UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 20-FR
REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR 12(g) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For fiscal years ended: December 31, 2005
Commission File Number: 000-51180
Poly-Pacific International Inc.
(Exact Name of the Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Alberta, Canada
(Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
Unit A, 4755 Zinfandel Court
Ontario, California 91761
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: NONE
Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
Common shares, no par value
(Title of Class)
Preferred shares, no par value
(Title of Class)
Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act: NONE
The number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer's classes of capital or common shares as of the close of the period covered by the annual report:
18,885,456 Common Shares and 0 (zero) Preferred Shares
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes: ¨ No: x
Indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow:
Item 17: x Item 18: ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed all documents and reports required to be filed by Sections 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court.
Not applicable
EXPLANATORY NOTE REGARDING FORM 20-FR | | 4 |
GENERAL | | 4 |
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS | | 4 |
PART I | | 5 |
ITEM 1. IDENTITY OF DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND ADVISORS | | 5 |
A. Directors and Senior Management | | 5 |
Table 1.1—Company Directors and Officers | | 5 |
B. Advisers | | 5 |
C. Auditors | | 5 |
ITEM 2. OFFER STATISTICS AND EXPECTED TIME TABLE | | 6 |
ITEM 3. KEY INFORMATION | | 6 |
A. Selected Financial Data | | 6 |
Table 3.1—Summary of Financial Statements in United States GAAP | | 6 |
Table 3.2—Effects of Currency Translation and Conversion | | 7 |
B. Capitalization and Indebtedness | | 8 |
C. Reasons for the Offer and Use of Proceeds | | 8 |
D. Risk Factors | | 8 |
ITEM 4. INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY | | 13 |
A. History and Development of the Company | | 13 |
B. Business Overview | | 14 |
PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIA | | 15 |
Plastic Media Development and Testing | | 15 |
MultiCut Blasting Media | | 16 |
Lease and Recycle Blasting Media | | 16 |
Raw Materials Supply | | 17 |
Competition in the Blasting Media Industry | | 17 |
RECYCLED PLASTIC LUMBER | | 18 |
Entry to the Business | | 18 |
Recycled Plastic Lumber Development and Testing | | 18 |
Recycled Plastic Lumber Products | | 18 |
Markets and Marketing | | 19 |
Manufacturing | | 19 |
Raw Materials Supply | | 20 |
Competition in the Recycled Plastic Lumber Industry | | 20 |
Competition with Wood Lumber | | 21 |
Governmental Regulations | | 21 |
General Applicability | | 21 |
Our Operations | | 22 |
GENERAL COMPANY INFORMATION | | 23 |
Warranties | | 23 |
Customer Dependence | | 23 |
Seasonality | | 24 |
Property, Plants and Equipment | | 24 |
Planned Expansion Development | | 25 |
ITEM 5. OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW AND PROSPECTS | | 26 |
Company's Critical Accounting Policies | | 26 |
A. Operating Results | | 31 |
Table 5.1—Summary of Operations for the Blasting Media | | 31 |
Table 5.2—Summary of Operations for the Plastic Lumber | | 31 |
Operating Results Narrative for the Year Ended December 31, 2004 | | 33 |
Operating Results Narrative for the Year Ended December 31, 2003 | | 33 |
Operating Results Narrative for the Year Ended December 31, 2002 | | |
General Comments Relating to Operations Results | | 34 |
B. Liquidity and Capital Resources | | 34 |
C. Research and Development, Patents and Licenses | | 36 |
D. Trend Information | | 37 |
E. Off Balance Sheet Arrangements | | 37 |
F. Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations | | 38 |
ITEM 6. DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES | | 38 |
A. Directors and Senior Management | | |
B. Compensation | | |
C. Board Practices | | 40 |
D. Employees | | 40 |
E. Share Ownership | | 41 |
ITEM 7. MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS | | 42 |
A. Major Shareholders | | 42 |
B. Related Party Transactions | | 43 |
C. Interests of Experts and Counsel | | 43 |
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL INFORMATION | | 43 |
A. Consolidated Financial Statements and Other Financial Information | | 43 |
Consolidated Financial Statements for December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002 | | 45 |
B. Significant Changes | | 68 |
ITEM 9. THE OFFER AND LISTING | | 68 |
Table 9.1—History on TSX Venture Exchange (in Canadian Dollars) | | 68 |
ITEM 10. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | | 69 |
A. Share Capital | | 69 |
Common Shares | | 69 |
Preferred Shares | | 70 |
Share Capital Changes | | 71 |
B. Memorandum and Articles of Association | | 71 |
C. Material Contracts | | 72 |
D. Exchange Controls | | 72 |
E. Taxation | | 74 |
F. Dividend and Paying Agents | | 77 |
G. Statement by Experts | | 78 |
H. Documents on Display | | 78 |
I. Subsidiary Information | | 78 |
ITEM 11. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK | | 78 |
ITEM 12. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES OTHER THAN EQUITY SECURITIES | | 78 |
PART II | | 79 |
ITEM 13. DEFAULTS, DIVIDEND ARREARAGES AND DELINQUENCIES | | 79 |
ITEM 14. MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS AND USE OF PROCEEDS | | 79 |
ITEM 15. CONTROL AND PROCEDURES | | 79 |
ITEM 16. RESERVED | | 79 |
A. Audit Committee Financial Expert | | 79 |
B. Code Of Ethics | | 79 |
C. Principal Accountant Fees And Services | | 79 |
D. Exemption From Listing Standards For Audit Committees | | 79 |
E. Purchases Of Equity Securities By The Issuer And Affiliated Persons | | 79 |
PART III | | 80 |
ITEM 17. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | | 80 |
ITEM 18. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | | 80 |
ITEM 19. EXHIBITS | | 80 |
SIGNATURE | | 81 |
This Form 20-FR is filed for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004, and 2003.
GENERAL
Unless the context otherwise requires, the "Registrant" means Poly-Pacific International Inc. and the "Company" means the Registrant.
The Registrant uses the Canadian dollar as its reporting currency. Unless otherwise indicated, all references in this document to "dollars" or "$" are expressed in Canadian dollars. Also, see Item 3 "Key Information" Table 3.2 for more detailed currency and conversion information.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
Some of the statements contained in this Report that are not historical facts, including, statements made in the sections entitled Item 3-"Key Information," Item 4-"Information on the Company" and Item 5-"Operating and Financial Review and Prospects," are statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management's current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the statements. Actual results, performance or events may differ materially from those in the statements due to, without limitation, (i) general economic conditions, (ii) performance of financial markets, (iii) interest rate levels, (iv) currency exchange rates, (v) changes in laws and regulations, (vi) changes in the policies of central banks and/or foreign governments, and (vii) competitive factors, in each case on a global, regional and/or national basis. See Item 5-"Operating and Financial Review and Prospects."
The forward looking statements contained herein are based on the Company's assumptions regarding world economic and market conditions the price and supply of raw materials. Among the factors that have a direct bearing on the Company's future results of operations and financial conditions are the successful development of the Company's projects and a change in government regulations, leverage and debt service, competition, cost of certain raw materials, currency fluctuations and restrictions, technological changes, and other factors discussed herein. The Company's actual results of operations may vary significantly from the performance projected in the forward looking statements.
PART I
ITEM 1. IDENTITY OF DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND ADVISORS
A. Directors and Senior Management
Table 1.1—Company Directors and Officers
Name | | Position | | Business Address |
| | | | |
Tom Lam | | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director | | 4287 B Dawson Street Burnaby, British Columbia V5C 453 |
| | | | |
Don Quon | | Director | | 212 Christie Park Green SW Calgary, Alberta T3H 2V4 |
| | | | |
David Tam | | Director, Secretary and Canadian Counsel | | 1500 Manulife Place 10180 - 101 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4K1 |
| | | | |
Mike Duff | | Director | | 2380 Commerce Place 10155 - 102 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4G8 |
| | | | |
Edward Chambers | | Director | | 2835 Lansdowne Road Victoria, British Columbia V3R 3P8 |
B. Advisers
In California, the Company banks with East West Bank at 23670 Hawthorn Blvd., Torrence, CA 90505 The telephone number for East West Bank is 310-791-2800 and the contact person is Allen Huang. In Alberta, the Company banks with the Bank of Nova Scotia (ScotiaBank) at 11508 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 0M8. The telephone number for the ScotiaBank is 780-448-7930 and the contact person is Angela Yuen. The Company’s Canadian corporate legal advisor is David Tam who is a partner in Parlee McLaws LLP. The address for Parlee McLaws is 1500 Manulife Place, 10180 - 101 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4K1. The telephone number for David Tam is 780-423-8662.
C. Auditors
The Company’s auditor is Collins Barrow Edmonton LLP, Chartered Accountants, 1550, 10250 - 101 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 3P4, telephone 780-428-1522. The audit contact partner is Samuel C. H. Yeung, C.A., C.F.A.
Collins Barrow Edmonton has memberships in the Canadian Public Accounting Board (CPAB), Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA); and is registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).
ITEM 2. OFFER STATISTICS AND EXPECTED TIME TABLE
Not applicable.
ITEM 3. KEY INFORMATION
A. Selected Financial Data
The selected financial data set forth below have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements. Our consolidated financial statements for fiscal years ended December 31 have been audited by Collins Barrow Edmonton LLP, Chartered Accountants. The selected financial data should be read in conjunction with and are qualified by reference to the Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 included elsewhere in the Exhibits to this Report.
Our financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in the United States.
All amounts are shown in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise specified.
Table 3.1—Summary of Financial Statements in United States GAAP
Summary of annual financial statements for the prior five years are presented in this table. All amounts are shown in Canadian dollars and prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The summaries for 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002 are taken from the audited financial statements included elsewhere in this report. The summary of 2001 is taken from financial statements that were previously audited in accordance with Canadian GAAP with unaudited adjustments made to convert the summaries to U.S. GAAP reporting requirements.
Poly-Pacific International Inc.
| | Year ended 31/12/2005 | | Year ended 31/12/2004 | | Year ended 31/12/2003 | | Year ended 31/12/2002 | | Year ended 31/12/2001 (unaudited) | |
Total Consolidated Revenues | | | 3,052,716 | | | 3,819,057 | | | 4,242,326 | | | 3,719,163 | | | 3,764,244 | |
Total Operating Expenses | | | 3,052,716 | | | 4,041,414 | | | 4554,582 | | | 4,753,279 | | | 3,416,702 | |
Income tax expense (recovery) | | | 174,750 | | | 19,392 | | | (154,134 | ) | | (167,844 | ) | | 74,556 | |
Net Income (Loss) from operations | | | (1,161,662 | ) | | (241,749 | ) | | (158,122 | ) | | (866,272 | ) | | 272,986 | |
Discount on Redemption of Preferred Shares | | | — | | | — | | | 613,806 | | | — | | | — | |
Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Shareholders | | | (1,161,662 | ) | | (241,749 | ) | | 455,684 | | | (866,272 | ) | | 272,986 | |
Net Income (Loss) per share | | | (0.09 | ) | | (0.03 | ) | | 0.05 | | | (0.09 | ) | | 0.03 | |
Diluted Earnings (Loss) per share | | | (0.09 | ) | | (0.03 | ) | | 0.04 | | | (0.09 | ) | | 0.02 | |
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Total Assets | | | 2,111,503 | | | 3,628,977 | | | 3,911,897 | | | 5,243,404 | | | 5,138,447 | |
Long term obligations | | | — | | | 137,820 | | | 1,785,766 | | | 187,260 | | | 211,980 | |
Share Subscription | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Additional Paid in Capital | | | 731,170 | | | 697,474 | | | 672,202 | | | 58,396 | | | 58,396 | |
Accumulated Comprehensive Income | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | |
Common Shares Capital | | | 1,998,538 | | | 865,584 | | | 865,584 | | | 865,584 | | | 865,584 | |
Preferred Shares Capital | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 2,967,036 | | | 2,967,036 | |
Retained Earnings (Deficit) | | | (2,061,055 | ) | | (899,393 | ) | | (657,644 | ) | | (499,522 | ) | | 366,750 | |
Total Shareholders Equity | | | 721,848 | | | 716,860 | | | 933,337 | | | 3,444,689 | | | 4,310,961 | |
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Common Shares outstanding | | | 18,885,456 | | | 9,361,624 | | | 9,361,624 | | | 9,361,624 | | | 9,480,506 | |
Weighted Average - Diluted Shares | | | 12,536,235 | | | 9,361,624 | | | 12,031,813 | | | 9,361,624 | | | 14,607,961 | |
Table 3.2—Effects of Currency Translation and Conversion
The following tables set forth: (i) the rates of exchange for the Canadian dollar, expressed in U.S. dollars, in effect at each of the periods indicated; (ii) the average exchange rates in effect on the last day of each period; (iii) the high and low exchange rate during such periods, in each case based on the noon buying rate in New York City for cable transfers in Canadian dollars as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; (iv) annual prices based for the period January 1 to December 31 yearly; and (v) monthly prices based for the first to last reported day each month for the most recent six months, and quoted in U.S. dollars.
Annual Periods | | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | | 2002 | | 2001 | |
Rate at end of period | | | 0.8576 | | | 0.8310 | | | 0.7738 | | | 0.6329 | | | 0.6279 | |
Average rate during period | | | 0.8253 | | | 0.7696 | | | 0.7159 | | | 0.6294 | | | 0.6460 | |
High Rate | | | 0.8672 | | | 0.8493 | | | 0.7738 | | | 0.6619 | | | 0.6697 | |
Low Rate | | | 0.7853 | | | 0.7158 | | | 0.6349 | | | 0.6200 | | | 0.6241 | |
Monthly Periods | | | May/06 | | | Apr/06 | | | Mar/06 | | | Feb/06 | | | Jan/05 | | | Dec/05 | |
Rate at end of period | | | 0.9068 | | | 0.8926 | | | 0.8568 | | | 0.8787 | | | 0.8742 | | | 0.8577 | |
Average rate during period | | | 0.9013 | | | 0.8742 | | | 0.8640 | | | 0.8704 | | | 0.8640 | | | 0.8613 | |
High Rate | | | 0.9099 | | | 0.8959 | | | 0.8850 | | | 0.8809 | | | 0.8794 | | | 0.8751 | |
Low Rate | | | 0.8983 | | | 0.8496 | | | 0.8513 | | | 0.7853 | | | 0.8479 | | | 0.8508 | |
On June 20, 2006, the noon buying rate in New York City for cable transfer in Canadian dollars as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as $0.8926 USD = $1.00 CDN.
B. Capitalization and Indebtedness
Capitalization of Poly-Pacific International Inc. in Canadian Dollars | |
Description | | Authorized | | Balance at December 31, 2005 | |
Bank Line of Credit | | $ | 500,000. USD | | $ | 518,870. | |
Equipment Loan | | | N/A | | $ | 202,460. | |
Mortgage Payable | | | N/A | | $ | —. | |
Debentures | | | N/A | | $ | 85,000 | |
Common Shares | | | Unlimited (18,885,456 issued | ) | $ | 1,998,538 | |
C. Reasons for the Offer and Use of Proceeds
Not applicable.
The following is a brief discussion of those distinctive or special characteristics of the Company's operations and industry which may have a material impact on the Company's business development, or constitute risk factors in respect of the Company's financial performance.
Our financial resources may impede our ability to implement our business plan.
The Company business plan delineates its intent to expand through addition of new facilities for manufacturing recycled plastic lumber, which would require a new capital investment of $3 million if the expansion is to be implemented within the proposed plan time frame. However, the Company has insufficient funds available to meet this obligation, no source of necessary funding identified, and no assurance that sufficient new investment funding will be available to it for this future expansion and development. Failure to obtain such additional financing could result in delay or indefinite postponement of further expansion through development of this project.
As a result of our acquisition or lease of real estate, we may become liable for the remediation and/or removal of hazardous or toxic substances from that real estate which could result in a decrease in our operating income and shares price.
From time to time, we acquire or lease storage facilities or other properties in connection with the operation of our business. Under various Canadian laws and U.S. federal, state, or local environmental laws, ordinances, and regulations, we could be required to investigate and clean up hazardous or toxic substances or chemical releases at properties we acquire or lease. We could also be held liable to a governmental entity or to third parties for property damage, personal injury, and investigation and cleanup costs incurred by those parties in connection with any contamination. The costs of investigation, remediation, or removal of hazardous or toxic substances may be substantial, and the presence of those substances, or the failure to properly remediate a property, may adversely affect our ability to sell or rent a property or to borrow using a property as collateral. In addition, we could be subject to common law claims by third parties based on damages and costs resulting from environmental contamination emanating from these properties, which could result in a decline in our shares price.
Because our plastic lumber products are relatively new, we may encounter resistance from prospective customers which could result in greater costs and a decline in our shares price.
The reclamation and recycling of plastic and the manufacture of plastic lumber for use in agriculture is relatively new. A general reluctance exists in the agricultural markets to embrace new products before they have been extensively used in particular locales. We may experience resistance from prospective customers who are accustomed to more conventional, natural wood and other materials. The result could be a need to broaden our marketing efforts in support of the network of dealers, which would increase our costs and could cause a decline in our shares price.
If we are not able to obtain our raw materials at commercially reasonable terms, our earnings may be reduced which could result in a decrease in our shares price.
The availability of low-cost raw materials, namely post-consumer and industrial plastic waste products, is a material factor in our costs of operations. The unavailability, scarcity, or increased cost of these raw materials could affect our profitability. We purchase most of our raw materials through generators of post-consumer and industrial recycled plastic materials. Disruption of our supply sources could reduce our earnings and result in a decrease in our shares price.
A lack of uniform standards exists in the plastic lumber industry in which we operate, and that could restrict the growth of plastic lumber products and limit the market for these products, which could result in decreased revenues and a decline in our shares price.
The American Society for Testing and Materials and other industry trade organizations have established general standards and methods for measuring the characteristics of specific building materials. Users of building materials (and frequently, issuers of building codes) generally specify that the building materials comply with the standards relative to the proposed applications. Since uniform, recognized standards or methods have only recently been established for measuring the characteristics of plastic lumber, potential users may not be aware of this method of judging whether or not plastic lumber may be suitable for their particular requirements, without being informed of these standards by the plastic lumber supplier or otherwise becoming aware of them. The fact that these standards are not well known for plastic lumber may limit the market potential for our building materials and make potential purchasers of these building materials reluctant to use them and result in decreased revenues and a decline in our shares price.
Because the industries in which we operate are subject to extensive regulation, the cost of complying with those regulations, or the liability for not complying, could become substantial which could reduce our revenues and result in a decrease in our shares price.
Our business is subject to extensive laws and regulations designed to protect the environment from toxic wastes and hazardous substances or emissions and to provide a safe workplace for employees. Under current U.S. federal regulations, the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility, Compensation, and Liability Act, the generator of toxic or hazardous waste is financially and legally responsible for that waste forever, and is strictly liable for the clean up and disposal costs. Canada has similar laws and regulations. We estimate that the Company has spent over $500,000 for materials and products testing, applications for environmental approvals, and related matters over the past eight years. We believe we are either in material compliance with all currently applicable laws and regulations or that we are operating in accordance with appropriate variances or similar arrangements, but we cannot be sure that we will always be deemed in compliance, nor can we be sure that compliance with current laws and regulations will not require significant capital expenditures that could have a material adverse effect on our operations. These laws and regulations are subject to change and could become more stringent in the future. Although state and federal legislation currently provides for procurement preferences for recycled materials, the preferences for materials containing waste plastics are dependent upon the eventual promulgation of product or performance standard guidelines by state or federal regulatory agencies. The guidelines for recycled plastic building materials may not be released or, if released, the product performance standards required by those guidelines may be incompatible with our manufacturing capabilities. It may be necessary to expend considerable time, effort and money to keep our existing or acquired facilities in compliance with applicable environmental, zoning, health, and safety regulations as to which there may not be adequate insurance coverage. In addition, due to the possibility of unanticipated factual or regulatory developments, the amounts and timing of future environmental expenditures and compliance could vary substantially from those currently anticipated.
Our key management decisions are made by our Mr. Thomas Lam, our president, and if we lose his services, our ability to generate revenues may be reduced.
Our success is dependent on the efforts of Mr. Thomas Lam, our president. We maintain $2 million in key person life insurance on Mr. Lam. Because Mr. Lam is currently essential to our operations, we rely on his management decisions and continuing service. Our President will continue to control our business affairs after the effective date of this registration statement. We have an employment agreement in place with him, which includes a two-year non-compete in respect of the plastic media business, and a two-year agreement to further protect the interests of the Company and its affiliates through non-solicitation of any customers, employees or agents of the Company, or any of its affiliates. However, if we lose his services unexpectedly, we may not be able to readily hire and retain another president with comparable experience.
You may experience difficulties in attempting to enforce liabilities based upon U.S. federal securities laws against us and our non-U.S. operating subsidiary and our and their non-U.S. resident directors and officers.
We and one operating subsidiary are located in Canada and our non U.S. subsidiary’s principal assets are located outside the United States. Our and their directors and executive officers are foreign citizens and do not reside in the United States. It may be difficult for courts in the United States to obtain jurisdiction over these foreign assets or persons and as a result, it may be difficult or impossible for you to enforce judgments rendered against us or our directors or executive officers in United States courts. In addition, the courts in the countries in which we and our non-U.S. subsidiary are organized or where we and our subsidiary’s assets are located may not permit lawsuits of the enforcement of judgments arising out of the United States and state securities or similar laws.
Sales of our common shares under Rule 144 could reduce the price of our shares.
As of April 1, 2006, there are 6,100,979 shares of our common shares held by non-affiliates and 12,784,477 shares of our common shares held by affiliates that Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933 defines as restricted securities.
Ninety days after this registration statement is effective, the shares of our common shares can be freely resold under Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, except for any shares held by our "affiliates," which will be restricted by the resale limitations of Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, since the non-affiliated persons who own them have held those securities for more than two years. Affiliates may sell subject to price, volume and other limitations of Rule 144. The availability for sale of substantial amounts of common shares under Rule 144 could reduce prevailing prices for our securities.
We are authorized to issue preferred shares which, if issued, may reduce the price of the common shares.
Although no preferred shares are currently issued and outstanding, our directors are authorized by our Articles of Incorporation, as amended, to issue of preferred shares in series without the consent of our shareholders. Our preferred shares, if and when issued, may rank senior to common shares with respect to payment of dividends and amounts received by shareholders upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up. The issuance of preferred shares in series and the preferences given the preferred shares must be made by a Resolution of Directors, but do not need the approval of our shareholders. The existence of rights, which are senior to common shares, may reduce the price of our common shares.
Because we do not have a compensation committee, shareholders will have to rely on the entire board of directors, two members of which are not independent, to perform this function.
We do not have a compensation committee comprised of independent directors. Indeed, we do not have a compensation committee. This function is performed by the board of directors as a whole in respect of compensation of officers of the corporation. Mr. Thomas Lam, President, and Mr. David Tam, Secretary and Corporate Counsel, as members of the board of directors are not independent directors. The Board of Directors does not have a formally appointed compensation committee, but performs this function as a whole in respect of compensation of officers of the corporation, with any officer who is also a director being excluded from the deliberations of the other directors in respect of that officer’s compensation. Thus, there is a potential conflict in that board members who are not independent may participate in discussions concerning management compensation other than their compensation and other issues that may affect management decisions.
Because there is not now and may never be a U.S. public market for our common shares, investors may have difficulty in reselling their shares.
Our common shares are currently not quoted on any U.S. market. No U.S. market may ever develop for our common shares, or if developed, may not be sustained in the future. Accordingly, our shares should be considered totally illiquid in U.S. markets, which inhibit investors’ ability to resell their shares.
Because our common shares are a penny stock, trading in the common shares involves increased risks concerning price fluctuation, additional disclosure requirements and a lack of a liquid market.
Our shares will be "penny stocks" as that term is generally defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to mean equity securities with a price of less than $5.00. Our shares thus will be subject to rules that impose sales practice and disclosure requirements on broker-dealers who engage in certain transactions involving a penny stock.
Under the penny stock regulations, a broker-dealer selling a penny stock to anyone other than an established customer or accredited investor must make a special suitability determination regarding the purchaser and must receive the purchaser's written consent to the transaction prior to the sale, unless the broker-dealer is otherwise exempt.
Because of these regulations, broker-dealers may encounter difficulties in their attempt to sell shares of our common stock, which may affect the ability of selling shareholders or other holders to sell their shares in the secondary market and have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market. These additional sales practice and disclosure requirements could impede the sale of our securities. This lower trading volume can cause price fluctuations. In addition, the liquidity for our securities will be decreased, with a corresponding decrease in the price of our securities. Accordingly, our shareholders will, in all likelihood, find it difficult more to sell their securities.
Because a portion of convertible debentures issued in 2003 remains outstanding as at the date of this report, there is a potential for some dilution in share values.
The holders of the $85,000 in convertible debentures outstanding as at the date of this report might decide to act on the conversion if the common shares value rises above the conversion price. If this event was to occur it would have the effect of diluting the earnings per share by about 3.0%, which could decrease the value of the Company’s common shares.
Because a substantial portion of the Company’s revenues are derived in U.S. Dollars rather than Canadian dollars, changes in the exchange rate can result in substantial foreign exchange losses and result in a decrease in the price of our shares.
If we are deemed to be a Foreign Private Investment Company, U. S. investors who invest in our securities may suffer adverse tax consequences.
If we are deemed to be a Foreign Private Investment Company, U. S. investors who invest in our securities may suffer adverse tax consequences. Including being subject to U.S. taxation at possibly adverse or higher rates and under a system that may be more complicated and unfamiliar to them.
ITEM 4. INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY
A. History and Development of the Company
Poly-Pacific International Inc. is an Alberta Canada corporation number 20671721, which was registered on October 25, 1995 with the purpose of forming a Junior Capital Pool. The initial public offer raised $300,000 in equity capital upon closing on January 22, 1996. Our common shares currently trades only in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange, symbol PMB. The Junior Capital Pool acquired the business of Poly-Pacific Inc., a privately held company that began operations in 1989, through an exchange of shares that brought in the $500,000 previously raised through private placements.
In 1989 the predecessor company, Poly-Pacific Inc., a plastics injection molder, had initiated research to develop plastic blasting media from the scrap by products of its production operations. The intent was to reduce the quantities of scrap being buried in landfills, and to create products suitable to US Military needs for stripping paint from aircraft. The research resulted in the development of MultiCut plastic blasting media that is made from scrap thermoset plastics and scrap acrylic thermoplastics. By 1995 the processes were refined to produce consistent quality products meeting US Military specifications as well as those of the defense industries in Canada and the U.K. The media business was vended into Poly-Pacific International Inc. in 1996.
At the urging of the US military, in 1996 the plastic blasting media industry began moving away from simply selling the media by adding a service to take back the used media and recycle it into other products, saving the customers from having to find alternate means of disposal. Through research in conjunction with the Alberta Research Council, the Company developed a process for incorporating spent media into recycled plastic lumber in a manner that satisfied regulatory control needs of government environmental departments and protection agencies. The Company proceeded to acquire the equipment for producing recycled plastic lumber as a second product line to be marketed throughout Canada and the USA. A wholly owned subsidiary, Everwood Agricultural Products International Inc., an Ontario, Canada corporation number 1308111, was formed on July 29, 1998 upon the purchase of the assets of Everwood Agricultural Products Inc.
The plastic blasting media contracts, whether for provision of product only or for lease and recycle sales, are issued on the same product performance and delivery terms for both commercial and government customers. However, many of the commercial customer contract can be for one year or less, with some being for up to three years, while the US Military contracts are for five-year terms with agreed prices for each year.
The proprietary technology processes and the equipment used to manufacture both product lines have been further improved over the years. The Company developed a continuous line process for producing MultiCut plastic blasting media to specified sizes. Then, when the events of 9/11 resulted in more pressure for the military to buy primarily from US Small Business, the Company determined that it was advisable to relocate the media manufacturing to its second wholly owned subsidiary, Poly-Pacific Technologies Inc., a California corporation number C2045209, that was formed on June 24, 1999. The new media line was installed and perfected at a leased plant facility in Ontario, California in 2002, and it became the primary facility for manufacturing and operations. In October 2003 the Company added equipment to produce dimensional recycled plastic lumber at this plant.
The address of our principal executive offices is Unit A, 4755 Zinfandel Court, Ontario, California 91761, telephone: (909) 390-7799. The name and address of our registered agent in Canada is: Parlee McLaws LLP, 1500 Manulife Place, 10180 - 101 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4K1.
The capital expenditures during the past three years have been for the plant relocation, equipment additions, and installation for the media production line in Ontario, California totaling $790,000; and for acquisition and installation of the recycled plastic lumber extrusion line in Ontario, California totaling $650,000. There have not been any material capital divestitures since the inception of the Company.
B. Business Overview
Poly-Pacific Technologies Inc. is a California based manufacturer of plastic blasting media. Plastic blasting media products are used to strip paint and other coatings from aluminum, fiberglass and other similar materials, reducing the use of toxic and hazardous chemical strippers. Our plastic blasting media is made from scrap thermoset plastics and scrap acrylic thermoplastics, which have been used to make products such as electrical switches and fittings, dice and game pieces, dinner ware, display signs, airplane windows, and automotive parts.
Our California subsidiary also makes recycled plastic lumber from spent blasting media and post consumer plastics using the process that was developed for our subsidiary in Canada.
Everwood Agricultural Products International Inc is a manufacturer of recycled plastic lumber that is made from spent plastic blasting media taken back from blasting media customers, in combination with recyclable post consumer plastics. The recycled plastic lumber products made are beams and fence posts that are being sold to the agricultural industries.
Since inception, our initial focus has been on MultiCut plastic blasting media and developing the technology to provide these products to military, commercial and industrial customers. Poly-Pacific entered the development of processes for recycled plastic lumber as the means to take back spent blasting media from its customers and recycle it.
We first obtained an International Standards Organization, or ISO, certification in 1997, and are now ISO 9001:2000 certified for the production of MultiCut plastic blasting media. The ISO certification provides assurances to commercial customers in the USA, Canada and overseas that the products are made with strict adherence to international quality standards that determine how the products will perform. This certification has only been sought for, and applied to, the plastic blasting media because it is used in servicing and manufacturing operations where the users want advance assurance that it will meet their specifications and perform as expected.
The most substantial proportion of our products, an average of 80% during the past five years, is sold in the USA. A further 10% of our revenues are earned in Canada, with a similar proportion being realized from international export sales.
The Company is not dependent on patents or special licensing for the manufacturing and distribution of either the MultiCut plastic blasting media or the recycled plastic lumber products. The equipment used in all of its production processes is generally available and is used by various manufacturers to produce different types of products. The uniqueness of the Company’s products and their quality and performance characteristics is established through the closely held, proprietary technology that the Company has developed to modify the equipment to meet its specific product needs. The proprietary technology is protected by strict confidentiality agreements that must be signed by all employees and agents of the Company, as well as any suppliers, customers, inspectors or visitors who are granted access to the production facilities for any reason whatsoever.
The Company relies upon product testing and periodic submissions to approving authorities to ensure that both of its product lines meet required standards. This includes periodic performance testing to ensure that specific MultiCut media products meet the US Military standards, as well as testing on request to ensure that the recycling processes and products continue to meet all environmental protection agency requirements. The Company’s manufacturing facilities are also subject to compliance inspections by governmental approving authorities at any time. Since inception all such testing, inspection and other requirements for the Company have not only been met but have exceeded legal expectations continuously.
PLASTIC BLASTING MEDIA
Plastic Media Development and Testing
The predecessor company, Poly-Pacific Inc., began its plastic media product research in 1989, recognizing that special equipment had to be created to get consistent results. From 1989 through 1992, the company undertook a joint venture project with the Alberta Research Council (ARC) to explore alternative materials and processes for creating contaminant-free products. Research with scrap thermoset plastics determined which equipment was best to create the sizes and shapes needed for MultiCut media, and revealed how contaminants could be isolated to develop cleaning process that could extract virtually all foreign matter from the scrap plastics and the products.
From 1992 through 1995, when it was possible to produce a clean product, Poly-Pacific continued joint-venture research with the ARC, and with Canadian federal government funding assistance, to ensure the processes could consistently produce products meeting customer specifications. Sizing distribution controls were established to maintain stripping capability. Trials were conducted to formulate media with an acceptable breakdown rate. Then, when physical traits were under control, extensive trials were conducted with the company’s initial customers to create a process that, by February 1995, enabled production of products that consistently meet customer specifications.
After Poly-Pacific International Inc. acquired the equipment and technology for the MultiCut plastic blasting media in 1996, research was continued to develop testing methodologies for quality controls to ensure production of on-specification media. In addition, extensive testing of product material characteristics and performance is conducted at regular intervals by an independent laboratory recommended by the US Military, in order to ensure that specific MultiCut media products continue to meet their high standards.
MultiCut Blasting Media
This initial business established by Poly-Pacific starts with the purchase of scrap plastics for blasting media production; urea and melamine used to make products such as electric light switches and fittings, dice and other game pieces, and plates and other dishes primarily from China, and acrylic, used to make products such as such as signs, airplane windshields, and window and door panels, primarily from the USA. These plastics are shaped, finished and packaged as MultiCut plastic blasting media.
The primary markets for plastic blasting media include the aviation, marine, automotive, other ground transport, petrochemical and equipment repair and servicing industries, and manufacturers of electronic, computer and other products that require cleaning or polishing before packaging. Poly-Pacific sells product in all of these industries. The initial users of plastic blasting media were those wanting a replacement for chemical strippers, but further uses of this blasting media have been to replace silica sand, CO2 cold jet, high pressure water jet, and other types of blasting beads. Based upon our experience in the industry, we believe that plastic blasting media has made advances because of the relative ease with which it can be contained and cleaned up compared to other types of blasting media such as sand, steel pellets and other heavy media particles. This is because blasting with plastic media can be done in enclosed chambers or blasting rooms where the used media can be conveyed by vacuum suction into cyclonic containers to extract the microscopic paint and other particles so the plastic media can be returned to the blasting process for reuse. Through this process, after repeated usages when the plastic media has broken down into fine particles, the spent media with its particles of paint and other coatings is collected for recycling and no further cleanup is needed.
Lease and Recycle Blasting Media
The lease and recycle business requires the supplier to take back the blasting media after use (when it is “spent”) for recycling. After use, the products sold on the lease and recycle basis by Poly-Pacific are taken back and incorporated as an ingredient for the recycled plastic lumber manufactured at the plants in Canada and California. The spent media provides added strength and rigidity, reduces the amount of dyes needed for uniform color, and acts as a necessary blowing or foaming agent for creating bubbles in the core of each plastic lumber piece. It is the honeycombed core that makes it possible to use standard nails, screws and staples when attaching fencing or other materials to the recycled plastic lumber.
Poly-Pacific sells about 45% of its plastic blasting media on a lease and recycle basis, and the resulting recycled spent media accounts for an average of 15% of the weight for the recycled plastic lumber.
Raw Materials Supply
Raw materials are readily available world wide in the form of rejected plastic products or parts and scrap generated from high volume plastics manufacturing plants. Therefore, the Company is not dependent upon any particular suppliers of raw materials. We obtain our plastics feedstock for the blasting media from several sources. The scrap urea and scrap melamine is purchased in China from several large brokers there who collect the materials from a very large number of manufacturing operations. For these plastics Poly-Pacific requires two to three containers per month, which means we have good availability of these products as our requirements constitute a small proportion of the 55 to 65 containers of these materials exported from China monthly. In addition, we have used suppliers in the USA, Canada and Europe for shorter delivery lead times when needed. The scrap acrylic plastics are purchased primarily from suppliers in the southern USA who collect materials from manufacturing plants on both sides of the USA/Mexico border. We have used these raw material supply sources for over eight years now, and believe they are dependable and adequate for long term media requirements. For the media production we generally maintain a raw material inventory sufficient to supply our manufacturing requirements for one to two months, and the prices are not volatile since they are normally only subject to change with general world wide economic shifts.
Competition in the Blasting Media Industry
The blasting media markets are held by a small number of companies. The three largest competitors are US Technology Corporation (about 20 million pounds) in Canton, Ohio, Maxiblast Inc. (about 10 million pounds) in Indiana and Composition Materials Co. Inc. (about 6 million pounds) in Fairfield, Connecticut. There are three other smaller competitors of comparable size to us, Solidstrip Composite Leasing Corporation, Pattern Plastics and Opti-Blast Inc. (each producing from 1 to 4 million pounds).
The three largest competitors were the first companies to develop plastic blasting media, and began as divisions of much larger, conglomerate corporations. The sizes of the parent corporations helped those divisions to establish large market shares before they were each sold off in turn to form smaller, private corporations. This gave those three companies the competitive advantage of long term customer familiarity before the smaller competitors, including Poly-Pacific, were established.
Poly-Pacific currently sells 2 to 3 million pounds of plastic blasting media annually, which we estimate represents 5% to 6% of the current markets. We compete based on customer familiarity with the supplier, and the supplier’s ability to meet the user’s media specifications for their particular needs, plus either price, lead time for delivery and/or proven ability to recycle.
RECYCLED PLASTIC LUMBER
Entry to the Business
Poly-Pacific entered into the recycled plastic lumber business because it offered a process for recycling spent blasting media as an ingredient in the lumber. In addition, a major raw material input to the lumber, about 85% of the weight, is post consumer plastics collected through programs promoted in the USA by the Ag Container Recycling Council and in Canada by CropLife Canada, and through residential Blue Box/Blue Bag programs in both countries.
Recycled Plastic Lumber Development and Testing
The Company began the search for a method of recycling spent media in 1996. Through research in conjunction with the Alberta Research Council (ARC), it discovered that spent media could be incorporated into a plastics extrusion process to make a stronger and more rigid form of recycled plastic lumber. The ARC, through its contacts with other research institutes, introduced the Company to Plastic Plastic Inc. (operating as Everwood Agricultural Products) in Ontario. The companies and the ARC worked together to refine the technology and create products with better strength characteristics that would be totally safe, beneficial to the environment and best suited to its intended uses. When Everwood was acquired in 1998, Poly-Pacific became the sole owner of the technology that had been developed over the preceding four years.
From 1998 through 2004, the Company researched ideas for improving the equipment and the products. Through this activity it developed extrusion methods and dies that can be used to produce “squared” lumber products, and improvements to the extrusion equipment that enable increased rates of material throughput. In 2004, the Company’s research enabled the development and testing of process improvements to successfully incorporate mixed plastics collected through Blue Box/Blue Bag programs in to the recycled plastic lumber products. The result is that the full range of post-consumer plastics can now be used in the Company’s processes.
Recycled plastic lumber product testing has been essential through all stages of the research and development, and for the finished products. Because a large proportion of the materials being processed may be classed as hazardous materials, products must be tested regularly to ensure that they are environmentally safe for sale and use. The testing is done through independent, certified laboratories.
Recycled Plastic Lumber Products
Our segment of the recycled plastic lumber business is the agriculture industry. The markets are for boards, planking and posts to be used on farms, ranches and orchards. The company sells 5 inch diameter fence posts produced at the Everwood plant in Ontario, and 4 by 4 beams produced at the Poly-Pacific Technologies plant in California. The recycled plastic lumber line in California is currently operating at about 5% of its 4 million pounds per year capacity, but the output will be increased as sales are developed.
The capacity of the Everwood plant is 3.5 million pounds per year because of the age of the extrusion equipment. This plant operates at virtually full capacity, and has completely sold out all of its production in each of the past five years with most going to the central and eastern US states.
The normal order backlog for Everwood is for 10 to 12 loads of white fence posts. Such posts are always in short supply because more than 95% of the plastic supply is comprised of multi-color pieces. The Poly-Pacific Technologies plant in California has only recently entered the recycled plastic lumber markets and does not have any order backlog because it is in the process of establishing dealers for distribution of the products.
Markets and Marketing
Everwood’s products are now sold through over 125 locations in the USA with sales that have been recorded in 40 states and 9 of the provinces in Canada.
Everwood sells its products primarily through distributors and dealers, but some sales are made direct to large farming operations where the consumer purchases one or more truckloads, about 1,100 pieces per load, at a time. There are five distributors who in turn supply dealers in 19 of the states in the USA. However, beginning in 2001, Everwood has only granted additional sales rights to new dealers. Except for the possibility of large individual customers who approach Everwood directly, each distributor has exclusive rights to sell the products in one or more states as established by agreement. The states that are served by distributors are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Distributors make their own arrangements with dealers in their areas, but for dealers that sign agreements directly with Everwood their exclusive areas for sales are limited to a 50 mile radius from their locations.
All sales made by Everwood are based on the published prices for products, as adjusted from time to time, plus the cost of shipping and handling. The lowest prices are for sales to distributors who establish their own markups for sales to their dealers and/or customers. The next price level is for Everwood sales to dealers who establish their own markups for sales to their customers. The only regular costs absorbed by Everwood for distributors and dealers is for supplies of flyers, descriptive product and material safety data sheet materials, and product sections for samples. Distributors and dealers are also supported by periodic attendance by Everwood at some of the larger agricultural trade shows each year.
The markets for the recycled plastic lumber being produced by the Poly-Pacific Technologies plant in California are primarily in the western USA with the concentration being for states where the grape growing industry is substantial. These main states included here are California, Oregon and Washington. The marketing effort is concentrated on establishing dealers and attracting large orchard operations for direct sales in the western USA. Sales are being made on the same basis as those of Everwood.
Manufacturing
The processes at the Everwood and California plants extrude the recycled plastic lumber products in a continuous flow manner, cutting them to length at the end of the initial cooling process. The final shape of the lumber depends on the die being used. At Everwood the pieces produced are five inch diameter round posts, while at the California plant they are four inch square pieces that have rounded edges. There is one improvement that the Company would like to make and that is to add a mold system to each extrusion machine to enable production of precisely shaped lumber pieces.
The mold systems to be developed will replace the existing cooling lines and cutting operations. Each will be comprised of a series of molds mounted around a revolving axis so that after a mold is filled by the extrusion machine, the system is rotated one increment to discharge a completed recycled plastic lumber piece and position the next mold for filling. The mold systems are designed and operated so that each has the number of individual molds required to allow the time needed for each piece to cool down sufficiently so it can be discharged from the mold when it has been incremented through a complete revolution of the system. Each mold system, with the required controls to link it to an extrusion machine, is expected to cost $80,000, and to require a three-month lead time for custom manufacturing and installation once the funding is available to undertake these improvements.
The recycled plastic lumber lines are comprised of standard pieces of equipment set up to mix the ingredients, heat, extrude, cool, cut to length and bundle the pieces for shipping. The technology created and represented in these extrusion lines was evolved through eight years of research, development, testing and process refining to create plastic lumber best suited to agricultural needs and uses. Each production line can process up to 4 million pounds of recycled plastic per year.
The recycled plastic lumber line in California is currently operating at about 5% of its 4 million pounds per year capacity, because of down time for equipment refinements, and because market promotion for its products has only commenced recently. The capacity of the Everwood plant is 3.5 million pounds per year because of the age of the extrusion equipment. This plant operates at about 100% of capacity because it is serving well established markets.
Raw Materials Supply
Mixed plastics feedstocks for recycled plastic lumber are readily available. Active programs are operated to collect and granulate plastic containers across Canada and the USA. There are many more firms collecting other plastic materials from a large variety of recycling facilities, including municipal recycling programs, as well as plastics discarded in various industrial and manufacturing processes throughout North America. Our plants in Canada and California obtain raw materials from all of these sources, as well as from the spent blasting media that Poly-Pacific takes back in respect of its lease and recycle media sales. The prices of raw materials are consistent and stable, and are expected to continue in that fashion into the foreseeable future.
Competition in the Recycled Plastic Lumber Industry
The recycled plastic lumber industry is comprised of many manufacturers, and they produce a wide variety of products. Of the numerous competitors identified by Poly-Pacific through our research, only one of those companies, Horse Fence Direct Inc., distributes products solely for agriculture. But even though Even Horse Fence Direct has several competing recycled plastic lumber products targeted at the horse breeder/rancher type of operation, they also distribute Everwood’s white fence posts. Most of the competitor manufacturing companies make from 5 to 50 or more different recycled plastic lumber products, either in the form of dimensioned lumber pieces or end products like picnic tables, benches, playground equipment, and so on. Although many of the competitors have the advantage with dimensioned lumber in appealing to a broader market segments, such as the ones for residential construction and renovation and repair, they also incur higher costs for manufacturing, marketing and carrying inventory for their greater variety of recycled plastic lumber products.
In respect of the other competitors Poly-Pacific and Everwood compete primarily on price because our manufacturing process is cost effective but also because we focus on a limited number of products for a limited market, the agriculture market, including mixed farming, cattle operations and orchards.
There are significant barriers to entry for this line of business. First and foremost, the technology and development of a successful product is time consuming and costly. Second, there is a large capital investment required to build the plants, purchase the equipment necessary to operate the facilities, and market the products on a national level. In order to penetrate the markets successfully, a company needs to establish a national presence with the ability to produce in sufficient volumes to attract major distributors. This type of operation requires technically trained individuals to operate and ensure that the facility remains in strict compliance with our formulas and quality control procedures to maintain product consistency on a national basis.
Competition with Wood Lumber
We manufacture recycled plastic lumber that is in direct competition with conventional wood in most of its applications. At present, the principal competitive disadvantage of recycled plastic lumber compared to wood is that recycled plastic lumber is generally more expensive to purchase. Recycled plastic lumber is comparable in price to high-grade cedar and redwood. Composite lumber is about 20% less expensive than recycled plastic lumber. Recycled plastic lumber and composite lumber can be more expensive to initially purchase than comparable wood, but recycled plastic lumber and composite lumber can be more cost effective because they can substantially outlast wood, particularly in applications where the lumber is exposed to the elements. We also believe that environmental restrictions are presently impeding forestry operations in United States forests. A second factor impeding the use of pressure treated wood is the toxic leaching characteristics. Chemicals injected into pressure treated wood, particularly CCA (Chromated Copper Arsenate), contain hazardous constituents that can be released into the soil and create potentially hazardous conditions. Because of this the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has limited the uses for CCA treated lumber since December 31, 2003. CCA can no longer be used to treat lumber intended for such purposes as sill plates, outdoor furniture, playground equipment, patios, decks, garden edging, landscape structures and picnic tables. Instead, other treatment chemicals such as ACQ (Alkaline Copper Quaternary), which is more costly to apply, must be used for lumber intended for those types of applications. This change has reduced, if not eliminated, any price advantage that pressure treated wood previously had with respect to its initial cost relative to plastic lumber.
We believe that our recycled plastic lumber products offer the following advantages over traditional wood lumber products:
· | Environmentally friendly and non-toxic |
· | Virtually maintenance free |
· | Conservation of trees and reduced use of exotic rain forest hardwoods |
· | Can be used like wood posts |
· | Aesthetically pleasing wood-like textured surface |
· | Splinter proof and never rots |
· | Not affected by termites, ants, or other woodborers |
· | Not affected by moisture |
· | No splitting, cracking, or chipping |
· | No toxic leaching into soil or groundwater |
Governmental Regulations
General Applicability
Although the recycled plastic and composite lumber operations do not generate significant quantities of waste materials or hazardous substances, our operations are and will in the future be subject to numerous existing and proposed laws and regulations designed to protect the environment from waste materials and particularly hazardous wastes emissions.
Our businesses are subject to extensive laws and regulations designed to protect the environment from toxic wastes and hazardous substances or emissions and to provide a safe workplace for employees. Under current federal regulations, the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Responsibility, Compensation, and Liability Act, the generator of toxic or hazardous waste is financially and legally responsible for that waste forever, and strictly liable for the clean up and disposal costs. We believe we are either in material compliance with all currently applicable laws and regulations or that we are operating in accordance with appropriate variances or similar arrangements, but we cannot be sure that we will always be deemed in compliance, nor can we be sure that compliance with future laws and regulations will not require significant capital expenditures.
The primary regulations affecting the plastic lumber divisions are air quality emissions from our manufacturing plants, disposal of solid and liquid wastes, wastewater, and storm water discharge. We do not believe that our waste disposal practices and manufacturing processes are in violation of any existing or presently proposed laws or regulations or require special handling permits or procedures or other factors that could result in significant capital expenditures.
Additionally, as with manufacturing practices in general, if we release any hazardous substance, such a release could have a material adverse effect whether we (i) directly or indirectly cause the release; or (ii) the release comes from any of our owned or leased properties; or (iii) the release comes from any associated offsite disposal of our wastes; or (iv) the release comes from prior activities on our owned or leased property. These laws and regulations are subject to change and could become more stringent in the future.
Although state and federal legislation currently provides for procurement preferences for recycled materials, the preferences for materials containing waste plastics are dependent upon the eventual promulgation of product or performance standard guidelines by state or federal regulatory agencies. The guidelines for recycled plastic building materials may not be released or, if released, the product performance standards required by those guidelines may be incompatible with our manufacturing capabilities. It may be necessary to expend considerable time, effort and money to keep our existing or acquired facilities in compliance with applicable environmental, zoning, health, and safety regulations as to which there may not be adequate insurance coverage. In addition, due to the possibility of unanticipated factual or regulatory developments, the amounts and timing of future environmental expenditures and compliance could vary substantially from those currently anticipated.
Our Operations
Our material handling, supplies and products are subject to environmental laws and regulations. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administers these laws and regulations through 10 regional offices and the environmental departments or agencies of the states. In Canada, the federal department, Environment Canada, and the provinces ministries or departments of environment, administer equivalent laws and regulations. In order to operate a recycling program in a given locale, a company must be able to provide assurances that it meets the legal requirements.
The original operations for Everwood in Canada were approved by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment prior to 1996 as being in compliance the clean air, fresh water and pollution emission controls requirements of the province. In addition, CropLife Canada had similar approvals throughout all provinces in Canada for the processes used to collect and transport the plastic from the agricultural herbicide and pesticide containers. And CropLife Canada had assisted Everwood in ensuring that the products met environmental requirements for sale in the agriculture industry.
However, spent plastic blasting media is a material that could potentially be classed as hazardous waste due to components such as cadmium in the paint particles. In order to collect this material from customers in the USA, Poly-Pacific had to obtain approvals from the EPA for the methods that would be used to collect, handle, transport, store and use the spent plastic blasting media to ensure that there could be no damage to the environment arising from this process. The scope for EPA monitoring and control extends to the record keeping for tracking the material from its source, or the generator of the potentially hazardous material, to its inclusion in batches of product produced. In addition, Poly-Pacific has to be able to prove to the EPA authorities that the spent media and/or the products being produced are not being stockpiled; there has to be an existing, proven market for the products. Because of the processes used by Poly-Pacific, and because of the agricultural demand for recycled plastic lumber, providing this proof has never been a problem, but the EPA authority in each jurisdiction where spent media may be collected must first provide approval for the program.
The first EPA approvals for handling spent media as an ingredient for recycled plastic lumber rather than as a solid or hazardous waste were obtained in 1997. Poly-Pacific began its program by contracting a company called Everwood Agricultural Products Inc. in Aylmer, Ontario, to use spent MultiCut media in producing fence posts for the agricultural industry. Poly-Pacific took complete control of the process by purchasing the recycled plastic lumber equipment from the prior Everwood company in 1998 and setting the operations up as a wholly owned subsidiary, Everwood Agricultural Products International Inc.
The Poly-Pacific recycling program has now been approved by 8 EPA Regions including: in 1997 USEPA Regions 4, 6 and 10; in 1998 Regions 3, 7 and 9; in 2000 Region 5; and in 2002 Region 2. The recycling program has also been approved by 37 states including: in 1997 Alabama, Alaska (part of USEPA Region 10), Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington; in 1998 California, Iowa (part of USEPA Region 7), Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah; in 1999 Illinois, Indiana, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming; in 2000 Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and West Virginia; and in 2001 Tennessee. In Canada, the Everwood processes and plant have been approved by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment; and CropLife Canada has approval from all 10 provinces for the processes to collect and transport the cleaned and ground up agricultural containers.
GENERAL COMPANY INFORMATION
Warranties
Although the Company provides a limited warranty that the products will be free from defects in material and workmanship and, when subject to normal use, they are further warranted against manufacturing defects that result in peeling, flaking, blistering, cracking, breaking, corroding, abnormal weathering and abnormal discoloration of surfaces. The warranty provides for repair, replacement or refund to the purchaser for lumber determined to be defective. The Company’s maximum liability to refund is reduced by five (5) percent for each year after the date of original purchase. The warranty does not apply to the cost of installation or removal of any defective material. Since inception we have not received any warranty claims whatsoever, and we have sold well over 600,000 posts. No warranty is provided for plastic blasting media because it is manufactured in accordance with each particular customer’s specifications.
Customer Dependence
We are not dependent upon any individual customers for 10% or more of the revenues for either the media or the recycled plastic lumber product. The plastic blasting media is sold to over 40 different end-user customers. The recycled plastic lumber products are sold to an indeterminant number of agricultural end users.
Seasonality
As shown in the table below for results averaged over four years, although there are some minor variations, our sales exhibit virtually no seasonality. Plastic media is used primarily for blasting operations in enclosed buildings and can therefore be done any time of the year. Recycled plastic lumber products are sold throughout Canada and the USA, so there are climatic effects on sales in particular regions in accordance with outdoor repair activities. In colder climate areas sales are heaviest in the spring and summer, and in warmer climate areas sales are heaviest in the fall and winter months.
Poly-Pacific Average 2000 to 2005 Seasonality of Sales | |
| | Quarter 1 | | Quarter 2 | | Quarter 3 | | Quarter 4 | |
Plastic Media Sales Percentage | | | 24.3 | % | | 26.9 | % | | 25.3 | % | | 23.5 | % |
Plastic Lumber Sales Percentage | | | 23.4 | % | | 32.3 | % | | 19.1 | % | | 25.1 | % |
Total Sales Percentage by Quarter | | | 24.1 | % | | 28.1 | % | | 23.9 | % | | 23.9 | % |
Property, Plants and Equipment
The extent and nature of the Company's properties are summarized in the table below:
Facility and location | | Use and Size of Property | | Owned/Leased & Term |
Everwood plant at 233 Edward St St Thomas, Ontario N5P 1Z4 | | Manufacturing recycled plastic lumber. 15,000 square foot building on 6 acres of land. Fenced property for open storage. | | Leased with the term that extends to 2008. |
Poly-Pacific Technologies plant at 4755 Zinfandel Court, Unit A Ontario, CA 91761 | | Manufacturing plastic blasting media and recycled plastic lumber. 38,000 square foot building. | | Leased with term that extends to 2007. |
We have decided to focus increasingly on our recycled plastic lumber business, and so our intent is to expand in this market as quickly as possible. In addition, recent technological developments in the extrusion processes we use have proven that a very large supply of previously untapped raw materials is available as recycled plastic lumber feedstock. This source is the residential Blue Box/Blue Bag collection programs that are gaining in prominence and popularity. Virtually all of these programs collect a wide range of plastics, but only limited types and quantities of the plastics, such as those from pop bottles and milk jugs, can be used in most existing manufacturing processes to make useful recycled products. The other plastics collected most often have to be disposed of in some less environmentally friendly manner, such as through landfill or burning. However, these other plastics work very well in our processes to make recycled plastic lumber, and all that is needed to support an Everwood type of plant is a source of 4 million pounds per year of these plastics. With new investment the Company therefore plans to expand as quickly as possible by establishing new recycled plastic lumber plants.
Based upon our experience in the industry, besides standard round fence posts, we know there is a large market for smaller diameter, 3 1/2” round recycled plastic lumber to replace wood line posts in the grape growing industry vineyards, and for “conventional” 4 x 4 square posts and beams for other agricultural uses. The Company has determined that sets of molds can be made, with appropriate controls, to fit on the extrusion machines to produce precisely shaped products.
If the Company can obtain sufficient new capital investment, it plans to expand in the recycled plastic lumber industry as outlined in the table below. All future production facilities added are expected to be located in leased premises. A new capital investment of at least $3 million would enable the undertaking of an accelerated, profitable expansion plan over the next five years. If a new capital investment of only $2 million is obtained, the first year expansion program outlined below could be completed, but the rate of future growth would be solely dependent upon the cash flows generated by operations. We have no sources for funding this investment and cannot estimate the time it will take to secure them, if ever.
Timing | | Planned Expansion Development | | Plan Cost | Cumulated |
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Start | | Initiate program with new capital investment | | | |
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Months 1 to 4 | | Upgrade the existing recycled plastic lumber systems in Canada and California. The Everwood plant will be set up with a mold system to make 4” x 4” pieces for farm and ranch use, with a potential extension into the suburbanite markets. The California plant will be set up with a mold system to make 3 1/2” diameter line posts for the grape growing industry. | | Equipment $160,000 Working Capital $340,000 | |
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Months 1 to 5 | | An existing operation in Nova Scotia may be acquired and modified to improve the mold system, material handling and finishing operations to make products that match the Everwood output for distribution through the existing 125 dealer locations. | | Equipment $250,000 Working Capital $250,000 | First Two Developments $1,000,000 |
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Months 7 to 12 | | Complete location searches, obtain and modify equipment, and establish two further plants to make 3 1/2” diameter line posts in other possible locations such as Seattle and San Francisco. | | Equipment $500,000 Working Capital $500,000 | First Three Developments $2,000,000 |
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Months 13 to 18 | | Complete location searches, obtain and modify equipment, and establish a plant to make 3 1/2” diameter line posts in a location such as San Diego, and one to make 4” x 4” pieces in Western Canada. | | Equipment $500,000 Working Capital $500,000 | First Four Developments $3,000,000 |
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Future Months | | As cash generated from operations permits, continue to complete location searches, obtain and modify equipment to establish two additional recycled plastic lumber plants every six to eight months. The first two such plants would be in locations such as Rochester (from which a plant making 3 1/2” diameter line posts could serve area vineyards) and Philadelphia. As soon as possible the Company would establish further plants in locations such as Atlanta, New York, New Jersey and St. Louis. | | For each new plant the funding required from operations will be: Equipment $500,000 Working Capital $500,000 | These future developments are not dependent on attainment of further new investment. |
ITEM 5. OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW AND PROSPECTS
The Company's consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These consolidated financial statements differ in material respects from U.S. GAAP. The difference is disclosed in a note to the audited financial statements. These consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Poly-Pacific Technologies Inc. and Everwood Agricultural Products International Inc..
In the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary for a fair presentation have been included. The information contained in this annual report should be read in conjunction with the Company's latest annual consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto.
Company's Critical Accounting Policies
The Company’s critical accounting policies, as reported in the financial statements, are:
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Everwood Agricultural Products International Inc. and Poly-Pacific Technologies Inc. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated on consolidation.
Revenue Recognition
Revenue is recorded when significant risks and rewards of ownership have been transferred to the customer. This occurs at the time of shipment (FOB shipping point) of the products from the Company’s warehouses.
Property, Plant and Equipment
Property, plant and equipment is recorded at cost. Amortization is calculated at the following annual rates:
Building | | - | 4% declining balance |
Fence | | - | 10% declining balance |
Automotive equipment | | - | 30% declining balance |
Computer equipment | | - | 30% declining balance |
Leasehold improvements | | - | 20% straight-line |
Office equipment | | - | 20% declining balance |
Plant equipment | | - | 20% declining balance |
Translation of Foreign Currency
The functional currency of the Company and all of its subsidiaries is the Canadian dollar. Monetary assets and liabilities of the company are translated into Canadian dollars at the rate of exchange in effect at the balance sheet date. Revenue and expense items are translated at rates of exchange in effect at the respective transaction months. The resulting exchange gains or losses are included in earnings. Non-monetary assets and liabilities, arising from transactions denominated in foreign currencies, are translated at rates of exchange in effect at the date of the transaction.
Monetary assets and liabilities of the integrated foreign subsidiary are translated into Canadian dollars at a rate of exchange in effect at the balance sheet date. Non-monetary assets and liabilities are translated at historical exchange rates. Revenue and expense items other than amortization are translated at the average rate of exchange for the year. Amortization of assets translated at historical exchange rates are translated at the same exchange rates as the assets to which they relate.
Inventories
Inventories are recorded at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Cost of inventories is determined on an average cost basis.
Deferred Taxes
The Company accounts for and measures deferred tax assets and liabilities in accordance with the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the date of enactment of the change. When the future realization of income tax assets does not meet the test of being more likely than not to occur, a valuation allowance in the amount of the potential future benefit is taken and no net asset is recognized.
Stock-Based Compensation Plan
The Company grants stock options to employees, officers, directors and persons providing management or consulting services to the Company pursuant to a stock option plan described in Note 10. Effective January 1, 2002, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 148 (SFAS 148), “Accounting for Stock Based Compensation - Transition and Disclosure”, an amendment to Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 123 (SFAS123) “Accounting for Stock Based Compensation” for employee awards granted under its stock option plan, modified or settled subsequent to January 1, 2002. The standard permits the prospective recognition of stock based compensation expense using a fair value based method for all employee stock based compensation transactions occurring subsequent to January 1, 2002.
Direct Costs
Direct costs consist primarily of purchasing costs, freight, direct labor and other specific costs.
General and Administrative
General and administrative costs consist primarily of office expenses, management salaries, administrative salaries and other expenses.
Project Development Costs
Project development costs incurred in completing the ISO 9002 project, in developing a project which will recycle used plastic blasting media, in setting up an additional processing plant for plastic blasting media, in researching certification of military grade materials for export, in researching and developing a new manufacturing process for plastic blasting media and in setting up a manufacturing plant in China to produce semi-finished plastic blasting media materials are expensed in the year incurred.
Occupancy Costs
Occupancy costs consist primarily of rent, utilities and telephone expenses.
Selling and Marketing
Selling and marketing consist primarily of advertising, sales and marketing salaries, travel expenses and other promotional expenses.
Net Income (Loss) Per Common Share
Net income (loss) per common share is calculated using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss) per common share is calculated using the treasury stock method which uses the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period and also includes the dilutive effect of potentially issuable common shares.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Recent Pronouncements
In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (R) - Share-Based Payment, which replaces SFAS No. 123 - Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, and supersedes APB Opinion No. 25 - Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. In March 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107 - Share-Based Payment, which provides interpretive guidance, related to SFAS No. 123 (R), SFAS No. 123 (R) requires compensation costs related to share-based payment transactions to be recognized in the financial statements. With limited exceptions, the amount of compensation cost is measured based on the grant-date fair value of the equity or liability instruments issued. SFAS No. 123 (R) requires liability awards to be re-measured each reporting period and compensation costs to be recognized over the period that an employee provides service in exchange for the award. Management plans to adopt this statement on the modified prospective basis beginning January 1, 2006, and does not expect adoption of this statement to have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations. Subsequent to adoption of the statement, share-based benefits will be valued at fair value using the appropriate option pricing model for option grants and the grant date fair market for stock awards. Compensation amounts so determined will be expensed over the applicable vesting period.
In May 2005, the FASB issued FAS 154 - Accounting Changes and Error Corrections, a replacement of APB Opinion 20 and FASB Statement 3. This Statement changes the requirements for the accounting for and reporting a change in accounting principle and applies to all voluntary changes in accounting principle. It also applies to changes required by an accounting pronouncement in the unusual instance that the pronouncement does not include specific transition provisions. The Statement is effective for account changes made in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. Management does not expect the adoption of this Statement to have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations.
The FASB issued FAS 153 - Exchanges of Non-monetary Assets, an amendment of APB Opinion 29. This Statement amends Opinion 29 to eliminate the exception for non-monetary exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception for exchanges of non-monetary assets that do not have commercial substance. A non-monetary exchange has commercial substance if the future cash flows of the entity are expected to change significantly as a result of the exchange. The Statement is effective for fiscal periods beginning after June 15, 2005. Management does not expect the adoption of this Statement to have a material effect on the Company’s financial position and results of operations.
In February 2006, the FASB issued FAS 155 Accounting to Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments - an amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140. This statement resolves issues addressed in Statement 133 Implementation Issue No. D1, “Application of Statement 133 to Beneficial interests in Securitized Financial Assets”. This Statement: Permits fair value remeasurement for any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation; Clarifies which interest-only strips and principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of Statement 133; Establishes a requirement to evaluate interests in securitized financial assets to identify interests that are freestanding derivatives or that are hybrid financial instruments that contain an embedded derivative requiring bifurcation; Clarifies that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are not imbedded derivatives; Amends Statement 140 to eliminate the prohibition on a qualifying special-purpose entity from holding a derivative financial statement that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. Management does not expect the adoption of this Statement to have a material effect on the Company’s financial position and results of operations. This standard will be applicable to the Company during the period ending 2007.
A. Operating Results
The Company's activities in the last five years can be divided into two different product lines: (1) blasting media, (2) plastic lumber. The expenditures for operations and capital incurred for these product lines are itemized in the Tables 5.1 and 5.2.
Table 5.1—Summary of Operations for the Blasting Media
The summary of operations for the blasting media products (in Canadian $), as reported pursuant to U.S. GAAP, are presented in this table.
Poly-Pacific International Inc.Summary of Financial Information in Canadian Dollars
Product - Blasting Media | | Year ended 31/12/2005 | | Year ended 31/12/2004 | | Year ended 31/12/2003 | |
Blasting Media Sales in Canada | | | 65,086 | | | 167,700 | | | 100,000 | |
Blasting Media Sales outside Canada | | | 2,436,932 | | | 2,968,006 | | | 3,245,734 | |
Total Blasting Media Sales Revenues | | | 2,502,018 | | | 3,135,706 | | | 3,345,734 | |
Income Tax Expense (Recovery) | | | 174,750 | | | 19,316 | | | (144,762 | ) |
Blasting Media Net Income (Loss) | | | (1,108,299 | ) | | (132,850 | ) | | (128,232 | ) |
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Capital Expenditures | | | 2,704 | | | 32,430 | | | 742,512 | |
Table 5.2—Summary of Operations for the Plastic Lumber
The summary of operations for plastic lumber products (in Canadian $), as reported pursuant to U.S. GAAP, are presented in this table.
Poly-Pacific International Inc.Summary of Financial Information in Canadian Dollars
Product - Plastic Lumber | | Year ended 31/12/2005 | | Year ended 31/12/2004 | | Year ended 31/12/2003 | |
Plastic Lumber Sales in Canada | | | 93,295 | | | 281,875 | | | 276,849 | |
Plastic Lumber Sales outside Canada | | | 457,403 | | | 401,012 | | | 618,357 | |
Total Plastic Lumber Sales Revenues | | | 550,698 | | | 682,887 | | | 895,206 | |
Income Tax Expense (Recovery) | | | — | | | 76 | | | (9,372 | ) |
Plastic Lumber Net Income (Loss) | | | (53,363 | ) | | (108,899 | ) | | (29,890 | ) |
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Capital Expenditures | | | | | | 18,264 | | | 9,715 | |
Results of Operations
Overall, the Company recorded a consolidated net loss of $1,161,662 ($0.09 per common share) for the year ended December 31, 2005 as compared with a consolidated net loss of $241,749 ($0.03 per common share) for the year ended December 31, 2004. The increase in the consolidated loss for 2005 as compared to 2004 was primarily attributable to the decrease in sales of plastic media and agricultural products due to declining US economy in 2005 as compared to 2004. Net loss for 2005 also increased due to a decrease in gross margins resulting from increased product costs due to scarcity of raw materials and due to depreciation of the US dollar (U$) versus the Canadian dollar (Cdn$), resulting in higher direct cost in 2005 as compared to 2004. In addition, the Company incurred additional professional fees in 2005, due to the conversion of the CMB debentures and to become a US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) registrant, as compared to 2004.
Operating Results Narrative for the Year Ended December 31, 2005
Revenues and Direct Costs
Revenues for year ended December 31, 2005 were $3,052,716 as compared to $3,818,593 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The decrease in revenue in 2005 by $765,877 was primarily attributable to a decrease in sales of Plastic media and agricultural products due to declining US economy. In addition, overall revenues also decreased due to scarcity of raw materials and a depreciation of US dollar versus Canadian dollar. Also, Everwood was unable to obtain raw material during the year to maintain production and thus had to be shut down (halfway during the year), thus decreasing overall revenues for the year. The Company has been actively searching for alternative raw material sources for Everwood. The Company is currently in active negotiations with certain suppliers for alternative sources of raw material and expects to have Everwood back in production in the second to third quarter of 2006.
Gross margins for the year ended December 31, 2005 were 32.0% as compared to 51.5% for the year ended December 31, 2004. As explained earlier, the decrease in gross margin is primarily due to an increase in product cost due to scarcity of raw materials and due to foreign exchange translation of goods and services purchased for the Company’s US based subsidiary, Poly-Pacific Technologies Ltd. As the financial statements are translated to Canadian dollar, the depreciation of the US dollar versus Canadian dollar significantly impacted the gross margins for 2005 as compared to previous years.
Operating Expenses:
Overall, operating expenses were $1,891,600 for the year ended December 31, 2005 compared to $2,132,502 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The decrease of $240,902 in operating expenses was attributed to the following:
General and administrative expenses decreased by $76,708 to $595,017 for the year ended December 31, 2005, from $671,725 for the year ended December 31, 2004. This decrease was achieved as a result of management efforts to reduce administrative and overhead costs in various areas of the company during the year, particularly in its efforts to centralize administrative functions in Burnaby, Canada to further reduce costs and to add efficiency to the operations.
General and administrative expense also includes a stock based compensation expense of $33,696 for the year ended December 31, 2005, as compared to $25,272 for the year ended December 31, 2004.
Occupancy costs increased by $19,578 to $455,298 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $435,720 for the year ended December 31, 2004 as the Company’s share of operating costs for the California plant increased from the prior year.
Professional fees increased by $105,509 to $271,788 for the year ended December 31, 2005, from $166,279 for the year ended December 31, 2004 as the Company incurred significant legal and accounting fees in becoming a US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) registrant and in discharging and converting the CMB debenture payable to common shares.
Amortization of property, plant and equipment decreased by $77,096 to $210,419 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $287,515 for the year ended December 31, 2004, as the Company disposed off Everwood’s plant during the year resulting in a lower net book value base for the amortization calculation. The disposal of this plant also resulted in a loss on disposal of property for $23,392 for the year ended December 31, 2005.
Foreign exchange loss for year ended December 31, 2005 increased to $20,358 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from a gain of $3,866 for the year ended December 31, 2004 due to the depreciation of US currency against the strengthening Canadian dollar.
Interest expense increased by $12,956 to $71,465 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $58,509 for the year ended December 31, 2004 as the Company increased its borrowing on the Bank loan during the year to assist with general working capital.
Income taxes:
The Company recognized a deferred income taxes expense of $174,750 for the year ended December 31, 2005 as compared to an expense of $18,181, as management determined that due to continuing losses of Poly-Pacific International Inc. and its subsidiary, Poly-Pacific Technologies Ltd., it is unable to meet the criteria for recognition of deferred income taxes as an asset (i.e., it is not “more likely than not” that these losses will be utilized in the foreseeable future).
Operating Results Narrative for the Year Ended December 31, 2004
The Company experienced a loss for the year of $241,749 as shown in Table 3.1 on page 7 of this report. These earnings compare to a loss for the prior year of $158,122. The loss before income taxes decreased from the prior year as a result of the company being able to reduce their costs in certain areas such as general and administrative expenses and occupancy costs. However, the net loss after income taxes has increased from the prior year as a result of a deferred tax recovery that was recorded in the prior year with no corresponding recovery for the current year.
Plastic blasting media sales did not increase as much in 2004 as management had anticipated because U.S. Military contracting authorities for four large bases did not issue lease and recycle contracts in response to their bid solicitations during the year. Although the Company could not anticipate receiving all of those potential contracts, it was the lowest qualified bidder on at least two of the bid solicitations. An award of any one of these anticipated contracts would have increased sales considerably.
During the year, the Company successfully conducted research and development for a process to incorporate scrap plastics from residential Blue Box/Blue Bag recycling programs into its recycled plastic lumber. This greatly increases the amount of raw materials available to the Company’s recycled plastic lumber business. With products being sold through over 125 locations in 40 states in the USA and nine provinces in Canada, demand for more recycled plastic lumber production is continuing to grow strongly.
Operating Results Narrative for the Year Ended December 31, 2003
The year 2003 marks the first full year of our operations in the United States for Poly-Pacific Technologies. Sales for the plastic media operation increased from US$1,777,596 in 2002 to US$2,388,125 in 2003, representing a 34.3 % increase. However, because the Company must report its consolidated results in Canadian dollars, the reported revenue increase for plastic media was only 20.9% for the year. In addition, recycled plastic lumber revenues reported were 2.9% lower than those reported for the previous year, because of the exchange rate impacts between Canadian and US dollars.
During the year, the Company completed improvements to the media production systems in California, and also completed installation of recycled plastic lumber equipment in that plant. While additional relocation and transitional expenses were incurred during the year, management also continued its efforts to reduce costs and to improve operational efficiency. However, unexpected delays were incurred for refinements that had to be made to the recycled plastic lumber equipment in California during the commissioning process.
The Company also reached an agreement wherein the outstanding preferred shares were redeemed in exchange for an unsecured debenture so the Company could move forward under unimpeded conditions to continue developments with new business opportunities in the USA.
General Comments Relating to Operations Results
Inflation has not had a material impact on any results for any of the above years.
A substantial portion of the Company's revenues are derived in currencies other than Canadian dollars. This results in financial risk due to fluctuations in the value of the Canadian dollar relative to those foreign currencies. For the most part, this exposure is reduced to the extent that the company incurs operating expenses in currencies other than Canadian dollars. The company also provides funding to its foreign subsidiary in the local currency of the subsidiary. Fluctuations in payments made for the company's products and in repayments of advances to the subsidiary could cause unanticipated fluctuations in the Company's operating results.
The primary currency exchange rate that impacts on the Company’s revenues and expenditures is the one for the Canadian dollar relative to the United States dollar. Through the reporting years 2002, 2001 and 2000 there was no material impact from these currency fluctuations from year to year. However, in the 2003 reporting year there was a major increase in the value of the Canadian dollar relative to the United States dollar. Because of the large proportion of the Company’s business conducted in United States dollars, the Company realized a foreign exchange loss of $239,180.
There have been no changes to Canadian government policies that have had a material impact on the Company’s financial results.
B. Liquidity and Capital Resources
The following table presents major Company financial data in summary form, as reported pursuant to U.S. GAAP, as at the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003:
Year | | Current assets | | Total assets | | Current liabilities | |
2005 | | | 1,024,212 | | | 2,111,503 | | | 1,389,655 | |
2004 | | | 1,733,114 | | | 3,628,977 | | | 2,774,297 | |
2003 | | | 1,761,033 | | | 3,911,897 | | | 1,192,794 | |
As at December 31, 2005, the Company had $nil in long-term liabilities and had accounts payable and current accrued liabilities of $1,389,655 against cash and other current assets of $1,024,212. The $1,024,212 in current assets was attributed to $61,346 in cash, $214,130 in accounts receivable, $696,002 in inventories, and $52,734 in prepaid expenses. Management acknowledges that if it is to fully implement its contemplated business plans, it will require significant equity and debt financing. There is no assurance that the company will be successful in raising this financing.
The following table delineates the sources and uses of cash by the Company during the most recent three years covered by the financial statements.
POLY-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
For the Years Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Operating Activities | | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (1,161,662 | ) | $ | (241,749 | ) | $ | (158,122 | ) |
Items not involving cash: | | | | | | | | | | |
Amortization of property, plant and equipment | | | 210,419 | | | 287,515 | | | 163,096 | |
Deferred income taxes expense (recovery) | | | 174,750 | | | 18,181 | | | (170,131 | ) |
Stock-based compensation | | | 33,696 | | | 25,272 | | | | |
Bad debts | | | | | | | | | 163,911 | |
Foreign exchange gain on debenture | | | (133,678 | ) | | (125,672 | ) | | (302,974 | ) |
Loss on disposal of property | | | 23,392 | | | | | | | |
Net change in non-cash working capital | | | | | | | | | | |
(Note 13) | | | 716,173 | | | 287,632 | | | (336,483 | ) |
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Cash provided by (used in) | | | (136,910 | ) | | 251,179 | | | (640,703 | ) |
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Financing Activities | | | | | | | | | | |
Bank overdraft advances (repayment) | | | | | | | | | (247,701 | ) |
Repayment of long-term debt | | | (227,971 | ) | | (99,740 | ) | | (24,720 | ) |
Bank loan advances (repayments) | | | 175,502 | | | 343,368 | | | (595,000 | ) |
Proceeds from long-term debt | | | | | | | | | 333,160 | |
Issuance of convertible debenture payable | | | | | | | | | 275,000 | |
Repayment of debenture payable | | | (284,856 | ) | | (361,440 | ) | | (194,190 | ) |
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Cash used in | | | (337,325 | ) | | (117,812 | ) | | (453,451 | ) |
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Investing Activities | | | | | | | | | | |
Advances from affiliated company | | | | | | | | | 710,064 | |
Purchase of property, plant and equipment | | | (2,704 | ) | | (50,695 | ) | | (752,227 | ) |
Proceeds from disposal of property | | | 405,000 | | | | | | | |
Term deposits | | | | | | | | | 298,363 | |
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Cash provided by (used in) | | | 402,296 | | | (50,695 | ) | | 256,200 | |
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Increase (decrease) in cash | | | (71,939 | ) | | 82,672 | | | (837,954 | ) |
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Cash, beginning of year | | | 133,285 | | | 50,613 | | | 888,567 | |
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Cash, end of year | | $ | 61,346 | | $ | 133,285 | | $ | 50,613 | |
13. Supplemental Cash Flow Information
a) Changes in non-cash working capital items:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Accounts receivable | | $ | 297,562 | | $ | 156,992 | | $ | (313,510 | ) |
Prepaid expenses | | | 5,235 | | | 17,812 | | | 57,808 | |
Other receivable | | | | | | — | | | 119,564 | |
Inventories | | | 334,166 | | | (64,213 | ) | | 183,826 | |
Accounts payable and | | | | | | | | | | |
accrued liabilities | | | 79,210 | | | 178,126 | | | (385,256 | ) |
Income taxes payable | | | | | | (1,085 | ) | | 1,085 | |
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| | $ | 716,173 | | $ | 287,632 | | $ | (336,483 | ) |
b) Income taxes and interest:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Income taxes paid (refunded) | | $ | 1,117 | | $ | — | | $ | (105,145 | ) |
Interest paid | | $ | 52,831 | | $ | 58,402 | | $ | 54,488 | |
Management considers that the company has sufficient funding to meet its requirements for maintaining administrative and operational expenditures for at least the next 12 months. The Company also has an approved operating bank line of credit of up to $500,000 USD (equal to about $550,000 CAD) in California, and had drawn $518,870 CAD of that line as at December 31, 2005. The Company's working capital will be used for administrative and operational expenditures. When necessary, the Company may in the future conduct equity financing to supplement its working capital to advance its business plans. For any future major project financing, the Company will rely on any or a combination of the equity financing, bank loans, and participation of strategic partners.
There is no discernable seasonality of borrowing requirements for operations. Although expressed above in Canadian dollars, the bank line of credit, the long term equipment loan and the unsecured debenture are all held in U.S. dollars.
The Company does not have any present material commitments for capital expenditures, although plans for expansions in the recycled plastic lumber industry would require significant amounts of capital. The Company will only be able to make commitments for capital expenditures if new capital investments are obtained, or as increased cash flows are generated from operations.
C. Research and Development, Patents and Licenses
The Company policies for research and development are directed toward finding and implementing technology to enhance the manufacturing processes for both plastic blasting media and recycled plastic lumber. For the plastic blasting media, the culmination of much of the development was realized with the installation of the new processing line in California in 2002. The continuation of research and development in 2003 resulted in further refinements to the processing which improved the quality of product as well as increasing available capacity. For the recycled plastic lumber the research and development has resulted in improvements to the process output of the extrusion machines, the refinement of designs for molding systems that will enable production of better dimensional lumber pieces, and completion of refinements that make it possible to recycle all types of post consumer plastics into good lumber products. Costs incurred for these activities during the most recent three years are included in this table:
Poly-Pacific International Inc.
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Research and Development Projects Costs | | | | | $ | 115,340 | | $ | 47,353 | |
There have not been any costs incurred by the Company for patents or for special product processing licenses.
D. Trend Information
No trends that will impact upon the Company’s results this year are known at this time.
There are no off balance sheet arrangements.
F. Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations
| | Principal/Lease Amounts Remaining to be Paid in | | |
Contractual ObligationsAs at December 31, 2005 | | Less than 1 Year | | 1-3 Years | | 3-5 Years | | More than 5 Years | | Total Contractual Obligations | |
Equipment Long-Term Loan | | | 52,872 | | | 146,892 | | | | | | | | | 199,764. | |
10% Convertible Debenture | | | 85,000 | | | | | | | | | | | | 85,000. | |
Building Lease Obligation in California (Poly Pacific Technologies) and St. Thomas (Everwood) | | | 192,677 | | | 305,071 | | | | | | | | | 497,748. | |
ITEM 6. DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES
A. Directors and Senior Management
Mr. Thomas Lam is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director for the Company. He has over 30 years of management experience in computing operations and systems, public health operations, plastics manufacturing, and importing and exporting. Mr. Lam received his advanced training in the USA and Canada in computers, marketing, finance, administration and contract law negotiations. His experience and capabilities have enabled the Company to research and develop processes for the manufacturing and distribution of its products since 1989.
The Company Board of Directors has four other members. Mr. David Tam is a corporate lawyer and partner in Parlee McLaws LLP, the firm that handles the head office legal needs for the Company in Edmonton, Alberta. Dr. Edward Chambers is a former Dean of Business and now is a Research Professor with the School of Business at the University of Alberta, attached to the Western Center for Economic Research, and operates his own consulting company. Mr. Mike Duff is the owner and president of a successful, professional placement agency, Design Group Staffing Inc., serving the engineering, construction and resource industries with 17 branch offices across Canada. Mr. Don Quon is a computer software/information technology consultant to large corporations, is a Director who was originally the contact person for a substantial block of Poly-Pacific’s common shareholders when the Company was being formed, and has been re-elected since then because of his technology background and familiarity with the company. There is no arrangement or understanding with major shareholders pursuant to the election of Don Quon or any other director.
The Company's directors are elected by shareholders at each annual meeting to serve until the next annual meeting or, in the event of a vacancy, appointed by the Board of Directors then in office to serve until the next annual meeting or until their successors are elected and qualified. The Company's executive officers are appointed by the Board of Directors and serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors. There are no family relationships among the directors or executive officers of the Company.
B. Compensation
The following sets forth for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 the compensation of each of the directors and executive officers of the Company who received compensation, and all of the executive officers and directors as a group. All amounts are shown in Canadian dollars.
| | Position | | Compensation | |
Mr. Thomas Lam | | | President and Director | | | $123,600. plus benefits(1). | |
Mr. David Tam | | | Director and Secretary | | | | |
Three other directors | | | Director | | | none | |
Executive Officers & Directors as a Group | | | | | | | |
(1) With Mr. Lam now resident in Canada, the only benefits included are for the Company’s group medical insurance, worth about $300 per month, and an $800 per month car allowance.
The Company has an employment and non-compete contract with Mr. Thomas Lam, President, but its subsidiaries have no employment contracts with any executive officer. Mr. Lam has an Executive Employment Agreement (Exhibit 4.3 to this report) with the Company that was effective January 1, 2002 for two years, subject to annual renewals thereafter. This agreement prescribes his appointment as President on an exclusive services basis to the Company, and reporting to the Board of Directors. It provides for a salary of $40,000 in Canadian or USA currency, depending on his domicile country as directed by the Board, six weeks of annual paid vacation, payment of a monthly car allowance of $800 CDN or USD, payment of relocation expenses and payment of private school fees for Mr. Lam’s son while living in California. Mr. Lam is to receive no severance payment upon termination for cause, but is to receive 24 months of severance pay upon termination without cause. The agreement also includes a two-year non-compete in respect of the plastic media business, and a two-year moratorium to further protect the interests of the Company and its affiliates through non-solicitation of any customers, employees or agents of the Company, or any of its affiliates. There is a second, related party agreement, as described in Item 7 B in this report, between the Company and Poly-Pacific Inc. and Mr. Thomas Lam, which provides for the balance of his compensation as President.
The Company and its subsidiaries have no compensatory plan or arrangement in respect of compensation received or that may be received by any other director in the Company's most recently completed or current financial year to compensate such directors in the event of the termination of services (resignation, retirement, change of control) or in the event of a change in responsibilities following a change in control.
Although the accounting policies include provisions for a “stock-based compensation policy”, the Company has not implemented a Stock Option Plan. However, we have awarded options as follows:
The Company granted an aggregate of 1,872,000 options to purchase common shares of the Company, effective April 16, 2004, but 235,000 of those options were cancelled effective August 31, 2004 and 550,400 were cancelled in 2005, leaving a balance of 1,086,600 options outstanding. As at December 31, 2005, the individuals listed below, held options in the amounts set forth beside their name, at an exercise price of $0.10 per common share. Authorized and unissued common shares are allotted and reserved for issuance, and upon receipt of regulatory acceptance and due exercise of the options, in whole or in part, by holders of the options. No issuing value is attached to these options. The individuals granted the options have all been long-term directors and/or employees of the Corporation.
Name | | | Number of Common Shares Under Option | | | Expiration Date | |
Edward Chambers | | | 117,000 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
David Tam | | | 117,000 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Don Quon | | | 117,000 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Mike Duff | | | 117,000 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Charles Chiang | | | 117,000 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Thomas Lam | | | 351.000 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Karen Christian | | | 88,900 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Bob Bilger | | | 61,700 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Total Options | | | 1,086,600 | | | April 15, 2009 | |
Besides the $3,600 per year each paid to Mr. Thomas Lam and Mr. David Tam as Directors, the Company has no arrangements, standard or otherwise, pursuant to which directors are compensated by the Company for their services in their capacity as directors, or for involvement in special assignments or for services as a consultant or expert during the most recently completed financial year or subsequently, up to and including the date of this Form 20F.
C. Board Practices
In accordance with the Articles of the Company the number of directors shall be such number not less than one as the Company by ordinary resolution may from time to time determine and each director shall hold office until the next annual general meeting following his or her election or until his or her successor is elected. The Company has five directors.
The officers of the Company are elected by the Board of Directors as soon as possible following each annual general meeting and shall hold office for such period and on such terms as the board may determine. There is an employment contract between the Company and Mr. Thomas Lam, President, which provides for benefits upon the termination of his employment at the equivalent of two years salary if for no cause, but stipulating that there shall be no severance payment if his services were to be terminated without cause. There are no service contracts between the Company and any of its other directors providing for benefits upon termination of service.
The members of the Company Audit Committee are appointed by the Board of Directors as soon as possible following each annual general meeting. The current audit committee members are Dr. Edward Chambers, Mr. Mike Duff and Mr. Don Quon, who are all independent Directors, in accordance with the criteria set down pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 10A-3. The Board of Directors does not have a formally appointed compensation committee, but performs this function as a whole in respect of compensation of officers of the corporation, with any officer who is also a director being excluded from the deliberations of the other directors in respect of that officer’s compensation.
D. Employees
As at December 31, 2005, the Company had the following full-time employees:
Poly-Pacific International Inc.—2 management, 1 accounting and 1 administration
Everwood, Ontario—1 manager and 3 operators
Everwood, Edmonton—1 sales and marketing manager
Poly-Pacific Technologies—3 sales and marketing, 1 accounting/administration, 1 plant manager, 1 maintenance technician, 4 operators full time, and 2 operators part time
E. Share Ownership
As of December 31, 2005 all directors, officers and employees of the Company as a group own and control 13.41% of the Company's common shares outstanding and could own and control 21.31% of the Company's common shares if all outstanding options were to be exercised.
| | Common Shares Owned and Controlled(1) | | Percent of Class | |
Identity of Owner | | Number Held | | Stock Options(2) | | Now Outstanding | | Fully Diluted | |
Thomas Lam | | | 421,727 | | | 351,000 | | | 2.2 | % | | 4.9 | % |
Dr. Edward Chambers | | | 599,364 | | | 117,000 | | | 3.2 | % | | 3.7 | % |
David Tam | | | 420,307 | | | 117,000 | | | 2.2 | % | | 2.8 | % |
Don Quon | | | 455,727 | | | 117,000 | | | 2.4 | % | | 4.1 | % |
Mike Duff | | | 1,901,181 | | | 117,000 | | | 10.1 | % | | 10.8 | % |
| (1) | Shares beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, or over which control or direction is exercised, as at December 31, 2005, based upon information furnished to the Company by individual directors. Unless otherwise indicated, such shares are held directly. |
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| (2) | Includes options for common shares, as disclosed herein. |
This table is based upon information derived from our shares records. Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes to this table and subject to community property laws where applicable, the Company believes that each of the shareholders named in this table has sole or shared voting and investment power with respect to the shares indicated as beneficially owned. There were no changes in the share holdings of the Officers and Directors during the last three fiscal years. Except as set forth above, applicable percentages are based upon 18,885,456 shares of common shares outstanding as of December 31, 2005.
ITEM 7. MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
A. Major Shareholders
The Company is not owned or controlled, either directly or indirectly, by any other corporation or by any government. There are no arrangements, known to the Company, the operation of which may at a future date result in a change of control of the Company. The people identified in the table below are the only registered owners of more than 5% of the Company’s voting securities, as of December 31, 2005.
| | | | | | Percent of Class | |
Identity of Owner | | | Amount Owned and Controlled | | | Now Outstanding | | | Fully Diluted (3) | |
Mr. Thomas Lam (1) | | | 772,727 | | | 2.2 | % | | 4.9 | % |
Mike Duff | | | 2,018,181 | | | 10.1 | % | | 10.8 | % |
(1) | Mr. Thomas Lam holds options to acquire 351,000 common shares of the Corporation at $0.10 per share through until April 15, 2009. |
(2) | Mr. Mike Duff holds options to acquire 117,000common shares of the Corporation at $0.10 per share through until April 15, 2009. |
B. Related Party Transactions
During the reporting years, the Company had the following related party transactions with corporations under significant influence of the Company's directors:
Year Ended December 31 | | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Management Fees | | | 88,105 | | | 98,061. | | | 112,078. | |
These fees are incurred pursuant to a Management Agreement between the Company and Poly-Pacific Inc. and Mr. Thomas Lam (Exhibit 4.4 to this report), which is for two years effective January 1, 2002 and is subject to annual renewals at the end of the initial term. Poly-Pacific Inc., a private corporation, is the predecessor company from which the plastic blasting media equipment and technology was acquired by the Company in 1996. Although Mr. Lam is only one of the shareholders in the said private company, he is the only person who receives any remuneration through Poly-Pacific Inc. The management agreement provides for payment of $100,000 in signing bonuses in 2002, for payment of annual fees of $80,000 CDN or USD depending on where Mr. Lam is domiciled as directed by the Company (he was resident in California from July 2002 through until June 2004, and has been living in Canada since then). There is to be no severance payment upon termination for cause, but a severance payment equal to 24 months in fees is due upon termination without cause. The agreement also includes a two-year non-compete in respect of the plastic media business, and a two-year moratorium to further protect the interests of the Company and its affiliates through non-solicitation of any customers, employees or agents of the Company, or any of its affiliates. The employment agreement, as described in Item 6 B in this report, between the Company and Mr. Thomas Lam complements the management agreement in respect of his compensation as President and the other terms of his employment.
As disclosed in the notes to the financial statements, these transactions are in the normal course of operations and are measured at the exchange amount, which is the amount of consideration established and agreed to by the related parties.
During 2002, advances were being held in trust for an affiliated company that had been formed with the intention of carrying out a joint venture project. An agreement had been entered into between Poly-Pacific International Inc. and a relative of Mr. Thomas Lam, one of the Company’s directors. The joint venturers intended to establish a manufacturing plant to make semi-finished plastic blasting media in China for shipment to North America. However, during 2003, the Company decided that it would not proceed with the joint venture and the advances were returned. The joint venture agreement has been terminated.
C. Interests of Experts and Counsel
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
A. Consolidated Financial Statements and Other Financial Information
The following financial statements of Poly-Pacific International Inc. for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 are incorporated with this Item 8 to this report:
· Management Responsibility for Financial Reporting.
· Auditors' Report.
· Consolidated Balance Sheet at period end date.
· Consolidated Statement of Operations.
· Statement of Retained Earnings and Deficit.
· Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows.
· Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
The Company has neither declared nor paid any dividends to date on its outstanding shares. The Company intends to retain any future earnings to finance the development of its properties, and accordingly, does not anticipate paying any dividends in the foreseeable future.
The financial statements are presented on the immediately following pages.
POLY-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
Consolidated Financial Statements for December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
MANAGEMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The accompanying consolidated financial statements of Poly-Pacific International Inc. for the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 have been prepared by management in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Management maintains systems of internal control designed to provide reasonable assurance that the assets are safeguarded, all transactions are authorized and duly recorded, and financial records are properly maintained to facilitate the preparation of the consolidated financial statements in a timely manner. The Board of Directors is responsible for ensuring that management fulfils its responsibilities for financial reporting and is ultimately responsible for reviewing and approving the consolidated financial statements. The Board carries out this responsibility principally through its Audit Committee.
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has reviewed the consolidated financial statements with management and the external auditors. Collins Barrow Edmonton LLP, an independent firm of chartered accountants, appointed as external auditors by the shareholders, have audited the consolidated financial statements and their report is included herein.
“Thomas Lam” Signed
Thomas Lam
President and Chief Executive
Officer Chief Financial Officer
April 21, 2006
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders of Poly-Pacific International Inc.
We have audited the consolidated balance sheet of Poly-Pacific International Inc. (the “Company”) as at December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 and the consolidated statements of operations, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the years in the three year period ended December 31, 2005. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform an audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, except as discussed in the following paragraph, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as at December 31, 2005, December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2003 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three year period ended December 31, 2005 in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
The Company’s continuation as a “going concern” is uncertain and is dependent upon its ability to achieve profitable operations, to receive continued financial support from its shareholders and to obtain additional financing or equity. The outcome of this matter cannot be determined at this time. These consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to the amounts and classification of assets and liabilities that may be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
“Collins Barrow Edmonton
LLP” Signed
Collins Barrow Edmonton LLP, Chartered Accountants
Independent Registered Chartered Accountants
Edmonton, Canada
April 21, 2006
POLY-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
Consolidated Balance Sheet
December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
| | | | | | | |
ASSETS | | | | | | | |
Current Assets | | | | | | | |
Cash | | $ | 61,346 | | $ | 133,285 | | $ | 50,613 | |
Accounts receivable | | | 214,130 | | | 511,692 | | | 668,684 | |
Prepaid expenses | | | 52,734 | | | 57,969 | | | 75,781 | |
Inventories (Note 3) | | | 696,002 | | | 1,030,168 | | | 965,955 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | 1,024,212 | | | 1,733,114 | | | 1,761,033 | |
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Property, plant and equipment (Note 4) | | | 1,087,291 | | | 1,721,113 | | | 1,957,933 | |
Deferred income taxes (Note 11) | | | — | | | 174,750 | | | 192,931 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | $ | 2,111,503 | | $ | 3,628,977 | | $ | 3,911,897 | |
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LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY | | | | | | | | | | |
Current Liabilities | | | | | | | | | | |
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | | $ | 583,325 | | $ | 504,115 | | $ | 325,989 | |
Income taxes payable | | | — | | | — | | | 1,085 | |
Bank loan (Note 5) | | | 518,870 | | | 343,368 | | | — | |
Current portion of long-term debt (Note 6) | | | 202,460 | | | 282,860 | | | 73,800 | |
Current portion of debentures payable (Note 7) | | | 85,000 | | | 1,643,954 | | | 791,920 | |
Deferred income taxes (Note 11) | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
| | | 1,389,655 | | | 2,774,297 | | | 1,192,794 | |
Long-term debt (Note 6) | | | — | | | 137,820 | | | 446,620 | |
Debentures payable (Note 7) | | | — | | | — | | | 1,339,146 | |
| | | 1,389,655 | | | 2,912,117 | | | 2,978,560 | |
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Commitments, Contingencies and | | | | | | | | | | |
Subsequent Events (Notes 9, 10 and 15) | | | | | | | | | | |
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SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | | | | | | | | | | |
Additional paid in capital | | | 731,170 | | | 697,474 | | | 672,202 | |
Accumulated comprehensive income | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | |
Share capital (Note 8) | | | 1,998,538 | | | 865,584 | | | 865,584 | |
Authorized: | | | | | | | | | | |
Unlimited common and preferred shares | | | | | | | | | | |
Common shares issued and outstanding: | | | | | | | | | | |
December 31, 2005 - 18,885,456 | | | | | | | | | | |
December 31, 2004 and 2003 - 9,361,624 | | | | | | | | | | |
Deficit | | | (2,061,055 | ) | | (899,393 | ) | | (657,644 | ) |
| | | 721,848 | | | 716,860 | | | 933,337 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | $ | 2,111,503 | | $ | 3,628,977 | | $ | 3,911,897 | |
The accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements are an integral part of the statements.
Approved on behalf of the Board | | | |
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“Don Quon” Signed | | | “Mike Duff” Signed |
Director | | | Director |
POLY-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars, Except Share and Per Share Amounts)
Consolidated Statement of Operations
For the Years Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
| | | | | | | |
Sales | | $ | 3,052,716 | | $ | 3,818,593 | | $ | 4,240,940 | |
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Direct costs | | | 2,076,599 | | | 1,850,403 | | | 1,936,100 | |
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Gross profit | | | 976,117 | | | 1,968,190 | | | 2,304,840 | |
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Expenses | | | | | | | | | | |
General and administrative | | | 595,017 | | | 671,725 | | | 919,111 | |
Occupancy costs | | | 455,298 | | | 435,720 | | | 481,886 | |
Professional fees | | | 271,788 | | | 166,279 | | | 131,439 | |
Amortization of property, plant and equipment | | | 210,419 | | | 287,515 | | | 163,096 | |
Selling and marketing | | | 209,327 | | | 321,973 | | | 257,088 | |
Management fees | | | 88,105 | | | 98,090 | | | 112,078 | |
Loss on disposal of property | | | 23,392 | | | — | | | — | |
Foreign exchange loss (gain) | | | 20,358 | | | (3,866 | ) | | 239,180 | |
Regulatory costs | | | 17,896 | | | 39,726 | | | 48,852 | |
Bad debts | | | — | | | — | | | 163,911 | |
Project development | | | — | | | 115,340 | | | 47,353 | |
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| | | 1,891,600 | | | 2,132,502 | | | 2,563,994 | |
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Operating loss | | | (915,483 | ) | | (164,312 | ) | | (259,154 | ) |
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Interest income | | | (36 | ) | | (464 | ) | | (1,386 | ) |
Interest expense | | | 71,465 | | | 58,509 | | | 54,488 | |
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Loss before income taxes | | | (986,912 | ) | | (222,357 | ) | | (312,256 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Income taxes (recovery) (Note 11) | | | | | | | | | | |
- current | | | — | | | 1,211 | | | 15,997 | |
- deferred | | | 174,750 | | | 18,181 | | | (170,131 | ) |
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| | | 174,750 | | | 19,392 | | | (154,134 | ) |
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Net loss | | $ | (1,161,662 | ) | $ | (241,749 | ) | $ | (158,122 | ) |
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Net income (loss) per common share (Note 12) | | $ | (0.09 | ) | $ | (0.03 | ) | $ | 0.05 | |
The accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements are an integral part of the statements.
POLY-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
Consolidated Statement of Shareholders’ Equity
For the Years Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
| | Preferred Shares | | Common Shares | | | | | | | |
| | Number of Shares | | Amount | | Number of Shares | | Amount | | Additional Paid In Capital | | Comprehensive Income | | Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit) | | Total Shareholders’ Equity | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at December 31, 2002 | | | 3,030,200 | | $ | 2,967,036 | | | 9,361,624 | | $ | 865,584 | | $ | 58,396 | | $ | 53,195 | | $ | (499,522 | ) | $ | 3,444,689 | |
Redemption of Preferred shares | | | (3,030,200 | ) | | (2,967,036 | ) | | — | | | — | | | 613,806 | | | — | | | — | | | (2,353,230 | ) |
Loss for the period | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (158,122 | ) | | (158,122 | ) |
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Balance at December 31, 2003 | | | — | | | — | | | 9,361,624 | | | 865,584 | | | 672,202 | | | 53,195 | | | (657,644 | ) | | 933,337 | |
Loss for the period | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (241,749 | ) | | (241,749 | ) |
Stock-based compensation | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 25,272 | | | — | | | — | | | 25,272 | |
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Balance at December 31, 2004 | | | — | | | — | | | 9,361,624 | | | 865,584 | | | 697,474 | | | 53,195 | | | (899,393 | ) | | 716,860 | |
Loss for the period | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (1,161,662 | ) | | (1,161,662 | ) |
Conversion of debenture | | | — | | | — | | | 9,523,832 | | | 1,132,954 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 1,132,954 | |
Stock based compensation | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 33,696 | | | — | | | — | | | 33,696 | |
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Balance at December 31,2005 | | | — | | $ | — | | | 18,885,456 | | $ | 1,998,538 | | $ | 731,170 | | $ | 53,195 | | $ | (2,061,055 | ) | $ | 721,848 | |
The accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements are an integral part of the statements.
POLY-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
For the Years Ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Operating Activities | | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (1,161,662 | ) | $ | (241,749 | ) | $ | (158,122 | ) |
Items not involving cash: | | | | | | | | | | |
Amortization of property, plant and equipment | | | 210,419 | | | 287,515 | | | 163,096 | |
Deferred income taxes expense (recovery) | | | 174,750 | | | 18,181 | | | (170,131 | ) |
Stock-based compensation | | | 33,696 | | | 25,272 | | | — | |
Bad debts | | | — | | | — | | | 163,911 | |
Foreign exchange gain on debenture | | | (133,678 | ) | | (125,672 | ) | | (302,974 | ) |
Loss on disposal of property | | | 23,392 | | | | | | | |
Net change in non-cash working capital | | | | | | | | | | |
(Note 13) | | | 716,173 | | | 287,632 | | | (336,483 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Cash provided by (used in) | | | (136,910 | ) | | 251,179 | | | (640,703 | ) |
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Financing Activities | | | | | | | | | | |
Bank overdraft advances (repayment) | | | — | | | — | | | (247,701 | ) |
Repayment of long-term debt | | | (227,971 | ) | | (99,740 | ) | | (24,720 | ) |
Bank loan advances (repayments) | | | 175,502 | | | 343,368 | | | (595,000 | ) |
Proceeds from long-term debt | | | — | | | — | | | 333,160 | |
Issuance of convertible debenture payable | | | — | | | — | | | 275,000 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Repayment of debenture payable | | | (284,856 | ) | | (361,440 | ) | | (194,190 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Cash used in | | | (337,325 | ) | | (117,812 | ) | | (453,451 | ) |
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Investing Activities | | | | | | | | | | |
Advances from affiliated company | | | — | | | — | | | 710,064 | |
Purchase of property, plant and equipment | | | (2,704 | ) | | (50,695 | ) | | (752,227 | ) |
Proceeds from disposal of property | | | 405,000 | | | | | | | |
Term deposits | | | — | | | — | | | 298,363 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Cash provided by (used in) | | | 402,296 | | | (50,695 | ) | | 256,200 | |
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Increase (decrease) in cash | | | (71,939 | ) | | 82,672 | | | (837,954 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Cash, beginning of year | | | 133,285 | | | 50,613 | | | 888,567 | |
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Cash, end of year | | $ | 61,346 | | $ | 133,285 | | $ | 50,613 | |
Supplemental cash flow information (Note 13)
The accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements are an integral part of the statements.
POLY-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003
Poly-Pacific International Inc. was incorporated under the Alberta Business Corporations Act on October 25, 1995. The Company is in the business of manufacturing plastic blasting media and manufacturing plastic lumber using recycled plastic materials.
Basis of Presentation
These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (U.S. GAAP). All amounts herein are expressed in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. These consolidated financial statements conform in all material respects with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles (“Canadian GAAP”), except as discussed in Note 18.
2. | Significant Accounting Policies |
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Everwood Agricultural Products International Inc. and Poly-Pacific Technologies, Inc. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated on consolidation.
Revenue Recognition
Revenue is recorded when significant risks and rewards of ownership have been transferred to the customer. This occurs at the time of shipment (FOB shipping point) of the products from the Company’s warehouses.
Property, Plant and Equipment
Property, plant and equipment is recorded at cost. Amortization is calculated at the following annual rates:
Building | | - | 4% declining balance |
Fence | | - | 10% declining balance |
Automotive equipment | | - | 30% declining balance |
Computer equipment | | - | 30% declining balance |
Leasehold improvements | | - | 20% straight-line |
Office equipment | | - | 20% declining balance |
Plant equipment | | - | 20% declining balance |
Translation of Foreign Currency
The functional currency of the Company and all of its subsidiaries is the Canadian dollar. Monetary assets and liabilities of the company are translated into Canadian dollars at the rate of exchange in effect at the balance sheet date. Revenue and expense items are translated at rates of exchange in effect at the respective transaction months. The resulting exchange gains or losses are included in earnings. Non-monetary assets and liabilities, arising from transactions denominated in foreign currencies, are translated at rates of exchange in effect at the date of the transaction.
2. | Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued) |
Monetary assets and liabilities of the integrated foreign subsidiary are translated into Canadian dollars at a rate of exchange in effect at the balance sheet date. Non-monetary assets and liabilities are translated at historical exchange rates. Revenue and expense items other than amortization are translated at the average rate of exchange for the year. Amortization of assets translated at historical exchange rates are translated at the same exchange rates as the assets to which they relate.
Inventories
Inventories are recorded at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Cost of inventories is determined on an average cost basis.
Deferred Taxes
The Company accounts for and measures deferred tax assets and liabilities in accordance with the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the date of enactment of the change. When the future realization of income tax assets does not meet the test of being more likely than not to occur, a valuation allowance in the amount of the potential future benefit is taken and no net asset is recognized.
Stock-Based Compensation Plan
The Company grants stock options to employees, officers, directors and persons providing management or consulting services to the Company pursuant to a stock option plan described in Note 8. Effective January 1, 2002, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 148 (SFAS 148), “Accounting for Stock Based Compensation - Transition and Disclosure”, an amendment to Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 123 (SFAS123) “Accounting for Stock Based Compensation” for employee awards granted under its stock option plan, modified or settled subsequent to January 1, 2002. The standard permits the prospective recognition of stock based compensation expense using a fair value based method for all employee stock based compensation transactions occurring subsequent to January 1, 2002.
Direct Costs
Direct costs consist primarily of purchasing costs, freight, direct labour and other specific costs.
General and Administrative
General and administrative costs consist primarily of office expenses, management salaries, stock-based compensation, administrative salaries and other expenses.
2. | Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued) |
Project Development Costs
Project development costs incurred in completing the ISO 9002 project, in developing a project which will recycle used plastic blasting media, in setting up an additional processing plant for plastic blasting media, in researching certification of military grade materials for export, in researching and developing a new manufacturing process for plastic blasting media and in setting up a manufacturing plant in China to produce semi-finished plastic blasting media materials are expensed in the year incurred.
Occupancy Costs
Occupancy costs consist primarily of rent, utilities and telephone expenses.
Selling and Marketing
Selling and marketing consist primarily of advertising, sales and marketing salaries, travel expenses and other promotional expenses.
Net Income (Loss) Per Common Share
Net income (loss) per common share is calculated using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss) per common share is calculated using the treasury stock method which uses the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period and also includes the dilutive effect of potentially issuable common shares.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Recent Pronouncements
In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (R) - Share-Based Payment, which replaces SFAS No. 123 - Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, and supersedes APB Opinion No. 25 - Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. In March 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107 - Share-Based Payment, which provides interpretive guidance, related to SFAS No. 123 (R), SFAS No. 123 (R) requires compensation costs related to share-based payment transactions to be recognized in the financial statements. With limited exceptions, the amount of compensation cost is measured based on the grant-date fair value of the equity or liability instruments issued. SFAS No. 123 (R) requires liability awards to be re-measured each reporting period and compensation costs to be recognized over the period that an employee provides service in exchange for the award. Management plans to adopt this statement on the modified prospective basis beginning January 1, 2006, and does not expect adoption of this statement to have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations. Subsequent to adoption of the statement, share-based benefits will be valued at fair value using the appropriate option pricing model for option grants and the grant date fair market for stock awards. Compensation amounts so determined will be expensed over the applicable vesting period.
In May 2005, the FASB issued FAS 154 - Accounting Changes and Error Corrections, a replacement of APB Opinion 20 and FASB Statement 3. This Statement changes the requirements for the accounting for and reporting a change in accounting principle and applies to all voluntary changes in accounting principle. It also applies to changes required by an accounting pronouncement in the unusual instance that the pronouncement does not include specific transition provisions. The Statement is effective for account changes made in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. Management does not expect the adoption of this Statement to have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations.
The FASB issued FAS 153 - Exchanges of Non-monetary Assets, an amendment of APB Opinion 29. This Statement amends Opinion 29 to eliminate the exception for non-monetary exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception for exchanges of non-monetary assets that do not have commercial substance. A non-monetary exchange has commercial substance if the future cash flows of the entity are expected to change significantly as a result of the exchange. The Statement is effective for fiscal periods beginning after June 15, 2005. Management does not expect the adoption of this Statement to have a material effect on the Company’s financial position and results of operations.
In February 2006, the FASB issued FAS 155 Accounting to Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments - an amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140. This statement resolves issues addressed in Statement 133 Implementation Issue No. D1, “Application of Statement 133 to Beneficial interests in Securitized Financial Assets”. This Statement: Permits fair value remeasurement for any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation; Clarifies which interest-only strips and principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of Statement 133; Establishes a requirement to evaluate interests in securitized financial assets to identify interests that are freestanding derivatives or that are hybrid financial instruments that contain an embedded derivative requiring bifurcation; Clarifies that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are not imbedded derivatives; Amends Statement 140 to eliminate the prohibition on a qualifying special-purpose entity from holding a derivative financial statement that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. Management does not expect the adoption of this Statement to have a material effect on the Company’s financial position and results of operations. This standard will be applicable to the Company during the period ending 2007.
3. Inventories
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Raw materials | | $ | 54,820 | | $ | 81,104 | | $ | 99,718 | |
Work in progress | | | 509,664 | | | 638,880 | | | 688,554 | |
Finished goods | | | 116,660 | | | 301,142 | | | 169,619 | |
Supplies | | | 14,858 | | | 9,042 | | | 8,064 | |
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| | $ | 696,002 | | $ | 1,030,168 | | $ | 965,955 | |
4. Property, Plant and Equipment
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
| | Cost | | Accumulated Amortization | | Net | | Net | | Net | |
Land | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 100,000 | | $ | 100,000 | |
Building | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 317,095 | | | 330,307 | |
Fence | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 11,270 | | | 12,522 | |
Automotive | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
equipment | | | 29,509 | | | 16,046 | | | 13,463 | | | 16,641 | | | 21,506 | |
Computer | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
equipment | | | 85,254 | | | 61,974 | | | 23,280 | | | 28,364 | | | 30,910 | |
Leasehold | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
improvements | | | 17,086 | | | 3,988 | | | 13,098 | | | 13,591 | | | 14,140 | |
Office equipment | | | 109,540 | | | 57,388 | | | 52,152 | | | 61,483 | | | 75,960 | |
Plant equipment | | | 1,815,200 | | | 829,902 | | | 985,298 | | | 1,172,669 | | | 1,372,588 | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ | 1,957,933 | |
5. Bank Loans
| | | 2005 | | | 2004 | | | 2003 | |
Bank loan bears interest at a rate of U.S. prime plus1%, interest only payments, matures on November 25, 2006 and is secured by a general security agreement. The approved credit is to a maximum of $500,000 USD. | | | | | | | | | | |
| | $ | 518,870 | | $ | 343,368 | | $ | — | |
6. Long-Term Debt
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Equipment loan, repayable in monthly instalments of $5,461, including principal and interest at prime plus 1%, matures June 24, 2009 and is secured by equipment with a carrying amount of $985,298 | | $ | 199,764 | | $ | 258,140 | | $ | — | |
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Mortgage, repayable in monthly principal instalments of $2,060 plus interest at prime plus 1%, matures on July 31, 2006, secured by land and building with a carrying amount of $417,096 (2003 - $430,308) and was repaid during 2005 | | | — | | | 162,540 | | | 187,260 | |
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Bank loan, repayable in monthly instalments of $4,437, including principal and interest at5.817%, matures October 1, 2008 secured by equipment with a carrying amount of $1,407,180 and was repaid during 2004 | | | — | | | — | | | 333,160 | |
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| | | 199,764 | | | 420,680 | | | 520,420 | |
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Accrued interest | | | 2,696 | | | — | | | — | |
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| | | 202,460 | | | 420,680 | | | 520,420 | |
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Less current portion | | | 202,460 | | | 282,860 | | | 73,800 | |
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| | $ | — | | $ | 137,320 | | $ | 446,620 | |
Principal instalments required to be paid over the remaining four years are as follows:
2006 | | $ | 52,872 | |
2007 | | | 56,133 | |
2008 | | | 59,596 | |
2009 | | | 31,163 | |
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| | $ | 199,764 | |
The loan agreement for the bank loan (Note 5) and equipment loan specifies the Company must maintain an effective tangible net worth ratio, debt to effective tangible net worth ratio, current ratio and debt coverage ratio at certain levels. As at December 31, 2005, the Company was not in compliance with certain ratios. Consequently, the equipment loan could be repayable on demand and has been classified as current liability.
7. Debentures Payable
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Debenture payable | | $ | — | | $ | 1,368,954 | | $ | 1,856,066 | |
Convertible debenture payable | | | 85,000 | | | 275,000 | | | 275,000 | |
| | | 85,000 | | | 1,643,954 | | | 2,131,066 | |
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Current portion | | | (85,000 | ) | | (1,643,954 | ) | | (791,920 | ) |
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| | $ | — | | | | | $ | 1,339,146 | |
a) Debenture Payable
A $1,586,250 USD unsecured debenture was issued on July 2, 2003 in exchange for 3,030,200 of preferred shares of the Company valued at $2,353,230 CAD. The debenture bears no interest, is repayable in quarterly instalments and is due on December 31, 2005. During 2005, the debenture holder requested the Company to convert the debenture into common shares of the Company. The request was approved by the Company and the TSX Venture Exchange. The outstanding debenture of US $936,250 was converted to 9,362,500 common shares of the Company at a price of $0.10 per share on July 29, 2005.
b) Convertible Debenture Payable
A $275,000 unsecured convertible debenture was issued during 2003. The convertible debenture bears interest at 10% per annum and was due on December 15, 2004. The debenture is convertible at the option of the debenture holder into fully paid, non-assessable common shares without par value in the capital of the Company at a conversion price in the range of $0.15 to $0.20 per common share. The convertible debentures held by the public were settled with the debenture holders during 2005 for cash consideration of $161,856. During 2005, a convertible debenture holder exercised his option to convert his $10,000 convertible debenture to 161,332 common shares of the Company at a negotiated price of $0.075 per share. The remaining convertible debentures of $85,000 held by the directors have been postponed.
8 Share Capital
Authorized
Unlimited number of common voting shares and unlimited number of preferred non-voting shares
Conversion of Preferred Shares
Each preferred share shall be entitled to a fixed cumulative preferential dividend at a rate of 5% of the issue price per annum. Each preferred share is non-voting and shall have preference over the holders of the common shares as to the return of the issued price plus any declared but unpaid dividends.
Each preferred share was convertible into 1.54 common shares of the company before April 1, 2004. Subsequent to April 1, 2004, the Company may repurchase any non-converted preferred share for cancellation at their issue price plus any declared but unpaid dividends.
8. Share Capital
During 2003, 3,030,200 of preferred shares were redeemed at a value of $2,353,230 in exchange for an unsecured debenture in the amount of $1,586,250 USD due December 31, 2005 (Note 7). The excess value of the preferred shares have been recorded as additional paid in capital of the Company.
Stock-Based Compensation Plan
On April 1, 1999, the Board of Directors granted a stock option to a director of the company to purchase up to a total of 486,631 common shares. The exercise price was $0.18 per share and the expiry date was March 31, 2004. These options were forfeited when the preferred shares were converted to a debenture during the year ended December 31, 2003.
During 2004, the Company has issued stock options to acquire common stock through its stock option plan. The options granted to directors and employees totalled 1,872,000 of which 1,872,000 have fully vested. 235,000 and 550,400 stock options have been subsequently cancelled in 2004 and 2005, respectively. The stock options can be exercised at $0.10 per common share and expire on April 15, 2009. Terms and conditions of options granted are set out in the Company’s stock option plan.
a) Summary of the stock option transactions are as follows:
| | | Number of Options | | | Weighted Average Exercise Price | |
Outstanding at December 31, 2002 | | | 486,631 | | $ | 0.18 | |
Forfeited | | | (486,631 | ) | | 0.18 | |
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Outstanding at December 31, 2003 | | | — | | | — | |
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Granted | | | 1,872,000 | | | 0.10 | |
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Cancelled | | | (235,000 | ) | | 0.10 | |
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Outstanding at December 31, 2004 | | | 1,637,000 | | | 0.10 | |
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Cancelled | | | (550,400 | ) | | 0.10 | |
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Balance at December 31, 2005 | | | 1,086,600 | | | 0.10 | |
b) The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding at December 31, 2005:
| | Options Outstanding | | Options Exercisable | |
Number of Options | | Weighted Average Exercise Price | | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years) | | Number of Options | | Weighted Average Exercise Price | |
1,086,600 | | $ | 0.10 | | | 3.29 | | | 1,086,600 | | $ | 0.10 | |
During the year ended December 31, 2005, the Company recognized $33,696 (2004 - $25,272; 2003 - $nil) in stock-based compensation expense.
8. Share Capital
The fair value for stock options expensed in the year ended December 31, 2005 was estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model assuming no expected dividends and the following weighted average assumptions:
Interest rate | | | 2.5 | % |
Expected volatility | | | 87.0 | % |
Expected life options (in years) | | | 5.0 | |
9. Commitments
| a) | The Company has entered into a lease agreement for its current premises located in Ontario, California. Lease concessions and escalations are amortized over the lease term and included in the calculation of minimum annual lease payments. The minimum annual lease payments which will become owing are as follows: |
2006 | | 192,677 | |
2007 | | 192,677 | |
2008 | | 112,394 | |
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| b) | The Company has entered into a joint venture agreement with a relative of one of the Company's directors, whereby the joint venturers intend to establish a manufacturing plant to make semi-finished plastic blasting media in China for shipment to North America. Currently, the joint venture plant has not been established and the Company has no financial commitment that can be determined at this time. |
10. Contingencies
Through the ordinary course of business, a number of claims are pending in which the Company or its subsidiaries may be the plaintiff or defendant. In the opinion of management, the ultimate resolution of any current lawsuits would not have a material effect on the financial position or results of operations of the Company. As at the date of these consolidated financial statements, outstanding claims against the Company amount to $217,216, however, the likelihood of payment of these claims cannot be determined at this time and have not been accrued in the consolidated financial statements.
11. Income Taxes
The difference between the computed expected income tax provision based on a statutory tax rate of 33.62% (2004 - 33.87%; 2003 - 34.74%) and the actual income tax provision are summarized as follows:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Computed expected income | | | | | | | | | | |
taxes (recovery) | | $ | (390,551 | ) | $ | (81,880 | ) | $ | (138,887 | ) |
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Increase (decrease) in tax resulting from: | | | | | | | | | | |
Non-deductible costs | | | 12,282 | | | 4,204 | | | 2,191 | |
Amortization in excess of capital cost | | | | | | | | | | |
allowance for tax | | | 67,932 | | | 21,166 | | | 78,739 | |
Foreign exchange gain on translation | | | (13,704 | ) | | 53,045 | | | (81,265 | ) |
Underaccrual (overaccrual) of prior year | | | | | | | | | | |
tax recovery | | | — | | | 410 | | | (14,912 | ) |
Losses not recognized as a | | | | | | | | | | |
future tax asset | | | 324,041 | | | 274,752 | | | — | |
Change in valuation allowance | | | 174,750 | | | — | | | — | |
Deductible research and development | | | | | | | | | | |
costs | | | — | | | (153,186 | ) | | — | |
Utilization of loss carry forwards | | | — | | | (99,119 | ) | | — | |
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Total income taxes (recovery) | | $ | 174,750 | | $ | 19,392 | | $ | (154,134 | ) |
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The following summarizes the components included in deferred income taxes as at December 31:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
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Assets: | | | | | | | |
Tax benefits of loss carry forward | | $ | 881,605 | | $ | 557,565 | | $ | 309,592 | |
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Difference between tax value and | | | | | | | | | | |
book value of cumulative eligible capital | | | 37,344 | | | 39,147 | | | 43,175 | |
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Valuation allowance | | | (918,949 | ) | | (421,962 | ) | | (159,836 | ) |
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Net future tax assets | | $ | — | | $ | 174,750 | | $ | 192,931 | |
As at December 31, 2005, the Company has $2,622,264 non-capital losses which may be used to reduce future Canadian income taxes otherwise payable. The non-capital losses expire as follows:
2009 | | $ | 241,100 | |
2010 | | $ | 650,068 | |
2014 | | $ | 767,266 | |
2015 | | $ | 963,830 | |
12. Net Income (Loss) per Common Share
Diluted net income (loss) per common share is calculated using the treasury stock method. The effects of the potential exercise of options and conversion of the convertible debentures are anti-dilutive as at December 31, 2005 and 2004 and are therefore not presented.
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
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Numeration | | | | | | | |
Net loss | | $ | (1,161,662 | ) | $ | (241,749 | ) | $ | (158,122 | ) |
Discount on redemption of preferred shares | | | — | | | — | | | 613,806 | |
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Net income (loss) available to common | | | | | | | | | | |
shareholders | | $ | (1,161,662 | ) | $ | (241,749 | ) | $ | 455,684 | |
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Denomination | | | | | | | | | | |
Weighted average number of common shares | | | | | | | | | | |
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outstanding - basic | | | 12,536,235 | | | 9,361,624 | | | 9,361,624 | |
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Effect of dilutive securities: | | | | | | | | | | |
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Stock options | | | — | | | — | | | 236,219 | |
Preferred shares | | | — | | | — | | | 2,339,646 | |
Convertible debentures | | | — | | | — | | | 94,324 | |
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Weighted average number of common shares | | | | | | | | | | |
outstanding - diluted | | | 12,536,235 | | | 9,361,624 | | | 12,031,813 | |
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Basic earnings (loss) per share | | $ | (0.09 | ) | $ | (0.03 | ) | $ | 0.05 | |
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Diluted earnings (loss) per share | | $ | (0.09 | ) | $ | (0.03 | ) | $ | 0.04 | |
13. Supplemental Cash Flow Information
a) Changes in non-cash working capital items:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
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Accounts receivable | | $ | 297,562 | | $ | 156,992 | | $ | (313,510 | ) |
Prepaid expenses | | | 5,235 | | | 17,812 | | | 57,808 | |
Other receivable | | | — | | | — | | | 119,564 | |
Inventories | | | 334,166 | | | (64,213 | ) | | 183,826 | |
Accounts payable and | | | | | | | | | | |
accrued liabilities | | | 79,210 | | | 178,126 | | | (385,256 | ) |
Income taxes payable | | | — | | | (1,085 | ) | | 1,085 | |
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| | | 716,173 | | $ | | | $ | (336,483 | ) |
13. Supplemental Cash Flow Information
b) Income taxes and interest:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
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Income taxes paid (refunded) | | $ | 1,117 | | $ | — | | $ | (105,145 | ) |
Interest paid | | $ | 52,831 | | $ | 58,402 | | $ | 54,488 | |
14. Related Party Transactions
During the year, the Company had the following related party transactions with corporations under significant influence of one of the Company's directors:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
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Management fees | | $ | 88,105 | | $ | 98,061 | | $ | 112,078 | |
These transactions are in the normal course of operations and are measured at the exchange amount, which is the amount of consideration established and agreed to by the related parties.
15. Subsequent Event
In April 2006, the Company, subject to regulatory approval, completed a non-brokered offering of 4,836,426 units (“Units”) at a price of $0.07 per Unit for gross proceeds of approximately $338,550 by way of a private placement. Each Unit is comprised of one common share and one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one additional common share at a price of $0.10 per common share for a period of two years following the date of closing.
16. Financial Instruments
Foreign Currency Risk Management
A substantial portion of the Company's revenues are derived in currencies other than Canadian dollars. This results in financial risk due to fluctuations in the value of the Canadian dollar relative to those foreign currencies. For the most part, this exposure is reduced to the extent that the company incurs operating expenses in currencies other than Canadian dollars. The company also provides funding to its foreign subsidiary in the local currency of the subsidiary. Fluctuations in payments made for the company's products and in repayments of advances to the subsidiary could cause unanticipated fluctuations in the Company's operating results.
Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of and accounts receivable.
Concentration of credit risk with respect to accounts receivable is limited due to the Company's credit evaluation process, the large number of customers comprising the Company's customer base and their dispersion among many different industries in North America.
In the normal course of business, the company evaluates the financial condition of its customers on a continuing basis and reviews the credit worthiness of all new customers. The company has its Canadian customers insured through Export Development Canada and its U.S. customers insured through CNA Insurance Companies and as a result this reduces the specific customer risks.
Fair Value
Fair value estimates are made as of a specific point in time using available information about the financial instrument. These estimates are subjective in nature and often cannot be determined with precision.
Financial instruments of the company consist mainly of cash, accounts receivable, bank overdraft, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, bank loan, debentures and long-term debt. As at December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003, there were no significant differences between the carrying amounts of these items and their estimated fair values.
The accounts receivable, accounts payable, long-term debt and debenture balances to be received and paid in foreign currency are subject to foreign exchange risk.
17. Segmented Information
Poly-Pacific International Inc. has two reportable segments, plastic media and plastic lumber. These segments are business units that offer different products and operate in different geographic areas. The plastic media segment manufactures plastic blasting media for industrial use and operates in California, U.S.A. The plastic lumber segment operates in Ontario, Canada, obtains recycled plastic material and uses this material to produce plastic lumber for agricultural use. The accounting policies of the segments are as those described in Note 2.
| | | | Agricultural Plastic Lumber | | Total | |
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
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Assets | | $ | 1,992,552 | | $ | 2,903,515 | | $ | 3,212,162 | | $ | 118,951 | | $ | 725,462 | | $ | 699,735 | | $ | 2,111,503 | | $ | 3,628,977 | | $ | 3,911,897 | |
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Long-lived assets in Canada | | | 20,432 | | | 24,589 | | | 29,327 | | | 63,409 | | | 507,652 | | | 521,426 | | | 83,841 | | | 532,241 | | | 550,753 | |
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Long-lived assets outside of Canada | | | 1,003,450 | | | 1,188,872 | | | 1,407,180 | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 1,003,450 | | | 1,188,872 | | | 1,407,180 | |
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| | | 65,086 | | | 167,700 | | | 100,000 | | | 93,295 | | | 281,875 | | | 276,849 | | | 158,381 | | | 449,575 | | | 376,849 | |
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| | | 2,436,932 | | | 2,968,006 | | | 3,245,734 | | | 457,403 | | | 401,012 | | | 618,357 | | | 2,894,335 | | | 3,369,018 | | | 3,864,091 | |
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Total sales | | | 2,502,018 | | | 3,135,706 | | | 3,345,734 | | | 550,698 | | | 682,887 | | | 895,206 | | | 3,052,716 | | | 3,818,593 | | | 4,240,940 | |
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| | | (1,108,299 | ) | | (132,850 | ) | | (128,232 | ) | | (53,363 | ) | | (108,899 | ) | | (29,890 | ) | | (1,161,662 | ) | | (241,749 | ) | | (158,122 | ) |
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Amortization: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Property, plant and equipment | | | 194,542 | | | 253,287 | | | 131,575 | | | 15,877 | | | 34,228 | | | 31,521 | | | 210,419 | | | 287,515 | | | 163,096 | |
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Interest expense | | | 68,068 | | | 46,409 | | | 40,948 | | | 3,397 | | | 12,100 | | | 13,540 | | | 71,465 | | | 58,509 | | | 54,488 | |
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| | | 174,750 | | | 19,316 | | | (144,762 | ) | | — | | | 76 | | | (9,372 | ) | | 174,750 | | | 19,392 | | | (154,134 | ) |
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| | | 2,704 | | | 32,430 | | | 742,512 | | | — | | | 18,264 | | | 9,715 | | | 2,704 | | | 50,694 | | | 752,227 | |
18. Differences Between United States and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
The financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles which, as they apply to the Company, differ in certain material respects from those applicable in Canada. Significant differences between U.S. GAAP and Canadian GAAP are set forth below:
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
Balance Sheet Adjustments: | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
Deferred Charges | | | | | | | |
Balance under U.S. GAAP | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | |
Deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | — | | | 730,808 | |
Accumulated amortization of | | | | | | | | | | |
deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | — | | | (278,532 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Balance under Canadian GAAP | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | 452,276 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Additional Paid In Capital | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance under U.S. GAAP | | $ | 731,170 | | $ | 697,474 | | $ | 672,202 | |
Adjustment for stock compensation | | | | | | | | | | |
for employees (b) | | | (58,396 | ) | | (58,396 | ) | | (58,396 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Balance under Canadian GAAP | | $ | 672,774 | | $ | 639,078 | | $ | 613,806 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Accumulated Comprehensive Income | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance under U.S. GAAP | | $ | 53,195 | | $ | 53,195 | | $ | 53,195 | |
Translation adjustments (c) | | | (53,195 | ) | | (53,195 | ) | | (53,195 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Balance under Canadian GAAP | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | — | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Retained earnings (deficit) | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance under U.S. GAAP | | $ | (2,061,055 | ) | $ | (899,393 | ) | $ | (657,644 | ) |
Additions to deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | 115,340 | | | 47,353 | |
Translation adjustment (c) | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | | | 53,195 | |
Write-down of deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | (567,615 | ) | | — | |
Amortization of deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | — | | | (134,887 | ) |
Cumulative adjustment of prior | | | | | | | | | | |
year’s differences | | | 58,397 | | | 510,672 | | | 598,206 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Balance under Canadian GAAP | | $ | (1,949,463 | ) | $ | (787,801 | ) | $ | (93,777 | ) |
18. | Differences Between United States and Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Continued) |
| | 2005 | | 2004 | | 2003 | |
| | | | | | | |
Effect on consolidated statement of operations | | | | | | | |
Net loss under U.S. GAAP | | $ | 1,161,662 | | $ | 241,749 | | $ | 158,122 | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Additions to deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | (115,340 | ) | | (47,353 | ) |
Amortization of deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | — | | | 134,887 | |
Write-down of deferred charges (a) | | | — | | | 567,615 | | | — | |
| | | | | | | | | | |
Net loss under Canadian GAAP | | $ | 1,161,662 | | $ | 694,024 | | $ | 245,656 | |
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Basic loss per share - Canadian GAAP | | $ | 0.09 | | $ | 0.07 | | $ | 0.03 | |
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There are no other differences between U.S. GAAP and Canadian GAAP in amounts reported as cash flows provided by (used in) operating, financing or investing activities.
Under Canadian GAAP, when a development cost meets Canadian GAAP criteria for deferral and amortization amounts incurred for project development are capitalized and amortized over the expected useful life. Deferred charges incurred in 2003 met this criteria and were capitalized and amortized. Development costs incurred in 2005 and 2004 have been expensed as incurred.
| b) | Stock Based Compensation |
Under Canadian GAAP, the Company did not adopt the policy of expensing stock options until January 1, 2002. Prior to this, no stock based compensation expense was required to be recorded.
Under Canadian GAAP, the foreign currency translation adjustment would be recorded in retained earnings rather than as comprehensive income
B. Significant Changes
Everwood was unable to obtain raw material during the year to maintain production and thus had to be shut down (halfway during the year), thus decreasing overall revenues for the year. The Company has been actively searching for alternative raw material sources for Everwood. The Company is currently in active negotiations with certain suppliers for alternative sources of raw material and expects to have Everwood back in production in the second to third quarter of 2006.
ITEM 9. THE OFFER AND LISTING
Not applicable except for Item 9.A.4. and Item 9.C.
The principal trading market for the Company's Common Shares is the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V) under the symbol "PMB". The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and low sales prices per share of the Company's Common Shares on the TSX-V.
Table 9.1—History on TSX Venture Exchange (in Canadian Dollars)
Year | | Period | | High | | Low |
2000 | | 1 Year | | 0.40 | | 0.15 |
2001 | | 1 Year | | 0.35 | | 0.14 |
2002 | | 1 Year | | 0.29 | | 0.11 |
2003 | | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Annual | | 0.24 0.24 0.22 0.18 0.24 | | 0.17 0.11 0.13 0.13 0.11 |
2004 | | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Annual | | 0.160 0.175 0.175 0.105 0.175 | | 0.100 0.100 0.105 0.075 0.075 |
2005 | | Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Annual | | 0.0550 0.0500 0.0675 0.1300 0.1050 | | 0.0525 0.0450 0.0630 0.1000 0.0600 |
Latest Six Months | | January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 | | 0.1275 0.1200 0.009 0.1200 0.1100 0.0850 | | 0.0600 0.0975 0.075 0.075 0.110 0.085 |
ITEM 10. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A. Share Capital
The following description is a summary of the material terms of the provisions of our Articles of Incorporation. The Articles of Incorporation have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement.
Common Shares
The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares with no par value. As of the date of this registration statement, there were 18,885,456 common shares issued and outstanding that were held by approximately 420 shareholders of record.
Each share of common stock entitles the holder to one vote, either in person or by proxy, at meetings of shareholders. The holders are not permitted to vote their shares cumulatively. Accordingly, the shareholders of our common shares who hold, in the aggregate, more than fifty percent of the total voting rights can elect all of our directors and, in such event, the holders of the remaining minority shares will not be able to elect any of the such directors. The vote of the holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding common shares entitled to vote thereon is sufficient to authorize, affirm, ratify or consent to such act or action, except as otherwise provided by law.
Holders of common shares are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available. We have not paid any dividends since our inception, and we presently anticipate that all earnings, if any, will be retained for development of our business. Any future disposition of dividends will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon, among other things, our future earnings, operating and financial condition, capital requirements, and other factors.
Holders of our common shares have no preemptive rights or other subscription rights, conversion rights, redemption or sinking fund provisions. Upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holders of our common shares will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to shareholders after the payment of all of our debts and other liabilities. There are not any provisions in our Articles of Incorporation that would prevent or delay change in our control.
Options to acquire common shares of the Company are held by the five Directors for a total of 936,000 shares, and by four other persons for a total of 150,600 shares.
During the 2001 year 492,000 common shares were bought back through an issuer’s bid. There have been no common shares issuances or repurchases by the Company since December 31, 2001. The authorization for common shares remains unlimited.
Preferred Shares
The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of preferred shares in series as fixed by the Directors without par value. As of the date of this registration statement, there are no preferred shares outstanding.
Preferred shares may be issued in series with preferences and designations as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine. The board may, without shareholders approval, issue preferred shares with voting, dividend, liquidation and conversion rights that could dilute the voting strength of our common shareholders and may assist management in impeding an unfriendly takeover or attempted changes in control. There are no restrictions on our ability to repurchase or reclaim our preferred shares while there is any arrearage in the payment of dividends on our preferred shares.
During 2003, a total of 3,030,200 preferred shares were redeemed at a value of $2,353,230 in exchange for an unsecured, non-interest bearing debenture in the amount of $1,586,250 USD. There have been no preferred shares issuances or redemptions by the Company since December 31, 2003. The authorization for preferred shares remains unlimited.
The Company granted an aggregate of 1,086,600 options to purchase common shares of the Company, effective April 16, 2004, to the individuals identified in Item 6 B to this report, at an exercise price of $0.10 per common share up to the expiry date of April 15, 2009. These are the only outstanding options for Company shares of any type or class.
There is a convertible debenture remaining as at the date of this report, for a total principal value of $85,000, held by 5 subscribers, who are all directors of the Company, which is convertible to common shares of the Corporation at the rate of $0.15 per share.
Share Capital Changes
The Company’s share capital changes during the latest three years are delineated in the table below. There have been no changes in the number of common shares issued or the share capital issued during this period. The stated amounts of additional paid in capital and comprehensive income, with one exception, have originated from adjustments that had to be made in respect of changes in reporting requirements. The exception occurred in respect of the redemption of the 3,020,200 preferred shares in 2003 because the shares were redeemed for less than the originally recorded investment value.
| | Preferred Shares | | Common Shares | | | | | | | | |
| | Number of Shares | | Amount | | Number of Shares | | Amount | | Additional Paid In Capital | | Comprehensive Income | | Retained Earnings(Accumulated Deficit) | | Total Shareholders’ Equity | |
Balance at December 31, 2002 | | | 3,030,200 | | $ | 2,967,036 | | | 9,361,624 | | $ | 865,584 | | $ | 58,396 | | $ | 53,195 | | $ | (499,522 | ) | $ | 3,444,689 | |
Redemption of Preferred shares | | | (3,030,200 | ) | | (2,967,036 | ) | | — | | | — | | | 613,806 | | | — | | | — | | | (2,353,230 | ) |
Loss for the period | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (158,122 | ) | | (158,122 | ) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at December 31, 2003 | | | — | | | — | | | 9,361,624 | | | 865,584 | | | 672,202 | | | 53,195 | | | (657,644 | ) | | 933,337 | |
Loss for the period | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | (241,749 | ) | | (241,749 | ) |
| | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | 25,272 | | | — | | | — | | | 25,272 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at December 31, 2004 | | | — | | | — | | | 9,361,624 | | | 865,584 | | | 697,474 | | | 53,195 | | | (899,393 | ) | | 716,860 | |
Loss for the period | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (1,161,662 | ) | | (1,161,662 | ) |
Conversion of debenture | | | | | | | | | 9,523,832 | | | 1,132,954 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1,132,954 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 33,696 | | | | | | | | | 33,696 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at December 31, 2005 | | | | | $ | $— | | | 18,885,456 | | $ | 1,998,538 | | $ | 731,170 | | $ | 53,195 | | $ | (2,061,055 | ) | $ | 721,848 | |
B. Memorandum and Articles of Association
The Articles of Association of the Company, as amended to date, has been filed as Exhibit 1.0 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Articles of Association were approved by shareholders on October 25, 1995. Amendments were registered on April 23, 1999 and on June 12, 2003.
The Company is incorporated pursuant to the Companies Act, Chapter 21, Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000 (Companies Act), which provides for the powers, rights and responsibilities of all corporations registered within the jurisdiction of the Province of Alberta.
The primary requirements and provisions of the Company’s articles of association are included in the Companies Act and apply to the Company, subject only to changes that have been made through Directors’ Resolutions that have been filed as certificates and amendment and registration of restated articles, as included in Exhibit 1.0. Pursuant to the Companies Act, (a) a director may not vote on a proposal, arrangement or contract in which the director has a material interest; (b) the directors may not, in the absence of an independent quorum, vote compensation to themselves or any members of their body; (c) the directors may only exercise borrowing powers, or vary those powers, through the approval of a majority of their number attendant at a duly convoked meeting of directors, with the vote results being recorded in the minutes of the meeting; (d) there is no age limit requirement in respect of retirement or non-retirement of directors; and (e) ownership of shares is not required for director’s qualification.
Any change in the rights of holders of the stock, however proposed, must be approved by at least a two-thirds majority vote of the common shareholders. Pursuant to the Companies Act and the regulations of the Alberta Securities Commission, the vote may be conducted through a formal polling of shareholders, or it may be taken at a duly convoked general or special meeting of shareholders. The law requires that at least one general meeting of shareholders must be convoked each year. The notice for a general or extraordinary meeting must be promulgated at least 45 days in advance of the meeting date through delivery to all shareholders of record as at a date, prior to the date of issuance of the notice, which must be published with the notice.
C. Material Contracts
Material contracts, other than contracts entered into during the ordinary course of business, entered into during the two years immediately preceding the date of this submission are:
1. | As at December 31, 2005, the number of issued common shares was 18,885,456, as compared to 9,361,624 common shares issued as of December 31, 2004. The increase in 9,523,832 common shares were a result of the conversion of CMB debenture payable into 9,362,500 common shares and conversion of $10,000 of convertible debenture payable for 161,332 common shares of the Company. No preferred shares have been issued. |
D. Exchange Controls
There are no government laws, decrees or regulations in Canada relating to restrictions on the import/export of capital, or affecting the remittance of interest, dividends or other payments to non-residential holders of the Company's shares. Any such remittances to United States residents, however, may be subject to a 15% tax pursuant to Article X of the reciprocal tax treaty between Canada and the United States. The applicable rate is dependent on the type of entity receiving the dividends. See Item 10 E - Taxation, below.
Except as provided in the Investment Canada Act (the "Act"), there are no limitations under the laws of Canada, the Province of Alberta or in the charter or any other constituent documents of the Corporation on the right of foreigners to hold and/or vote the shares of the Company.
The provisions of the Act apply to any person who is not a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, within the meaning of the Immigration Act (ie. a person who has been ordinarily resident in Canada for not more than one year after the time at which he/she first became eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship). For the purposes of the Act, a non-Canadian includes any entity that is not controlled or beneficially owned by Canadians.
Non-Canadians must either file a Notification or an Application for Review of an investment unless a specific exemption applies pursuant to section 10 of the Act. The determination of which action is required is dependent upon the following conditions:
1. | A Notification must be filed by a non-Canadian when commencing a new business activity in Canada and when acquiring control of an existing Canadian business where the establishment or acquisition of control is not a reviewable transaction. Pursuant to the Act, a Notification must be filed no later than thirty days after the implementation of the investment. |
2. | An Application for Review of the investment must be submitted when it is for an acquisition of a Canadian business and the asset value of the Canadian business being acquired equals or exceeds any of the following thresholds: |
| (a) | For an investor who is not from a World Trade Organization country, the threshold is $5 million for a direct acquisition and $50 million for an indirect acquisition; the $5 million threshold will apply, however, for an indirect acquisition if the asset value of the Canadian business being acquired exceeds 50% of the total assets of the business. |
| (b) | Except as specified in paragraph (c) below, a threshold is calculated annually for reviewable direct acquisitions by investors who are from a World Trade Organization country, such as the United States of America. The threshold that was set for 2004 was $237 million. Pursuant to Canada's international commitments, indirect acquisitions by investors who are from World Trade Organization countries are not reviewable. |
| (c) | The limits set out in paragraph (a) apply to all non-Canadian investors for acquisitions of a Canadian business that: |
(i) engages in the production of uranium and owns an interest in a producing uranium property in Canada;
(ii) provides any financial service;
(iii) provides any transportation service; or
(iv) is a cultural business.
3. | Notwithstanding the above, any investment for which only a Notification is usually required, including the establishment of a new Canadian business, and which falls within a specific business activity listed in Schedule IV of the Regulations Respecting Investment in Canada, may be reviewed if an Order-in-Council from the Government of Canada directing a review is made and a notice is sent to the non-Canadian investor within 21 days following the receipt of a certified complete notification. The types of businesses included in Schedule IV are those involved in: |
| (a) | The publication, distribution or sale of books, magazines, periodicals or newspapers in print or machine readable form. |
| (b) | The production, distribution, sale or exhibition of film or video products. |
| (c) | The production, distribution, sale or exhibition of audio or video music recordings. |
| (d) | The publication, distribution or sale of music in print or machine readable form. |
E. Taxation
The discussion under this heading summarizes the material Canadian federal income tax consequences of acquiring, holding and disposing of common shares of the Registrant for a shareholder of the Registrant who is not resident in Canada and who is resident in the United States. It is based on the current provisions of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the "Tax Act") and the regulations thereunder. The provisions of the Tax Act are subject to income tax treaties to which Canada is a party, including the Canada-United States Income Tax Convention (1980) (the Convention). Generally, dividends paid by Canadian corporations to non-resident shareholders are subject to a withholding tax of 25% of the gross amount of such dividends. However, Article X of the reciprocal tax treaty between Canada and the United States reduced to 15% the withholding tax on the gross amount of dividends paid to residents of the United States. A further 9% reduction, in 1996, and a 10% reduction in 1997 and thereafter, in the withholding tax rate on the gross amount of dividends is applicable when a US corporation owns at least 10% of the voting sharesof the Canadian corporation paying the dividends.
As a foreign corporation with US shareholders, the Company could be treated as a passive foreign investment Corporation ("PFIC"), as defined in Section 1296 of the Internal Revenue Code. This determination is dependent upon the percentage of the Company's passive income, or the percentage of the Company's assets, which are producing passive income. US shareholders owning shares of a PFIC may defer the U.S. tax with respect to that investment until the US holder disposes of the PFIC shares or receives certain distributions. At that time, the U.S. holder is subject to US tax, plus interest, based on the value of the tax deferral for the period during which the shares of the PFIC are owned, in addition to treatment of any gain realized on the disposition of the shares of the PFIC as ordinary income rather than as a capital gain.
Gain from a disposition of PFIC shares or certain distributions are treated as income earned ratably over the period during which the shareholder has held the shares. That portion allocable to the current year and to years when the corporation was not a PFIC is included in the shareholder's gross income in the year of distribution as ordinary income, rather than as a capital gain. That portion of the distribution or disposition which is not allocable to the current year is subject to deferred U.S. tax (the amount of tax that would have been owed if the allocated amount had been included in income in the earlier year), plus interest.
However, if the U.S. shareholder makes a timely election to treat a PFIC as a qualified electing fund ("QEF") with respect to such shareholder's interest therein, the above-described rules generally will not apply. Instead, the electing U.S. shareholder would include annually in his gross income his pro-rata share of the PFIC's earnings and profits and any net capital gain, regardless of whether such income or gain was actually distributed. A U.S. Holder of a QEF can, however, elect to defer the payment of United States Federal Income tax on such income inclusions income not currently received. Special rules apply to U.S. shareholders who own their interests in a PFIC through intermediate entities or persons.
This section describes the material United States federal income tax consequences of owning shares. The United States Taxation subsection applies to you only if you hold your shares as capital assets for tax purposes. The United States Taxation subsection does not apply to you if you are a member of a special class of holders subject to special rules, including:
| · | a trader in securities that elects to use a mark-to-market method of accounting for your securities holdings; |
| · | a tax-exempt organization; |
| · | a life insurance company; |
| · | a person liable for alternative minimum tax; |
| · | a person that actually or constructively owns 10% or more of our voting stock; |
| · | a person that holds shares as part of a straddle or a hedging or conversion transaction; or, |
| · | a US holder (as defined below) whose functional currency is not the US dollar. |
This section is based on the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, its legislative history, existing and proposed regulations, published rulings and court decisions These laws are subject to change, possibly on a retroactive basis.
You are a "U.S. holder" if you are a beneficial owner of shares and you are:
| · | a citizen or resident of the United States; |
| · | an estate whose income is subject to United States federal income tax regardless of its source; or, |
| · | a trust, if a United States court can exercise primary supervision over the trust's administration and one or more United States persons are authorized to control all substantial decisions of the trust. |
Taxation of dividends
Under the United States federal income tax laws, and subject to the passive foreign investment company, or PFIC, rules discussed below, if you are a United States holder, you must include in your gross income the gross amount of any dividend paid by us out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits (as determined for United States federal income tax purposes). This includes any supplementary dividend or any additional dividends that we may elect to distribute to shareholders not tax resident in Canada, as explained in the Canada Taxation subsection. Dividends paid by us will not constitute qualified dividend income that would be eligible for the special tax rate applicable to qualified dividend income. Withholding tax is deducted from the ordinary dividend, any supplementary dividend and any additional dividend. You should include any supplementary dividend and any additional dividends and Canada tax withheld from the dividend payments in this gross amount even though you do not in fact receive the withholding tax. Any dividend is taxable to you when you receive the dividend, actually or constructively. Any such dividend will not be eligible for the dividends-received deduction generally allowed to United States corporations in respect of dividends received from other United States corporations. The amount of the dividend distribution that you must include in your income as a United States holder will be the US dollar value of the Canada dollar payments made, determined at the spot Canada dollar/US dollar rate on the date the dividend distribution is includible in your income, regardless of whether the payment is in fact converted into US dollars. Generally, any gain or loss resulting from currency exchange fluctuations during the period from the date you include the dividend payment in income to the date you convert the payment into US dollars will be treated as ordinary income or loss. The gain or loss generally will be income or loss from sources within the United States for foreign tax credit limitation purposes. Distributions in excess of current and accumulated earnings and profits, as determined for United States federal income tax purposes, will be treated as a non-taxable return of capital to the extent of your basis in the shares and thereafter as capital gain.
Subject to certain limitations, the Canada tax withheld and paid over to Canada should be creditable against your United States federal income tax liability. However, it is not certain that withholding tax deemed paid from a supplementary dividend will be creditable, because that tax may not be considered withheld or may be considered a non-creditable subsidy.
Dividends will be income from sources outside the United States. Dividends paid in taxable years beginning before January 1, 2007 generally will be "passive" or "financial services" income, and dividends paid in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2006 will, depending on your circumstances, be "passive" or "general" income which, in either case, is treated separately from other types of income for purposes of computing the foreign tax credit allowable to you.
Taxation of capital gains
Subject to the PFIC rules discussed above, if you are a United States holder and you sell or otherwise dispose of your shares, you will recognize capital gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes equal to the difference between the US dollar value of the amount that you realize and your tax basis, determined in US dollars, in your shares. Capital gain of a non-corporate United States holder that is recognized on or after May 6, 2003 and before January 1, 2009 is generally taxed at a maximum rate of 15% where the holder has a holding period greater than one year.
The gain or loss will generally be income or loss from sources within the United States for foreign tax credit limitation purposes.
F. Dividend and Paying Agents
The Company has not declared any dividends in any of its years of operations, and has therefore not appointed a dividend paying agent. The Company’s articles of association do not contain any provision to prohibit the payment of dividends to its shareholders. However, the Companies Act stipulates that no dividend shall be declared if a company is insolvent, if the dividend would render the company insolvent, or if the dividend would impair the capital of the company. Further, if a dividend was to be declared and paid by a company under the preceding stated conditions, the directors of the company would be jointly and severally liable to the company and its creditors for the debts that would exist after the declaration and payment of such a dividend.
G. Statement by Experts
Included as Exhibit 10.1 in respect of the audited financial statements of the Company for the years ending December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003.
H. Documents on Display
It is possible to read and copy documents referred to in this annual report on Form 20-F that have been filed with the SEC at the SEC's public reference room located at 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference rooms and their copy charges.
Other documents concerning the Company, which are referred to in this report, or which are otherwise deemed to be public information, may be inspected during normal business hours at the Principal Executive Offices of the Company located at Unit A, 4755 Zinfandel Court, Ontario, California 91761. Requests for documents from the Company may be made at 1-866-765-9722, by fax to (909) 390-6777, or by e-mail to poly@poly-pacific.com.
I. Subsidiary Information
Not applicable, since it is included in the financial statements pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles.
Not applicable.
ITEM 12. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES OTHER THAN EQUITY SECURITIES
Not applicable.
PART II
ITEM 13. DEFAULTS, DIVIDEND ARREARAGES AND DELINQUENCIES
Not applicable.
ITEM 14. MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS AND USE OF PROCEEDS
Not applicable.
ITEM 15. CONTROL AND PROCEDURES
Not applicable.
ITEM 16. RESERVED
A. Audit Committee Financial Expert
Not applicable.
B. Code Of Ethics
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
D. Exemption From Listing Standards For Audit Committees
Not applicable.
E. Purchases Of Equity Securities By The Issuer And Affiliated Persons
Not applicable.
PART III
ITEM 17. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Incorporated by Reference to Item 8.
ITEM 18. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Not applicable.
ITEM 19. EXHIBITS
Number | | Description of Exhibit |
10.1 | | Consent of accountants pursuant to Item 10.G |
SIGNATURE
The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this annual report on its behalf.
Poly-Pacific International Inc. (Registrant) Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Form 20-F Filing has been signed by the following person in the capacity and on the date indicated. |
Date | | Name and Signature | | Title |
| | Thomas Lam | | President |
| | | | |
June 28, 2006 | | Signed “Thomas Lam” | | |