重组计划的批准使格雷斯公司更接近一步脱离Chapter 11破产保护。然而，本月初，格雷斯公司表示，如果不能在可接受的条件下募集到十亿美元重组资金，公司脱离破产可能会延迟。
法官Judith Fitzgerald在周一批准了公司开始征求债权人选票的要求。格雷斯公司总部设在哥伦比亚的马里兰州，公司于2001年4月申请破产，以解决针对公司石棉造成的人身伤害和财产损害的索赔。
格雷斯公司去年表示，它将解决所有目前和未来石棉有关的人身伤害索赔。根据协议共需要2.5亿美元的现金。公司将从2019年开始以每年1.1亿美元，共偿还五年的方式偿付信托和延期付款。
截止星期三下午，证券交易所格雷斯公司股价下跌6美分，为4.24美元。
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W.R. Grace prepares re-org
(Reuters) - Specialty chemicals firm W.R. Grace & Co (GRA.N) has received approval from a U.S. bankruptcy court to solicit votes for its reorganization plan, court documents showed.
The approval brings the company a step closer to exit from Chapter 11. However, earlier this month, the company said its exit from bankruptcy may be delayed if it failed to get $1 billion to fund its reorganization on acceptable terms.
Judge Judith Fitzgerald on Monday approved the company's request to begin soliciting votes from creditors. W.R. Grace & Co, based in Columbia, Maryland, filed for bankruptcy in April 2001 to resolve asbestos personal injury and property damage claims against it.
The company said last year that it will settle all present and future asbestos-related personal injury claims, under an agreement requiring $250 million in cash to be paid to a trust and deferred payments at $110 million per year for 5 years beginning in 2019.
Shares of the company were down 6 cents at $4.24 Wednesday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange.
The approval brings the company a step closer to exit from Chapter 11. However, earlier this month, the company said its exit from bankruptcy may be delayed if it failed to get $1 billion to fund its reorganization on acceptable terms.
Judge Judith Fitzgerald on Monday approved the company's request to begin soliciting votes from creditors. W.R. Grace & Co, based in Columbia, Maryland, filed for bankruptcy in April 2001 to resolve asbestos personal injury and property damage claims against it.
The company said last year that it will settle all present and future asbestos-related personal injury claims, under an agreement requiring $250 million in cash to be paid to a trust and deferred payments at $110 million per year for 5 years beginning in 2019.
Shares of the company were down 6 cents at $4.24 Wednesday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange.
