As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 13, 2022
Registration No. 333-230447
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
ASCENT INDUSTRIES CO.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
57-0426694
(I.R.S. employer
Identification No.)
1400 16th Street, Suite 270
Oak Brook, IL 60523
(630) 884-9181
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Christopher G. Hutter
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ascent Industries Co. 1400 16th Street, Suite 270
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
(630) 884-9181
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including, area code, of agent for service)
With copies to:
Jeffrey R. Kesselman
Sherman & Howard L.L.C.
675 15th Street, Suite 2300
Denver, Colorado 80202
(303) 297-2900
Approximate date of commencement proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. This post-effective amendment removes from registration those securities that remain unsold pursuant to the registration statement..
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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES
Ascent Industries Co. (the “Company”) is filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) this post-effective amendment to deregister all unsold shares of common stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Registrant, previously registered under the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), together with any other unsold securities registered thereunder:
•Registration No. 333-230447 filed with the Commission on March 22, 2019 and declared effective on April 19, 2019, which registered $50,000,000 worth of the Company’s securities.
Pursuant to Rule 415(a)(5) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no additional sales under the Registration Statement could be made after the third anniversary of the effective date. Through April 19, 2022, the Company sold $10,010,063 of its securities under the Registration Statement. Accordingly, $39,989,937 of securities (the “Unsold Securities”) were not sold under the Registration Statement. Accordingly, in accordance with undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all of the Unsold Securities. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities


SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the County of DuPage, State of Illinois, on December 13, 2022.
Ascent Industries Co.
By:/s/ Christopher G. Hutter
Christopher G. Hutter
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement.