PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC
8-K, 1997-08-15
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                   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): August 15, 1997
                                
                                      
                         PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                                   
          
          
              Pennsylvania          1-3315             23-0991870      
          
         (State or other      (Commission             (IRS Employer
          jurisdiction        File Number)            Identification No.)
          of incorporation)
         
          
            One Post Road, Fairfield, Connecticut            06430           
          (Address of principal executive offices)         (Zip Code)
          
          
       Registrant's telephone number, including area code:   (203 254-3900
          
                    
                              
     (Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
                                
                                           <PAGE>
     
          Item 5.Other Events.
          
               On January 5, 1989, Publicker Industries Inc. (the
          "Company") filed a registration statement (File No. 33-9344) on
          Form S-3 and Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1 (the
          "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange
          Commission (the "Commission") relating to the offering, pursuant
          to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of
          3,686,400 and 1,228,800 shares of common stock, par value $.10 per
          share ("Common Stock"), of the Company issuable upon the exercise
          of the Company's Common Stock Purchase Warrants and Underwriter's
          Warrants, respectively.  The Registration Statement was
          subsequently amended by pre-effective amendments filed February 9,
          1989 and February 14, 1989 and a post-effective amendment filed
          May 15, 1992.
          
               On August 14, 1997, the Company filed with the
          Commission a Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) (the "424(b)
          Prospectus") relating to the issuance and sale of 1,082,420 and
          1,228,800 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the
          Company's Common Stock Purchase Warrants and Underwriter's
          Warrants, respectively, which shares were previously registered
          under the Registration Statement, as amended.  In connection with
          the filing of the 424(b) Prospectus, the Company is filing certain
          exhibits as part of this Form 8-K.  See "Item 7. Financial
          Statements and Exhibits."
          
           Item 7.Financial Statements and Exhibits.
          
                (a) - (b)Not applicable.
          
                 (c)The following Exhibits are filed as a part
          of this Report:
          
          
          Exhibit No.                 Exhibit
          
          
          4.1                         Form of Amendment No. 1 to Warrant
                                      Agreement, dated August 13, 1997,
                                      between Publicker Industries Inc. and
                                      Publicker Industries Inc., as Warrant
                                      Agent.
          
          
          4.2                         Form of Amendment No. 1 to Warrant
                                      Agreement, dated August 13, 1997,
                                      between Publicker Industries Inc. and
                                      Harry I. Freund and Jay S. Goldsmith.
          
          
          
               <PAGE>
                      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.
          
          
                                          PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
               
          
          
              Date: August 15, 1997       /S/ Antonio L. DeLise      
                             
                                          Antonio L. DeLise
                                          Vice President and Chief
                                          Financial Officer<PAGE>
   
                                
                                 EXHIBIT INDEX                      
                                      
          Exhibit No.      Exhibit                           Page No.
          
          
          4.1        Form of Amendment No. 1 to Warrant Agreement,
                     dated August 13, 1997, between Publicker
                     Industries Inc. and Publicker Industries Inc., as
                     Warrant Agent.
          
          4.2        Form of Amendment No. 1 to Warrant Agreement,
                     dated August 13, 1997, between Publicker
                     Industries Inc. and Harry I. Freund and Jay S.
                     Goldsmith.
          
          
               <PAGE>
                                                 EXHIBIT 4.1
          
          __________________________________________________________________
                    
          
          
                              AMENDMENT NO. 1
          
                                     TO
          
                             WARRANT AGREEMENT
          
                                  BETWEEN
          
                         PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          
                                    AND
          
                        PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC., 
          
                              as Warrant Agent
          
          
                            ___________________
          
                        Dated as of August 13, 1997
          
          
          
          __________________________________________________________________
                    
          
          
          
                      Common Stock Purchase Warrants<PAGE>
   
          
          AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO WARRANT AGREEMENT, dated as of August 13, 1997, 
          between PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (the  
          "Company"), and PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC., a Pennsylvania  
          corporation, as Warrant Agent (the "Warrant Agent").
          
               The Company previously issued Common Stock Purchase
          Warrants (the "Warrants") to purchase up to an aggregate of
          3,600,000 shares of its Common Stock in connection with a public
          offering by the Company of Units, each consisting of $1,000
          principal amount of the Company's 13% Subordinated Notes due
          December 15, 1996 and 120 Warrants, which offering commenced on
          December 17, 1986.
          
               In connection therewith, the Company and J. Henry
          Schroder Bank & Trust Company ("Schroder"), as warrant agent,
          entered into a Warrant Agreement dated as of December 15, 1986 in
          respect of the Warrants (the "Original Warrant Agreement").
               
               The Company has succeeded Schroder as Warrant Agent
          under the Original Warrant Agreement.
          
               The Company has approved a modification of the
          Warrants, and in connection therewith, the Company and the Warrant
          Agent desire to amend the Original Warrant Agreement pursuant to
          Section 19 thereof as set forth herein.
          
               In consideration of the premises and for the purpose
          of defining the terms and provisions of the Warrants and the
          respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Company and
          the registered owners of the Warrants, as modified, the Company
          and the Warrant Agent hereby agree as follows:
          
               SECTION 1.  Amendments to the Original Warrant
          Agreement.
          
                (a)All references in the Original Warrant Agreement
          to the Warrant Agent's offices in New York City shall be deemed
          references to the Warrant Agent's offices in Fairfield,
          Connecticut.
          
                (b)Section 5.1 of the Original Warrant Agreement is
          hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
          
               5.1.  Terms of Warrants.  Subject to the
               terms of this Agreement, each Holder shall have the
               right, which may be exercised until 5:00 p.m. New York
               City time on July 2, 2002, to purchase from the
               Company the number of fully paid and nonassessable
               Warrant Shares which the Holder may at the time be
               entitled to purchase on exercise of such Warrants.
          
                (c)Section 5.4 of the Original Warrant Agreement is
          hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
          
               5.4 Warrant Price.  The price per share at
               which Warrant Shares shall be purchasable upon
               exercise of Warrants (the "Warrant Price") shall be as
               set forth below for the applicable period, subject to
               adjustment pursuant to Section 9 hereof:
          
                                               Exercise Price per Share
                 Period                             of Common Stock
          
                 Qualifying Exercise Expiration Date (as 
                    defined in Section 5.5) - 
                    July 2, 1998                          $2.00
                 July 3, 1998 - July 2, 1999              $2.10 
                 July 3, 1999 - July 2, 2000              $2.20
                 July 3, 2000 - July 2, 2001              $2.30 
                 July 3, 2001 - July 2, 2002              $2.40
          
                (d)New Section 5.5 is hereby added to the Original
          Warrant Agreement:
          
               5.5  Required Exercise.  In order to
               retain the Warrants, each Holder must exercise at any
               time after August 14, 1997 but prior to 5:00 p.m., New
               York City time, on September 15, 1997 (the "Qualifying
               Exercise Expiration Date"), at the current exercise
               price of $1.95 per share of Common Stock, at least
               twenty-five percent (25%) (the "Requisite Percentage")
               of the Warrants owned by such Holder as of
               December 15, 1996.  Any Holder who exercises the
               Requisite Percentage of such Holder's Warrants in
               accordance with the foregoing, will retain the
               remaining Warrants held by such Holder.  If a Holder
               of Warrants fails to exercise the Requisite Percentage
               of such Warrants prior to the Qualifying Exercise
               Expiration Date, all of such Holder's Warrants will
               thereafter be void.  
          
                (e)The first sentence of Section 17 of the Original
          Warrant Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
          follows:
          
               Any notice pursuant to this Agreement by the Company
               or by any Holder to the Warrant Agent, or by the
               Warrant Agent or by an Holder to the Company, shall be
               in writing and shall be mailed first class, postage
               prepaid, or delivered (a) to the Company at its office
               at One Post Road, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430,
               Attention:  Chief Financial Officer; or (b) to the
               Warrant Agent, to Publicker Industries Inc., as
               Warrant Agent, Attention Chief Financial Officer at
               its office at One Post Road, Fairfield, Connecticut
               06430.
          
                (f)The Form of Warrant Certificate attached as
          Exhibit A to the Original Warrant Agreement is hereby deleted and
          replaced with Exhibit A attached to this Amendment No. 1.
          
                    SECTION 2.  Reference to and Effect on the Original
          Warrant Agreement.  
          
                     (a) On and after the date hereof, each reference in
          the Original Warrant Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder",
          "hereof" or words of like import referring to the Original Warrant
          Agreement, and each reference in all other agreements entered into
          in connection with the Original Warrant Agreement to "thereunder",
          "thereof" or words of like import referring to the Original
          Warrant Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Original
          Warrant Agreement as amended hereby.
          
                     (b) Except as specifically amended above, the
          Original Warrant Agreement is and shall continue to be in full
          force and effect and is hereby in all respects ratified and
          confirmed.
          
                    SECTION 3.  Applicable Law.  This Amendment No. 1
          shall be governed by and construed in accordance with paragraph 18
          of the Original Warrant Agreement.
          
                    SECTION 4.  Headings.  The headings of the Sections of
          this Amendment No. 1 are inserted for convenience only and shall
          not be deemed to constitute a part thereof.
          
                    SECTION 5.  Counterparts.  More than one counterpart
          of this Amendment No. 1 may be executed by the parties hereto, and
          each fully executed counterpart shall be deemed an original.
          
               SECTION 6.  Capitalized Terms.  Capitalized terms used
          but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed
          thereto in the Original Warrant Agreement.
          
               <PAGE>
               IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this
          Amendment No. 1 to be duly executed as of the day, month and year
          first above written.
          
                                        PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          
          
                                        By:
                                        _____________________________
                                           Name:
                                           Title:
          
          (CORPORATE SEAL)
          
          Attest:
          
          ____________________________
          
          
                                        PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC., as
                                        warrant agent
          
          
                                        By:
                                        _____________________________
                                            Name:
                                            Title:
          
          (CORPORATE SEAL)
          
          Attest:
          
               ____________________________<PAGE>
   

                                                               EXHIBIT A
          
          No. PIW        COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS         WARRANTS
                                                                **    **
          
            VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M.  NEW YORK TIME ON JULY 2, 2002
          
                         PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF  PENNSYLVANIA

          CUSIP 744635-12-9
          THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for value received
          
               
          
          
          
                                **        **
          
          the registered holder of this Common Stock Purchase Warrant
          (the "Warrant") or registered assigns the (the "Holder"), is
          entitled to purchase from Publicker Industries Inc., a
          Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), at any time until
          5:00 p.m. New York City time on July 2, 2002, at the purchase
          price  per share (the "Warrant Price") set forth below, the
          number of shares of Common Stock of the Company (the
          "Common Stock"), which is equal to the number of Warrants set
          forth above multiplied by 1.024.  The purchase price per
          share for the applicable period is as follows:
          
               September 15, 1997 to July 2, 1998        $2.00
               July 3, 1998 to July 2, 1999              $2.10
               July 3, 1999 to July 2, 2000              $2.20
               July 3, 2000 to July 2, 2001              $2.30
               July 3, 2001 to July 2, 2002              $2.40
          
          The number of shares purchasable upon exercise of
          this Warrant and the Warrant Price per share shall be
          subject to adjustment and reset from time to time as set forth
          in the Warrant Agreement referred to below, and these
          Warrants are subject to repurchase by the Company on
          the terms and conditions contained in such Warrant
          Agreement.  The Warrants are subject to redemption by the
          Company for $1.25 per Warrant at any time after December 23,
          1986 except that the Warrants may not be so redeemed unless
          the closing price (as determined in accordance with
          Section 9.1 (e) of the Warrant Agreement) for the Common Stock
          of the Company on any 20 trading days within a period of
          30 consecutive trading days ending no more than five days
          prior to the date upon which notice or redemption is first
          mailed is at least 150% of the exercise price of the Warrant
          in effect on that day.
          
               This Warrant may be exercised in whole or in part
          by presentation of this Warrant with the Purchase Form on the
          reverse side hereof duly executed and simultaneous
          payment of the Warrant Price (subject to adjustment ) at the
          principal office of the Company, acting as its own
          Warrant Agent, in Fairfield, CT.  Payment of such price
          shall be made at the option of the holder hereof in cash or by
          check.
               
               The Warrant is one of a duly authorized issue of
          Warrants evidencing the righ  to purchase an aggregate of up 
          to 4,140,000 shares of Common Stock and is issued under and
          in accordance with a Warrant Agreement dated as of December
          15, 1986, between the Company and J. Henry Schroder Bank &
          Trust Company, as amended, and is subject to the terms and
          provisions contained in the Warrant Agreement, to all of
          which the Holder of this  Warrant by acceptance hereof
          consents.  A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be
          obtained for inspection by the Holder hereof upon written
          request to the Warrant Agent.
          
               Upon any partial exercise of this Warrant, there shall be
          countersigned and issued to the Holder hereof a new Warrant in
          respect of the shares of Common Stock as to which this Warrant
          shall not have been exercised.  This Warrant may be exchanged
          at the office of the Warrant  Agent by surrender of this
          Warrant properly endorsed either separately or in
          combination with one or more other Warrants for one or more
          new Warrants entitling the holder thereof to purchase the
          same aggregate number of shares as were purchasable on exercise
          of the Warrant or Warrants exchanged.  No fractional
          shares will be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant but
          the Company shall pay the cash value of any fraction upon the
          exercise of one or more Warrants.  This Warrant is
          transferable at the office of the Warrant Agent, in the
          manner and subject to  limitations set forth in the
          Warrant Agreement.
          
               The Holder hereof may be  treated by the Company, the
          Warrant Agent and all other persons dealing with this
          Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for any purpose and as
          the person entitled to exercise the rights represented hereby,
          or to the transfer hereof as the owner for all purposes.
          
               This Warrant does not entitle any Holder hereof to
          any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company.
          
               This Warrant shall not be valid or obligatory for any
          purpose until it shall have been countersigned by the
          Warrant Agent.
          
                    
          DATED:
               
          PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          
          BY                ATTEST
          
          
          PRESIDENT         SECRETARY<PAGE>
        

          Notice of the redemption will be given in The Wall Street
          Journal (national edition) or, if such edition is no longer
          published, in a newspaper of general circulation in New York City.
          
                         PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
                                PURCHASE FOR
                              MAILING ADDRESS
          
                                                                             
                                                                            
                                       
                                                                             
               The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the
          right of purchase represented by the within Warrant for, and to
          purchase thereunder,                                         shares
          of the stock provided for therein, and tenders herewith payment of
          the purchase price in full in the form of cash or by check in the
          amount of $         .
          
               The undersigned requests that certificates for such shares be
          issued in the name of:
          
                                                                             
                               
            (Please Print Name, Address and Social Security No.)

          and, if said number of shares shall not be all the shares
          purchasable thereunder, thanta new Warrant Certificate for the
          balance remaining of the shares purchasable under the within Warrant
          Certificate be registered in the name of the undersigned
          Warrantholder or his Assignee as below indicated and delivered to
          the address stated below:
          
               DATED: __________________
          Name of Warrantholder or Assignee:                                 
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                           
                               (Please Print)
          Address:                                                           
                                                                             
                               
          
          Signature:                                                         
                                                                             
                                                                             
          
          Signature Guarantee:             NOTE: The above signature must 
                                           correspond with the name as 
                                           written upon the face of this 
                                           Warrant Certificate in every
                                           particular, without alteration or
                                           enlargement or any change 
                                           whatever, unless this Warrant has 
                                           been assigned.
          
                                 ASSIGNMENT
               (To be signed only upon assignment of Warrant)
          
               FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
          transfers unto
          
                                                                             
                               
          (Name and Address of Assignee Must be Printed or Typewritten)
          
                                                                             
          the within                  Warrants, together with all right, title
          and interest therein and does hereby irrevocably constitute and
          appoint
          
          to transfer said Warrants on the books of the Company, with full
          power of substitution in the premises and if said number of Warrants
          shall not be all the Warrants represented by the Warrant
          Certificate, a new Warrant Certificate is to be issued in the name
          of said undersigned for the balance remaining of the Warrants
          represented by said Warrant Certificate.
          
          Dated:                                                         
                                        (Signature of Registered Holder)
          
                                        NOTE: The above signature must
                                        correspond with the name as written
                                        on the face of this Warrant Certificate 
                                        in every particular, without
                                        alteration or enlargement.
          
                    Signature Guaranteed:  <PAGE>
                  EXHIBIT 4.2 
          ____________
          
          
          
                              AMENDMENT NO. 1
          
                                     TO
          
                             WARRANT AGREEMENT
          
                                  BETWEEN
          
                         PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          
                                    AND
          
                    HARRY I. FREUND AND JAY S. GOLDSMITH
          
          
                            ___________________
          
                        Dated as of August 13, 1997
          
          
          
          __________________________________________________________________
                         <PAGE>
        
          AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO WARRANT AGREEMENT, dated as of 
          August 13, 1997, between PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC., a Pennsylvania
          corporation (the "Company"), and Harry I. Freund and Jay S.
          Goldsmith (each such individual, and each other registered holder of
          Warrants (as defined below) in accordance with the Original Warrant
          Agreement (as defined below) being referred to herein as a
          "Holder").
          
               The Company previously issued Common Stock Purchase
          Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,600,000 shares of its
          Common Stock in connection with a public offering (the "Offering")
          by the Company of Units, each consisting of $1,000 principal amount
          of the Company's 13% Subordinated Notes due December 15, 1996 and
          120 Warrants, which offering commenced on December 17, 1986.
          
               In connection therewith, the Company issued 1,200,000
          warrants (the "Warrants") to Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated
          ("DBL") as partial consideration for DBL acting as the underwriter
          for the Offering, and the Company and DBL entered into a Warrant
          Agreement dated as of December 17, 1986 (the "Original Warrant
          Agreement"). 
          
               The Warrants were previously transferred by DBL to
          Messrs. Harry I. Freund and Jay S. Goldsmith.
          
               The Company has approved a modification of the Warrants,
          and in connection therewith, the parties hereto desire to amend the
          Original Warrant Agreement pursuant to Section 18 thereof as set
          forth herein.
          
               In consideration of the premises and the mutual
          agreements set forth herein and in the Original Warrant Agreement
          and for other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto
          agree as follows:  
          
               SECTION 1.  Amendments to the Original Warrant
          Agreement.
          
                (a)Section 5.1(a) of the Original Warrant Agreement
          is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
          
                (a)Each Warrant entitles the registered
               owner thereof to purchase 1.024 shares of Common Stock
               at any time until 5:00 p.m., New York time, on July 2,
               2002 (the "Expiration Date") at a purchase price per
               share (the "Warrant Price") set forth below for the
               applicable period (subject to adjustment):
               <PAGE>
     
                                               Exercise Price per Share
                    Period                         of Common Stock
          
                 Qualifying Exercise Expiration Date (as 
                      defined in Section 5.1(e)) - 
                      July 2, 1998                         $2.00  
                 July 3, 1998 - July 2, 1999               $2.10 
                 July 3, 1999 - July 2, 2000               $2.20
                 July 3, 2000 - July 2, 2001               $2.30 
                 July 3, 2001 - July 2, 2002               $2.40
          
                (b)Section 5.1(e) is hereby added to the Original
          Warrant Agreement:
          
                (e)In order to retain the Warrants, each
               Holder must exercise at any time after August 14, 1997
               but prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September
               15, 1997 (the "Qualifying Exercise Expiration Date"), at
               the current exercise price of $1.95 per share of Common
               Stock, at least twenty-five percent (25%) (the
               "Requisite Percentage") of the Warrants owned by such
               Holder as of December 15, 1996.  Any Holder who
               exercises the Requisite Percentage of such Holder's
               Warrants in accordance with the foregoing, will retain
               the remaining Warrants held by such Holder.  If a Holder
               of Warrants fails to exercise the Requisite Percentage
               of such Warrants prior to the Qualifying Exercise
               Expiration Date, all of such Holder's Warrants will
               thereafter be void.  
          
                (c)The first sentence of Section 14 of the Original
          Warrant Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
          follows:
          
               Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given or
               made by the registered holder of any Warrant to or on
               the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if sent
               by first class, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:
               Publicker Industries Inc., One Post Road, Fairfield,
               Connecticut 06430, Attention:  Chief Financial Officer.
          
                (d)The Form of Warrant Certificate attached as
          Exhibit A to the Original Warrant Agreement is hereby deleted and
          replaced with Exhibit A attached to this Amendment No. 1.
          
                    SECTION 2.  Reference to and Effect on the Original
          Warrant Agreement.  
          
                     (a) On and after the date hereof, each reference in
          the Original Warrant Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder",
          "hereof" or words of like import referring to the Original Warrant
          Agreement, and each reference in all other agreements entered into
          in connection with the Original Warrant Agreement to "thereunder",
          "thereof" or words of like import referring to the Original Warrant
          Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Original Warrant
          Agreement as amended hereby.
          
                     (b) Except as specifically amended above, the Original
          Warrant Agreement is and shall continue to be in full force and
          effect and is hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed.
          
                    SECTION 3.  Applicable Law.  This Amendment No. 1 shall
          be governed by and construed in accordance with paragraph 15 of the
          Original Warrant Agreement.
          
                    SECTION 4.  Headings.  The headings of the Sections of
          this Amendment No. 1 are inserted for convenience only and shall not
          be deemed to constitute a part thereof.
          
                    SECTION 5.  Counterparts.  More than one counterpart of
          this Amendment No. 1 may be executed by the parties hereto, and each
          fully executed counterpart shall be deemed an original.
          
               SECTION 6.  Capitalized Terms.  Capitalized terms used
          but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed
          thereto in the Original Warrant Agreement.
          
               <PAGE>
               IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this
          Amendment No. 1 to be duly executed as of the day, month and year
          first above written.
          
               PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          
          
                                        By:
                                        _____________________________
                                            Name:
                                            Title:
          
          (CORPORATE SEAL)
          
          Attest:
          
          ____________________________
          
          
          
          
                                    ______________________________
                                    Harry I. Freund
          
          
                                    ______________________________
                                    Jay S. Goldsmith<PAGE>
   
        
                                                                     EXHIBIT A
          
          THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AND THE SHARES OF
          COMMON STOCK (OR OTHER SECURITIES) ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE MAY NOT BE
          OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO (i) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
          STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, (ii) TO THE EXTENT
          APPLICABLE, RULE 144 UNDER SUCH ACT (OR ANY SIMILAR RULE UNDER SUCH
          ACT RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF SECURITIES) OR (iii) AN EXEMPTION
          FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND AN OPINION OF COUNSEL
          SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY WITH RESPECT TO SUCH EXEMPTION.
          
          
          No. U-
          
                            VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M. NEW YORK CITY
                                  TIME ON JULY 2, 2002
                                      
                                  Warrant Certificate
                                
                                           Warrants
                                      
          THIS CERTIFIES THAT for value received, 
          , the registered holder hereof or registered assigns (the
          "Holder"), is the owner of the number of Warrants set forth above,
          each of which entitles the owner thereof to purchase at any time
          until 5:00 P.M., New York time on July 2, 2002, 1.024 fully paid and
          nonassessable shares of the Common Stock, par value $.10 per share
          (the "Common Stock"), of Publicker Industries 
          Inc. a Pennsylvania corporation (the"Company"), at the purchase
          price per share (the 'Warrant Price") as follows:
                
                September 15, 1997 to July 2, 1998    $2.00
                July 3, 1998 to July 2, 1999          $2.10
                July 3, 1999 to July 2, 2000          $2.20
                July 3, 2000 to July 2, 2001          $2.30
                July 3, 2001 to July 2, 2002          $2.40
          
          Payment of the Warrant Price may be made in cash, by certified or
          official bank check or any combination thereof. As provided in the
          Warrant Agreement referred to below, the Warrant Price and the
          number or kind of shares which may be purchased upon the exercise of
          the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are, upon the
          happening of certain events, subject to modification, adjustment and
          reset.
          
          This Warrant Certificate is subject to, and entitled to
          the benefits of all of the terms, provisions and conditions of an
          agreement dated December 17, 1986 (the 'Warrant Agreement") between
          the Company and Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, as amended,
          which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference
          and made a part hereof and to which Warrant Agreement reference is
          hereby made for a full description of the rights, limitations of
          rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the Company
          and the holders of the Warrant certificates. Copies of the Warrant
          Agreement are on file at the principal office of the Company.
          
          The Holder hereof may be treated by the Company and all
          other persons dealing with this Warrant Certificate as the absolute
          owner hereof for any purpose and as the person entitled to exercise
          the rights represented hereby, or to the transfer hereof on the
          books of the Company, any notice to the contrary notwithstanding,
          and until such transfer on such books, the Company may treat the
          Holder hereof as the owner for all purposes.
          
          This Warrant Certificate, with or without other Warrant
          certificates upon surrender at the principal office of the Company,
          may be exchanged for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant
          Certificates of like tenor and date evidencing Warrants entitling
          the Holder to purchase a like aggregate number of shares of Common
          Stock as the Warrants evidenced by the Warrant Certificate or
          Warrant Certificates surrendered entitled such holder to purchase.
          If this Warrant Certificate shall be exercised in part, the Holder
          shall be entitled to receive upon surrender hereof another Warrant
          Certificate or Warrant Certificates for the number of whole Warrants
          not exercised.
          
          No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon
          the exercise of any Warrant or Warrants evidenced hereby, but in
          lieu thereof a cash payment will be made, as provided in the Warrant
          Agreement.
          
          No holder shall be entitled to vote or receive dividends
          or be deemed the holder of Common Stock or any other securities of
          the Company which may at any time be issuable on the exercise hereof
          for any purpose, nor shall anything contained in the Warrant
          Agreement or herein be construed to confer upon such Holder, as
          such, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right
          to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted
          to shareholders at any meeting thereof or to give or withhold
          consent to any corporate action (whether upon any recapitalization,
          issue of stock, reclassification of stock, change of par value or
          change of stock to no par value, consolidation, merger, conveyance,
          or otherwise) or except as provided in the Warrant Agreement, to
          receive notice of meetings, or to receive dividends or subscription
          rights or otherwise, until the Warrant or Warrants evidenced by this
          Warrant Certificate shall have been exercised and the Common Stock
          purchasable upon the exercise thereof shall have become deliverable
          as provided in the Warrant Agreement.
          
          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Publicker Industries Inc. has caused
          this Warrant Certificate to be signed by its President or a Vice
          President.
          
          PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          
          By___________________
           James J. Weis, President
            & Chief Executive Officer 
        
                                       PURCHASE FORM
                                
                       (To be executed upon exercise of Warrant)
                                      
          To: PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES INC.
          
          The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise
          the right of purchase represented by the within Warrant Certificate
          for, and to purchase thereunder, shares of Common Stock, as provided
          for therein, and tenders herewith payment of the purchase price in
          full in the form of cash or a certified or official bank check in
          the amount of $
          
          Please issue a certificate or certificates for such
          shares of Common Stock in the name of, and pay any cash for any
          fractional share to:
          
          PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL
          SECURITY NUMBER OR
          OTHER IDENTIFYING
          NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
          
          Name_________________________________
          
          Address_______________________________
                 _______________________________
          
          Signature______________________________
          
          
          
         NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on
               the face of this Warrant Certificate or with the name of
               assignee appearing in the assignment form below.
                 
          And, if said number of shares shall not be all the shares
          purchasable under the within Warrant Certificate, a new Warrant
          Certificate is to be issued in the name of said undersigned for the
          balance remaining of the shares purchasable thereunder less any
          fraction of a share paid in cash.
          
          Dated:___________,______
          
          
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                      ASSIGNMENT
                                
              (To be executed only upon assignment of Warrant Certificate)
                                      
          For value received, _______________________________________hereby
          sells, assigns and
          transfers unto ______________________________________the within
          Warrant Certificate, together with all right, title and interest
          therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
          attorney, to transfer said Warrant Certificate on the books of the
          within-named Company, with full power of substitution in the
          premises.
          
          Dated:_________, ______
          
          NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on
                the face of this Warrant Certificate.
                 
                                                   
          
     


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