LONG-TERM DEBT |
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| Debt Disclosure [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DEBT | NOTE 12 — DEBT Debt, including the revolving credit facility as of March 31, 2026 and 2025 consisted of the following (dollars in thousands):
Revolving Credit Agreement On December 29, 2020, Orion entered into a Loan and Security Agreement with Bank of America, N.A., as lender (the “Credit Agreement”). The Credit Agreement provides for a five-year $25.0 million revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) that, as of March 31, 2026, was scheduled to mature on June 30, 2027. Borrowings under the Credit Facility are subject to a borrowing base requirement based on eligible receivables, inventory and cash. As of March 31, 2026, the borrowing base of the Credit Facility supports $15.6 million of availability, with $12.6 million remaining availability subject to a $0.5 million availability block, net of $3.0 million borrowed. The Credit Agreement is secured by a first lien security interest in substantially all of Orion’s assets. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement are permitted in the form of Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR") or prime rate-based loans and generally bear interest at floating rates plus an applicable margin determined by reference to Orion’s availability under the Credit Agreement. Among other fees, Orion is required to pay an annual facility fee and a fee on the unused portion of the Credit Facility. The Credit Agreement includes a springing minimum fixed cost coverage ratio of 1.0 to 1.0 when excess availability under the Credit Facility falls below $4.0 million of the committed facility. Currently, the required springing minimum fixed cost coverage ratio is not required. The Credit Agreement also contains customary events of default and other covenants, including certain restrictions on Orion’s ability to incur additional indebtedness, consolidate or merge, enter into acquisitions, pay any dividend or distribution on Orion’s stock, redeem, retire or purchase shares of Orion’s stock, make investments or pledge or transfer assets. If an event of default under the Credit Agreement occurs and is continuing, then the lender may cease making advances under the Credit Agreement and declare any outstanding obligations under the Credit Agreement to be immediately due and payable. In addition, if Orion becomes the subject of voluntary or involuntary proceedings under any bankruptcy or similar law, then any outstanding obligations under the Credit Agreement will automatically become immediately due and payable. Effective November 4, 2022, Orion, with Bank of America, N.A. as lender, executed Amendment No. 1 to its Credit Agreement. The primary purpose of the amendment was to include the assets of the acquired subsidiaries, Stay-Lite Lighting and Voltrek, as secured collateral under the Credit Agreement and to document the conversion from LIBOR to SOFR based loans. Accordingly, eligible assets of Stay-Lite and Voltrek will be included in the borrowing base calculation for the purpose of establishing the monthly borrowing availability under the Credit Agreement. The amendment also clarifies that the earnout liabilities associated with the Stay-Lite and Voltrek transactions are permitted under the Credit Agreement and that the expenses recognized in connection with those earnouts should be added back in the computation of EBITDA, as defined, under the Credit Agreement. Effective April 22, 2024, Orion, with Bank of America, N.A. as lender, executed Amendment No. 2 to its Credit Agreement (“Amendment No. 2”). The primary purpose of Amendment No. 2 was to add a $3.525 million mortgage loan facility to the Credit Agreement secured by Orion’s office headquarters property in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Amendment No. 2 also broadened the definition of receivables to encompass government receivables as being eligible to be included in Orion’s borrowing base calculation for the purpose of establishing Orion’s monthly borrowing availability under the Credit Agreement. Quarterly installments of $88,125 are due on the first day of each fiscal quarter. Effective October 30, 2024, Orion, with Bank of America, N.A. as lender, executed Amendment No. 3 ("Amendment No. 3") to its Credit Agreement. The primary purpose of Amendment No. 3 was to extend the maturity date of the Credit Facility from December 29, 2025 to June 30, 2027. As of March 31, 2026, Orion was in compliance with all debt covenants. Aggregate Maturities As of March 31, 2026, aggregate maturities of debt, including the revolving credit facility were as follows (dollars in thousands):
Effective on June 23, 2025, Orion entered into a binding term sheet (the “Initial Term Sheet”) with Final Frontier, LLC (“Final Frontier”) and its owner Kathleen Connors (“Ms. Connors”), the prior owner of Voltrek, with respect to Orion’s remaining earnout obligations owed to Final Frontier pursuant to that certain Membership Interest Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 5, 2022, entered into by and among us and Final Frontier and Ms. Connors (the “MIPA”), pursuant to which Orion acquired Voltrek on October 5, 2022. Pursuant to the Initial Term Sheet, on August 1, 2025, Orion paid Final Frontier $500,000, and on September 2, 2025, Orion paid an additional $375,000, in full and final payment of its fiscal 2024 Voltrek acquisition earnout obligations. Additionally, pursuant to the Initial Term Sheet, on July 16, 2025, Orion issued $1.0 million in common stock of Orion, constituting 164,908 shares, to Kathleen Connors and the Kathleen M. Connors 2019 Revocable Trust in partial payment of Orion’s fiscal 2025 and aggregate fiscal 2023 through fiscal 2025 Voltrek acquisition earnout obligations. On July 31, 2025, Orion entered into an amendment to the Initial Term Sheet (the “Term Sheet Amendment”, and together with the Initial Term Sheet, the “Term Sheet”), pursuant to which Orion agreed with Final Frontier to pay the remainder of the finally determined remaining amount of Orion’s fiscal 2025 Voltrek acquisition earnout obligations (the “Remaining Earnout Amount”) pursuant to a subordinated loan agreement, entered into by Orion, as borrower, Great Lakes Energy Technologies, LLC (“Great Lakes”), Clean Energy Solutions, LLC (“Clean Energy”), Orion Asset Management, LLC (“Asset Management”), Orion Technologies Ventures, LLC (“Orion Technology”, and together with Voltrek, Clean Energy, Asset Management and Orion Technology, the “Company Subsidiaries”) and Voltrek, as guarantors, and Final Frontier, as lender (the “Subordinated Loan Agreement”). In addition, Orion and Final Frontier agreed to submit the final determination of its Remaining Earnout Amount to binding arbitration. Orion’s obligation to pay the Remaining Earnout Amount was further evidenced by a Senior Subordinated Note. On September 30, 2025, in order to secure Orion’s obligations to Final Frontier under the Subordinated Loan Agreement and Senior Subordinated Note, Orion, the Company Subsidiaries and Final Frontier entered into a security agreement (the “Security Agreement”), pursuant to which Orion and each Company Subsidiary granted Final Frontier a security interest in, and lien upon, substantially all of Orion’s and each Company Subsidiary’s assets, which security interest and lien were subordinated pursuant to the Subordination Agreement (as defined below) to the first priority security interest and lien of Bank of America. Additionally, on September 30, 2025, Orion, the Company Subsidiaries, Final Frontier and Bank of America, entered into a subordination and intercreditor agreement (the “Subordination Agreement”), pursuant to which Orion and the Company Subsidiaries’ obligations under the Subordinated Loan Agreement and Senior Subordinated Note and liens granted under the Security Agreement were subordinated to Orion’s credit facilities with Bank of America, as set forth in more detail in the Subordination Agreement. In connection with Orion’s entry into the Subordinated Loan Agreement, Senior Subordinated Note, Security Agreement and Subordination Agreement, on September 30, 2025, Orion, the Company Subsidiaries and Bank of America entered into an Amendment No. 4 to its Credit Agreement (“Amendment No. 4”), pursuant to which Bank of America consented to the subordinated liens granted by Orion and the Company Subsidiaries in favor of Final Frontier and consented to the Remaining Earnout Amount evidenced by the Subordinated Loan Agreement, subject to: (a) a maximum amount of up $3.0 million following the final determination in binding arbitration of the Remaining Earnout Amount or (b) such higher amount as consented to in writing by Bank of America promptly following its receipt of notice of the binding arbitration decision. In addition, Amendment No. 4 permitted Orion to make the cash interest and principal payments to Final Frontier as set forth in the Subordinated Loan Agreement, subject to the terms set forth in Amendment No. 4 and the Subordination Agreement. Voltrek Earnout Settlement On March 17, 2026, Orion entered into the Settlement Agreement with Connors Parties, in order to reach a final and complete resolution and settlement of the dispute between the Connors Parties and Orion regarding Orion’s remaining Voltrek acquisition earnout obligations, as well as to reach a final and complete resolution and settlement of related arbitrations and terminate related agreements, as described below. Pursuant to the MIPA and the Term Sheet, Orion and the Connors Parties submitted the earnout statement dispute to CPA firm arbitration (the “CPA Firm Arbitration”). The Connors Parties asserted that the remaining earn out payments owed by Orion totaled approximately $10 million. Orion’s position was that Orion owed the Connors Parties an additional $1.4 million. The CPA arbitrators determined that Orion owed an additional $3.4 million of earnout payments. Subsequently, Orion filed an arbitration demand with the American Arbitration Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin against the Connors Parties in order to object to the CPA firm’s decision of the earnout statement dispute as manifest error (the “AAA Arbitration”). By entering into the Settlement Agreement, Orion and the Connors Parties agreed to a final and complete resolution and settlement of the CPA Firm Arbitration and the AAA Arbitration, a final and complete resolution and settlement of the earnout statement dispute, termination of the MIPA, termination of all related earnout agreements, including the Subordinated Loan Agreement, the Senior Subordinated Note, the Security Agreement and the Subordination Agreement, and termination of any and all claims and counterclaims between or among Orion and the Connors Parties, without any admission of liability and without incurring of any further payment, cost, liability, obligation, guaranty, expense or inconvenience with respect thereto. Under the terms of the Settlement Agreement, the Company made a one-time cash payment of the Settlement Amount to Final Frontier on March 18, 2026. Upon receipt of the Settlement Amount, all earn out payment obligations, the MIPA, all earnout agreements, the CPA Firm Arbitration and the AAA Arbitration proceedings were terminated, cancelled and released, and all liens and security interests held by Final Frontier on Orion’s assets were automatically terminated and irrevocably released. Additionally, upon payment of the Settlement Amount, Orion and the Connors Parties exchanged mutual general releases of all claims arising from or related to the earnout disputes, the CPA Firm Arbitration and the AAA Arbitration proceedings, the MIPA and the related earnout agreements. The releases did not affect Ms. Connors’ then part-time employment relationship with Orion or the Connors Parties’ rights as shareholders of Orion. Orion also agreed to facilitate the Connors Parties’ entry into a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan during Orion’s next insider open window period to facilitate the Connors Parties’ sale of their shares of Orion’s common stock. |
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