relating to, any ABL Obligation or Indenture Obligation and (b)
contingent reimbursement obligations in respect of amounts that may be drawn under outstanding
letters of credit) in respect of which no assertion of liability (whether oral or written) and no
claim or demand for payment (whether oral or written) has been made (and, in the case of ABL
Obligations and Indenture Obligations for indemnification, no notice for indemnification has been
issued by the indemnitee) at such time.

     “Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to
time, of the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or
non-perfection or the priority of the security interest in any Collateral is governed by the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “UCC”
means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for
purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or
non-perfection or priority.

     1.3 Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the
singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The
word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the
context requires otherwise (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other
document herein shall, unless otherwise provided, be construed as referring to such agreement,
instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified, (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
successors or assigns, (iii) any reference herein to any Debtor Party shall be construed to include
such Debtor Party as debtor and debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for such Debtor
Party in any Insolvency Proceeding, (iv) the words “herein”, “hereof and “hereunder”, and words of
similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any
particular provision hereof, (v) all references herein to Sections shall be construed to refer to
Sections of this Agreement and (vi) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the
same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties,
including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

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     SECTION 2. Acknowledgment of Respective Security Interests; Lien Priorities; Prohibition on
Contesting Liens.

     (a) Notwithstanding the date, manner or order of perfection of the security interests and
Liens granted to the ABL Agent or the Indenture Agent, as the case may be, and notwithstanding any
provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code of any state or any applicable law or decision or any
provisions of the ABL Documents or the Indenture Documents, and irrespective of whether the ABL
Agent or the Indenture Agent holds possession of all or any part of the Indenture Priority
Collateral or the ABL Priority Collateral, the following, as between the ABL Agent and the
Indenture Agent, shall be the relative priority of the security interests and Liens of the ABL
Agent and the Indenture Agent:

     (i) The ABL Agent shall have a senior prior security interest in or Lien upon the ABL
Priority Collateral; and

     (ii) The Indenture Agent shall have a senior prior security interest in or Lien upon
the Indenture Priority Collateral.

     (b) If the Indenture Agent or any other Indenture Secured Party becomes aware that it has
received any ABL Priority Collateral or the proceeds thereof prior to the ABL Obligations Payment
Date, the Indenture Agent or the other Indenture Secured Party shall hold the same in trust for the
benefit of, and shall immediately pay and deliver (with any necessary endorsement) the same to, the
ABL Agent for application to the ABL Obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary,
payments made by the Company and the other Grantors to the Indenture Agent or the other Indenture
Secured Parties in respect of the Indenture Obligations with proceeds of loans by ABL Agent or the
other ABL Secured Parties to the Company and the other Grantors or any amounts released by the ABL
Agent under the ABL Agreement shall not be construed to constitute proceeds of ABL Priority
Collateral.

     (c) If the ABL Agent or the other ABL Secured Parties shall receive any Indenture Priority
Collateral or proceeds thereof prior to Indenture Obligations Payment Date, the ABL Agent and the
other ABL Secured Parties shall hold the same in trust for the benefit of, and shall immediately
pay and deliver (with any necessary endorsement) the same to, the Indenture Agent for application
to the Indenture Obligations.

     (d) Neither the ABL Agent nor any other ABL Secured Party, on the one hand, nor the Indenture
Agent nor any other Indenture Secured Party, on the other hand, shall object to or contest, or
support any other person in objecting to or contesting, in any proceeding (including without
limitation, any Insolvency Proceeding), the validity, extent, perfection, priority or
enforceability of any security interest in the Collateral. Notwithstanding any failure by the ABL
Agent or the Indenture Agent to perfect its security interests in the Collateral or any avoidance,
invalidation or subordination by any third party or court of competent jurisdiction of the security
interests in the Collateral granted to the ABL Agent or the Indenture Agent, the priority and
rights as between the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties, on the one hand, and the
Indenture Agent and the other Indenture Secured Parties, on the other hand, with respect to the
Collateral shall be as set forth herein.

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     (e) Promptly following the occurrence of the events described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of
the definition of “ABL Obligations Payment Date”, the ABL Agent shall deliver to the Indenture
Agent the written notice specified in clause (d) of the definition of the “ABL Obligations Payment
Date”, but the ABL Agent shall have no liability for any failure to so deliver such notice.

     (f) Promptly following the occurrence of the events specified in clause (a) of the definition
of “Indenture Obligations Payment Date”, the Indenture Agent shall deliver to the ABL Agent the
written notice specified in clause (b) of the definition of “Indenture Obligations Payment Date”,
but the Indenture Agent shall have no liability for any failure to so deliver such notice.

     SECTION 3. Lien Priorities.

     3.1 Subordination of Liens. (a) Any and all Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral now
existing or hereafter created or arising in favor of any Indenture Secured Party securing the
Indenture Obligations, regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law,
subrogation or otherwise are expressly junior in priority, operation and effect to any and all
Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral now existing or hereafter created or arising in favor of the
ABL Secured Parties securing the ABL Obligations, notwithstanding (i) anything to the contrary
contained in any agreement or filing to which any Indenture Secured Party may now or hereafter be a
party, and regardless of the time, order or method of grant, attachment, recording or perfection of
any financing statements or other security interests, assignments, pledges, deeds, mortgages and
other liens, charges or encumbrances or any defect or deficiency or alleged defect or deficiency in
any of the foregoing, (ii) any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code or any applicable law or
any ABL Document or Indenture Document or any other circumstance whatsoever and (iii) the fact that
any such Liens in favor of any ABL Secured Party securing any of the ABL Obligations are (A)
subordinated to any Lien securing any obligation of any Grantor other than the Indenture
Obligations or (B) otherwise subordinated, voided, avoided, invalidated or lapsed.

     (b) Any and all Liens on the Indenture Priority Collateral now existing or hereafter created
or arising in favor of any ABL Secured Party securing the ABL Obligations, regardless of how
acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise are expressly
junior in priority, operation and effect to any and all Liens on the Indenture Priority Collateral
now existing or hereafter created or arising in favor of the Indenture Secured Parties securing the
Indenture Obligations, notwithstanding (i) anything to the contrary contained in any agreement or
filing to which any ABL Secured Party may now or hereafter be a party, and regardless of the time,
order or method of grant, attachment, recording or perfection of any financing statements or other
security interests, assignments, pledges, deeds, mortgages and other liens, charges or encumbrances
or any defect or deficiency or alleged defect or deficiency in any of the foregoing, (ii) any
provision of the Uniform Commercial Code or any applicable law or any Indenture Document or ABL
Document or any other circumstance whatsoever and (iii) the fact that any such Liens in favor of
any Indenture Secured Party securing any of the Indenture Obligations are (A) subordinated to any
Lien securing any obligation of any Grantor other than the ABL Obligations or (B) otherwise
subordinated, voided, avoided, invalidated or lapsed.

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     3.2 Nature of ABL Obligations. The Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the other
Indenture Secured Parties, acknowledges that all of the ABL Obligations represent debt that is
revolving in nature and that the amount thereof that may be outstanding at any time or from time to
time may be increased or reduced and subsequently reborrowed, and that the terms of the ABL
Obligations may be modified, extended or amended from time to time, and that the aggregate amount
of the ABL Obligations may be increased, replaced or refinanced so long as the aggregate principal
amount thereof does not exceed the maximum principal amount of Indebtedness that could then be
incurred by the Company under the Existing ABL Agreement pursuant to clause (1) of the definition
of the term “Permitted Debt” (as defined in the Existing Indenture as in effect on the date
hereof), in each event without notice to or consent by the Indenture Secured Parties and without
affecting the provisions hereof. The lien priorities provided in Section 3.1 shall not be altered
or otherwise affected by any such amendment, modification, supplement, extension, repayment,
reborrowing, increase, replacement, renewal, restatement or refinancing of either the ABL
Obligations or the Indenture Obligations or any portion thereof.

     3.3 Agreements Regarding Actions to Perfect Liens. Each of the ABL Agent and the
Indenture Agent hereby acknowledges that, to the extent that it holds, or a third party holds on
its behalf, physical possession of or “control” (as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code) over
Common Collateral pursuant to the ABL Security Documents or the Indenture Collateral Documents, as
applicable, such possession or control is also for the benefit of the Indenture Agent and the other
Indenture Secured Parties or the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties, as applicable, solely
to the extent required to perfect their security interest in such Common Collateral. Nothing in
the preceding sentence shall be construed to impose any duty on the ABL Agent or the Indenture
Agent (or any third party acting on either such Person’s behalf) with respect to such Common
Collateral or provide the Indenture Agent or any other Indenture Secured Party or the ABL Agent or
any other ABL Secured Party, as applicable, with any rights with respect to such Common Collateral
beyond those expressly specified in this Agreement, provided that (i) subsequent to the
occurrence of the ABL Obligations Payment Date (if the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has not
occurred), the ABL Agent shall (A) deliver to the Indenture Agent, at the Company’s sole cost and
expense, the Common Collateral in its possession or control together with any necessary
endorsements to the extent required by the Indenture Documents or (B) direct and deliver such
Common Collateral as a court of competent jurisdiction otherwise directs, and (ii) subsequent to
the occurrence of the Indenture Obligations Payment Date (if the ABL Obligations Payment Date has
not occurred), the Indenture Agent shall (A) deliver to the ABL Agent, at the Company’s sole cost
and expense, the Common Collateral in its possession or control together with any necessary
endorsements to the extent required by the ABL Documents or (B) direct and deliver such Common
Collateral as a court of competent jurisdiction otherwise directs; and provided,
further, that the provisions of this Agreement are intended solely to govern the respective
Lien priorities as between the ABL Secured Parties and the Indenture Secured Parties and shall not
impose on the ABL Secured Parties or the Indenture Secured Parties any obligations in respect of
the disposition of any Common Collateral (or any proceeds thereof) that would conflict with prior
perfected Liens or any claims thereon in favor of any other Person that is not a Secured Party.

     3.4 No New Liens. (a) Until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred, (i) no
Grantor shall have any right to create any Lien (other than Liens on the Excluded Assets (as

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defined in the Existing ABL Security Document)) on any assets of any Grantor securing any
Indenture Obligation if these same assets are not subject to, and do not become subject to, a Lien
securing the ABL Obligations subject to the lien priorities set forth in Section 3.1 and (ii) if
any Indenture Secured Party shall acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Grantor securing
any Indenture Obligation which assets are not also subject to the Lien of the ABL Agent under the
ABL Documents, subject to the lien priorities set forth in Section 3.1, then the Indenture Agent
will, without the need for any further consent of any other Indenture Secured Party and
notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Indenture Document, be deemed to also hold
and have held such Lien for the benefit of the ABL Agent as security for the ABL Obligations
(subject to the lien priorities set forth in Section 3.1 and the other terms hereof), and the
Grantors shall promptly notify the ABL Agent in writing of the existence of such Lien. To the
extent that the foregoing provisions are not complied with for any reason, without limiting any
other rights and remedies available to the ABL Secured Parties, the Indenture Agent and the other
Indenture Secured Parties agree that any amounts received by or distributed to any of them pursuant
to or as a result of Liens granted in contravention of this Section 3.4 shall be subject to Section
5.1.

     (b) Until the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has occurred, (i) no Grantor shall have any
right to create any Lien (other than cash collateralization of any ABL Obligations consisting of
letters of credit, bank guarantees or Hedging Obligations and Liens on the Excluded Assets (as
defined in the Existing Indenture Security Document)), on any assets of any Grantor securing any
ABL Obligation if these same assets are not subject to, and do not become subject to, a Lien
securing the Indenture Obligations subject to the lien priorities set forth in Section 3.1 and (ii)
if any ABL Secured Party shall acquire or hold any Lien on any assets of any Grantor securing any
ABL Obligation which assets are not also subject to the Lien of the Indenture Agent under the
Indenture Documents, subject to the lien priorities set forth in Section 3.1, then the ABL Agent
will, without the need for any further consent of any other ABL Secured Party and notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in any other ABL Document, be deemed to also hold and have held such Lien
for the benefit of the Indenture Agent as security for the Indenture Obligations (subject to the
lien priorities set forth in Section 3.1 and the other terms hereof), and the Grantors shall
promptly notify the Indenture Agent in writing of the existence of such Lien. To the extent that
the foregoing provisions are not complied with for any reason, without limiting any other rights
and remedies available to the Indenture Secured Parties, the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured
Parties agree that any amounts received by or distributed to any of them pursuant to or as a result
of Liens granted in contravention of this Section 3.4 shall be subject to Section 5.1.

     SECTION 4. Enforcement Rights.

     4.1 Exclusive Enforcement. (a) Until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred,
whether or not an Insolvency Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, subject to
Sections 4.2 and 4.4, the ABL Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to
take and continue any Enforcement Action with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral, without any
consultation with or consent of any Indenture Secured Party except as otherwise expressly provided
for in this Agreement; provided that nothing contained herein shall be construed as
preventing the Indenture Agent or any other Indenture Secured Party from taking any action which is
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Priority Collateral (other than by possession or “control” (within the meaning of the Uniform
Commercial Code)) or (ii) prove, preserve or protect (but not enforce) the Indenture Liens upon the
ABL Priority Collateral, so long as such action would not, in any case, adversely affect any ABL
Lien. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a default or an event of default under the
ABL Documents, the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties may take and continue any
Enforcement Action with respect to the ABL Obligations and the ABL Priority Collateral in such
order and manner as they may determine in their sole discretion.

     (b) Until the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has occurred, whether or not an Insolvency
Proceeding has been commenced by or against any Grantor, subject to Section 4.2 and
4.4, the Indenture Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to take and continue any
Enforcement Action with respect to the Indenture Priority Collateral, without any consultation with
or consent of any ABL Secured Party except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Agreement;
provided that nothing contained herein shall be construed as preventing the ABL Agent or
any other ABL Secured Party from taking any action which is reasonably necessary to (i) perfect the
ABL Liens upon the Indenture Priority Collateral (other than by possession or “control” (within the
meaning of the Uniform Commercial Code)) or (ii) prove, preserve or protect (but not enforce) the
ABL Liens upon the Indenture Priority Collateral, so long as such action would not, in any case,
adversely affect any Indenture Lien. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a default
or an event of default under the Indenture Documents, the Indenture Agent and the other Indenture
Secured Parties may take and continue any Enforcement Action with respect to the Indenture
Obligations and the Indenture Priority Collateral in such order and manner as they may determine in
their sole discretion.

     4.2 Standstill and Waivers. (a) The Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the
other Indenture Secured Parties, agrees that, until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred,
the proviso set forth in Section 4.1(a), the proviso set forth in this Section 4.2(a) and the
proviso set forth in Section 6.1(a):

     (i) they will not take or cause to be taken any action, the purpose or effect of which
is to make any Lien in respect of any Indenture Obligation pari passu with or senior to, or
to give any Indenture Secured Party any preference or priority relative to, the Liens on the
ABL Priority Collateral securing the ABL Obligations;

     (ii) they will not contest, oppose, object to, interfere with, hinder or delay, in any
manner, whether by judicial proceedings (including without limitation the filing of an
Insolvency Proceeding) or otherwise, any foreclosure, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or
other disposition of the ABL Priority Collateral by any ABL Secured Party or any other
Enforcement Action taken (or any forbearance from taking any Enforcement Action) in respect
of the ABL Priority Collateral by or on behalf of any ABL Secured Party;

     (iii) they have no right to (A) direct either the ABL Agent or any other ABL Secured
Party to exercise any right, remedy or power with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral or
pursuant to the ABL Security Documents in respect of the ABL Priority Collateral or (B)
consent or object to the exercise by the ABL Agent or any other ABL Secured Party of any
right, remedy or power with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral or pursuant to the ABL
Security Documents in respect of the ABL Priority Collateral or

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to the timing or manner in which any such right is exercised or not exercised (or, to
the extent they may have any such right described in this clause (iii), whether as a junior
lien creditor in respect of the ABL Priority Collateral or otherwise, they hereby
irrevocably waive such right);

     (iv) they will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit,
Insolvency Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against any ABL Secured Party seeking
damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, instructions or otherwise, with
respect to, and no ABL Secured Party shall be liable for, any action taken or omitted to be
taken by any ABL Secured Party with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral or pursuant to
the ABL Documents in respect of the ABL Priority Collateral so long as such ABL Secured
Party, in taking or omitting to take such action, has not breached or otherwise violated
this Agreement;

     (v) they will not commence judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings with respect
to, seek to have a trustee, receiver, liquidator or similar official appointed for or over,
attempt any action to take possession of, exercise any right, remedy or power with respect
to, or otherwise take any Enforcement Action to enforce their interest in or realize upon,
the ABL Priority Collateral; and

     (vi) they will not seek, and hereby waive any right, to have the ABL Priority
Collateral or any part thereof marshaled upon any foreclosure or other disposition of the
ABL Priority Collateral;

provided, that the Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Indenture Secured
Parties, may exercise any right described in clause (v) above to enforce, collect or realize on the
Indenture Priority Collateral so long as a period of 120 days has elapsed from the date that the
Indenture Agent shall have given written notice to the ABL Agent of the occurrence of an Event of
Default under and as defined in the Indenture Documents (the “Indenture Standstill
Period”), provided, further, however, the Indenture Agent will not be
entitled to exercise any rights or remedies with respect to ABL Priority Collateral if,
notwithstanding the expiration of the Indenture Standstill Period, the ABL Agent or any other ABL
Secured Party shall have commenced the good faith exercise of any of their rights or remedies with
respect to all or any portion of the ABL Priority Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be
given to the Indenture Agent) and is pursuing the exercise thereof.

     (b) The ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the other ABL Secured Parties, agrees that, until
the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has occurred, subject to the proviso set forth in Section
4.1(b), the proviso set forth in this Section 4.2(b) and the proviso set forth in Section 6.1(b):

     (i) they will not take or cause to be taken any action, the purpose or effect of which
is to make any Lien in respect of any ABL Obligation pari passu with or senior to, or to
give any ABL Secured Party any preference or priority relative to, the Liens on the
Indenture Priority Collateral securing the Indenture Obligations;

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     (ii) they will not contest, oppose, object to, interfere with, hinder or delay, in any
manner, whether by judicial proceedings (including without limitation the filing of an
Insolvency Proceeding) or otherwise, any foreclosure, sale, lease, exchange, transfer or
other disposition of the Indenture Priority Collateral by any Indenture Secured Party or any
other Enforcement Action taken (or any forbearance from taking any Enforcement Action) in
respect of the Indenture Priority Collateral by or on behalf of any Indenture Secured Party;

     (iii) they have no right to (A) direct either the Indenture Agent or any other
Indenture Secured Party to exercise any right, remedy or power with respect to the Indenture
Priority Collateral or pursuant to the Indenture Collateral Documents in respect of the
Indenture Priority Collateral or (B) consent or object to the exercise by the Indenture
Agent or any other Indenture Secured Party of any right, remedy or power with respect to the
Indenture Priority Collateral or pursuant to the Indenture Collateral Documents in respect
of the Indenture Priority Collateral or to the timing or manner in which any such right is
exercised or not exercised (or, to the extent they may have any such right described in this
clause (iii), whether as a junior lien creditor in respect of the Indenture Priority
Collateral or otherwise, they hereby irrevocably waive such right);

     (iv) they will not institute any suit or other proceeding or assert in any suit,
Insolvency Proceeding or other proceeding any claim against any Indenture Secured Party
seeking damages from or other relief by way of specific performance, instructions or
otherwise, with respect to, and no Indenture Secured Party shall be liable for, any action
taken or omitted to be taken by any Indenture Secured Party with respect to the Indenture
Priority Collateral or pursuant to the Indenture Documents in respect of the Indenture
Priority Collateral so long as such Indenture Secured Party, in taking or omitting to take
such action, has not breached or otherwise violated this Agreement;

     (v) they will not commence judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings with respect
to, seek to have a trustee, receiver, liquidator or similar official appointed for or over,
attempt any action to take possession of, exercise any right, remedy or power with respect
to, or otherwise take any Enforcement Action to enforce their interest in or realize upon,
the Indenture Priority Collateral; and

     (vi) they will not seek, and hereby waive any right, to have the Indenture Priority
Collateral or any part thereof marshaled upon any foreclosure or other disposition of the
Indenture Priority Collateral;

provided, that the ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the other ABL Secured Parties, may
exercise any right described in clause (v) above to enforce, collect or realize on the Indenture
Priority Collateral so long as a period of 120 days has elapsed from the date that the ABL Agent
shall have given written notice to the Indenture Agent of the occurrence of an Event of Default
under and as defined in the ABL Documents (the “ABL Standstill Period”); provided,
further, however, the ABL Agent will not be entitled to exercise any rights or
remedies with respect to Indenture Priority Collateral if, notwithstanding the expiration of the
ABL Standstill Period, the Indenture Agent or any other Indenture Secured Party shall have
commenced the good faith exercise of any of their rights or remedies with respect to all or any
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Collateral (prompt notice of such exercise to be given to the ABL Agent) and is pursuing the
exercise thereof.

     (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the
other Indenture Secured Parties, agrees that, until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred,
the Indenture Agent will not foreclose upon or otherwise sell or dispose of all or substantially
all of the Indenture Priority Collateral consisting of Equipment, machinery or other goods that are
used in the ordinary course of business to complete or process Inventory constituting ABL Priority
Collateral or institute any action or proceeding with respect thereto (including any action of
foreclosure) for a period of 120 days commencing from the date that the ABL Agent received notice
from the Indenture Agent of its intention to pursue an Enforcement Action against such Indenture
Priority Collateral; provided, however, that this clause (c) shall not be construed
to limit the right of the Indenture Agent to file a claim or statement of interest with respect to
the Indenture Obligations, subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, in any
Insolvency Proceeding commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, (ii) take any
action in order to preserve or protect its Lien on the Indenture Priority Collateral or (iii)
prepare for, or commence marketing activities for, the foreclosure, sale or other disposition of
the Indenture Priority Collateral.

     4.3 Judgment Creditors. In the event that any Indenture Secured Party becomes a
judgment lien creditor in respect of Common Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights
as an unsecured creditor, such judgment lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for
all purposes (including in relation to the ABL Liens and the ABL Obligations) to the same extent as
all other Liens securing the Indenture Obligations are subject to the terms of this Agreement. In
the event that any ABL Secured Party becomes a judgment lien creditor in respect of Common
Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor, such judgment
lien shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement for all purposes (including in relation to the
Indenture Liens and the Indenture Obligations) to the same extent as all other Liens securing the
ABL Obligations are subject to the terms of this Agreement.

     4.4 Sharing of Information and Access; License. (a) In the event that the ABL Agent
shall, in the exercise of its rights under the ABL Documents or otherwise, become aware that it has
received possession or control of any Records of any Grantor which contain information identifying
or pertaining to the Indenture Priority Collateral, the ABL Agent shall promptly notify the
Indenture Agent of such fact and, upon request from the Indenture Agent and as promptly as
practicable thereafter, shall either make available to the Indenture Agent such Records for
inspection and duplication or provide to the Indenture Agent copies thereof. In the event that the
Indenture Agent shall, in the exercise of its rights under the Indenture Documents or otherwise,
become aware that it has received possession or control of any Records of any Grantor which contain
information identifying or pertaining to the ABL Priority Collateral, the Indenture Agent shall
promptly notify the ABL Agent of such fact and, upon request from the ABL Agent and as promptly as
practicable thereafter, shall either make available to the ABL Agent such Records for inspection
and duplication or provide to the ABL Agent copies thereof.

     (b) The Indenture Agent, on behalf of the Indenture Secured Parties, hereby irrevocably grants
the ABL Agent a non-exclusive worldwide license to or right to use, to the maximum extent permitted
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therein, exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation, any of the Intellectual
Property now or hereafter owned by, licensed to, or otherwise used by the Debtor Parties in order
for the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties to purchase, use, market, repossess, possess,
store, assemble, manufacture, process, sell, transfer, distribute or otherwise dispose of any asset
included in the ABL Priority Collateral in connection with the liquidation, disposition,
foreclosure or realization upon the ABL Priority Collateral in accordance with the terms of the ABL
Documents and this Agreement; provided that such license shall expire on the earlier of (i)
120 days from the date the ABL Agent shall obtain possession or physical control of substantially
all of the Inventory, (ii) the ABL Obligations Payment Date and (iii) the date that the ABL
Priority Collateral has been liquidated, disposed of, foreclosed on or realized upon (the
“License Expiration Date”‘). Any of the Intellectual Property constituting Indenture
Priority Collateral that is sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of (whether pursuant to an
Enforcement Action or otherwise) prior to the License Expiration Date will be subject to the rights
of the ABL Agent as set forth in this Section 4.4(b).

     (c) (A) If the Indenture Agent, or any agent or representative of the Indenture Agent, or any
third party pursuant to any Enforcement Action undertaken by the Indenture Agent, or any receiver,
shall obtain possession or physical control of any of the Real Estate Assets, the Indenture Agent
or, if applicable, any such third party (at such address to be provided by the Indenture Agent in
connection with the applicable Enforcement Action) shall promptly notify the ABL Agent of that fact
and the ABL Agent shall, within ten business days thereafter (or such longer period of time, if
any, as may be agreed upon by the Indenture Agent in its sole discretion), notify the Indenture
Agent as to whether the ABL Agent desires to exercise access rights under this Agreement, at which
time the parties shall confer in good faith to coordinate with respect to the ABL Agent’s exercise
of such access rights. Access rights may apply to differing parcels of Real Estate Assets at
differing times, in which case, a differing Access Period may apply to each such property.

     (B) Upon delivery of notice to the Indenture Agent as provided in paragraph (A) above of this
Section 4.4(c), the Access Period shall commence for the subject parcel of Real Estate Assets.
During the Access Period or for any period prior to an Access Period when the ABL Agent may have
had access and/or use of any Indenture Priority Collateral (e.g. pursuant to access granted by a
landlord of any Real Estate Asset), the ABL Agent and its agents, representatives and designees
shall have a non-exclusive right to have access to, and a rent free right to use, the Indenture
Priority Collateral for the purpose of arranging for and effecting the sale or disposition of the
ABL Priority Collateral, including, without limitation, the production, completion, packaging,
shipping and other preparation of such ABL Priority Collateral for sale or disposition. During any
such Access Period (or period prior to an Access Period), the ABL Agent and its representatives
(and persons employed on their behalf), and to operate, service, maintain, process and sell the ABL
Priority Collateral, as well as to engage in bulk sales or other liquidations of ABL Priority
Collateral. The ABL Agent shall repair and replace any damage (ordinary wear-and-tear excepted)
caused by the ABL Agent or its agents, representatives or designees and the ABL Agent shall comply
with all applicable laws in connection with its use or occupancy of the Indenture Priority
Collateral. The ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties shall indemnify and hold harmless the
Indenture Agent and the other Indenture Secured Parties for any direct or actual damages arising
from the injury or damage to Persons or property caused by the acts or omissions of Persons acting
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who are their invitees with respect to the right to assemble, inspect, operate, service,
maintain, process, package, ship and sell the ABL Priority Collateral while located on the subject
parcel of Real Estate Assets. The ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent shall cooperate and use
reasonable efforts to ensure that their activities during the Access Period as described above do
not interfere materially with the activities of the other as described above, including the right
of the Indenture Agent to commence foreclosure of the related mortgages or to show the Indenture
Priority Collateral to prospective purchasers and to ready the Indenture Priority Collateral for
sale or lease.

     (C) If the Indenture Agent shall foreclose or otherwise sell any of the Indenture Priority
Collateral, the Indenture Agent will notify the buyer thereof of the existence of this Agreement
and that the buyer is acquiring such Indenture Priority Collateral subject to the terms of this
Agreement.

     (D) The Debtor Parties hereby agree with the Indenture Agent and the ABL Agent that the ABL
Agent shall have access, during the Access Period, as described herein and each such Grantor that
owns any of the Real Estate Assets grants a non-exclusive easement in gross over its property to
permit the uses by the ABL Agent contemplated by this Section 4.4(c). The Indenture Agent consents
to such easement and to the recordation of a collateral access easement agreement at the election
of the ABL Agent, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Agent, in the
relevant real estate records with respect to each parcel of real property that is now or hereafter
subject to a mortgage in favor of the Indenture Agent.

     4.5 No Additional Rights For the Debtor Parties Hereunder. If any ABL Secured Party
or Indenture Secured Party shall enforce its rights or remedies in violation of the terms of this
Agreement, no Grantor shall be entitled to use such violation as a defense to any action by any ABL
Secured Party or Indenture Secured Party, nor to assert such violation as a counterclaim or basis
for set off or recoupment against any ABL Secured Party or Indenture Secured Party.

     4.6 Actions Upon Breach. (a) Should any Indenture Secured Party, contrary to this
Agreement, in any way take, attempt to or threaten to take any action with respect to the ABL
Priority Collateral (including, without limitation, any attempt to realize upon or enforce any
remedy with respect to this Agreement), or fail to take any action required by this Agreement, any
ABL Secured Party (in its own name or in the name of the relevant Grantor) may obtain relief
against such Indenture Secured Party, by injunction, specific performance and/or other appropriate
equitable relief, it being understood and agreed by the Indenture Agent on behalf of each Indenture
Secured Party that (i) the ABL Secured Parties’ damages from its actions may at that time be
difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable, and (ii) each Indenture Secured Party waives any
defense that the Debtor Parties and/or the ABL Secured Parties cannot demonstrate damage and/or be
made whole by the awarding of damages.

     (b) Should any ABL Secured Party, contrary to this Agreement, in any way take, attempt to or
threaten to take any action with respect to the Indenture Priority Collateral (including, without
limitation, any attempt to realize upon or enforce any remedy with respect to this Agreement), or
fail to take any action required by this Agreement, any Indenture Secured Party (in its own name or
in the name of the relevant Grantor) may obtain relief against such

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ABL Secured Party, by injunction, specific performance and/or other appropriate equitable
relief, it being understood and agreed by the ABL Agent, on behalf of each ABL Secured Party, that
(i) the Indenture Secured Parties’ damages from its actions may at that time be difficult to
ascertain and may be irreparable, and (ii) each ABL Secured Party waives any defense that the
Debtor Parties and/or the Indenture Secured Parties cannot demonstrate damage and/or be made whole
by the awarding of damages.

     SECTION 5. Application of Proceeds; Dispositions and Releases; Inspection and Insurance.

     5.1 Application of Proceeds; Turnover Provisions. (a) All proceeds of ABL Priority
Collateral (including without limitation any interest earned thereon) resulting from the sale,
collection or other disposition of ABL Priority Collateral in connection with or resulting from any
Enforcement Action, and whether or not pursuant to an Insolvency Proceeding, shall be distributed
as follows: first to the ABL Agent for application to the ABL Obligations in accordance
with the terms of the ABL Documents, until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred;
second to the Indenture Agent for application to the Indenture Obligations in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture Documents, until the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has
occurred; and thereafter, to the applicable Grantor, or its successors or assigns, or to
whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent jurisdiction may
direct, of any surplus then remaining from such proceeds. Until the occurrence of the ABL
Obligations Payment Date, any ABL Priority Collateral, including without limitation any such ABL
Priority Collateral constituting proceeds, that may be received by any Indenture Secured Party in
violation of this Agreement shall be segregated and held in trust and promptly paid over to the ABL
Agent, for the benefit of the ABL Secured Parties, in the same form as received, with any necessary
endorsements, and each Indenture Secured Party hereby authorizes the ABL Agent to make any such
endorsements as agent for the Indenture Agent (which authorization, being coupled with an interest,
is irrevocable).

     (b) All proceeds of Indenture Priority Collateral (including without limitation any interest
earned thereon) resulting from the sale, collection or other disposition of Indenture Priority
Collateral in connection with or resulting from any Enforcement Action, and whether or not pursuant
to an Insolvency Proceeding, shall be distributed as follows: first to the Indenture Agent
for application to the Indenture Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Indenture
Documents, until the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has occurred; second to the ABL
Agent for application to the ABL Obligations in accordance with the terms of the ABL Documents,
until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred; and thereafter, to the applicable
Grantor, or its successors or assigns, or to whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same
or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct, of any surplus then remaining from such
proceeds. Until the occurrence of the Indenture Obligations Payment Date, any Indenture Priority
Collateral, including without limitation any such Indenture Priority Collateral constituting
proceeds, that may be received by any ABL Secured Party in violation of this Agreement shall be
segregated and held in trust and promptly paid over to the Indenture Agent, for the benefit of the
Indenture Secured Parties, in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, and each
ABL Secured Party hereby authorizes the Indenture Agent to make any such endorsements as agent for
the ABL Agent (which authorization, being coupled with an interest, is irrevocable).

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     5.2 Releases of Liens. (a) (i) Upon any release, sale or disposition of ABL
Priority Collateral permitted pursuant to the terms of the ABL Documents that results in the
release of the ABL Lien (other than release of the ABL Lien due to the occurrence of the ABL
Obligations Payment Date) on any ABL Priority Collateral, the Indenture Lien on such ABL Priority
Collateral (excluding any portion of the proceeds of such ABL Priority Collateral remaining after
the ABL Obligations Payment Date occurs) shall be automatically and unconditionally released with
no further consent or action of any Person so long as such release, sale or disposition of ABL
Priority Collateral is permitted pursuant to the terms of the Indenture Documents.

     (ii) Upon any release, sale or disposition of ABL Priority Collateral that results in
the release of the ABL Lien (other than release of the ABL Lien due to the occurrence of the
ABL Obligations Payment Date) on any ABL Priority Collateral pursuant to any Enforcement
Action, the Indenture Lien on such ABL Priority Collateral (excluding any portion of the
proceeds of such ABL Priority Collateral remaining after the ABL Obligations Payment Date
occurs) shall be automatically and unconditionally released with no further consent or
action of any Person so long as the proceeds of such ABL Priority Collateral are applied in
accordance with Section 5.1(a) (with, in the case of ABL Obligations consisting of debt of a
revolving nature, a corresponding permanent reduction in the commitments thereto).

     (iii) The Indenture Agent, at the expense of the Grantors and without any consent of
the Indenture Secured Parties, shall promptly execute and deliver such release documents and
instruments and shall take such further actions as the ABL Agent shall reasonably request to
evidence any release of the Indenture Lien described herein. The Indenture Agent hereby
appoints the ABL Agent and any officer or duly authorized person of the ABL Agent, with full
power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power
of attorney in the place and stead of the Indenture Agent and in the name of the Indenture
Agent or in the ABL Agent’s own name, from time to time, in the ABL Agent’s sole discretion,
for the purposes of carrying out the terms of this Section 5.2(a), to take any and all
appropriate action and to execute and deliver any and all documents and instruments as may
be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.2(a), including,
without limitation, any financing statements, endorsements, assignments, releases or other
documents or instruments of transfer (which appointment, being coupled with an interest, is
irrevocable).

     (b) (i) Upon any release, sale or disposition of Indenture Priority Collateral permitted
pursuant to the terms of the Indenture Documents that results in the release of the Indenture Lien
(other than release of the Indenture Lien due to the occurrence of the Indenture Obligations
Payment Date) on any Indenture Priority Collateral, the ABL Lien on such Indenture Priority
Collateral (excluding any portion of the proceeds of such Indenture Priority Collateral remaining
after the Indenture Obligations Payment Date occurs) shall be automatically and unconditionally
released with no further consent or action of any Person so long as such release, sale or
disposition of Indenture Priority Collateral is permitted pursuant to the terms of the ABL
Documents.

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     (ii) Upon any release, sale or disposition of Indenture Priority Collateral that
results in the release of the Indenture Lien (other than release of the Indenture Lien due
to the occurrence of the Indenture Obligations Payment Date) on any Indenture Priority
Collateral pursuant to any Enforcement Action, the ABL Lien on such Indenture Priority
Collateral (excluding any portion of the proceeds of such Indenture Priority Collateral
remaining after the Indenture Obligations Payment Date occurs) shall be automatically and
unconditionally released with no further consent or action of any Person so long as the
proceeds of such Indenture Priority Collateral are applied in accordance with Section
5.1(b).

     (iii) The ABL Agent, at the expense of the Grantors and without any consent of the ABL
Secured Parties, shall promptly execute and deliver such release documents and instruments
and shall take such further actions as the Indenture Agent shall reasonably request to
evidence any release of the ABL Lien described herein. The ABL Agent hereby appoints the
Indenture Agent and any officer or duly authorized person of the Indenture Agent, with full
power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power
of attorney in the place and stead of the ABL Agent and in the name of the ABL Agent or in
the Indenture Agent’s own name, from time to time, in the Indenture Agent’s sole discretion,
for the purposes of carrying out the terms of this Section 5.2(b), to take any and all
appropriate action and to execute and deliver any and all documents and instruments as may
be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this Section 5.2(b), including,
without limitation, any financing statements, endorsements, assignments, releases or other
documents or instruments of transfer (which appointment, being coupled with an interest, is
irrevocable).

     5.3 Certain Real Property Notices; Inspection Rights and Insurance. (a) Subject to,
and to the extent specifically provided in, the Indenture Documents, any Indenture Secured Party
and its representatives and invitees may at any time inspect, repossess, remove and otherwise deal
with the Indenture Priority Collateral, and the Indenture Agent may advertise and conduct public
auctions or private sales of the Indenture Priority Collateral, in each case without notice to, the
involvement of or interference by any ABL Secured Party or liability to any ABL Secured Party
except as otherwise provided in Sections 4.2 and 4.4. Subject to the ABL Documents, any ABL
Secured Party and its representatives and invitees may at any time inspect, repossess, remove and
otherwise deal with the ABL Priority Collateral, and the ABL Agent may advertise and conduct public
auctions or private sales of the ABL Priority Collateral, in each case without notice to, the
involvement of or interference by any Indenture Secured Party or liability to any Indenture Secured
Party, except as otherwise provided in Sections 4.2 and 4.4.

     (b) Proceeds of Common Collateral include insurance proceeds, and therefore the lien
priorities set forth in Section 3.1 shall govern the ultimate disposition of casualty insurance
proceeds. Until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred, the ABL Agent will have the sole
and exclusive right, to the extent provided in the ABL Agreement, (i) to adjust or settle any
insurance policy or claim covering the ABL Priority Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder
and (ii) to approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding affecting the ABL
Priority Collateral. Each of the ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent shall be named as additional
insured and loss payee under any insurance policies maintained from time to time by any Grantor
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provide that the ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent shall be so named as their interests may
appear). Until the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has occurred, the Indenture Agent will have
the sole and exclusive right, to the extent provided in the Indenture, (i) to adjust or settle any
insurance policy or claim covering the Indenture Priority Collateral in the event of any loss
thereunder and (ii) to approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding
affecting the Indenture Priority Collateral. Each of the Indenture Agent and the ABL Agent shall
be named as additional insured and loss payee under any insurance policies maintained from time to
time by any Grantor with respect to the Indenture Priority Collateral (provided that such
policy shall provide that the Indenture Agent and the ABL Agent shall be so named as their
interests may appear).

     (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the ABL Agreement or the Indenture, the
parties hereby agree that in the event that a Recovery Event occurs and the Company is required as
a result to prepay or offer to prepay the ABL Obligations or the Indenture Obligations, then such
prepayments shall be made (a) in the case of a Recovery Event involving ABL Priority Collateral,
first to the ABL Obligations and then to the Indenture Obligations as provided in Section 5.1 and
(b) in the case of a Recovery Event involving Indenture Priority Collateral, first to the Indenture
Obligations and then to the ABL Obligations as provided in Section 5.1.

     SECTION 6. Insolvency Proceedings.

     6.1 Filing of Motions. (a) Until the ABL Obligations Payment Date has occurred, the
Indenture Agent agrees on behalf of itself and the other Indenture Secured Parties that no
Indenture Secured Party shall, in or in connection with any Insolvency Proceeding, take any action
with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral or the validity or enforceability of any of the ABL
Documents or any of the ABL Obligations thereunder, including by filing any pleadings or motions or
taking any position at any hearing or proceeding of any nature, that in each case (i) violates, or
is prohibited by, this Section 6 (or, in the absence of an Insolvency Proceeding, otherwise would
violate or be prohibited by this Agreement), (ii) asserts any right, benefit or privilege that
arises in favor of the Indenture Agent or Indenture Secured Parties, in whole or in part, as a
result of their interest in the ABL Priority Collateral or in the Indenture Lien on the ABL
Priority Collateral (unless the assertion of such right is expressly permitted by this Agreement)
or (iii) relates in any way to the determination of any Liens or claims held by the ABL Agent
(including the validity and enforceability thereof) or any other ABL Secured Party or the value of
any claims of such parties under Section 506(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise;
provided that the Indenture Agent may (A) file a proof of claim in an Insolvency Proceeding
and (B) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition of any motion or other
pleadings made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of
the Indenture Secured Parties on the ABL Priority Collateral, in each case subject to the
limitations contained in this Agreement and only if consistent with the terms and the limitations
on the Indenture Agent imposed hereby.

     (b) Until the Indenture Obligations Payment Date has occurred, the ABL Agent agrees, on behalf
of itself and the other ABL Secured Parties, that no ABL Secured Party shall, in or in connection
with any Insolvency Proceeding, take any action with respect to the Indenture Priority Collateral
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the Indenture Obligations thereunder, including by filing any pleadings or motions or taking
any position at any hearing or proceeding of any nature, that in each case (i) violates, or is
prohibited by, this Section 6 (or, in the absence of an Insolvency Proceeding, otherwise would
violate or be prohibited by this Agreement), (ii) asserts any right, benefit or privilege that
arises in favor of the ABL Agent or the other ABL Secured Parties, in whole or in part, as a result
of their interest in the Indenture Priority Collateral or in any ABL Lien on the Indenture Priority
Collateral (unless the assertion of such right is expressly permitted by this Agreement) or (iii)
relates in any way to the determination of any Liens or claims held by the Indenture Agent
(including the validity and enforceability thereof) or any other Indenture Secured Party or the
value of any claims of such parties under Section 506(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise;
provided that the ABL Agent may (A) file a proof of claim in an Insolvency Proceeding and
(B) file any necessary responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition of any motion or other
pleadings made by any Person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims of
the ABL Secured Parties on the Indenture Priority Collateral, in each case subject to the
limitations contained in this Agreement and only if consistent with the terms and the limitations
on the ABL Agent imposed hereby.

     6.2 Financing Matters. If the Company or any other Grantor shall be subject to any
Insolvency Proceeding and the ABL Agent shall desire to permit the use of cash collateral or to
permit the Company or any other Grantor to obtain financing under Section 363 or Section 364 of
Title 11 of the United States Code or any similar Bankruptcy Law (the “ABL DIP Financing”)
in an aggregate principal amount that when taken together with the principal amount of ABL
Obligations under the Existing ABL Agreement does not exceed the maximum principal amount of
Indebtedness that could then be incurred by the Company under the Existing ABL Agreement (as in
effect on the date hereof) pursuant to clauses (1) and (16) of the definition of the term
“Permitted Debt” (as defined in the Existing Indenture as in effect on the date hereof) and, in any
event, which is not to be secured by any of the Indenture Priority Collateral other than liens that
are subordinated or pari passu with the liens on the ABL Secured Parties in the Indenture Priority
Collateral, then the Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Indenture Secured Parties,
agrees that it (x) will raise no objection to such use of cash collateral or DIP Financing and will
not request adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith (except to the extent
permitted by Section 6.4 or relating to Indenture Priority Collateral) and (y) will subordinate its
Liens in the Common Collateral (other than the Indenture Priority Collateral) to such DIP Financing
(and all Obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the Liens on the ABL Priority
Collateral that secures the Indenture Obligations are subordinated to the Liens thereon that
secures that ABL Obligations under this Agreement, and agrees that notice received two calendar
days prior to the entry of an order approving such usage of cash collateral or approving such
financing shall be adequate notice.

     6.3 Relief From the Automatic Stay. Until the ABL Obligations Payment Date, the
Indenture Agent agrees, on behalf of itself and the other Indenture Secured Parties, that none of
them will seek relief from the automatic stay or from any other stay in any Insolvency Proceeding
or take any action in derogation thereof, in each case in respect of any ABL Priority Collateral,
without the prior written consent of the ABL Agent. Until the Indenture Obligations Payment Date,
the ABL Agent agrees, on behalf of itself and the other ABL Secured Parties, that none of them will
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Proceeding or take any action in derogation thereof, in each case in respect of any Indenture
Priority Collateral, without the prior written consent of the Indenture Agent.

     6.4 Adequate Protection. (a) The Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the other
Indenture Secured Parties, agrees that, prior to the ABL Obligations Payment Date, so long as the
ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties comply with Section 6.4(b), none of them shall object,
contest, or support any other Person objecting to or contesting, (i) any request by the ABL Agent
or the other ABL Secured Parties for adequate protection of its interest in the Common Collateral
or any adequate protection provided to the ABL Agent or the other ABL Secured Parties or (ii) any
objection by the ABL Agent or any other ABL Secured Parties to any motion, relief, action or
proceeding based on a claim of a lack of adequate protection in the Common Collateral or (iii) the
payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts to the ABL Agent or any other ABL Secured
Party under Section 506(b) or 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise; provided that any
action described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) does not violate Section 6.2
hereof. The Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Indenture Secured Parties, further
agrees that, prior to the ABL Obligations Payment Date, none of them shall assert or enforce any
claim under Section 506(b) or 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise that is senior to or on a
parity with the ABL Liens for costs or expenses of preserving or disposing of any ABL Priority
Collateral. Subject to all other provisions of this Agreement, in any Insolvency Proceeding, if
the ABL Secured Parties (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate protection consisting of
additional collateral that constitutes ABL Priority Collateral (with replacement liens on such
additional collateral) and superpriority claims in connection with any ABL DIP Financing or use of
cash collateral, and the ABL Secured Parties do not object to the adequate protection being
provided to them, then in connection with any such ABL DIP Financing or use of cash collateral the
Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and any of the other Indenture Secured Parties, may, as
adequate protection of their interests in the ABL Priority Collateral, seek or accept (and the ABL
Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties shall not object to) adequate protection consisting solely
of (x) a replacement Lien on the same additional collateral, subordinated to the Liens securing the
ABL Obligations and such ABL DIP Financing on the same basis as the other Indenture Liens on the
ABL Priority Collateral are so subordinated to the ABL Obligations under this Agreement and (y)
superpriority claims junior in all respects to the superpriority claims granted to the ABL Secured
Parties, provided, however, that the Indenture Agent shall have irrevocably agreed,
pursuant to Section 1129(a)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code, on behalf of itself and the other Indenture
Secured Parties, in any stipulation and/or order granting such adequate protection, that such
junior superpriority claims may be paid under any plan of reorganization in any combination of
cash, debt, equity or other property having a value on the effective date of such plan equal to the
allowed amount of such claims. Except as provided above, the Indenture Agent, for itself and the
other Indenture Secured Parties, shall not seek adequate protection of its interests in the ABL
Priority Collateral other than a replacement Lien on additional collateral; provided, that
such Lien shall be subordinated to the Liens (including replacement and additional liens granted as
adequate protection of the interests of the ABL Secured Parties in the ABL Priority Collateral)
securing the ABL Obligations and the ABL DIP Financing on the same basis as the other Indenture
Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral are so subordinated under this Agreement.

     (b) The ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the other ABL Secured Parties, agrees that, prior
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other Indenture Secured Parties comply with Section 6.4(a), none of them shall object,
contest, or support any other Person objecting to or contesting, (i) any request by the Indenture
Agent or the other Indenture Secured Parties for adequate protection of its interest in the Common
Collateral or any adequate protection provided to the Indenture Agent or the other Indenture
Secured Parties or (ii) any objection by the Indenture Agent or any other Indenture Secured Parties
to any motion, relief, action or proceeding based on a claim of a lack of adequate protection in
the Common Collateral or (iii) the payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts to the
Indenture Agent or any other Indenture Secured Party under Section 506(b) or 506(c) of the
Bankruptcy Code or otherwise; provided that any action described in the foregoing clauses
(i) and (ii) does not violate Section 6.2 hereof. The ABL Agent, on behalf of
itself and the other ABL Secured Parties, further agrees that, prior to the Indenture Obligations
Payment Date, none of them shall assert or enforce any claim under Section 506(b) or 506(c) of the
Bankruptcy Code or otherwise that is senior to or on a parity with the Indenture Liens for costs or
expenses of preserving or disposing of any Indenture Priority Collateral.

     6.5 Avoidance Issues. (a) If any ABL Secured Party is required in any Insolvency
Proceeding or otherwise to disgorge, turn over or otherwise pay to the estate of any Grantor any
amount (a “Recovery”), because such Recovery was avoided or ordered to be paid or disgorged
for any reason, including without limitation because it was found to be a fraudulent or
preferential transfer, whether received as proceeds of security, enforcement of any right of
set-off or otherwise, then the ABL Obligations shall be reinstated to the extent of such Recovery
and, for the purposes of this Agreement (and, as applicable, the ABL Documents and the Indenture
Documents), deemed to be outstanding as if such payment had not occurred and the ABL Obligations
Payment Date shall be deemed not to have occurred. If this Agreement shall have been terminated
prior to such Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior
termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of
the parties hereto. The Indenture Secured Parties agree that none of them shall be entitled to
benefit from any avoidance action affecting or otherwise relating to any distribution or allocation
made in accordance with this Agreement, whether by preference or otherwise, it being understood and
agreed that the benefit of such avoidance action otherwise allocable to them shall instead be
allocated and turned over for application in accordance with the priorities set forth in this
Agreement.

     (b) If any Indenture Secured Party is required in any Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise to
disgorge, turn over or otherwise pay to the estate of any Grantor any Recovery, because such
Recovery was avoided or ordered to be paid or disgorged for any reason, including without
limitation because it was found to be a fraudulent or preferential transfer, whether received as
proceeds of security, enforcement of any right of set-off or otherwise, then the Indenture
Obligations shall be reinstated to the extent of such Recovery and, for the purposes of this
Agreement (and, as applicable, the ABL Documents and the Indenture Documents), deemed to be
outstanding as if such payment had not occurred and the Indenture Obligations Payment Date shall be
deemed not to have occurred. If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such Recovery,
this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior termination shall not
diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the parties hereto.
The ABL Secured Parties agree that none of them shall be entitled to benefit from any avoidance
action affecting or otherwise relating to any distribution or allocation made in accordance with
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agreed that the benefit of such avoidance action otherwise allocable to them shall instead be
allocated and turned over for application in accordance with the priorities set forth in this
Agreement.

     6.6 Asset Dispositions in an Insolvency Proceeding. (a) Neither the Indenture Agent
nor any other Indenture Secured Party shall, in an Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, oppose any
sale or disposition of any ABL Priority Collateral that is supported by the ABL Secured Parties,
and the Indenture Agent and each other Indenture Secured Party will be deemed to have consented
under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code (and otherwise, including any other similar Bankruptcy
Law) to any such sale of ABL Priority Collateral supported by the ABL Secured Parties and to have
released their Liens on such ABL Priority Collateral; provided that (i) ABL Liens and
Indenture Liens will attach to the proceeds of any such sale or disposition with the same lien
priorities set forth in Section 3.1 and 6.2 (ii) the motion does not seek to preclude or otherwise
impair Credit Bid Rights in respect of any such sale or disposition in favor of the Indenture Agent
and the other Indenture Secured Parties.

     (b) Neither the ABL Agent nor any other ABL Secured Party shall, in an Insolvency Proceeding
or otherwise, oppose any sale or disposition of any Indenture Priority Collateral that is supported
by the Indenture Secured Parties, and the ABL Agent and each other ABL Secured Party will be deemed
to have consented under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code (and otherwise, including any other
similar Bankruptcy Law) to any such sale of Indenture Priority Collateral supported by the
Indenture Secured Parties and to have released their Liens on such Indenture Priority Collateral;
provided that (i) Indenture Liens and ABL Liens will attach to the proceeds of any such
sale or disposition with the same lien priorities set forth in Section 3.1 and 6.2, (ii) the motion
does not seek to preclude or otherwise impair Credit Bid Rights in respect of any such sale or
disposition in favor of the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties and (iii) any of the
Intellectual Property constituting Indenture Priority Collateral that is sold, transferred or
otherwise disposed of (pursuant to an Enforcement Action) prior to the ABL Obligations Payment Date
will be subject to the rights of the ABL Agent as set forth in Section 4.4.

     6.7 Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classification. Each Indenture Secured
Party and each ABL Secured Party acknowledges and agrees that (a) the grants of Liens pursuant to
the ABL Security Documents and the Indenture Collateral Documents constitute two separate and
distinct grants of Liens and (b) because of, among other things, their differing rights in the
Common Collateral, the Indenture Obligations are fundamentally different from the ABL Obligations
and must be separately classified in any plan of reorganization proposed or adopted in an
Insolvency Proceeding. To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in the
immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that the claims of the ABL Secured Parties and
Indenture Secured Parties in respect of the Common Collateral constitute only one secured claim
(rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then the Indenture Secured
Parties and the ABL Secured Parties hereby acknowledge and agree that all distributions shall be
made as if there were separate classes of senior and junior secured claims against the Debtor
Parties in respect of the Common Collateral with the effect being that (i) to the extent that the
aggregate value of the ABL Priority Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims
held by the Indenture Secured Parties), the ABL Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive, in
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claims, all amounts owing in respect of Post-Petition Interest that is available from the ABL
Priority Collateral before any distribution is made in respect of the claims held by the Indenture
Secured Parties and (ii) to the extent that the aggregate value of the Indenture Priority
Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the ABL Secured Parties),
the Indenture Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to
them in respect of principal, pre-petition interest and other claims, all amounts owing in respect
of Post-Petition Interest that is available from the Indenture Priority Collateral before any
distribution is made in respect of the claims held by the ABL Secured Parties, with the Indenture
Secured Parties and the ABL Secured Parties hereby acknowledging and agreeing to turn over to the
ABL Secured Parties and the Indenture Secured Parties, respectively, amounts otherwise received or
receivable by them to the extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such
turnover has the effect of reducing the claim or recovery of such Secured Parties.

     6.8 Other Matters. (a) To the extent that the Indenture Agent or any Indenture
Secured Party has or acquires rights under Section 363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code with
respect to any of the ABL Priority Collateral, the Indenture Agent agrees, on behalf of itself and
the other Indenture Secured Parties not to assert any of such rights without the prior written
consent of the ABL Agent; provided that if requested by the ABL Agent, the Indenture Agent
shall timely exercise such rights in the manner requested by the ABL Agent, including any rights to
payments in respect of such rights and any rights of a secured party to object to actions of the
Grantors under Section 363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code, or, subject to Section 6.4, to
otherwise seek adequate protection in any Insolvency with respect to the ABL Priority Collateral.

     (b) To the extent that the ABL Agent or any other ABL Secured Party has or acquires rights
under Section 363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code with respect to any of the Indenture
Priority Collateral, the ABL Agent agrees, on behalf of itself and the other ABL Secured Parties
not to assert any of such rights without the prior written consent of the Indenture Agent;
provided that if requested by the Indenture Agent, the ABL Agent shall timely exercise such
rights in the manner requested by the Indenture Agent, including any rights to payments in respect
of such rights and any rights of a secured party to object to actions of the Grantors under Section
363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code, or, subject to Section 6.4, to otherwise seek adequate
protection in any Insolvency with respect to the Indenture Priority Collateral.

     6.9 Effectiveness in Insolvency Proceedings. This Agreement, which the parties hereto
expressly acknowledge is a “subordination agreement” under Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code,
shall be applicable both before and after the filing of any petition by or against any of the
Debtor Parties under the Bankruptcy Code or comparable foreign laws and all converted or succeeding
cases in respect thereof, and all references herein to any Grantor shall be deemed to apply to the
trustee for such Grantor and such Grantor as a debtor-in-possession. The relative rights of (a)
the ABL Agent and the other ABL Secured Parties and (b) the Indenture Agent and the other Indenture
Secured Parties in or to any distributions from or in respect of any Common Collateral or proceeds
of Common Collateral, shall continue after the filing thereof on the same basis as prior to the
date of the petition, subject to any court order approving the financing of, or use of cash
collateral by, any Grantor as a debtor-in-possession. If, in any Insolvency Proceeding, debt
obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any ABL Priority Collateral of the
reorganized debtor are distributed both on account of ABL Obligations and on account of Indenture
Obligations, then, to the extent such debt obligations are

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secured by Liens upon any ABL Priority Collateral, the provisions of this Agreement will
survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to any plan effected pursuant to an
Insolvency Proceeding and will apply with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.
If, in any Insolvency Proceeding, debt obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon
any Indenture Priority Collateral of the reorganized debtor are distributed both on account of
Indenture Obligations and on account of ABL Obligations, then, to the extent such debt obligations
are secured by Liens upon any Indenture Priority Collateral, the provisions of this Agreement will
survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to any plan effected pursuant to an
Insolvency Proceeding and will apply with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.

     6.10 Reorganization Securities. If, in any Insolvency Proceeding, debt obligations of
any reorganized Grantor secured by Lien upon any property of such reorganized Grantor are
distributed pursuant to a plan of reorganization on acount of the ABL Obligations and the Indenture
Obligations, then, to the extent such debt obligations are secured by Liens upon Collateral, the
provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such debt obligations and will apply
with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations (i.e., Liens upon ABL Priority
Collateral securing such Indenture Obligations as reorganizations as reorganization securities will
be subordinated on the same basis as the other Indenture Liens on the ABL Priority Collateral are
so subordinated under this Agreement.

     SECTION 7. Indenture Documents and ABL Documents. [Intentionally Omitted]

     SECTION 8. Reliance; Waivers; etc.

     8.1 Reliance. The ABL Documents are deemed to have been executed and delivered, and
all extensions of credit thereunder are deemed to have been made or incurred, in reliance upon this
Agreement. The Indenture Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Indenture Secured Parties,
expressly waives all notice of the acceptance of and reliance on this Agreement by the ABL Agent
and the other ABL Secured Parties. The Indenture Documents are deemed to have been executed and
delivered, and all Notes issued thereunder are deemed to have been made or incurred, in reliance
upon this Agreement. The ABL Agent, on behalf of itself and the other ABL Secured Parties,
expressly waives all notice of the acceptance of and reliance on this Agreement by the Indenture
Agent and the other Indenture Secured Parties.

     8.2 No Warranties or Liability. The Indenture Agent and the ABL Agent acknowledge and
agree that neither has made any representation or warranty with respect to the execution, validity,
legality, completeness, collectibility or enforceability of any other ABL Document or any Indenture
Document.

     8.3 No Waivers. No right or benefit of any party hereunder shall at any time in any
way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of such party or any other
party hereto or by any noncompliance by any Debtor Party with the terms and conditions of any of
the ABL Documents or the Indenture Documents.

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     SECTION 9. Obligations Unconditional.

     9.1 ABL Obligations Unconditional. All rights and interests of the ABL Secured
Parties hereunder, and all agreements and obligations of the Indenture Secured Parties (and, to the
extent applicable, the Debtor Parties) hereunder, shall remain in full force and effect
irrespective of:

     (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any ABL Document;

     (b) any change in the time, place or manner of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any
portion of the ABL Obligations, or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by course
of conduct or otherwise, or any refinancing, replacement, refunding or restatement of any ABL
Document;

     (c) prior to the ABL Obligations Payment Date, any exchange, release, voiding, avoidance or
non-perfection of any security interest in any Common Collateral or any other collateral, or any
release, amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, or any
refinancing, replacement, refunding or restatement of all or any portion of the ABL Obligations or
any guarantee or guaranty thereof; or

     (d) any other circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a
discharge of, any Grantor in respect of the ABL Obligations, or of the Indenture Agent, or any
Grantor, to the extent applicable, in respect of this Agreement, other than a defense of
performance or payment in full of the ABL Obligations.

     9.2 Indenture Obligations Unconditional. All rights and interests of the Indenture
Secured Parties hereunder, and all agreements and obligations of the ABL Secured Parties (and, to
the extent applicable, the Debtor Parties) hereunder, shall remain in full force and effect
irrespective of:

     (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Indenture Document;

     (b) any change in the time, place or manner of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any
portion of the Indenture Obligations, or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by
course of conduct or otherwise, or any refinancing, replacement, refunding or restatement of any
Indenture Document;

     (c) prior to the Indenture Obligations Payment Date, any exchange, release, voiding, avoidance
or non-perfection of any security interest in any Common Collateral or any other collateral, or any
release, amendment, waiver or other modification, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, or any
refinancing, replacement, refunding or restatement of all or any portion of the Indenture
Obligations or any guarantee or guaranty thereof; or

     (d) any other circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available to, or a
discharge of, any Grantor in respect of the Indenture Obligations or of the ABL Agent, or any
Grantor, to the extent applicable, in respect of this Agreement, other than a defense of
performance or payment in full of the Indenture Obligations.

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     SECTION 10. Indenture Secured Parties’ Purchase Option

     (a) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of (i) an acceleration of the ABL
Obligations under the ABL Agreement, or (ii) a foreclosure of any Common Collateral (or the
commencement of any legal proceedings against any Grantor or with respect to any Common Collateral
to facilitate the foregoing) by the ABL Agent, any or all of the Holders, acting as a single
purchaser group (the “Purchasing Holders”), shall have the option at any time upon five
business days prior written notice (each such notice, a “Purchase Notice”) to the Indenture
Agent and the ABL Agent to purchase all (but not less than all) of the ABL Obligations from the ABL
Secured Parties; provided, that the ABL Secured Parties shall not sell or transfer any rights they
may have with respect to indemnification obligations of any Debtor Party under the ABL Documents
that by their terms survive the termination of the ABL Documents. Such Purchase Notice to the ABL
Agent shall be irrevocable.

     (b) On the date specified by the Purchasing Holders in such Purchase Notice (which shall not
be less than five business days, nor more than ten business days, after the receipt by the ABL
Agent of the Purchase Notice from the Purchasing Holders of the election by the Purchasing Holders
to exercise such option), the ABL Secured Parties shall sell to the Purchasing Holders , and the
Purchasing Holders shall purchase from the ABL Secured Parties, all (and not less than all) of the
ABL Obligations. The ABL Agent hereby represents and warrants that, as of the date hereof, no
approval of any court or other regulatory or governmental authority is required for such sale.

     (c) Upon the date of such purchase and sale, the Purchasing Holders shall (i) pay to the ABL
Agent as the purchase price therefore (the “Purchase Price”) the full amount of the ABL
Obligations then outstanding and unpaid (including principal, interest, fees and expenses,
including reasonable attorney’s fees and legal expenses but excluding any early termination fee or
prepayment fee), (ii) furnish cash collateral to the ABL Agent in such amounts as the ABL Agent
determines is reasonably necessary to secure the ABL Secured Parties in connection with any issued
and outstanding letters of credit provided by any ABL Secured Party under the ABL Agreement to any
Debtor Party (but not in any event in an amount greater than 105% of the aggregate undrawn face
amount of such letters of credit), (iii) agree to reimburse the ABL Secured Parties for any loss,
cost, damage or expense (including reasonable attorney’s fees and legal expenses) in connection
with any commissions, fees, costs or expenses related to any issued and outstanding letters of
credit as described above and any checks or other payments provisionally credited to the ABL
Obligations, and/or as to which the ABL Secured Parties have not yet received final payment, (iv)
furnish cash collateral to the ABL Agent in such amounts as the ABL Agent determines is reasonably
necessary to secure the ABL Secured Parties in connection with any Hedging Obligations and Cash
Management Obligations (but not in any event in an amount greater than 105% of the aggregate amount
of such Hedging Obligations and Cash Management Obligations), and (v) agree to pay to the ABL
Secured Parties any early termination fee or prepayment fee payable in connection with the ABL
Documents within three business days of the receipt of the same by the Purchasing Holders, after
the payment in full in cash to the Purchasing Holders of the Indenture Obligations and the ABL
Obligations purchased by the Purchasing Holders pursuant to this Section 10, including principal,
interest and fees thereon and costs and expenses of collection thereof (including reasonable
attorney’s fees and legal expenses, but excluding any early termination fee (whether owing under
the ABL

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Documents or the Indenture Documents) or prepayment fee (whether owing under the ABL Documents
or the Indenture Documents)), provided, that (x) the notice of termination is received by the
Purchasing Holders or (y) the effective date of termination occurs, within 90 days after the
effective date of the purchase of the ABL Obligations by the Purchasing Holders . Such purchase
price and cash collateral shall be remitted by wire transfer in federal funds to such bank account
of the ABL Agent, as the ABL Agent may designate in writing to the Purchasing Holders for such
purpose. Interest shall be calculated to but excluding the business day on which such purchase and
sale shall occur if the amounts so paid by the Purchasing Holders to the bank account designated by
the ABL Agent are received in such bank account no later than 1:00 p.m., New York City time and
interest shall be calculated to and including such business day if the amounts so paid to the bank
account designated by the ABL Agent are received in such bank account later than 1:00 p.m., New
York City time.

     (d) Such purchase shall be expressly made without representation or warranty of any kind by
the ABL Secured Parties as to the ABL Obligations or otherwise and without recourse to the ABL
Secured Parties, except that the ABL Secured Parties shall represent and warrant: (i) the amount
quoted by the ABL Agent as the amount of the ABL Obligations represents the amount shown as due
with respect to the claims transferred as reflected on its books and records, (ii) that the ABL
Secured Parties will transfer the ABL Obligations to the Purchasing Holders free and clear of any
Liens or encumbrances and (iii) the ABL Secured Parties have the right to assign the ABL
Obligations and the assignment is duly authorized.

     (e) In the event that the Purchasing Holders exercise and consummate the purchase option set
forth in this Section 10, the ABL Agent shall have the right, but not the obligation, to
immediately resign under the ABL Agreement.

     SECTION 11. Miscellaneous.

     11.1 Conflicts. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement
and the provisions of any ABL Document or any Indenture Document, the provisions of this Agreement
shall govern. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties hereto acknowledge that the terms of this
Agreement are not intended to, and shall not, negate any rights granted to the Debtor Parties in
the ABL Documents and the Indenture Documents or impose any obligations on the Debtor Parties other
than as expressly set forth herein. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent any provision of any
ABL Document or any Indenture Document shall conflict with any provision of this Agreement, no
Debtor Party shall be deemed to have breached or otherwise violated any such ABL Document or any
such Indenture Document by virtue of compliance with the provisions of this Agreement.

     11.2 Continuing Nature of Provisions. This Agreement shall continue to be effective,
and shall not be revocable by any party hereto, until the earlier to occur of the ABL Obligations
Payment Date and the Indenture Obligations Payment Date. This is a continuing agreement and the
ABL Secured Parties and the Indenture Secured Parties may continue, at any time and without notice
to the other parties hereto, to extend credit and other financial accommodations, lend monies and
provide indebtedness to, or for the benefit of, Company or any other Debtor Party on the faith
hereof.

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     11.3 Amendments; Waivers. (a) No amendment or modification of any of the provisions
of this Agreement shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the ABL
Agent and the Indenture Agent, and, in the case of amendments or modifications of Sections 4.5,
4.6, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7 and 11 (other than 11.4) that directly affect the rights or duties of any
Grantor, such Grantor.

     (b) It is understood that the ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent may in their discretion
determine that a supplemental agreement (which make take the form of an amendment and restatement
of this Agreement) is necessary or appropriate to facilitate having additional indebtedness or
other obligations (“Additional Debt”) of any of the Debtor Parties become ABL Obligations
or Indenture Obligations, as the case may be, under this Agreement, which supplemental agreement
shall specify whether such Additional Debt constitutes ABL Obligations or Indenture Obligations,
provided, that such Additional Debt is permitted to be incurred by the ABL Agreement and
Indenture then existing, and is permitted by said Agreements to be subject to the provisions of
this Agreement as ABL Obligations or Indenture Obligations, as applicable.

     11.4 Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Company and the other Debtor
Parties. The Indenture Agent and the ABL Agent hereby agree that no party shall have any duty
to advise any other party of information known to it regarding the financial condition of the
Company and each of the other Debtor Parties or any circumstances bearing upon the risk of
nonpayment of the ABL Obligations or the Indenture Obligations. In the event the Indenture Agent
or the ABL Agent, in its sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide
any information to any other party to this Agreement, it shall be under no obligation (a) to
provide any such information to such other party or any other party on any subsequent occasion, (b)
to undertake any investigation not a part of its regular business routine, or (c) to disclose any
other information.

     11.5 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and
interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, except as otherwise required by
mandatory provisions of law and except to the extent that remedies provided by the laws of any
jurisdiction other than the State of New York are governed by the laws of such jurisdiction.

     11.6 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers. (a) Each ABL Secured Party, each Indenture
Secured Party and each Grantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its
property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in
New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and
any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to
this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each such party hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding
may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, such Federal
court. Each such party agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other
manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that the any ABL Secured
Party or Indenture Secured Party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding against any
Grantor or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.

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     (b) Each ABL Secured Party, each Indenture Secured Party and each Grantor hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so (i) any
objection it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding
arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any court referred to in paragraph (a) of this
Section and (ii) the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or
proceeding.

     (c) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner
provided for notices in Section 11.7. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party
to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

     (d) WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES
TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREIN.

     11.7 Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties
hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and, unless otherwise expressly
provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered, or three business
days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when
received. For the purposes hereof, the addresses of the parties hereto (until notice of a change
thereof is delivered as provided in this Section) shall be as set forth below each party’s name on
the signature pages hereof, or, as to each party, at such other address as may be designated by
such party in a written notice to all of the other parties.

     11.8 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of each of the parties hereto and each of the ABL Secured Parties and Indenture Secured
Parties and their respective successors and assigns, and nothing herein is intended, or shall be
construed to give, any other Person any right, remedy or claim under, to or in respect of this
Agreement or any Common Collateral.

     11.9 Headings. Section headings used herein are for convenience of reference only,
are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into
consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

     11.10 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in
a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

     11.11 Other Remedies. For avoidance of doubt, it is understood that nothing in this
Agreement shall prevent any ABL Secured Party or any Indenture Secured Party from exercising any
available remedy to accelerate the maturity of any indebtedness or other obligations owing under
the ABL Documents or the Indenture Documents, as applicable, or to demand payment under any
guarantee in respect thereof.

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     11.12 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in
counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall
constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.
Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy or pdf shall
be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. This Agreement
shall become effective when it shall have been executed by each party hereto.

     11.13 Additional Debtor Parties. Each Person that becomes both (x) a Grantor under,
and as defined in, the ABL Security Documents, and (y) a Grantor under, and as defined in, the
Indenture Collateral Documents, in each case, after the date hereof shall become a party to this
Agreement as a “Grantor” hereunder upon execution and delivery by such Person of a Supplement (the
“Supplement”) in the form of Annex 1 to this Agreement. In addition, pursuant to Section
9.01 of the Indenture, the execution and delivery of the Supplement by the Collateral Agent shall
not require the consent of any Indenture Secured Party.

     11.14 Further Rights. In connection with its execution and acting hereunder, the
Indenture Agent is entitled to all rights, privileges, protections, immunities, benefits and
indemnities provided to it as Collateral Agent under the Indenture, all of which are incorporated
by reference herein, mutatis mutandis. In connection with its execution and acting
hereunder, the ABL Agent is entitled to all rights, privileges, protections, immunities, benefits
and indemnities provided to it as Agent under the ABL Agreement, all of which are incorporated by
reference herein, mutatis mutandis.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first
written above.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	HARRIS N.A., as ABL Agent for and on behalf of
the ABL Secured Parties	 	 
	 
	 

	 	By:	 	/s/ Craig Thistlethwaite 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Name: Craig Thistlethwaite
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Director 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	WILMINGTON TRUST FSB, solely in its capacity as
Indenture Agent for and on behalf of the Indenture
Secured Parties	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	/s/ Jane Schweiger 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Name: Jane Schweiger	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	

CPM HOLDINGS, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Chief Financial Officer 	 
	 
	 	

CPM ACQUISITION CORP.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Chief Financial Officer 	 
	 
	 	

CROWN ACQUISITION CORP.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Chief Financial Officer 	 
	 
	 	

CPM WOLVERINE PROCTOR, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Manager 	 
	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	

Attention:

Telecopy No.

 	 
	 
	 	CROWN IRON WORKS COMPANY

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Chief Financial Officer 	 
	 
	 	

CROWN BIOFUELS, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Chief Financial Officer 	 
	 
	 	

CPM SA, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Douglas Ostrich 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Authorized Signatory 	 
	 

 

 

ANNEX 1

SUPPLEMENT

     Supplement (this “Supplement”), dated as of ________________, _____, to the
Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2009 (as amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “Intercreditor Agreement”), by each of the
grantors listed on the signature pages thereto and those additional entities that thereafter become
Grantors, HARRIS N.A., as the ABL Agent, and WILMINGTON TRUST FSB, as the Indenture Agent

WITNESSETH:

     WHEREAS, CPM Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) has issued and
sold 10 5/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2014 in the aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 (the
“Initial Notes” and, together with all notes given in replacement or exchange therefor, the
“Notes”) to the initial purchasers as set forth in the Purchase Agreement, dated as of
August 11, 2009, by and among the Company, each of the other Grantors and Jefferies & Company,
Inc., as representative of the initial purchasers named therein;

     WHEREAS, the Company, the other Grantors and Wilmington Trust FSB, as trustee (the
“Trustee”) and Collateral Agent, have entered into that certain Indenture, dated as of
August 18, 2009 (as the same may from time to time be amended, modified, supplemented or restated,
the “Indenture”), in connection with the Notes;

     WHEREAS, capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor Agreement;

     WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 11.13 of the Intercreditor Agreement, each person that
becomes a Grantor must execute and deliver to the ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent the
Intercreditor Agreement, and the execution of the Intercreditor Agreement by the undersigned new
Grantor or Grantors (collectively, the “New Grantors”) may be accomplished by the execution
of this Supplement;

     NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the foregoing and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each New Grantor
hereby agrees as follows:

     1. In accordance with Section 11.13 of the Intercreditor Agreement, each New Grantor,
by its signature below, becomes a “Grantor” under the Intercreditor Agreement with the same force
and effect as if originally named therein as a “Grantor” and each New Grantor hereby agrees to all
of the terms and provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement applicable to it as a “Grantor”
thereunder. Each reference to a “Grantor” in the Intercreditor Agreement shall be deemed to
include each New Grantor. The Intercreditor Agreement is incorporated herein by reference.

     2. Each New Grantor represents and warrants to the ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent that this
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constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with
its terms, except as enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally and general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered
in a proceeding at law or in equity).

     3. This Supplement may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to
be an original, but all such separate counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
instrument. Delivery of a counterpart hereof by facsimile transmission or by e-mail transmission
shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.

     4. Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the Intercreditor Agreement shall remain in full
force and effect.

     5. This Supplement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State
of New York, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each New Grantor, the ABL Agent and the Indenture Agent have duly executed
this Supplement to the Intercreditor Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	NEW GRANTORS:	 	[Name of New Grantor]:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:
	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ABL AGENT:	 	HARRIS N.A., as ABL Agent	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:
	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	INDENTURE AGENT:	 	WILMINGTON TRUST FSB, as Indenture Agent	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:
	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

	 	 

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