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Joint Venture
9 Months Ended
Nov. 30, 2019
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]  
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 (“Indorama”), an indirect subsidiary of Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, to retrofit their existing PET manufacturing facilities. The joint venture will manufacture and commercialize sustainable LoopTM branded PET resin and polyester fiber. The joint venture agreement details the establishment of an initial 20,700 metric tons per year facility. The joint venture decided to double the capacity of the facility to 40,000 metric tons per year thus increasing the engineering work required. Each company has a 50/50 equity interest in Indorama Loop Technologies, LLC (“ILT”), which was specifically formed to operate and execute the joint venture.

 

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

 

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

 

ILT 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 ILT. As such, the Company uses the equity method of accounting to account for its share of the investment in ILT. There was no activity in ILT from the date of inception of September 24, 2018 to February 28, 2019 and, as at February 28, 2019, the carrying value of the equity investment was nil. On April 18, 2019 and October 21, 2019, Loop Innovations, LLC, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, and Indorama, each contributed cash of $500,000 and $350,000, respectively, to ILT. As there were no other transactions during the nine-month period ended November 30, 2019, the carrying value of the equity investment as at November 30, 2019 was $850,000.