Orion Lighting Secures New, Expanded $20.15 Million Revolving Credit Facility with Western Alliance Bank
October 30 2018 - 4:05PM
Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OESX) (Orion Lighting), a
provider of enterprise-grade LED lighting and energy project
solutions, announced today that it has secured a new two-year,
$20.15 million secured revolving Credit Facility with Western
Alliance Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance
Bancorporation (NYSE: WAL). The facility replaces the Company’s
$15.0 million secured revolving Credit and Security Agreement with
Wells Fargo Bank.
Borrowings under the Credit Facility are initially limited to
$20.15 million, subject to a borrowing base requirement based on
eligible receivables and inventory. The Credit Agreement also
includes a $2.0 million sublimit for the issuance of letters of
credit. More details regarding the Credit Facility are available in
the Company’s Form 8-K filed today.
Bill Hull, Orion’s CFO, commented, “Our new Credit Agreement
provides Orion with increased financing capacity and liquidity to
fund Orion’s operations and to support our growth goal.
Importantly, the new facility provides Orion with approximately
$2.4 million in additional current borrowing availability compared
to our prior agreement, which will help support our near-term
growth objectives. We are pleased to partner with Western Alliance
Bank as they have demonstrated a strong commitment to supporting
the needs of companies our size.”
About Orion Energy Systems, Inc.
(www.orionlighting.com)Orion is a provider of
enterprise-grade LED lighting and energy project solutions. Orion
manufactures and markets connected lighting systems encompassing
LED solid-state lighting and smart controls. Orion systems
incorporate patented design elements that deliver significant
energy, efficiency, optical and thermal performance that drive
financial, environmental, and work-space benefits for a wide
variety of customers, including nearly 40% of the Fortune 500.
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risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ
materially from those expected, including, but not limited to, the
following: (i) our ability to achieve our expected revenue growth,
gross margin, and EBITDA objectives in fiscal 2019 and beyond; (ii)
our ability to achieve profitability and positive cash flows; (iii)
our levels of cash and our limited borrowing capacity under our
revolving line of credit; (iv) the availability of additional debt
financing and/or equity capital; (v) our increasing emphasis on
selling more of our products through third party distributors and
sales agents, including our ability to attract and retain effective
third party distributors and sales agents to execute our sales
model; (vi) our ability to develop and participate in new product
and technology offerings or applications in a cost effective and
timely manner; (vii) our ability to manage the ongoing decreases in
the average selling prices of our products as a result of
competitive pressures in the evolving LED market; (viii) our
ability to manage our inventory and avoid inventory obsolescence in
a rapidly evolving LED market; (ix) our lack of major sources of
recurring revenue and the potential consequences of the loss of one
or more key customers or suppliers, including key contacts at such
customers; (x) our ability to adapt to increasing convergence in
the LED market; (xi) our ability to differentiate our products in a
highly competitive market; (xii) the deterioration of market
conditions, including our dependence on customers' capital budgets
for sales of products and services; (xiii) our ability to complete
and execute our strategy in a highly competitive market and our
ability to respond successfully to market competition; (xiv) our
increasing reliance on third parties for the manufacture and
development of products and product components; (xv) our ability to
successfully implement our strategy of focusing mainly on lighting
solutions using LED technologies; (xvi) the market acceptance of
our products and services; (xvii) our ability to realize expected
cost savings on the timetable and amounts expected from our cost
reduction initiatives; (xviii) adverse developments with respect to
litigation and other legal matters pursuant to which we are
subject, (xix) our failure to comply with the covenants in our
revolving credit agreement; (xx) our fluctuating quarterly results
of operations as we focus on new LED technologies and continue to
focus investing in our third party distribution sales channel;
(xxi) our ability to recruit, hire and retain talented individuals
in all disciplines of our company; (xxii) price fluctuations,
shortages or interruptions of component supplies and raw materials
used to manufacture our products; (xxiii) our ability to defend our
patent portfolio; (xxiv) a reduction in the price of electricity;
(xxv) the cost to comply with, and the effects of, any current and
future government regulations, laws and policies; (xxvi) potential
warranty claims in excess of our reserve estimates; (xxvii) our
inability to timely and effectively remediate any material
weaknesses in our internal control of financial reporting and/or
our failure to maintain an effective system of internal control
over financial reporting and (xxviii) the other risks described in
our filings with the SEC. Shareholders, potential investors and
other readers are urged to consider these factors carefully in
evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. The
forward-looking statements made herein are made only as of the date
of this press release and we undertake no obligation to publicly
update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. More detailed information
about factors that may affect our performance may be found in our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are
available at http://www.sec.gov or at http://investor.oriones.com/
in the Investor Relations section of our Website.
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Media & Investor Relations Bill Hull,
CFO Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (312)
660-3575
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