---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-083785"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NOVT"
cik: "0001076930"
company_name: "NOVANTA INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T16:42:58.680060+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novanta announces restructuring plan with $20M-$25M pre-tax charges

## Summary
- Pre-tax charges estimated at $20M-$25M from employee-related costs, manufacturing moves, contract terminations, and asset write-offs.
- Plan aims to regionalize manufacturing, close certain sites, and streamline management; starts June 2025, completion within 18 months.
- Annualized savings of approximately $20M expected after plan is substantially completed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-083785
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NOVT
- cik: 0001076930
- company_name: NOVANTA INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017025083785/0000950170-25-083785-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017025083785/novt-20250603.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-083785
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-083785.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-083785.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  NOVANTA INC announced a restructuring with charges of approximately $20 million to $25 million.
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: approximately $20 million to $25 million
  source text: strategies in areas anticipated to have a minimal long-term impact on the Company's overall business performance. The Company estimates that it will incur approximately $20 million to $25 million in pre-tax charges in connection with the 2025 Restructuring Plan, consisting of employee-related costs, third-party manufacturing moving costs, contract
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1076930/000095017025083785/0000950170-25-083785-index.htm

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