(Source: Business Wire)
GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR) ("GT Solar" or the "Company") today announced the filing of a resale shelf registration statement on Form Sâ3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on behalf of a selling stockholder. The selling stockholder is GT Solar Holdings, LLC ("Holdings"). Investment funds managed by GFI Energy Ventures LLC and Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. are the managing members and principal shareholders of GT Solar Holdings, LLC. Holdings owns approximately 106 million shares of GT Solar common stock. The registration statement was filed pursuant to the exercise of a demand registration right received by the Company from Holdings under a registration rights agreement.
After the resale shelf registration statement has been declared effective by the SEC, up to an aggregate amount of 105,538,149 shares of common stock may be offered. The amounts and prices will be set forth in a subsequent filing made with the SEC at the time of each offering. Any offer to sell, or solicitation of an offer to buy securities, if and when such offer is made, will be pursuant to a prospectus or a prospectus supplement that will be issued with respect to any such offering.
The resale shelf registration statement has been filed with the SEC but is not yet effective. The securities registered under the resale shelf registration statement may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About GT Solar International, Inc.
GT Solar International, Inc. is a leading global provider of specialized manufacturing equipment and services essential for the production of photovoltaic wafers, cells and modules and polysilicon. The Company's principal products are directional solidification systems, or "DSS" units, and chemical vapor deposition, or "CVD," reactors and related equipment. DSS units are specialized furnaces used to melt polysilicon and cast multicrystalline ingots from which solar wafers are made. CVD reactors are used to react gases at high temperatures and pressures to produce polysilicon, the key raw material used in solar cells. The Company's customers include several of the world's largest solar companies as well as companies in the chemical industry.
