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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-21-048765"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SCL"
cik: "0000094049"
company_name: "STEPAN CO"
filed_at: "2021-09-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T01:41:01.487196+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stepan issues $50M of 2.37% Senior Notes due Sept 2028

## Summary
- $50M aggregate principal of 2.37% Senior Notes, Series 2021-B, issued Sept 23, 2021.
- Maturity Sept 23, 2028; interest paid semi-annually.
- Principal amortization begins Sept 23, 2024, equal annual payments through Sept 23, 2027, then final balance.
- Notes issued under existing Note Purchase Agreement; subsidiary guaranty from Stepan Specialty Products and Stepan Surfactants Holdings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-21-048765
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SCL
- cik: 0000094049
- company_name: STEPAN CO
- filed_at: 2021-09-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000156459021048765/0001564590-21-048765-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/94049/000156459021048765/scl-8k_20210923.htm

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