SPX (SPXC) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 23, 2022

Registration No. 333-        

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

SPX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

6325 Ardrey Kell Road, Suite 400

Charlotte, North Carolina 28277

(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

SPX RETIREMENT SAVINGS AND STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN

(Full title of the plans)

John W. Nurkin

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

6325 Ardrey Kell Road, Suite 400

Charlotte, NC 28277

(980) 474-3700

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

Copies to:

Doreen E. Lilienfeld

Shearman & Sterling LLP

599 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10022

(212) 848-7171

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.  (Check one):

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.            ¨

EXPLANATORY NOTE

SPX Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), is filing this registration statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) pursuant to, and in accordance with, General Instruction E of Form S-8 to register additional value for the issuance of shares of the Registrant pursuant to the SPX Retirement Savings and Stock Ownership Plan (the “Plan”).

SPX Corporation (“SPXC”) has earlier filed registration statements on Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-186817, 333-139351, 333-106897, 333-69252, 333-70245 and 333-29843) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on February 22, 2013, December 14, 2006, July 9, 2003, September 10, 2001, January 7, 1999, and June 23, 1997, respectively, each relating to the Plan (together, the “Earlier Registration Statements”). The Registrant subsequently filed post-effective amendments to the Earlier Registration Statements on Form S-8 as the successor issuer to SPXC in connection with the reorganization of SPXC into a new holding company structure.

In accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Earlier Registration Statements are hereby incorporated by reference. Only those items of this Registration Statement containing new information not contained in the Earlier Registration Statements are presented herein.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated by reference to this Registration Statement:

In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing or furnishing of such documents; provided, however, that information deemed to have been furnished and not filed shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein 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.

* Filed herewith.

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-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Charlotte, State of North Carolina, on August 23, 2022.

The Retirement Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Charlotte, State of North Carolina, on August 23, 2022.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Eugene J. Lowe, III and John W. Nurkin, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, 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, execute and file this Registration Statement and any amendments (including, without limitation, post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents required to be filed with respect therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any regulatory authority, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith and about the premises in order to effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his or her or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the indicated capacities on August 23, 2022.