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Report No. : |
342014 |
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Report Date : |
23.09.2015 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
C&D TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
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Registered Office : |
1400 Union Meeting Road, Ste 110, Blue Bell, PA 19422 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Date of Incorporation : |
18.11.1985 |
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Legal Form : |
Corporation – Profit |
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Line of Business : |
Manufactures and markets systems for the power conversion and storage of
electrical power, including industrial batteries and electronics. |
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No. of Employees : |
1,500 |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
Ba |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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41-55 |
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Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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Status : |
Satisfactory |
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Payment Behaviour : |
Slow but correct |
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Litigation : |
Exist |
NOTES:
Any query related to this report can be made
on e-mail: infodept@mirainform.com
while quoting report number, name and date.
ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31, 2015
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2014) |
Current Rating (31.03.2015) |
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United States |
A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low |
A2 |
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Moderate |
B1 |
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High |
B2 |
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Very High |
C1 |
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Restricted |
C2 |
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Off-credit |
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UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $54,800. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers, pharmaceuticals, and medical, aerospace, and military equipment; however, their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. Based on a comparison of GDP measured at Purchasing Power Parity conversion rates, the US economy in 2014, having stood as the largest in the world for more than a century, slipped into second place behind China, which has more than tripled the US growth rate for each year of the past four decades.
In the US, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets.
Long-term problems for the US include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits.
The onrush of technology has been a driving factor in the gradual development of a "two-tier" labor market in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers such as China, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the return to capital. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income.
Imported oil accounts for nearly 55% of US consumption and oil has a major impact on the overall health of the economy. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008.
The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, making this the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012, the federal government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP.
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through 2014, the direct costs of the wars totaled more than $1.5 trillion, according to US Government figures. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries.
In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million American citizens by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on health care - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010.
In July 2010, the president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight.
In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short term rates near zero until unemployment dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2.5%. In late 2013, the Fed announced that it would begin scaling back long-term bond purchases to $75 billion per month in January 2014 and reduce them further as conditions warranted; the Fed ended the purchases during the summer of 2014. In 2014, the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, and continued to fall to 5.5% by mid-2015, the lowest rate of joblessness since before the global recession began; inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt as a share of GDP continued to decline, following several years of increase.
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Source
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Company name: C&D TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Address: 1400 Union Meeting Road, Ste 110,
Blue Bell, PA 19422 – USA
Mailing address: PO Box
3053, Blue Bell, PA 19422 – USA
Telephone: +1
215-619-2700
Fax: +1 215-619-7899
Website: www.cdtechno.com
Corporate ID#: 2075987
State: Delaware
Judicial form: Corporation – Profit
Date incorporated: 11-18-1985
Stock: -
Value: -
Name of manager: Armand
LAUZON Jr.
Business:
C&D Technologies, Inc., a technology company, manufactures and
markets systems for the power conversion and storage of electrical power,
including industrial batteries and electronics.
It offers VLA (flooded) batteries, VRLA batteries, lithium ion systems,
power electronics, and integrated power systems battery monitoring systems,
battery racks and cabinets, and spill containment and safety products for
regulating and monitoring power flow and providing backup power in the event of
a primary power loss or interruption.
Its products are used for date center uninterruptible power supply
(UPS), emergency lighting, security systems, telecom-switching, base stations
BTS, cable television, energy-power plants, nuclear, hybrid generation,
infrastructure-public, transportation, and oil and gas applications.
The company serves customers in telecommunications, energy and
infrastructure, UPS, switchgear and control, cable, broadband, and
solar/renewable energy markets.
It offers its products through manufacturer representatives and
distributors in North America and internationally; and exports to Europe,
America, Australia, and the Asia Pacific area.
The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Blue Bell,
Pennsylvania with additional locations in Attica, Indiana; Leola, Pennsylvania;
Dunlap, Tennessee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Mississauga, Canada; Shanghai, China;
and Reynosa, Mexico.
Office
of the Foreign Assets Control (OFAC):
The company is not listed on the OFAC list.
The Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List is a publication of OFAC
which lists individuals and organizations with whom United States citizens and
permanent residents are prohibited from doing business.
No name of foreign suppliers available.
EIN: 13-3314599
Staff: 1,500
Operations & branches:
At the headquarters, we find the corporate office.
The Company maintains branches located:
200 W. Main Street
Attica, Indiana 47918
200 Precision Drive, Suite 150
Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044
900 East Keefe Ave.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212
6665 Millcreek Dr. Unit 3
Mississauga, Ontario L5N 5M4 Canada
No 55 Liandu Road
Spark Development Zone, FengXian District
Shanghai, China, 201419
Ave. Industrial del Norte S/N
Lote 6, Manzana 9
Reynosa, Tamaulipas Mexico
Shareholders:
ANGELO GORDON & CO. LP
245 Park Avenue, NY 10167
(investment company)
Management:

Armand F. Lauzon, Jr. has been Chief Executive Officer and President at
C&D Technologies, Inc. since February 24, 2015.
Mr. Lauzon's experience in manufacturing has spanned two continents.
He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Chromalloy Gas Turbine LLC
since October 2011. Mr. Lauzon served as President of Chromalloy Gas Turbine
LLC until October 2011. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Sequa
Corporation since January 1, 2009 and Chromalloy France SA since October 2011.
He served as the President of Chromalloy France SA from 2008 to October 2011.
Mr. Lauzon served as Senior Vice President of Wyman, Gordon Forgings, West of
Precision Castparts Corp. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Sequa Corp.
since July 7, 2008.
Mr. Lauzon served as an Acting Chief Executive Officer of Chromalloy Gas
Turbine LLC, a subsidiary of Sequa Corp. since July 7, 2008. He served as the
Chief Executive Officer of Firth Rixson Aerospace Components (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
(also known as Firth Rixson Aerospace Components Co., Ltd.). He served as the
Chief Executive Officer of John Maneely Company (JMC) of Wheatland Tube Company
until April 2008. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Firth Rixson
Limited. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Commonwealth Center For Advanced
Manufacturing. He served as the Chairman of Firth Rixson Limited since April
2006. He served as the Chairman of John Maneely Company since April 2008. He
serves as a Member of the Board of Governors at Aerospace Industries
Association. He served as a Director of Sequa Corp and Firth Rixson Limited.
Mr. Lauzon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of
Massachusetts and an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.
Charbel Louis KARAM is Executive Vice President.
Subsidiaries and
partnership:
N/A
In United States, privately
held corporations are not required to publish any financials.
On a direct call, nobody
was available to answer our questions.
We sent a fax but no answer
received.
Outside sources (bank) gave
estimate sales for year 2014 in the range of
USD 300,000,000=
The business is profitable.
Banks: PNC Bank
Legal filings
& complaints:
State: Illinois
Case number: 1:12-cv-03376
Plaintiff: C&C Power, Inc.
Defendant: C&D Technologies, Inc. et al
Robert M. Dow, Jr, presiding
Date filed: 05/03/2012
Date of last filing: 01/29/2015
Cause: Patent infringement
State: Illinois
Case number: 1:13-cv-09074
Plaintiff: Associated Rep, Inc.
Defendant: C&D Technologies, Inc.
Robert M. Dow, Jr, presiding
Date filed: 12/19/2013
Date of last filing: 09/18/2015
State: Pennsylvania
Case number: 2:12-cv-00907-GP
Plaintiff: Donald Palmer
Defendant: C&D TECHNOLOGIES
GENE E.K. PRATTER, presiding
Date filed: 02/22/2012
Date of last filing: 09/11/2015
Secured
debts summary (UCC):
None