UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 5, 2011

 

Commission File Number: 1-9852

 

CHASE CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

26 Summer Street, Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02324

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

 

(508) 279-1789

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

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Section 2 — Financial Information

 

Item 2.05 — Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities

 

On October 5, 2011, Chase Corporation (the “Company”) announced to its employees the planned closing of its Randolph, MA manufacturing facility effective December 1, 2012.  This is in line with the Company’s ongoing efforts to consolidate its manufacturing plants and streamline its existing processes. The manufacturing of products previously produced in the Randolph, MA facility will be transitioned to other Company facilities over the course of a 15 month transition period.  The Company estimates total pre-tax charges of approximately $700,000 associated with these facility closing activities which will be recognized over the course of the transition period.  Of this amount, severance and other employee related costs are estimated to be $550,000.  The Company expects the transition to be substantially completed and the majority of these cash expenditures to be incurred in the first quarter of fiscal 2013.

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

	Chase Corporation
Dated: October 12, 2011	By:	/s/ Kenneth L. Dumas
		Kenneth L. Dumas
		Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

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