As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 21, 2022

Registration No. 333-235501

 

 

 

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

 

 

FORTERRA, INC.

(Exact Name of the Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware		37-1830464
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

511 East John Carpenter Freeway, 6th Floor

Irving, TX 75062

(469) 458-7973

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

David T. Jones

Chief Financial Officer

Forterra, Inc.

511 East John Carpenter Freeway, 6th Floor

Irving, TX 75062

(469) 458-7973

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. The Registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to remove from registration any securities registered hereunder that remain unsold.

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TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD COMMON STOCK

Forterra, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), is filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) this post-effective amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) to deregister all shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Registrant (the “Shares”), previously registered under the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), together with any other securities registered thereunder:

 

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Registration No. 333-235501, filed with the Commission on December 13, 2019, registering 45,107,250 Shares, which was declared effective on December 27, 2019.

Pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 19, 2021, by and among the Registrant, Quikrete Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Jordan Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statement and, in accordance with undertaking made by the Registrant 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, hereby removes and withdraws from registration all securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof. 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, as amended, 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 City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on March 18, 2022.

 

Pursuant to 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.