---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001401257-24-000071"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "FET"
cik: "0001401257"
company_name: "FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, INC."
filed_at: "2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T16:57:16.328089+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forum Energy closes Variperm buy; files historical & pro forma financials

## Summary
- Acquisition completed Jan 4, 2024; Variperm became a wholly owned subsidiary of Forum.
- Variperm's cost of goods sold (inventories expensed) rose to $72.7M in 2022 from $31.1M in 2021.
- Variperm had a $30M CAD operating loan facility; no pandemic subsidies in 2022 vs $1.0M in 2021.
- Forum filed audited Variperm financials for 2021-2022 and unaudited nine-month Sept 2023 statements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001401257-24-000071
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: FET
- cik: 0001401257
- company_name: FORUM ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401257/000140125724000071/0001401257-24-000071-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401257/000140125724000071/fet-20240104.htm

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