140 Smith Street
• Suite 200
• Keasbey
• New Jersey
• 08832
• USA
• www.geco.us
Investor Contact: Frank N. Hawkins, Jr. or Julie Marshall · Hawk Associates Inc. · (305) 451-1888 · www.hawkassociates.com
Investor Contact: Frank N. Hawkins, Jr. or Julie Marshall · Hawk Associates Inc. · (305) 451-1888 · www.hawkassociates.com
Global Ecology Reports Q3 '08 Revenue of $12K and Net Loss of $282K; Completes $4 Million Sale of GPS Technology; Sale expected to be worth Up To $15 Million Over Next Three Years.
Global Ecology has built an extensive network of relationships with key domestic and international governmental officials, including a United Nations affiliation, large suppliers, and organizations dedicated to environmental restoration. The company believes it is positioning itself to have a global impact on water and soil remediation systems. Its long term business plan includes acquiring partners and other companies.
Company Overview Global Ecology holds distribution and deployment rights to FDA and EPA-approved patented technologies in the water and soil remediation field. Their proprietary water treatment formula can remove harmful bacteria and curb algae growth in nearly any sized body of water. Through its agreement with Huma-Clean, a Texas-based company, GEC offers a soil remediation process that turns polluted sludge from lake bottoms and waste water facilities into high-grade top soil. This “Gourmet Soil,” a nutrient-rich compost that can be used farming, golf courses and gardening.
"Total Pollution Solution" Strategy
Freshwater lakes and lake bottoms are susceptible to pollution arising from pesticides and fertilizers used in farming and livestock activities. As a result, the lake sludge formed by dead algae and other aquatic plant life becomes polluted, endangering the water's entire ecosystem. Common chemicals like nitrates and phosphorus from fertilizer runoff can create ideal conditions for algae growth, which can deplete the water's oxygen supply. The water itself might become polluted.GEC's approach will be to remove the polluted sludge and treat the water to prevent further lake bottom sludge accumulation. Once the sludge is removed, the company will apply the Huma-Clean technology to create Gourmet Soil. The company believes that its blend of technologies targeting both water and soil pollution presents a unique value proposition to governments and other customers since Global Ecology has the ability to solve these two separate but related problems at the same time. Differentiators
Water Treatment
Global Ecology has exclusive regional distribution and deployment rights to a patented safe acid technology in the water purification field. The formula, a non-toxic copper sulfate-based microbiocide, works as an algaecide, herbicide, fungicide and bactericide with excellent efficacy against bacterial and viral diseases. It is particularly effective against algae.The formula is effectively a water treatment plant in a 55-gallon drum. It has almost identical short-term efficacy as chlorine, but none of chlorine's negative effect on the ozone layer or high costs of production. It can also be manufactured in high quantities at a low price point and deployed by low-skilled personnel.
Soil Remediation • JV with Huma-Clean
Huma-Clean is a soil remediation company that specializes in strictly organic, bio-remedial soil treatment systems that removes hazardous deposits of heavy metals, dangerous pesticides and other pollutants. Huma-Clean's patented FDA/EPA-approved technology allows it to treat polluted sludge before or after it has been removed from lake bottoms and wastewater treatment facilities. Additional processing turns the sludge into high-grade, nutrient-rich topsoil that has a high reselling value.
Huma-Clean and Global Ecology are compensated for sludge removal and the JV also receives proceeds from the "Gourmet Soil" product, which they market.
In 2008, Global Ecology entered into a Joint Venture agreement with Huma-Clean and the Mexican Government, in which Global Ecology offers management expertise and capital to fund successful contracts and operations of the joint venture. The joint venture has begun work on eight million cubic yards of polluted wastewater sludge in the district of Juarez, Mexico. First orders from this site have already been received and delivery will begin in June. GEC also plans to receive another remediation contract for anoher site in the same area.
The two companies are also in discussions with several other local Mexican and U.S. governments to address their soil remediation needs.
GPS Technology
GEC operates a subsidiary that markets a global positioning tracking system with multiple uses. Its iTrax product is a small GPS device that can be used to track fleet and other vehicles. The company also holds patents for other GPS tracking software. The company sold the Russian technology rights to Global Safety Holdings (GSH) for a minimum of $4 million over the next three years. GEC also received 10% of the stock of GSH. Under the terms of the agreement, GEC believes the sale will ultimately be worth up to $15 million. GEC will continue to market the technology in the U.S. and Mexico. Recent News
Global Ecology Corporation Completes $4 Million Sale of GPS Technology
Global Ecology Corp. Announces Sale of Mobile Water Treatment System Units
Global Ecology Initiates First Domestic Water and Soil Remediation Proposals
Global Ecology Corp. Files for Patent on Mobile PureWater System
Global Ecology to Begin Mobile PureWater Treatment System Pilot Program in Afghanistan
- Start up status
- Lack of established business history
- Need for operating capital
The Outlook
The Opportunity
Water quality problems are at crisis proportions across the globe. It is estimated that less than three percent of the world's water is currently potable or drinkable. Fresh water is already in short supply for more than 20 percent of the world's population. Over one billion people lack access to fresh water and 2.4 billion people do not have rudimentary sanitary systems. It is also estimated that 6,000 children die each day from dehydration or diarrhea due to lack of access to clean water.
Independent of the moral imperative to address this problem prior to its potentially devastating economic, humanitarian and health consequences, it also represents a security risk to the U.S. and other developed countries. According to the Pacific Institute's Water Conflict Chronology, water supplies have been the cause of at least 31 conflicts around the world since 2000, including attempted terrorist attacks. There are 261 river basins shared by two or more countries and 13 shared by five or more countries.
GEC has also recognized that the accumulation of polluted sludge in the world's lakes and rivers has become a threat to ecosystems around the world. Chemical runoffs from farm-based fertilizers and pesticides are currently causing nutritional imbalances and heavy metal deposits in soils, which threatens animal and plant species.
Global Ecology's relationships with partner companies and prospective acquisition targets allow it to seek and service projects that stand to benefit from the company's combined technologies of soil remediation and water purification. Global Ecology believes that its total pollution solution broadens the potential market for the company by offering a single company platform to resolve these related problems.
The company is currently in negotiations with foreign governments and agencies for use of both its water and soil treatment technologies. Current projects under consideration range from preventing massive algae blooms in highprofile lakes, the removal of polluted lake bottom sludge, treating soils in land fill projects, to providing safe drinking water for small towns and villages in developing countries.
GEC will continue working in close cooperation with key United Nations' personnel as well as foreign and domestic government officials, charitable foundations and business leaders to identify important projects it might service. The company has already presented its water treatment solution to several groups at the United Nations, including a group presentation to the First Ladies of several Latin American states. Global Ecology officials recently attended another event in the United Nations where they received a prestigious award for the introduction of its water treatment technology. Management believes the company is in position to become a highly profitable environmental restoration industry leader.
Management
CEO, President, and Director-
Peter
Ubaldi
Managing Director-
Joseph
Battiato
Managing Director, Business Development-
William
Merritt
Executive Vice President and Director-
Roy
Pardini
Senior Vice President, General Manager – Biologics Division-
Blaise
Zampetti
Chief Technology Officer-
Anthony
Santora
