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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

OR

Commission File Number 1-11442

CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (440) 753-1490

Not Applicable
(Former Name, Former Address and Former Fiscal Year, if Changed Since Last Report)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No x

At September 30, 2002, there were 25,244,152 outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value $.01 per share.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

The balance sheet at December 31, 2001 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for complete financial statements.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED)
(Dollars and shares in thousands, except per share amounts)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)
(Dollars in thousands)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements — September 30, 2002
(Dollars and shares in thousands, except per share amounts)

NOTE A — Basis of Preparation

         The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of Chart Industries, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. Operating results for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2002 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2002. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001.

         Nature of Operations: The Company is a leading global supplier of standard and custom-engineered products and systems serving a wide variety of low-temperature and cryogenic applications. The Company has developed an expertise in cryogenic systems and equipment, which operate at low temperatures sometimes approaching absolute zero. The majority of the Company’s products, including vacuum-insulated containment vessels, heat exchangers, cold boxes and other cryogenic components, are used throughout the liquid-gas supply chain for the purification, liquefaction, distribution, storage and use of industrial gases and hydrocarbons. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the Company has domestic operations located in 11 states and international operations located in Australia, China, the Czech Republic, Germany and the United Kingdom.

         Use of Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

         Revenue Recognition: For the majority of the Company’s products, revenue is recognized when products are shipped, title has transferred and collection is reasonably assured. For these products, there is also persuasive evidence of an arrangement, and the selling price to the buyer is fixed or determinable. For product lines in the Process Systems and Equipment segment, engineered tanks and liquefied natural gas fueling stations, the Company uses the percentage of completion method of accounting. Earned revenue is based on the percentage that incurred costs to date bear to total estimated costs at completion after giving effect to the most current estimates. The cumulative impact of revisions in total cost estimates during the progress of work is reflected in the period in which these changes become known. Earned revenue reflects the original contract price adjusted for agreed upon claims and change orders, if any. Losses expected to be incurred on contracts in process, after consideration of estimated minimum recoveries from claims and change orders, are charged to operations as soon as such losses are known.

NOTE B — Accounting Changes

         Effective January 1, 2002, the Company adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 141, “Business Combinations,” and SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets,” which establish financial accounting and reporting for acquired goodwill and other intangible assets and supersede Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 16, “Business Combinations,” and APB Opinion No. 17, “Intangible Assets.” Under SFAS No. 142, goodwill and indefinite lived intangible assets are no longer amortized but are reviewed at least annually for impairment. Intangible assets that have finite useful lives will continue to be amortized over their useful lives.

         SFAS No. 142 requires that indefinite lived intangible assets be tested for impairment and that goodwill be tested for impairment at the reporting unit level at the date of adoption and at least annually thereafter. The company determines the fair value of any indefinite lived intangible assets, compares the fair value to its carrying value and records an impairment loss if the carrying value exceeds its fair value. Goodwill is tested utilizing a two-step approach. After recording any impairment losses for indefinite lived intangible assets, the company is required to determine the fair value of each reporting unit and compare the fair value to its carrying value, including goodwill, of such reporting unit (step one). If the fair value exceeds the carrying value, no impairment loss would be recognized. If the carrying value of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value, the goodwill of this unit may be impaired. The amount of the impairment, if any, would then be measured in step two, which compares the implied fair value of reporting unit goodwill with the carrying amount of that goodwill.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements — September 30, 2002
(Dollars and shares in thousands, except per share amounts)

NOTE B — Accounting Changes - Continued

         As part of adopting this standard as of January 1, 2002, the Company determined that it has one indefinite lived intangible asset in addition to goodwill. The Company evaluated the impairment of its one indefinite lived intangible asset during the first quarter of 2002 and determined that it was not impaired. The Company completed step one of the transitional impairment test for goodwill during the second quarter of 2002 and determined there were no indicators of impairment as of January 1, 2002. As such, the Company was not required to record a cumulative effect charge as of January 1, 2002 for the adoption of SFAS No. 142.

         Prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 142, amortization expense was recorded for goodwill and other intangible assets. The following table sets forth a reconciliation of net loss and earnings per share information adjusted in 2001 for the non-amortization provisions of SFAS No. 142:

         The following table displays the gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization for intangible assets that continue to be subject to amortization as well as intangible assets not subject to amortization.

         Differences in gross carrying amounts between September 30, 2002 and December 31, 2001 are attributable to exchange rate changes on Pound Sterling intangible assets.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements — September 30, 2002
(Dollars and shares in thousands, except per share amounts)

NOTE B — Accounting Changes - Continued

         Amortization expense for intangible assets subject to amortization was $389 and $1,161 for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2002, respectively, and is estimated to be approximately $1,500 annually for fiscal years 2002 through 2004, and approximately $200 annually for fiscal years 2005 and 2006.

         Effective January 1, 2002, the Company adopted SFAS No. 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” which addresses financial accounting and reporting for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. Effective May 15, 2002, the Company adopted SFAS No. 145, “Rescission of FASB Statements No. 4, 44, and 64, Amendment of FASB Statement No. 13, and Technical Corrections,” which rescinds, amends and clarifies certain previously issued FASB statements. Initial adoption of SFAS No. 144 and No. 145 had no effect on the Company’s financial statements.

NOTE C — Recently Issued Accounting Standards

         In August 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations,” which amends SFAS No. 19, “Financial Accounting and Reporting by Oil and Gas Producing Companies,” and is effective for all companies. This statement addresses the financial accounting and reporting for obligations associated with the retirement of tangible long-lived assets and the associated asset retirement costs. SFAS No. 143 is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2002. The Company does not expect this statement to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position, liquidity, cash flows or results of operations.

         In July 2002, the FASB issued SFAS No. 146, “Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities,” which nullifies Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 94-3, “Liability Recognition for Certain Employee Termination Benefits and Other Costs to Exit an Activity (including Certain Costs Incurred in a Restructuring).” SFAS No. 146 is effective for exit or disposal activities that are initiated after December 31, 2002. The Company does not expect this statement to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position, liquidity, cash flows or results of operations.

NOTE D — Inventories

The components of inventory consist of the following:

NOTE E — Debt and Credit Arrangements

         In March 1999 the Company negotiated a consolidated credit and revolving loan facility (the “Credit Facility”), which originally provided for term loans of up to $250,000 and a revolving credit line of $50,000, which may also be used for the issuance of letters of credit. The Company entered into the Series 1 Incremental Revolving Credit Facility in November 2000 and the Series 2 Incremental Revolving Credit Facility in April 2001 (collectively, the “Incremental Credit Facility”), providing a revolving credit line of $10,000 in addition to the credit line available under the Credit Facility. At September 30, 2002, the Company had borrowings of $216,897 and $35,400 on the term loan and revolving credit portions of its Credit Facility, and borrowings of $9,941 on its Incremental Credit Facility. The Credit Facility and Incremental Credit Facility were amended in March 2002 (the “March 2002 Amendments”) to modify certain covenants until March 31, 2003, to defer $25,747 of term loan amortization payments from scheduled payment dates in 2002 to primarily 2005 and to extend the Incremental Credit Facility to March 31, 2003. The March 2002 Amendments resulted in an increase in interest rates of 0.25 percent, the addition of one financial covenant and scheduled reductions in the commitment amounts of the revolving credit lines of the Credit Facility and the Incremental Credit Facility.

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements — September 30, 2002
(Dollars and shares in thousands, except per share amounts)

NOTE E — Debt and Credit Arrangements - Continued

         The March 2002 Amendments call for the Company to prepay borrowings under the Credit Facility and Incremental Credit Facility in an aggregate amount of at least $75,000 (“Minimum Prepayment Amount”) from the net proceeds of an equity investment, sale of assets and other sources of new capital. The March 2002 Amendments also call for the Company’s interest rates to increase by 0.25 percent if the Minimum Prepayment Amount is not achieved by September 30, 2002, and by an additional 0.25 percent each quarter thereafter that the Minimum Prepayment Amount is not made. If the Minimum Prepayment Amount is achieved, these additional interest rate increases will be eliminated. Since the Minimum Prepayment Amount was not achieved by September 30, 2002, the Company’s interest rates will increase by 0.25 percent beginning in the fourth quarter of 2002.

         The March 2002 Amendments also provided for the issuance of market-priced warrants to the lenders for the purchase of two percent of the Company’s Common Stock at June 28, 2002. Accordingly, the Company was obligated to issue to its lenders at June 28, 2002 warrants to purchase, in the aggregate, 513,559 shares of Chart Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.425 per share. These warrants were valued at $729 and are being amortized to financing costs amortization expense over the remaining term of the Company’s Credit Facility, which expires in March 2006. In addition, the March 2002 Amendments provide for the issuance of market-priced warrants to the lenders for the purchase of an additional five percent and three percent of the Company’s Common Stock if the Minimum Prepayment Amount is not made by September 30 or December 31, 2002, respectively. The Company did not achieve the Minimum Prepayment Amount at September 30, 2002. Accordingly, the Company was obligated to issue to its lenders at September 30, 2002 warrants to purchase, in the aggregate, 1,353,531 shares of Chart Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.898 per share. These warrants have been valued at $1,228 and will be amortized to financing costs amortization expense over the remaining term of the Company’s Credit Facility. If the Minimum Prepayment Amount is not made by December 31, 2002, the lenders will be issued market-priced warrants (which may be priced above or below $0.898 per share, depending on the market prices of the Company’s Common Stock for the ten trading days preceding December 31, 2002) for the purchase of the additional three percent of the Company’s Common Stock. If at least $50,000 of the Minimum Prepayment Amount is made from the net proceeds of an equity investment by December 31, 2002, no warrants will be required to be issued to the lenders on that date.

         Under the terms of the Credit Facility, as modified by the March 2002 Amendments, term loans and revolving credit bear interest, at the Company’s option, at rates equal to the prime rate plus incremental margins or LIBOR plus incremental margins. The incremental margins vary based on the Company’s financial position and currently range from 2.0 percent to 4.75 percent. At September 30, 2002, the Company’s average interest rate for borrowings on the Credit Facility was 6.37 percent. The Company entered into two interest rate derivative contracts to manage interest rate risk exposure relative to the term loan portions of the Credit Facility. One of these contracts expired and was settled on June 28, 2002. The other collar covering $30,797 of the debt outstanding at September 30, 2002 expires in March 2006. The Company is also required to pay a commitment fee of 0.5 percent per annum on the unused amount of the revolving credit portion of the Credit Facility. At September 30, 2002, the Company had letters of credit outstanding and bank guarantees totaling $14,129 supported by the Credit Facility.

         The Credit Facility, as modified by the March 2002 Amendments, contains certain covenants and conditions which impose limitations on the Company and its operating units, including meeting certain financial tests and the quarterly maintenance of certain financial ratios on a consolidated basis such as: minimum net worth, maximum leverage, minimum pre-tax interest co