Skip to main content
Ecolab8-K: Debt refinancing

Ecolab secures $4.75B credit facility to fund acquisition of Frigeo Holdings.

What happened

Ecolab is raising significant capital to acquire Frigeo Holdings, creating a major integration event.

Source

SEC EDGARApr 15, 2026

Current report (Form 8-K)

Ecolab 8-K

Filing excerpt

On April 10, 2026, Ecolab Inc. (“Ecolab”) entered into a term credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with various financial institutions, as lenders, and Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent, providing for a $4.75 billion unsecured committed delayed draw term loan credit facility.

sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000110465926043821/ecl-20260410x8k.htmRead the full source

Other signals in this filing (2)

Extracted by Autobound

From the Signal API record
Signal
8-K: Debt refinancing

What this signalsFilings often name leadership changes, deals and spending plans.

Form
8-K
Filed
Apr 15, 2026

The full record

From the Signal API record

Numbers

Dollar figure
$4.8B (Unsecured committed delayed draw term loan credit facility to finance the acquisition of Frigeo Holdings LLC.)

Details

CIK
31462
Accession number
0001104659-26-043821
Timeframe
Immediate
Filing year
2026
Why it matters
Capital available or pressure
Signal category
Financial

Topics and mentions

Vendors

  • Citibank
  • N.A.
  • KKR Frigeo Aggregator L.P.

Vendors named

  • Citibank, N.A.
  • KKR Frigeo Aggregator L.P.

Extraction

Confidence
High
Relevance
90%
Sentiment
Neutral
Detected
Apr 21, 2026
signal_type
sec-8k
signal_subtype
debtRefinancing

Use this data

Get every 8-K signal for Ecolab and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.

  1. Ask Claude about it

    Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Ecolab this week?”

  2. Send it to your own tools

    The Signal API returns 8-K signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.

  3. Try it free

    Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.

    Start Free1,000 free credits

The API returns more than this page shows

This page shows a preview. The full sec-8k record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.

Company

  • linkedin_urlValue in the API
  • industriesValue in the API
  • employee_count_lowValue in the API
  • employee_count_highValue in the API
  • revenueValue in the API
  • descriptionValue in the API

Signal

  • signal_nameValue in the API
  • associationValue in the API
Show the full JSONThe record on this page and the API request

GET /v1/signals/aba648a3-e7ca-4c1d-b56b-348a214ba50f returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for ecolab.com.

{
  "signal_id": "aba648a3-e7ca-4c1d-b56b-348a214ba50f",
  "signal_type": "sec-8k",
  "signal_subtype": "debtRefinancing",
  "detected_at": "2026-04-21T07:28:42.626+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Ecolab",
    "domain": "ecolab.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "detail": "Ecolab is raising significant capital to acquire Frigeo Holdings, creating a major integration event. This M&A activity often necessitates consolidating systems, processes, and vendors, opening opportunities for new solutions to drive synergies and manage the combined entity.",
    "metrics": {
      "timeframe": "immediate",
      "dollar_context": "Unsecured committed delayed draw term loan credit facility to finance the acquisition of Frigeo Holdings LLC.",
      "dollar_millions": 4750
    },
    "summary": "Ecolab secures $4.75B credit facility to fund acquisition of Frigeo Holdings.",
    "excerpts": "On April 10, 2026, Ecolab Inc. (“Ecolab”) entered into a term credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with various financial institutions, as lenders, and Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent, providing for a $4.75 billion unsecured committed delayed draw term loan credit facility.",
    "relevance": 0.9,
    "sentiment": "neutral",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000110465926043821/ecl-20260410x8k.htm",
    "filing_date": "2026-04-15",
    "filing_year": 2026,
    "sales_relevance": "Capital available or pressure",
    "signal_category": "financial",
    "vendors_mentioned": [
      "Citibank, N.A.",
      "KKR Frigeo Aggregator L.P."
    ]
  }
}

Long text fields are shortened on this page.

Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.