---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001597672-25-000016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RYAM"
cik: "0001597672"
company_name: "RAYONIER ADVANCED MATERIALS INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T03:16:32.842128+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RYAM shareholders elect all three director nominees, reject board declassification and supermajority elimination

## Summary
- Lisa M. Palumbo, Ivona Smith, and Bryan D. Yokley elected to board for terms expiring 2028.
- Proposal to declassify board failed: 44.3M for, 274,927 against, 30,102 abstain.
- Proposal to eliminate supermajority voting provisions failed: 44.2M for, 462,741 against.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 43.8M for, 838,681 against.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton as auditor for 2025 passed: 55.0M for, 474,954 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001597672-25-000016
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RYAM
- cik: 0001597672
- company_name: RAYONIER ADVANCED MATERIALS INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1597672/000159767225000016/0001597672-25-000016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1597672/000159767225000016/ryam-20250514.htm

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