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Investment In Joint Venture
12 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2025
Investment In Joint Venture  
Investment in Joint Venture

11. Investments in Joint Ventures

 

Joint venture with Indorama

 

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 (“Indorama”), 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.

 

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 February 28, 2025. All contributions to ILT, which have been matched by Indorama Ventures, were used to fund engineering design costs which were capitalized in ILT. During the year ended February 28, 2025, we made no contributions to ILT (2024 – nil).

 

As at February 29, 2024, the carrying value of the equity investment was $381, which represented 50% of the cash balance in ILT. On October 9, 2024, ILT distributed a total of $735 in cash to the Company and Indorama, of which $368 was received by the Company. The carrying value of the Company’s investment ILT was $13 after the distribution and as of February 28, 2025.

 

Joint Venture with Ester

 

On May 1, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Ester Industries Ltd. (“Ester”), a manufacturer of polyester films and specialty polymers in India, to form a 50/50 joint venture based in India (“India JV”). The purpose of the India JV is to build and operate an Infinite Loop™ manufacturing facility in India which will produce lower carbon footprint rDMT, rMEG and specialty polymers, using the Infinite Loop™ Technology. During the year ended February 28, 2025, Ester Loop Infinite Technologies Private Limited (“ELITe”) was incorporated to form the India JV.

Subject to the terms of the relevant governing documents, Ester will be the exclusive producer of specialty polymers for the India JV, and the Company will be the exclusive seller and marketing agent of the India JV’s products. Ester and the Company are contracted to work in collaboration on all financing activities for the India JV pursuant to the terms of the agreement. Pursuant to the terms of the relevant governing documents, Loop and Ester parties are required to obtain debt for a minimum of 60% of the total installed cost of the Infinite Loop™ manufacturing facility in India and will each contribute 50% of the initial equity capital of the India JV.

 

ELITe 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. As such, the Company uses the equity method of accounting to account for its share of the investment in ELITe.

 

During the year ended February 28, 2025, Loop and Ester each contributed $1,954 (2024 – nil) to ELITe to fund preliminary project costs for the planned Infinite Loop™ facility in India, which are mainly engineering costs. ELITe incurred losses of $1,374 (2024 – nil) during the year ended February 28, 2025, resulting in the Company recording a loss on equity accounted investment of $687 (2024 – nil) for the period. As a result, the value of the carrying value of the Company’s investment in ELITe was $1,268 (2024 – nil) as at February 28, 2025.