REPEAT - EarthRenew Announces Close of Second Tranche Financing; Immediate Use of Funds to Purchase Equipment to Support Reco...
14 October 2020 - 11:00PM
EarthRenew Inc. (CSE:ERTH) (“EarthRenew” or the “Company”) is
pleased to provide a progress update on the redevelopment of its
facility in Strathmore, Alberta. The Company is close to finalizing
the engineering and redesign phase and, as such, is negotiating
purchase orders for long-lead equipment. This primarily includes a
purpose-built dryer that is critical to EarthRenew’s patented waste
heat recovery process. The ordering of this equipment is expected
to support the recommissioning of the facility for the spring of
2021.
EarthRenew is also pleased to announce that it
has closed the second and last tranche of a previously announced
non-brokered private placement financing of units (each, a “Unit”)
at a price of CDN$0.30 per Unit (the “Offering”) for gross proceeds
of CDN$815,000 (the “Second Tranche”). For more information on the
Offering and the first tranche, please see the Company’s press
releases dated June 9, 2020 and July 24, 2020, respectively, which
are available under the Company’s profiles on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com and www.thecse.com.
Pursuant to the Second Tranche, EarthRenew
issued 2,716,667 Units at a price of CDN$0.30 per Unit. Each Unit
consists of one common share of the Company (each, a “Common
Share”) and one-half of one Common Share purchase warrant (each
whole warrant, a “Warrant”), entitling the holder to acquire one
additional Common Share at an exercise price of CDN$0.45 for a
period of 24 months from issuance. If at any time after four months
and one day from the closing of the Second Tranche, the Common
Shares trade at CDN$0.90 per Common Share or higher on the Canadian
Securities Exchange for a period of 30 consecutive days, the
Company will have the right (but not the obligation) to accelerate
the expiry date of the Warrants to the date that is 30 days after
the Company issues a news release announcing that it has elected to
exercise this acceleration right. The securities issued in
connection with the Second Tranche are subject to a statutory four
month hold period, which expires on February 14, 2020. Finder’s
fees were paid to PI Financial and Echelon Capital Markets in
accordance with the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange
consisting of cash commissions equal to CDN$56,000 and $1,050,
respectively, and the issuance of 186,667 and 3,500 finder
warrants, respectively (“Finder Warrants”). Each Finder Warrant
entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share at a price
of $0.45 per Common Share for a period of 24 months, expiring on
October 13, 2022.
Use of ProceedsThe net proceeds of the Second
Tranche are expected to be used for costs incurred for capital
equipment purchases, engineering and construction costs for the
redevelopment of the Strathmore facility, feasibility studies on
future projects, field and research trials, market development
activities, working capital for the ramp-up of our operations at
the Strathmore facility and general corporate purposes. We estimate
that this financing will put the Company in a position to fully
fund the redevelopment of EarthRenew’s Strathmore facility and
begin exploring development of a potential new facility in the
Southwest, United States.
“This second tranche provides us with the
comfort that we need to have a sufficient amount of capital to move
forward with the Strathmore recommissioning and pursue US expansion
opportunities over the next 12 months,” Keith Driver, CEO of
EarthRenew, commented. “We will be placing orders on the long-lead
equipment such as the dryer so that we can complete the final
redesign of the Strathmore facility over the coming months with a
target to commence production of our organic fertilizer at the
facility in time for the 2021 spring planting. We believe that
recent successful field trials conducted in conjunction with Olds
College and Lethbridge College have helped us to refine our product
offerings and will convince our customer base of the efficacy of
our fertilizer when they are making their purchasing
decisions.”
A director of the Company subscribed for Units
pursuant to the Second Tranche (the “Insider Participation”). The
Insider Participation is considered to be a “related party
transaction” as defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 –
Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions
(“MI 61-101”). The Insider Participation is exempt from the formal
valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI
61-101. The Company did not file a material change report more than
21 days before closing the Second Tranche as the details of the
abovementioned Insider Participation were not settled until shortly
prior to closing, and the Company wished to close the Second
Tranche on an expedited basis.
About EarthRenew
EarthRenew’s mission is to support a farm system
that puts healthy soils and grower profitability back on the table.
EarthRenew transforms livestock waste into a
high-performance organic fertilizer to be used by organic and
traditional growers in Canada and the United States. Located on a
25,000 head cattle feedlot, our flagship Strathmore plant is
capable of producing up to four megawatts (MW) per hour of low-cost
electricity powered by a natural gas fired turbine. The exhausted
heat from the turbine is used to convert manure into certified
organic fertilizer.
For additional information, please contact:
Keith DriverCEO of EarthRenew+1 (403) 860-8623Email:
kdriver@earthrenew.ca
Cautionary Note regarding
Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains "forward-looking
information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities
legislation. Forward-looking information includes, but is not
limited to, statements with respect to the Second Tranche,
including the Company’s intended use of proceeds, and other matters
related thereto, the anticipated purchase of long-lead equipment,
the Strathmore facility redesign and refurbishment, US expansion
opportunities, the timeline for recommencing fertilizer production
at the Strathmore facility, the development of a potential new
facility in the Southwest United States, and the anticipated
purchasing decisions of our customer base. Generally,
forward-looking information can be identified by the use of
forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not
expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates",
"forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or
"believes", or variations of such words and phrases or statements
that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would",
"might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved".
Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results,
level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be
materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking information, including but not limited to: general
business, economic, competitive, geopolitical and social
uncertainties; regulatory risks; and other risks of the energy and
fertilizer industries. Although the Company has attempted to
identify important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in forward-looking
information, there may be other factors that cause results not to
be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance
that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results
and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in
such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not
undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in
accordance with applicable securities laws.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its
Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the
Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the
adequacy or accuracy of this release.
1 Long-lead equipment is equipment that is not
readily available on demand.
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