---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-004012"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECL"
cik: "0000031462"
company_name: "ECOLAB INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T03:27:09.609269+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecolab enters $2.0B 5-year revolving credit facility maturing March 2030

## Summary
- Amends and restates existing $2.0B facility, extending maturity from April 2026 to March 2030.
- Includes $100M letter of credit subfacility and $75M swing line loan subfacility.
- Interest rates based on SOFR, EURIBOR, TIBOR, SONIA plus applicable margin tied to credit rating.
- Proceeds for general corporate purposes: share repurchases, debt repayment, acquisitions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-004012
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECL
- cik: 0000031462
- company_name: ECOLAB INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025004012/0001558370-25-004012-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025004012/ecl-20250324x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  ECOLAB INC. incurred revolving credit of $2.0 billion with Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and swing line bank at Term SOFR plus an applicable margin maturing March 2030.
  - Instrument: revolving credit
  - Principal: $2.0 billion
  - Counterparty: Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and swing line bank
  - Rate: Term SOFR plus an applicable margin
  - Maturity: March 2030
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On March 24, 2025, Ecolab Inc. (“Ecolab”) entered into a fourth amended and restated multicurrency credit agreement providing for a $2.0 billion unsecured 5-year revolving credit facility that matures in March 2030 (the “5-Year Facility”) among Ecolab, the lenders party thereto (the “Banks”), the issuing lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and swing line bank.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025004012/0001558370-25-004012-index.htm

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