SEC Form POSASR filed by GrafTech International Ltd.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2025

Registration No. 333-265629

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

GRAFTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		27-2496053
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

982 Keynote Circle

Brooklyn Heights, OH 44131

(216) 676-2000

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Andrew J. Renacci

GrafTech International Ltd.

Interim Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

982 Keynote Circle

Brooklyn Heights, OH 44131

(216) 676-2000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

Kimberly J. Pustulka

Jones Day

901 Lakeside Avenue

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Phone: (216) 586-3939

Fax: (216) 579-0212

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This post-effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-265629 of the registrant filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2022 (the “Registration Statement”) hereby amends the Registration Statement to deregister any securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement and not otherwise sold thereunder.

In accordance with the registrant’s undertaking in Part II, Item 17 of the Registration Statement, the registrant is deregistering by means of this post-effective amendment any securities remaining unsold under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, GrafTech International Ltd. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Village of Brooklyn Heights, State of Ohio on February 14, 2025.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Timothy K. Flanagan Timothy K. Flanagan		Chief Executive Officer and President (Principal Executive Officer) and Director		February 14, 2025
/s/ Rory O’Donnell Rory O’Donnell		Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)		February 14, 2025
* Henry R. Keizer		Chairman and Director		February 14, 2025
* Michel J. Dumas		Director		February 14, 2025
* Debra Fine		Director		February 14, 2025
* Jean-Marc Germain		Director		February 14, 2025
* Anthony R. Taccone		Director		February 14, 2025

 

*	The undersigned, by signing his name hereto, does hereby sign this registration statement on behalf of each of the above-indicated directors of the registrant pursuant to powers of attorney executed by such directors.

 

Date: February 14, 2025				By:		/s/ Timothy K. Flanagan
				Name:		Timothy K. Flanagan
				Title:		Attorney-in-Fact