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10. Joint Venture | 10. 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 “Joint Venture 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 Indorama Loop Technologies, LLC (“ILT”), which was specifically formed to operate and execute the joint venture. Under the Joint Venture Agreement, Indorama Ventures is contributing manufacturing knowledge and Loop Industries is required to contribute its proprietary technology. Specifically, the Company is contributing an exclusive worldwide 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 were no operations in ILT from the date of inception of September 24, 2018 to November 30, 2021 and, as at November 30, 2021, the carrying value of the equity investment was $1,500,000, which is the total of the cash contributions we have made to ILT. During the nine-month period ended November 30, 2021, we made no contributions to ILT (2020 – $650,000). These contributions to ILT, which have been matched by Indorama Ventures, were used to fund engineering design costs which have been capitalized in ILT. In conjunction with the SK strategic partnership described in Note 13, on June 18, 2021, the Company, Loop Innovations, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Loop Innovations”), Indorama Ventures Holdings LP (“Indorama”) and Indorama Loop Technologies, LLC (the “Indorama Joint Venture Company”) amended (i) the Limited Liability Company Agreement between Loop Innovations, LLC and Indorama Ventures Holdings LP (the “LLC Agreement”), (ii) the Marketing Agreement between the Company and Indorama Loop Technologies, LLC (the “Marketing Agreement”) and (iii) the License Agreement between the Company and the Indorama Joint Venture Company (the “License Agreement”), each dated September 24, 2018 (collectively such amendments, the “Indorama Joint Venture Amendments”). Under the Indorama Joint Venture Amendments, the Company, Indorama and the Indorama Joint Venture Company agreed to:
| · | terminate Indorama’s right of first refusal under the LLC Agreement over any facility to produce products utilizing any waste-to-resin technology applying the PET depolymerization process of the Company;
| · | amend the non-compete obligations under the LLC Agreement to solely apply to the Company;
| · | limit the scope of the Company’s grant of intellectual property rights and the scope of the exclusivity rights of the Indorama Joint Venture Company for the retrofit of existing facilities under the License Agreement to North America and Europe; and
| · | limit the scope of the Indorama Joint Venture Company’s permitted marketing rights under the Marketing Agreement to North America and Europe.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for equity method investments and joint ventures. Equity method investments are investments that give the investor the ability to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of an investee. Joint ventures are entities owned and operated by a small group of businesses as a separate and specific business or project for the mutual benefit of the members of the group. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 323 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2196965 + Details
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