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Envirokare
Tech, Inc. is engaged in the application design, development and
manufacturing, utilizing proprietary thermoplastic composite technologies
including TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ technology.
Subsequent to end of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 and
upon the closing of the Merger Agreement between the Company's subsidiary
Envirokare Composite Corp. ("ECC") and Thermoplastic Composite
Designs, Inc ("TCD") and of the Joint Venture Agreement
(LRM Industries, LLC, or "LRM") between Envirokare Composite
Corp. and NOVA Chemicals, Inc. described below, the Company's TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™
business is being conducted through its position and interest in
LRM.
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The TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ Process is a proprietary
process developed by TCD, that enables the manufacture of large
structural parts using long-fiber reinforced thermoplastic resins.
The Process utilizes recycled or virgin resins and is designed to
reuse its own production scrap, thereby eliminating production waste
by-products. TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ process patents
have been issued. These patents provide a system and method for
forming an article from thermoplastic material and fiber.
Historically, advanced composite materials were utilized almost
exclusively by the military and aerospace industries where such
usage was normally restricted to the manufacture of small parts
due to the inordinate cost of hand application, i.e., the process
of manually applying layers of composite materials to a mold or
shape. Envirokare believes that the TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ process provides a cost-effective
alternative for the in-line production of larger, long-fiber reinforced
plastic parts at very low processing costs. The Process has key
advantages over many manufacturing processes currently in use such
as compression molding, injection molding and rotational molding,
including significantly, cost savings realized in the reduced labor
required to create larger parts made using the TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ process. The
cost required to assemble multiple smaller components to generate
a complete larger part, which often occurs in current production
environments, is higher than with the TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ process. Material costs
will typically also be lower because of its use of recycled material,
reuse of its own production scrap and in-line compounding, which
is the process of mixing raw material components as an actual part
of the production process.
The
TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ process has application in
a broad range of industries including: agriculture, automotive,
material handling, transportation, marine, medical, waste management
and aerospace. TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ composite
products are an advantaged replacement for many wood, aluminum,
steel, other metal alloys, concrete, other plastic and fiberglass
products, by providing products that have corrosion resistance,
are lighter and cost less to manufacture. As a thermoplastic process,
TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ has an additional advantage
in that it does not emit volatile organic contaminants (VOCs).
The Company entered into agreements acquiring specific application
rights to this technology through license and merger agreements
with TCD dated March 30, 2001, wherein the Company, through its
wholly-owned subsidiary ECC, was granted rights to commercially
exploit the TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™ Process in certain
specific field-of-use applications. These merger terms were modified
from the March 30, 2001 agreement, and the Company generally expanded
their rights to acquire the entire TPF Thermoplastic Flowforming™
technology through its merger with TCD into ECC, and the Company
made the technology rights available to LRM Industries, LLC, its
50% owned joint venture entity, effective March 3, 2005.
NOTE REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This News Release contains forward-looking statements.
In particular, when used in the preceding discussion, the words
"plan," "confident that," "anticipate,"
"believe," "expect," "intend to,"
and similar conditional expressions are subject to certain risks
and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from
those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, market conditions,
competitive factors, the ability to successfully complete additional
financings, and other risks.
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