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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
__________________________

FORM 8-K

Current Report
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): May 7, 2025

ALLIENT INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Colorado

0-04041

84-0518115

(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

495 Commerce Drive
Amherst, New York 14228
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including zip code)

(716) 242-8634
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

Title of each class

Trading Symbol

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common stock

ALNT

NASDAQ

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.      

Item 5.07.Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Allient Inc. (“the Company”) held its annual stockholders’ meeting on May 7, 2025. At the annual meeting, the stockholders of the Company (i) elected the six director nominees, (ii) approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation awarded to the Company’s Named Executive Officers, (iii) voted, on an advisory basis, the frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation to be one year, and (iv) ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year.

The tables below are calculated based on 16,948,472 shares of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock on the record date of March 12, 2025.

The results of the voting for the six director nominees were as follows:

Nominee

For

Against

Abstentions

Broker Non-votes

Robert B. Engel

11,837,987

100,750

8,327

2,765,229

Richard D. Federico

11,523,125

411,282

12,657

2,765,229

Steven C. Finch

11,814,083

128,909

4,072

2,765,229

Nicole R. Tzetzo

11,320,513

510,917

115,634

2,765,229

Richard S. Warzala

11,703,566

238,604

4,894

2,765,229

Michael R. Winter

11,656,669

274,814

15,581

2,765,229

The results for the advisory vote on executive compensation were as follows:

,222

For

Against

Abstentions

Broker Non-Votes

11,484,011

451,520

11,533

2,765,229

The results for the advisory vote on frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation were as follows:

,222

1 Year

2 Years

3 Years

Abstentions

11,211,495

4,328

728,538

2,703

As a result of the stockholder advisory vote and other factors, the Company will hold future non-binding advisory votes on the compensation of our named executive officers on an annual basis, until the next non-binding advisory vote on the frequency of such votes on executive compensation.

The results of the voting for the ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year were as follows:

For

Against

Abstentions

14,538,665

104,569

69,059

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date:May 9, 2025

ALLIENT INC.

By: /s/ James A. Michaud

James A. Michaud
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer