160,000,000 CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of August 18, 2004 among CERADYNE, INC. and CERADYNE ESK, LLC, as US Borrowers and Guarantors and ESK CERAMICS GMBH & CO. KG, as Foreign Borrower and Guarantor and THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN and THE...Credit Agreement • August 26th, 2004 • Ceradyne Inc • Miscellaneous manufacturing industries • New York
CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of August 18, 2004 among CERADYNE, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Ceradyne”), CERADYNE ESK, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ESK LLC”; and together with Ceradyne, the “US Borrowers”), ESK CERAMICS GMBH & CO. KG (“ESK KG” or the “Foreign Borrower”; and collectively with the US Borrowers, the “Borrowers”), CERADYNE, ESK LLC, ESK KG AND THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS (as hereinafter defined) as Guarantors, the banks, financial institutions and other lenders listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Lenders (the “Initial Lenders”), the bank listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Issuing Bank (the “Initial Issuing Bank”), the bank listed on the signature pages hereof as the provider of the Swing Line Facility (as hereafter defined) (the “Swing Line Bank” and, together with the Initial Issuing Bank and the Initial Lenders, the “Initial Lender Parties”), WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“Wachovia”), as collateral agent (together with
