---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001171843-25-007776"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HBIO"
cik: "0001123494"
company_name: "HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC"
filed_at: "2025-12-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T14:12:10.404626+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Harvard Bioscience on track to refinance or repay credit agreement in Q4 2025

## Summary
- Company in ongoing discussions to refinance or repay its existing credit agreement dated December 22, 2020.
- Credit agreement involves Citizens Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company.
- Refinancing or repayment expected to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2025.
- No financial details or terms of the refinancing have been disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001171843-25-007776
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HBIO
- cik: 0001123494
- company_name: HARVARD BIOSCIENCE INC
- filed_at: 2025-12-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123494/000117184325007776/0001171843-25-007776-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1123494/000117184325007776/f8k_120525.htm

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