Abtech Holdings, Inc. (“ABHD” or the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on February 13, 2007, and has authorized capital stock of 50,000,000 shares of common stock at $0.001 par value. ABHD is the parent holding company.

AbTech Industries, Inc. (“AbTech”), a Delaware corporation with an authorized capital of 15,000,000 shares of $0.01 par value common stock and 5,000,000 shares of $0.01 par value preferred stock, was acquired by ABHD in a reverse acquisition transaction on February 10, 2011. AbTech is a majority-owned subsidiary of ABHD and is the operating company.

AbTech is an environmental technologies firm that provides innovative solutions to address issues of water pollution. AbTech has developed and patented the Smart Sponge

polymer technology. This technology’s oil absorbing capabilities make it highly effective as a filtration media to remove hydrocarbons and other pollutants from flowing or pooled water. AbTech has also licensed or developed other products that reduce bacteria, remove heavy metals or reduce the volume of polluted water through evaporation. AbTech sells products and systems for the treatment of stormwater, industrial process water and produced water in oil and gas extraction operations. The Company is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and has a manufacturing facility located in Phoenix, Arizona.

In 2012, the Company formed a subsidiary, AEWS Engineering, LLC (“AEWS”), an independent civil and environmental engineering firm. As of September 30, 2018, AEWS was dormant. AEWS’s office, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, was closed at the end of April 2017.

AbTech’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Environmental Security Corporation (“ESC”), was formed by the Company in 2003 to develop a sensor array technology designed to detect impurities in water flows. ESC owns a U.S. patent on this technology and has acquired rights to another monitoring technology, but otherwise had no operations during 2018 or 2017.