EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO
AMENDED AND RESTATED
EWP BRIDGE LOAN AGREEMENT
This
EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN AGREEMENT (this
"Amendment") is made and entered into as of
November 15, 2003 between KEYSTONE
CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES, INC., a Delaware corporation ("Keystone"), and the
lenders listed in Annex I hereto
(individually a "Lender" and collectively, the
"Lenders").
Recitals
A. Keystone and the Lenders
have entered into that certain Amended and
Restated EWP Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of November 1, 2001, as
amended by
the First Amendment to Amended and Restated
EWP Bridge Loan Agreement dated as
of March 18, 2002 between Keystone and the Lenders, the Second Amendment to
Amended and Restated EWP Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of December 31, 2002
between Keystone and the Lenders,
the Third Amendment to Amended and
Restated
EWP Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of June 30, 2003
between Keystone and the
Lenders, the Fourth Amendment to Amended
and Restated EWP Bridge Loan Agreement
dated as of July 31, 2003 between Keystone
and the Lenders, the
Fifth Amendment
to Amended and Restated EWP Bridge Loan
Agreement dated as of August 27, 2003
between Keystone and the Lenders,
the Sixth Amendment to Amended and
Restated
EWP Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of September 30, 2003 and
as further amended
by the Seventh Amendment to Amended and
Restated EWP Bridge Loan Agreement dated
as of October 31, 2003 between Keystone and
the Lenders (collectively, the "Loan
Agreement").
B. Keystone and the Lenders
wish to amend the Loan
Agreement as
provided
herein.
C. Capitalized
terms used but not
otherwise defined
herein shall have the
same meanings given to such terms in the
Loan Agreement.
Agreement
In consideration of the foregoing and the mutual
covenants and agreements
herein, the parties hereto do hereby agree
as follows.
Section 1.
Amendment to Loan
Agreement. Section 3.3
of the Loan Agreement
shall be amended by deleting such section in its entirety and
replacing it with
the following:
3.3. Maturi
