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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 17 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

The Company’s executive officers and employees, from time to time, make payments for materials and various expense items (including business related travel) in the ordinary course of business via their personal credit cards in lieu of checks drawn on Company accounts. The Company does not provide its employees or executive officers with corporate credit cards. Amounts due these officers and directors (including one of the Company’s directors, the president and chief executive officer, and the controller) are included in accounts payable, related parties, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company paid $17,950 to a related party note holder and current shareholder in exchange for the release and discharge in full of a Company note in the amount of $239,000, which had come due August 3, 2016. As a result of this negotiated settlement with the related party, the Company will recognize a contribution of capital of $221,050 for the year ended December 31, 2016. See Notes 7 and 8.

 

As of December 31, 2016, one of the Company’s directors held four, separate convertible notes issued by the Company. These convertible notes reflect a portion of the aggregate amount that such outside director is owed by the Company for a combination of (i) certain vendor payments made by him on the Company’s behalf, (ii) cash previously advanced to the Company for working capital, and (iii) director’s fees earned through September 15, 2016. One of these notes, in the face amount of $60,000, was issued to a company controlled by the director, is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. Another of these notes, issued to the director personally, is in the face amount of $30,000, is similarly due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. The third of these notes, also issued to the director personally, is in the face amount of $55,500, is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5% and is convertible at $0.007 per share of common stock. The fourth note, issued in the name of the director’s son, is in the face amount of $20,000, is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5% and is convertible at $0.005 per share of common stock. See Notes 7 and 15.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the Company’s outside general counsel held three convertible notes issued by the Company. One such note reflected an amount due for legal services provided for the year ended December 31, 2014 in the amount of $150,000. This note is payable by the Company on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. Another of these notes reflected an amount due for legal services provided for the year ended December 31, 2015 in the amount of $120,000. This note is similarly payable on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5% APR, and is convertible at $0.007 per share of common stock. A third note is in the amount of $10,000, reflects funds advanced to the Company for working capital, is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 12% APR, and is convertible at $0.008 per share of common stock. See Note 7.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the Company had issued a total of six (6) convertible notes to a certain related party investor and significant shareholder. The first such note is in the amount of $100,000, is due on November 13, 2018, together with accrued interest at 10% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. The second such note is also in the amount of $100,000, is due on March 18, 2019, together with accrued interest at 10% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. The third such note is in the amount of $50,000, is due on May 12, 2019, together with accrued interest at 10% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. The fourth such note is in the amount of $100,000, is due on June 7, 2019, together with accrued interest at 10% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. The fifth such note is in the amount of $300,000, is due on July 28, 2019, together with accrued interest at 10% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. And the sixth such note is in the amount of $50,000, is due on demand, together with interest at 10% APR, and is convertible at $0.01 per share of common stock. See Note 7. Furthermore, the current shareholder purchased product from the Company for the year ended December 31, 2015 in the amount of $2,682 which is included in Revenue, related party.

  

As of December 31, 2016, one of the Company’s directors held one convertible note issued by the Company in the face amount of $20,500 (for director’s fees earned through September 15, 2016), which note is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5%, and is convertible at $0.007 per share of common stock. See Note 7.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the Company’s president and chief executive officer held one convertible note issued by the Company representing previously accrued base salary in the amount of $349,329. The note payable is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5%, and is convertible at $0.007 per share of common stock. See Note 7.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the Company’s controller held one convertible note issued by the Company representing previously accrued base salary in the amount of $134,604. The note payable is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5%, and is convertible at $0.007 per share of common stock. See Note 7.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the Company’s vice president of research and development held one convertible note representing previously accrued base salary in the amount of $49,000. The note payable is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5%, and is convertible at $0.007 per share of common stock. See Note 7.

 

As of December 31, 2016, an independent contractor who had been the president of one of EcoSmart’s divisions prior to the merger with the Company, who is also shareholder of the Company, held one convertible note representing accrued earnings in the amount of $25,700. The note payable is due on demand, together with accrued interest at 4.5%, and is convertible at $0.007 per share of common stock. See Note 7.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the Company had entered into an operating agreement with Advanced Nanofibers LLC (“Advanced”). Advanced is a variable interest entity of which the Company owned a minority 24.875% interest at December 31, 2016 and is considered the primary beneficiary based on qualitative and quantitative features. Advanced is a Florida-based, nano-technology firm founded in September 2016 by the Company and two other technology firms as a collaborative joint venture focused on globally broadening the utilization of nanoparticle-enhanced nanofibers across a diverse range of mass-market industrial and consumer applications. The three entity members of Advanced include the Company, Nanotech Fibers LLC, and EnVont, LLC. The Company’s president and chief executive officer currently holds a 18.75% equity interest in Nanotech Fibers LLC through a closely held private Florida limited liability company, August Center Street Holdings LLC. August Center Street Holdings is owned 75% by the Company’s president and chief executive officer and 25% by the Company’s general counsel.

 

During the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, the Company recorded revenue for sales to shareholders in the amount of $66,979 and $16,616, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2016, one shareholder accounted for approximately 15% of Company revenue and, as a group, the sales to shareholders accounted for approximately 21% of Company revenues. These revenues are recorded as revenue, related party on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations.