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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September [___], 2008
Registration No. 333-125113
 
 
United States
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Post-Effective Amendment No. 2
to
FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
Flow International Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
Washington   3569   91-1104842
         
(State or other jurisdiction of   (Primary standard industrial   (IRS Employer
incorporation or organization)   classification code number)   Identification No.)
Charles M. Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer
23500 64th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
(253) 850-3500

(Address, including zip code and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
PTSGE Corp.
925 Fourth Avenue, #2900
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 623-7580
(Name, address, including ZIP code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Robert S. Jaffe, William Gleeson and Chris K. Visser
K&L Gates LLP
925 Fourth Avenue, Suite 2900
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 623-7580
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable.
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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
     This Registration Statement initially was filed on Form S-1 (File No. 333-125113) on May 20, 2005 by Flow International Corporation (the “Company”). Pre-effective amendments to the Registration Statement were filed on August 8, 2005, August 26, 2005, December 12, 2005 and February 8, 2006. The Registration Statement was declared effective by the Commission on February 22, 2006. The Registration Statement was subsequently amended on April 13, 2007 and was declared effective on April 18, 2007. Further, the Company filed 424(b)(3) filings on February 23, 2006, April 19, 2007 and April 26, 2007.
     The offering contemplated by the Registration Statement has terminated. In accordance with the Company’s undertakings in the Registration Statement pursuant to item 512(a)(3) of Regulation S-K, the Company is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to deregister, as of the effective date of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2, all of the shares of the Company’s common stock and shares of the Company’s common stock that may be issued on the exercise of outstanding warrants, in each case as may be remaining unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. The Company’s obligation to maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement was pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement entered into in connection with a March 2005 Private Investment Public Equity transaction. This obligation has now expired; accordingly, the Company is requesting the removal from registration of these shares of common stock.

 


 

SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 the registrant certifies that it has duly caused this Amendment to Registration Statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Kent, State of Washington, on the 21st day of November, 2008.
         
  FLOW INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
 
 
  By:   /s/Charles M. Brown   
    Charles M. Brown   
    President and Chief Executive Officer   
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment to Registration Statement on Form S-1 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on November 21, 2008
     
Signature   Title
 
   
 
   
/s/Charles M. Brown
 
Charles M. Brown
  President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
 (Principal Executive Officer)
 
   
/s/ Douglas P. Fletcher
 
Douglas P. Fletcher
  Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
 
   
/s/ Arlen I. Prentice
 
   
Arlen I. Prentice
  Chairman of the Board of Directors
 
   
/s/ Richard P. Fox
 
   
Richard P. Fox.
  Director
 
   
/s/ Kathryn L. Munro
 
   
Kathryn L. Munro
  Director
 
   
/s/ J. Michael Ribaudo
 
J. Matthew Ribaudo
   Director
 
   
/s/ Lorenzo C. Lamadrid
 
Lorenzo C. Lamadrid
   Director
 
   
/s/ Larry A. Kring
 
Larry A. Kring
   Director
 
   
/s/ Jerry L. Calhoun
 
Jerry L. Calhoun
   Director