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Joint Venture
12 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2019
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]  
Note 5. Joint Venture

On September 15, 2018, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Loop Innovations, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, entered into a Joint Venture Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Indorama Ventures Holdings LP, USA, an indirect subsidiary of Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, to manufacture and commercialize sustainable polyester resin. Each company has a 50/50 equity interest in Loop Indorama Technologies, LLC (“ILT”), which was specifically formed to operate and execute the joint venture.

 

Under the Agreement, Indorama Venture is required to contribute manufacturing knowledge and Loop is required to contribute its proprietary science and technology.

 

Specifically, the Company will contribute an exclusive world-wide royalty-free license for ITL to use its proprietary technology to produce 100% sustainably produced PET resin and polyester fiber.

 

ITL meets the accounting definition of a joint venture where neither party has control of the joint venture entity and both parties have joint control over the decision-making process in IVL. As such, the Company uses the equity method of accounting to account for its share of the investment in Loop Indorama Technologies, LLC. As there has been no activity in ILT from the date of inception of September 24, 2018 to February 28, 2019 and, as at February 28, 2019, no transactions have been recorded in the joint venture entity, the carrying value of the equity investment is nil.

 

During the year ended February 28, 2019, the Company entered into multi-year supply agreements with PepsiCo, Coca-Cola’s Cross Entreprise Procurement Group and Danone SA that will enable them to purchase production capacity from the Company’s joint venture facility with IVL in the United States, and incorporate Loop™ PET resin into its product packaging starting in 2020.Also during the year ended February 28, 2019, the Company entered into a multi-year supply agreement with L’Occitane that will enable them to purchase production capacity from the Company’s first European production facility.

On April 18, 2019, Loop Innovations, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Loop Industries, Inc. contributed $500,000 to Loop Indorama Technologies, LLC, the joint venture with Indorama Ventures Holdings LP, USA.