Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;


          Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
          Officers




    Amendments to Chief Executive Officer Employment and Compensation Terms



On November 16, 2022 the Board of Directors approved amending the May 21, 2021
Employment and Compensation Agreement with the Company's President, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, Victor L.  Richey, in view of Mr. Richey's announced
retirement from those positions on December 31, 2022. Under the amended
agreement, which is expected to be executed before the end of December, Mr.
Richey will continue his employment with the title of Executive Chairman for a
term ending not lat er than December 31, 2023. Also, as previously announced,
Mr. Richey is expected to remain on the Board of Directors for an indefinite
period during 2023.



The amended agreement is expected to provide that beginning January 1, 2023, Mr.
Richey's base salary will be reduced to an annual rate of $650,000, and that he
will continue to participate in the Company's cash incentive program subject to
the 2023 performance metrics, with an initial annualized target cash incentive
of $959,500 to be prorated for the quarter ending December 31, 2022, and with a
reduced annualized target cash incentive of $487,500 to be prorated for the
period beginning January 1, 2023 and ending with the termination of his
employment.



The amended agreement is also expected to provide that in lieu of a fiscal 2023
Long-Term Equity Incentive (LTI) award, Mr. Richey will receive a one-time
transition Restricted Share Unit (RSU) award at the beginning of 2023 for a
number of shares valued at $1,500,000 divided by the Company's closing stock
price on the first trading day of January. This award will vest on December 31,
2023, subject to conditions similar to those under the Company's standard annual
RSU awards, and be distributed in shares at the beginning of 2024. Amounts equal
to dividends paid on a like number of shares will accrue and be paid in cash on
the distribution date.



             Executive Officers - Long-Term Equity Incentive Awards




On November 16, 2022 the Human Resources and Compensation Committee of the
Company's Board of Directors approved the fiscal 2023 awards of Performance
Share Units (PSUs) to the participants in the Company's LTI program (other than
Mr. Richey). The target number of shares in each PSU award equals the
Committee-approved target values divided by the 15-day average trading price of
the Company's stock. The actual payout of the PSUs will be in shares, whose
value at the time of payout may be greater or less than the target values. For
the executive officers and Mr. Sayler, the threshold, target and maximum numbers
of shares payable according to the performance criteria were as follows:



                                                         PSU Target

PSU Payout Potential (Shares)


                                                        Value as of    Threshold         Target      Maximum
Name and Title                                           Grant Date      (50%)           (100%)       (200%)
Bryan H. Sayler

Incoming (1/1/23) Chief Executive Officer & President   $    715,000        4,118          8,235       16,470
Christopher L. Tucker
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer         $    285,000        1,642          3,283        6,566
David M. Schatz
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary      $    147,750
  851          1,702        3,404




Other than the amounts, percentages of base salary and performance goals, the
terms of the fiscal 2023 PSUs are substantially similar to those of the fiscal
2022 PSUs; they will vest after a three-year performance period beginning with
fiscal 2023, at which time they will be converted into a currently
undeterminable number of shares of Company common stock, which may be less than
or greater than the number of PSUs awarded, within certain specified threshold
and maximum limits, depending on the degree to which the Company has achieved
one or more specified performance goals. If the performance is less than the
threshold goal for a particular performance measure, there will be no payout of
that portion of the PSUs dependent on that measure.



The Company performance measures for the fiscal 2023 PSUs are specified
Committee-approved targets for EBITDA (60%) and Return on Invested Capital
(40%), with the resulting number of shares subject to increase or decrease based
on the Company's Total Shareholder Return (TSR) over the performance period
compared to the TSR of the companies in a peer group based on the S&P 600
Industrials Index. If the Company's TSR is below the 25th percentile or above
the 75th percentile, the resulting number of shares will be decreased by 20% or
increased by 20%, respectively; if the Company's TSR is above the 25th
percentile and below the 75th percentile, no adjustment will be made.


Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal
          Year




                              Amendments to Bylaws

On November 16, 2022 the Company's Board of Directors approved amendments to the Company's Bylaws to become effective January 1, 2023. The amendments:

· Permit the Company to separate the offices of President and Chief Executive

Officer from the position of Board Chair, by providing that the Board Chair and

Vice Chair (if any) need not be corporate officers,

· Make certain changes relating to the solicitation of proxies pursuant to and

consistent with the SEC's Universal Proxy Rules;

· Add certain provisions regulating the conduct of meetings of shareholders, and

· Update certain terminology and eliminate unnecessary verbiage.

A complete copy of the Bylaws as amended is attached as Exhibit 3.1, and a copy marked to indicate additions and deletions is attached as Exhibit 3.2.




Item 8.01 Other Events




On November 22, 2022, consistent with the common stock repurchase program
adopted by the Board of Directors in August 2021, the Company extended for an
additional year the 10b5-1 plan originally approved in November 2021. Under the
terms of the extended plan, the Company's purchasing agent J.P. Morgan
Securities LLC will from time to time, when certain predetermined market price
or market conditions specified in the plan are met, but independently and
without specific direction or prior knowledge by the Company, purchase on behalf
of the Company shares of the Company's common stock, up to the specified
aggregate maximum purchase price. These terms will permit repurchases to occur
without violating the prohibitions of SEC Rule 10b-5, whether or not the Company
itself has become aware of material non-public information at the time of the
purchase.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits






(d)    Exhibits



Exhibit No.   Description of Exhibit
  3.1           Bylaws as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 2023
  3.2           Bylaws as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 2023,
              marked to indicate changes
104           Cover Page Inline Interactive Data File

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