On September 15, 2018, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Loop Innovations, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, entered into a Joint Venture Agreement (the “Joint Venture Agreement”) with Indorama Ventures Holdings LP, USA, an indirect subsidiary of Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, to manufacture and commercialize sustainable polyester resin. Each company has a 50/50 equity interest in Indorama Loop Technologies, LLC (“ILT”), which was specifically formed to operate and execute the joint venture.

Under the Joint Venture Agreement, Indorama Ventures is contributing manufacturing knowledge and Loop Industries is required to contribute its proprietary science and technology. Specifically, the Company is contributing an exclusive world-wide royalty-free license to ILT to use its proprietary technology to produce 100% sustainably produced PET resin and polyester fiber.

ILT meets the accounting definition of a joint venture where neither party has control of the joint venture entity and both parties have joint control over the decision-making process in ILT. As such, the Company uses the equity method of accounting to account for its share of the investment in ILT. There were no operations in ILT from the date of inception of September 24, 2018 to February 28, 2021 and, as at February 28, 2021, the carrying value of the equity investment was $1,500,000, which is the total of the cash contributions we have made to ILT. During the year ended February 28, 2021, we made contributions to ILT of $650,000 (2020 – $850,000). These contributions to ILT, which have been matched by Indorama Ventures, were used to fund engineering design costs which have been capitalized in ILT.

Although the Company remains committed to the project, the joint venture made a decision in July 2020 that due to the COVID-19 situation it would delay work. Since then, no expenditures have been incurred by the joint venture.