Astec Industries (ASTE) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2021.

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ASTEC INDUSTRIES, INC.

1725 Shepherd Road

Astec Industries, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

(a)          The documents containing the information specified in Part I of this Registration Statement will be sent or given to participants in the Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).  These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this registration statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this form, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

(b)          Upon written or oral request, the Company will provide, without charge, the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement.  The documents are incorporated by reference in the Section 10(a) prospectus.  The Company will also provide, without charge, upon written or oral request, other documents required to be delivered to participants pursuant to Rule 428(b).  Requests for the above-mentioned information should be directed to Anshu Pasricha, the Company’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, at the address and telephone number on the cover of this Registration Statement.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.          Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

(1)          The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the Commission on March 1, 2021;

(2)          The Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K (excluding any information and exhibits furnished under Item 2.02 or 7.01 thereof) filed with the Commission on March 1, 2021, March 1, 2021 and March 11, 2021;

(3)          All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since December 31, 2020 (except to the extent any parts of such reports were deemed furnished and not filed in accordance with SEC rules);

(4)          The description of the Common Stock contained in the Company's Registration Statement filed under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description; and

(5)          All other documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities that remain unsold.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purpose of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated herein by reference modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.          Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5.          Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6.          Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

As permitted under Tennessee law, the Company's Charter provides that a director shall not be personally liable to the Company or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except that such provision does not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (a) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or its shareholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, or (c) for unlawful corporate distributions.

Under its Bylaws, the Company may indemnify and advance expenses to its current and former directors and officers with respect to certain liabilities incurred as a result of any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative and whether formal or informal, to which such person is a party because he is or was a director or officer of the Company.  The liabilities that may be indemnified against include the obligations to pay judgments, fines, penalties, amounts paid in settlement, and reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees, incurred with respect to a proceeding.  Any such indemnification is predicated upon the proposed indemnitee having met the standard of conduct specified in the Tennessee Business Corporation Act.  Determination concerning whether or not the applicable standard of conduct has been met can be made by (a) the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of disinterested directors, (b) a majority vote of a committee of disinterested directors, (c) special legal counsel, or (d) an affirmative vote of a majority of shares held by the disinterested shareholders.  No indemnification shall be made to or on behalf of a director (i) in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the Company in which the director was adjudged liable to the Company, or (ii) in connection with any other proceeding in which the director was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him.  The Company's Bylaws also permit the Company to indemnify or advance expenses to its employees and agents to the same extent as to a director or officer.

Item 7.          Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8.          Exhibits.

Except as indicated below as being incorporated by reference to another filing with the Commission by the Company, the following exhibits to this registration statement are being filed herewith:

Item 9.          Undertakings.

(a)          The undersigned Company hereby undertakes:

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8, or Form F-3 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

(b)          The undersigned Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Company’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chattanooga, State of Tennessee, on April 27, 2021.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Anshu Pasricha and Jamie E. Palm, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.