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ProfileEarnings History Loop Industries EPS ResultsActual EPSN/AConsensus EPS -$0.06Beat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/ALoop Industries Revenue ResultsActual RevenueN/AExpected Revenue$10.63 millionBeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/ALoop Industries Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2026Date6/4/2026TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, May 28, 2026Conference Call Time8:45AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Annual Report (10-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Loop Industries Q4 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 28, 2026 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Loop said its India joint venture signed an MOU with the government of Gujarat, which should help with permitting and infrastructure coordination for the first large-scale facility. Positive Sentiment: The estimated capital cost for the India plant was reduced to about $165 million-$170 million from roughly $190 million, improving project economics and lowering Loop’s equity needs. Neutral Sentiment: Management said debt financing is progressing, with international banks issuing term sheets and moving into technical due diligence, and the company expects that process to wrap up around late June to mid-July. Positive Sentiment: Loop highlighted growing commercial traction, including ongoing customer negotiations and engineering revenue already coming from India, with more meaningful revenue expected soon from the Europe feasibility study. Positive Sentiment: The company received up to CAD 2.9 million in non-repayable NRC IRAP funding and said it has taken additional steps to cut overhead, streamline headcount, and operate more leanly. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallLoop Industries Q4 202600:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Loop Industries' fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 corporate update call. This conference is being recorded today, Thursday, May 28th, 2026. The earnings release accompanying this call was issued after the market close yesterday evening, Wednesday, May 27th, 2026. On our call today are Loop Industries' Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Solomita, Chief Financial Officer, Spencer Hart, and Kevin O'Dowd, Vice President, Communications and Investor Relations. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kevin O'Dowd to read a disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements. Kevin O'DowdVP of Communications and Investor Relations at Loop Industries00:00:49Thank you, operator. Before we begin, please note that today's discussion will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. securities laws. These statements relate to our expectations, projections, future plans and strategies, anticipated events, business developments, project timelines, financing activities, commercial partnerships, and future performance matters. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied during this call. For a more complete discussion of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to the risk factors in the forward-looking statement sections included in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC, as well as last evening's earnings release. These documents are available through the SEC's website at sec.gov and on the investor relations section of Loop Industries. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Daniel Solomita, Chief Executive Officer of Loop Industries. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:01:55Thank you very much, Kevin. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for today's update call. We are making excellent progress in our global growth strategy by advancing our key partnerships in both India and Europe. Over the last few quarters, our team has focused heavily on commercial execution, capital discipline, and driving our proprietary technology towards large-scale global deployment. Today, we operate leaner, we are executing efficiently, and we have a highly visible path forward. I want to walk you through the major milestones we've recently achieved across our international partnerships and our internal operational efficiency initiatives. Let's start with Infinite Loop India, where we have seen significant positive momentum on three fronts, government alignment, project economics, and financing. Our India joint venture has officially signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Gujarat. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:02:54This provides us with vital formal alignment to support the development of our first large-scale commercial manufacturing facility in the region. The agreement is a major accomplishment. It is expected to streamline permitting, infrastructure coordination, and administrative processes. Crucially, this site can support multiple manufacturing facilities, enabling a seamless phased expansion strategy. Improved project economics. Through rigorous optimization, ongoing procurement refinements, land cost optimizations, and favorable foreign exchange movements, we have successfully reduced the estimated capital cost for the initial Indian facility. We now expect the CapEx to be approximately $165 million-$170 million, representing significant savings from our prior estimate of approximately $190 million. This CapEx reduction is meaningful as it increases the overall project economics and lowers Loop's equity commitment. The project timeline has not changed. We expect the Infinite Loop India facility to be operational in calendar year 2028. Project debt financing. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:04:00The debt financing for the construction of the Indian facility is progressing well. The debt syndication process is well underway, and we have received several term sheets from international banks. These institutions are now moving into the technical due diligence stage of the process, signaling strong institutional confidence in our business model. The technical due diligence will be done at our plant in Terrebonne, which has successfully completed this type of due diligence several times in the past, most recently by Société Générale Group prior to licensing our technology. Customer engagement is strong. Our value proposition to customers is clear and well-received. We offer the highest quality PET and polyester fiber made from 100% recycled content, and we are offering our material at similar pricing to what brands are paying for mechanical recycling PET today. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:04:50Mechanical recycling PET is significantly lower quality and unable to achieve 100% recycled content without major color and quality issues. Overall, PET prices are up 30%-50% year to date, mainly driven by higher oil prices. Shocks to the supply chain, as we have seen due to the conflict in Iran, serves as a reminder to purchasing departments that having long-term fixed price contracts from a reliable partner such as Loop is a valuable hedge to have. Moving on to Europe, our partnership continues to hit key milestones. As we previously announced, Infinite Loop Europe, our European joint venture with Société Générale Group, purchased a license to build a European facility using Loop's technology. They have officially selected BASF Industriepark Lausitz in Schwarzheide, Germany as the site for their first facility. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:05:43This location offers world-class industrial infrastructure and benefits from a highly supportive regulatory environment aimed at strengthening the European Union's plastic recycling center. Following the successful site selection, the project is officially moving into the engineering and permitting phase. This phase kicks off with Loop's engineering team, providing the feasibility study, followed by a feasibility study and supply chain testing, which is all done at our Terrebonne facility. The feasibility study is expected to begin shortly and will be generating meaningful, high profitable revenue for Loop, and last approximately six months. Alongside our global commercial deployment, we have systematically evaluated our corporate overhead to ensure we are maximizing every dollar. We have initiated three key targeted expense reduction initiatives to ensure Loop operates leaner. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:06:39Non-dilutive government funding, we are pleased to share that Loop is receiving advisory services and up to CAD 2.9 million in non-repayable funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program through its clean tech initiative. This funding extends through October 2027 and directly supports our operational readiness and industrial innovation without diluting our shareholders. We are continuing to strategically shift resources away from technology development and directly into commercial execution. This transition has resulted in a streamlined headcount and a meaningful reduction in corporate overhead. We have initiated an aggressive review of vendor contracts and conducted strict service audits across our key fixed overhead expenses. This has already yielded material savings in fixed areas such as insurance. In summary, our foundational pieces are firmly in place. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:07:35Our commercial momentum in India and Europe, combined with our disciplined corporate expense reductions, gives us a clear capital efficient runway. We are uniquely positioned to commercialize our technology globally and create long-term value for our shareholders. Thank you to our partners, our talented team, and our investors for your continued support. With that, I'll turn the call over to the operator and open up the line for any questions. Thank you. Operator00:08:00As a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question in today's call, simply press star followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. We'll take a brief moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Brandon Rogers from ROTH Capital. Your line is now live. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:08:26Hello, this is Brandon Rogers on for Gerard Sweeney. Thanks for taking my questions. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:08:31Hi, Brandon. How are you? Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:08:33I'm good. First, where exactly are you in the debt syndication process, and what milestones remain before officially closing that? As it relates to the expected capital structure, what's the anticipated debt equity mix? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:08:51The anticipated debt to equity split is 70% debt, 30% equity, of which Loop would be responsible for 15%. Our partner at Ester Industries is responsible for 15%, so we split the equity 50/50. The process, as I mentioned, we've reserved several term sheets from international banks, and now they are moving into the technical due diligence phase, where they do a technical due diligence on Loop's technology, which will be done here at our Terrebonne facility. Terrebonne facility has done several of these technical due diligences in the past. Most recently, SocGen hired a third-party engineering firm to do a full technical due diligence on the technology prior to them licensing the technology and investing EUR 10 million into Loop. It's pretty standard for us. The banks have selected the engineering firm that will be doing the technical due diligence. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:09:44We're just finalizing the scope of work, and we expect that to be completed sometime towards the end of June, mid-July. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:09:56Thank you. Taking into consideration the cash burn and with the cash think about liquidity over the next 12 months. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:10:10Yeah, we have enough liquidity through to the end of this year. With the engineering contract that we'll be working on, Reid, with the pre-feasibility study and then the feasibility study, those engineering contracts are expected to fund our back-office spend for the next few years. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:10:36Thanks. Just one more from me. Can you walk us through how Loop begins generating recurring cash flow from these projects, and when should we expect engineering services revenues to begin becoming more meaningful? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:10:51Today, we already get engineering services revenue from the Indian joint venture. Every project where Loop's engineering team is working, we're getting paid for that work. Now with the feasibility study in Europe, that's when we'll start seeing much more meaningful engineering revenue and profitability from that engineering revenue. That's going to be coming up, I would say, within the next few weeks, potentially months. That's very short term. Now that the site has been selected, we're finalizing the engineering contracts, and that's when you'll see much more meaningful revenue from those engineering contracts. From the projects in India, Loop has a 5% royalty fee on top of owning 50% of the facility, we would expect to start receiving that royalty fee in 2028, once the plant is operational. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:11:46As far as the European facility, besides the engineering services, there is also other milestones for the licensing agreement. Prior to construction, Loop would be receiving additional milestone payments from the Société Générale Group. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:12:04Awesome. Thanks, Daniel. Appreciate the color. That's it for me. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:12:07Thank you very much. Operator00:12:12Your next question comes from the line of J.P. Gagan from Global Value Investment Corporation. Your line is now live. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:12:22Hey, good morning, Daniel, and thanks for your time. A couple questions from me. You've obviously already announced an offtake agreement with Nike, but talk a little bit about where you are in discussions with other customers, and then how much of the expected volume for the India plant do you need to have offtake agreements for before the debt financing can be finalized? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:12:44Yeah. We're aiming to have 50% of the facility signed in long-term contracts, and then the rest would be completed with LOIs. We're in negotiations with several of the large CPG companies for the additional offtakes, and we are in negotiations with several other textile companies or CPG companies for the LOIs as well. One of the challenges with customers is being able to sign these long-term contracts, because for them, it's two years before they can start receiving, let's say approximately two years before they can start receiving material, plus three-year contract after that. It's like a five-year commitment, where these brands are used to buying six months contracts, maybe a one-year contract. These long-term contracts are a little bit more complicated for some of these brands to be able to sign. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:13:35We do have good visibility on being able to complete the goal of having 50% contract signed and then the rest done in LOIs with some of the existing customers that we have from our Terrebonne facility. There's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that if the plant was up and operational, we'd be able to sell 100% of the capacity of the facility because we offer the best quality material on the market for 100% recycled content, and that's been proven over and over again by all of the different CPG companies. Our price point, because of the Indian economics, having a CapEx of $165 million to $170 million, allows us to be super competitive on pricing. Pricing has never come up as an issue with customers where we're too expensive. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:14:22We really have a really good formula where we have the best quality material at prices that the brands are buying a lesser quality material today. The difficulty there is just being able to get these companies, that takes a longer time for them to be able to execute contracts that are five years out. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:14:41Got it. All right, thanks. Is the debt financing contingent on a certain amount of offtake being spoken for? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:14:51Yeah, the debt financing is contingent on 50% of the offtakes signed in minimum three-year contracts. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:14:58Okay. Thanks for clarifying that. I'm curious on the CapEx cost reduction from, I think it was $190 million to in the $165 million-$170 million range. Obviously, FX has something to do with that, but was there any other meaningful cost savings, or how do you drive that cost reduction? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:15:17Yeah, I would say approximately 50% came from FX because the Indian rupee lost against the US dollar. When I talk about $165 million of CapEx, that's including all of the financing costs, land acquisition costs, engineering costs, and the construction costs. The FX portion would only be on the construction cost. Land acquisition, we saved $5 million from the land acquisition. Then there was other material savings from optimizing the process. We're working with suppliers in India or in other parts of the world that are lower cost than what we had in the initial estimates. It's a combination of purchasing optimization, land cost reduction, FX, and engineering. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:16:04Okay. You announced maybe a week ago that you signed an MOU with the government of Gujarat. Help us understand what that means. Is it symbolic, or is there some sort of tangible benefit in terms of permitting, access, utilities, et cetera? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:16:23Yeah, it's really validation. The project is important for the Gujarat government. The Gujarat government has this yearly review of projects and selects projects that they are getting behind. Our project was something that was important for them. Textile recycling, textile waste is a pretty big issue in India. India right now has some of the strictest, actually, the strictest rules on recycled content in packaging in the world. Today they have to have 40% recycled content, and they're going to go to 60% recycled content in packaging, which dwarfs Europe's 25% recycled content in packaging. India is very focused on helping pollution in the country and finding solutions. Our technology being able to recycle the textiles and the textile hub being in Dahej and the Gujarat province, it's an important project for them to be able to recycle the textile waste. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:17:23Today that textile waste is either burnt, sent to landfill, or just discarded basically on the side of the roads. This is where having our project is going to help alleviate some of the pollution in the Gujarat province because of this textile waste, which has no other value today except for a technology like ours. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:17:44Okay. Finally, at the risk of putting the cart in front of the horse, you've got visibility into some of the regulatory mandates coming down the pike, and obviously pretty good input from your customers right now. Have you started to think about what comes after the plant that you own in India and then the technology license in Europe in terms of additional plants and whether that's a build or license model and the timeline for starting to really make meaningful progress on those? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:18:20The plan in India is to build a second facility, much larger facility, once this one is up and operating. We've bought enough land to be able to sustain two facilities on that same site. There's enough feedstock in Gujarat to be able to support a second site as well. The joint venture's plan is definitely, once we have six months, a year of stable operations at the plant, to begin the construction on the second plant right away. The engineering was conceived with the view on having that second plant at the site. That's going to be really important for us. I wouldn't be looking to invest our dollars, our shareholders' dollars in high-cost manufacturing countries once we've seen what India can deliver. It's very rare to see projects go through engineering and go through detailed engineering and have CapEx reductions. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:19:15Usually, you're over budget. These are the first projects I've ever seen that are actually under budget. The cost structure in India allows us to be able to compete anywhere worldwide. Our customers, like Nike, they don't really care if the facility is in the U.S., in Canada, in Germany, or in India. What they care about is getting the best quality material at the best price, and that's what India can offer us. For us, investing our dollars, low cost manufacturing, India has huge potential. Potentially other parts, India is definitely somewhere we think we can build a very big base. As far as licensing, SocGen is building the first plant in Germany. Through the site, through the exercises, they see an opportunity to potentially build more facilities. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:20:03European regulation is coming in where, trying to protect the recycling industry in Europe. More material coming from Europe. There's incentives if you're buying your recycled plastic from Europe rather than bringing it in from other parts of the world. Luckily for us, India and Europe have a free trade agreement. We're not affected by any of those type of tariffs or protectionisms. Licensing in other parts of the world is something that we'll definitely explore in other parts of the world. Yeah, for us, low cost manufacturing is our key. Licensing and higher cost manufacturing. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:20:42Great. All right. That's all for me. Thank you. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:20:45The last thing I'll add there is probably the way we bring low-cost manufacturing into higher cost countries. Like in Germany, what we're doing is we're taking the experience of India and the low-cost manufacturing of India and building our technology in modules. The modules will be built in India with low-cost labor, low-cost materials, and then shipped on-site to Germany and assembled on-site. You're limiting the amount of high-cost labor that goes into some of these other countries, like in the European countries. That's the way we see significant savings for this project in Germany, where we could see potentially a 50% CapEx reduction rather than if you would build it as a stick-built project in Germany. Operator00:21:31Your next question comes from the line of Varyk Kutnick from Divide Capital Partners. Your line is now live. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:21:41Hey, Daniel. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:21:42Hi, Varyk. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:21:44Remind me again on the current offtake agreement with Nike. The terms, is it take or pay? Are there committed minimum volumes? Is everyone else going to follow that same framework for underwriting over in India? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:21:58The Nike contract is a three-year term, renewable after three years. It is a fixed price contract, fixed volume contract, and it's a 40% take or pay. If they don't take the material, they pay us 40% of the value of the contract. Nike has pretty ambitious goals to eliminate fossil fuel-based polyester in their supply chain, textiles, and footwear. We see that volume growing bigger over time as our plants become up and running and Nike's commitment to sustainability just increases. Other customers, there are a lot of the fixed price contracts, fixed term contracts are coming from the textile industry. On the beverage side, with the pathogen companies, it's more of an index pricing. We use a, let's say in Europe, you use the ICIS index pricing, which is published monthly on what recycled PET is sold for. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:23:08We use a cap and a collar. We have a floor pricing that it can never go lower than a certain price, and a cap, and it can never go higher. It hedges us on the downside, hedges them on the high side, and we trade within a band. It's about EUR 275 per ton band that we trade within. That's typically the way the beverage companies like to price the contracts. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:23:29All right. As far as Nike here, do they have any type of right of first refusal on capacity in the future in India and Europe, et cetera? Is that built into their contract? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:23:41First right of refusal, no. We don't give first right of refusals to anybody. They do have an option to purchase more material in their contract, so they can exercise an option to purchase more material. We have some customers that, like I said earlier, they just cannot sign long-term. Their corporate governance doesn't allow them to sign these long-term material contracts, but they're willing to sign LOIs with us. Even the LOIs have a price. They have committed volumes. There are those cases where some brands are just not able to sign these long-term contracts. Now, they're willing to support us with an LOI, firm LOIs, and they're willing to help us in talking to the banks and things of that nature. Being very supportive. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:24:30Help me with some of these numbers here. Obviously construction costs have gone down, which is excellent. If I think of the 70 million tons, metric tons annually at $170 million to build, we get about $0.44 of CapEx per pound. Does that include polymerization? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:24:48Yes. So that's depolymerization and polymerization and all utilities. This site is greenfield, complete greenfield. There is no infrastructure whatsoever. That includes depoly, repolymerization, land, engineering, and all the financing costs through startup and commissioning until the plant is operational. The construction piece, just the construction piece is approximately $115 million out of the $165 million, let's say. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:25:21Got you. Okay. That would put what, if I'm doing rough math in my head here, if you guys are going to do, you've said in the past, your EBITDA margin or EBITDA would be roughly around CAD 50 million, CAD 60 million. Does that still sound right on this plant? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:25:35It's an interesting dynamic right now. Some of the dynamic pricing that we see with the ICIS, that index pricing. Index pricing is up about 30%-40% right now, since the beginning of the year, mainly because of the conflict in Iran. That price floats up and down. If you're taking the floor price, that's probably where we would be somewhere at the floor price today. It's a little bit higher than that. We're looking at about 45% EBITDA margin, somewhere roughly around there. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:26:11Right. Either way, though, your payback period on this build all in is about a year and a half to two and a half, depending on where pricing falls. Is that number still reasonable? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:26:22Yes. I mean, the numbers just got better by reducing CapEx by $20 million-$25 million. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:26:29Gotcha. We should see some real progress with a serious timeline, second half of this year. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:26:36Yeah. I mean, now the debt piece has fallen into place. We have great international banks behind the project with their term sheets. Now completing the technical due diligence over the next four to six weeks, is something that Loop is very used to doing. We've done it many times for either customers or other partners. Like I said, most recently for SocGen before they licensed the technology and they made the investment into Loop. That's really what's ongoing there. That's going to be completed, and then we're going to wrap all of the different terms and get everything completed for the debt. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:27:16Cool. Well, good luck with everything. Look forward to following along. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:27:20Thank you very much. Operator00:27:24There are no further questions. I'd like to turn the call back to Daniel Solomita for closing remarks. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:27:32Yep. Just again, thank you very much for everyone's support. Thank you to the team, and thank you to our international partners. Have a nice day. Operator00:27:41This concludes today's meeting. You may disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesDaniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of DirectorsKevin O'DowdVP of Communications and Investor RelationsAnalystsBrandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital PartnersJP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment CorporationVaryk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital PartnersPowered by Earnings DocumentsPress Release(8-K)Annual report(10-K) Loop Industries Earnings HeadlinesLoop Industries inks MoU to advance first commercial plant in India2 minutes ago | finance.yahoo.comLoop Industries (NASDAQ:LOOP) Stock Price Crosses Above 200 Day Moving Average - Should You Sell?May 28 at 3:04 AM | americanbankingnews.comPH: Do THESE 4 things to your bank account now …In a few short months, the US government could gain unprecedented powers over personal bank accounts - including the ability to track every transaction or freeze funds. Martin D. Weiss, PhD, founder of Weiss Ratings, has identified 4 simple steps Americans can take today to help safeguard their savings before any changes take effect.May 28 at 1:00 AM | Weiss Ratings (Ad)Loop Industries (LOOP) Expected to Announce Earnings on ThursdayMay 28 at 1:04 AM | americanbankingnews.comLoop Industries (NASDAQ:LOOP) Stock Price Crosses Above Two Hundred Day Moving Average - Here's WhyMay 20, 2026 | americanbankingnews.comLost Money in Loop Industries, Inc.?May 8, 2026 | businesswire.comSee More Loop Industries Headlines Get Earnings Announcements in your inboxWant to stay updated on the latest earnings announcements and upcoming reports for companies like Loop Industries? Sign up for Earnings360's daily newsletter to receive timely earnings updates on Loop Industries and other key companies, straight to your email. Email Address About Loop IndustriesLoop Industries (NASDAQ:LOOP) (NASDAQ:LOOP) is a technology innovator in the sustainable plastics sector. The company has developed a proprietary depolymerization process that breaks down end-of-life polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic and polyester fiber into their base molecules. These purified monomers are then repolymerized into virgin-quality PET resin suitable for new packaging applications, creating a closed-loop recycling solution that addresses global plastic waste challenges. With its headquarters in Terrebonne, Quebec, Loop Industries operates pilot and demonstration facilities to validate and refine its technology. The company’s business model centers on licensing its depolymerization process and establishing joint ventures with material producers and consumer goods firms. Through strategic partnerships with industry leaders, Loop aims to scale its technology across North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, enabling large-scale production of sustainable PET resin. Founded in 2014 by CEO Daniel Solomita, Loop Industries has progressed from early research and development to commercial engineering and project development. The company has secured collaborations and offtake agreements with major packaging and beverage brands, reflecting growing demand for recycled content solutions. Loop’s technology is designed to handle various waste streams, including colored and contaminated plastics that are difficult to recycle through conventional mechanical methods. Under the leadership of Daniel Solomita, the company is focused on executing commercial milestones and expanding its global footprint. Loop Industries continues to invest in engineering, regulatory approvals and supply chain partnerships to accelerate the adoption of its sustainable PET resin. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Loop Industries' fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 corporate update call. This conference is being recorded today, Thursday, May 28th, 2026. The earnings release accompanying this call was issued after the market close yesterday evening, Wednesday, May 27th, 2026. On our call today are Loop Industries' Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Solomita, Chief Financial Officer, Spencer Hart, and Kevin O'Dowd, Vice President, Communications and Investor Relations. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kevin O'Dowd to read a disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements. Kevin O'DowdVP of Communications and Investor Relations at Loop Industries00:00:49Thank you, operator. Before we begin, please note that today's discussion will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. securities laws. These statements relate to our expectations, projections, future plans and strategies, anticipated events, business developments, project timelines, financing activities, commercial partnerships, and future performance matters. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied during this call. For a more complete discussion of these risks and uncertainties, please refer to the risk factors in the forward-looking statement sections included in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC, as well as last evening's earnings release. These documents are available through the SEC's website at sec.gov and on the investor relations section of Loop Industries. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Daniel Solomita, Chief Executive Officer of Loop Industries. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:01:55Thank you very much, Kevin. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for today's update call. We are making excellent progress in our global growth strategy by advancing our key partnerships in both India and Europe. Over the last few quarters, our team has focused heavily on commercial execution, capital discipline, and driving our proprietary technology towards large-scale global deployment. Today, we operate leaner, we are executing efficiently, and we have a highly visible path forward. I want to walk you through the major milestones we've recently achieved across our international partnerships and our internal operational efficiency initiatives. Let's start with Infinite Loop India, where we have seen significant positive momentum on three fronts, government alignment, project economics, and financing. Our India joint venture has officially signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of Gujarat. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:02:54This provides us with vital formal alignment to support the development of our first large-scale commercial manufacturing facility in the region. The agreement is a major accomplishment. It is expected to streamline permitting, infrastructure coordination, and administrative processes. Crucially, this site can support multiple manufacturing facilities, enabling a seamless phased expansion strategy. Improved project economics. Through rigorous optimization, ongoing procurement refinements, land cost optimizations, and favorable foreign exchange movements, we have successfully reduced the estimated capital cost for the initial Indian facility. We now expect the CapEx to be approximately $165 million-$170 million, representing significant savings from our prior estimate of approximately $190 million. This CapEx reduction is meaningful as it increases the overall project economics and lowers Loop's equity commitment. The project timeline has not changed. We expect the Infinite Loop India facility to be operational in calendar year 2028. Project debt financing. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:04:00The debt financing for the construction of the Indian facility is progressing well. The debt syndication process is well underway, and we have received several term sheets from international banks. These institutions are now moving into the technical due diligence stage of the process, signaling strong institutional confidence in our business model. The technical due diligence will be done at our plant in Terrebonne, which has successfully completed this type of due diligence several times in the past, most recently by Société Générale Group prior to licensing our technology. Customer engagement is strong. Our value proposition to customers is clear and well-received. We offer the highest quality PET and polyester fiber made from 100% recycled content, and we are offering our material at similar pricing to what brands are paying for mechanical recycling PET today. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:04:50Mechanical recycling PET is significantly lower quality and unable to achieve 100% recycled content without major color and quality issues. Overall, PET prices are up 30%-50% year to date, mainly driven by higher oil prices. Shocks to the supply chain, as we have seen due to the conflict in Iran, serves as a reminder to purchasing departments that having long-term fixed price contracts from a reliable partner such as Loop is a valuable hedge to have. Moving on to Europe, our partnership continues to hit key milestones. As we previously announced, Infinite Loop Europe, our European joint venture with Société Générale Group, purchased a license to build a European facility using Loop's technology. They have officially selected BASF Industriepark Lausitz in Schwarzheide, Germany as the site for their first facility. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:05:43This location offers world-class industrial infrastructure and benefits from a highly supportive regulatory environment aimed at strengthening the European Union's plastic recycling center. Following the successful site selection, the project is officially moving into the engineering and permitting phase. This phase kicks off with Loop's engineering team, providing the feasibility study, followed by a feasibility study and supply chain testing, which is all done at our Terrebonne facility. The feasibility study is expected to begin shortly and will be generating meaningful, high profitable revenue for Loop, and last approximately six months. Alongside our global commercial deployment, we have systematically evaluated our corporate overhead to ensure we are maximizing every dollar. We have initiated three key targeted expense reduction initiatives to ensure Loop operates leaner. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:06:39Non-dilutive government funding, we are pleased to share that Loop is receiving advisory services and up to CAD 2.9 million in non-repayable funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program through its clean tech initiative. This funding extends through October 2027 and directly supports our operational readiness and industrial innovation without diluting our shareholders. We are continuing to strategically shift resources away from technology development and directly into commercial execution. This transition has resulted in a streamlined headcount and a meaningful reduction in corporate overhead. We have initiated an aggressive review of vendor contracts and conducted strict service audits across our key fixed overhead expenses. This has already yielded material savings in fixed areas such as insurance. In summary, our foundational pieces are firmly in place. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:07:35Our commercial momentum in India and Europe, combined with our disciplined corporate expense reductions, gives us a clear capital efficient runway. We are uniquely positioned to commercialize our technology globally and create long-term value for our shareholders. Thank you to our partners, our talented team, and our investors for your continued support. With that, I'll turn the call over to the operator and open up the line for any questions. Thank you. Operator00:08:00As a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question in today's call, simply press star followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. We'll take a brief moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Brandon Rogers from ROTH Capital. Your line is now live. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:08:26Hello, this is Brandon Rogers on for Gerard Sweeney. Thanks for taking my questions. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:08:31Hi, Brandon. How are you? Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:08:33I'm good. First, where exactly are you in the debt syndication process, and what milestones remain before officially closing that? As it relates to the expected capital structure, what's the anticipated debt equity mix? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:08:51The anticipated debt to equity split is 70% debt, 30% equity, of which Loop would be responsible for 15%. Our partner at Ester Industries is responsible for 15%, so we split the equity 50/50. The process, as I mentioned, we've reserved several term sheets from international banks, and now they are moving into the technical due diligence phase, where they do a technical due diligence on Loop's technology, which will be done here at our Terrebonne facility. Terrebonne facility has done several of these technical due diligences in the past. Most recently, SocGen hired a third-party engineering firm to do a full technical due diligence on the technology prior to them licensing the technology and investing EUR 10 million into Loop. It's pretty standard for us. The banks have selected the engineering firm that will be doing the technical due diligence. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:09:44We're just finalizing the scope of work, and we expect that to be completed sometime towards the end of June, mid-July. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:09:56Thank you. Taking into consideration the cash burn and with the cash think about liquidity over the next 12 months. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:10:10Yeah, we have enough liquidity through to the end of this year. With the engineering contract that we'll be working on, Reid, with the pre-feasibility study and then the feasibility study, those engineering contracts are expected to fund our back-office spend for the next few years. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:10:36Thanks. Just one more from me. Can you walk us through how Loop begins generating recurring cash flow from these projects, and when should we expect engineering services revenues to begin becoming more meaningful? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:10:51Today, we already get engineering services revenue from the Indian joint venture. Every project where Loop's engineering team is working, we're getting paid for that work. Now with the feasibility study in Europe, that's when we'll start seeing much more meaningful engineering revenue and profitability from that engineering revenue. That's going to be coming up, I would say, within the next few weeks, potentially months. That's very short term. Now that the site has been selected, we're finalizing the engineering contracts, and that's when you'll see much more meaningful revenue from those engineering contracts. From the projects in India, Loop has a 5% royalty fee on top of owning 50% of the facility, we would expect to start receiving that royalty fee in 2028, once the plant is operational. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:11:46As far as the European facility, besides the engineering services, there is also other milestones for the licensing agreement. Prior to construction, Loop would be receiving additional milestone payments from the Société Générale Group. Brandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital Partners00:12:04Awesome. Thanks, Daniel. Appreciate the color. That's it for me. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:12:07Thank you very much. Operator00:12:12Your next question comes from the line of J.P. Gagan from Global Value Investment Corporation. Your line is now live. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:12:22Hey, good morning, Daniel, and thanks for your time. A couple questions from me. You've obviously already announced an offtake agreement with Nike, but talk a little bit about where you are in discussions with other customers, and then how much of the expected volume for the India plant do you need to have offtake agreements for before the debt financing can be finalized? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:12:44Yeah. We're aiming to have 50% of the facility signed in long-term contracts, and then the rest would be completed with LOIs. We're in negotiations with several of the large CPG companies for the additional offtakes, and we are in negotiations with several other textile companies or CPG companies for the LOIs as well. One of the challenges with customers is being able to sign these long-term contracts, because for them, it's two years before they can start receiving, let's say approximately two years before they can start receiving material, plus three-year contract after that. It's like a five-year commitment, where these brands are used to buying six months contracts, maybe a one-year contract. These long-term contracts are a little bit more complicated for some of these brands to be able to sign. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:13:35We do have good visibility on being able to complete the goal of having 50% contract signed and then the rest done in LOIs with some of the existing customers that we have from our Terrebonne facility. There's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that if the plant was up and operational, we'd be able to sell 100% of the capacity of the facility because we offer the best quality material on the market for 100% recycled content, and that's been proven over and over again by all of the different CPG companies. Our price point, because of the Indian economics, having a CapEx of $165 million to $170 million, allows us to be super competitive on pricing. Pricing has never come up as an issue with customers where we're too expensive. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:14:22We really have a really good formula where we have the best quality material at prices that the brands are buying a lesser quality material today. The difficulty there is just being able to get these companies, that takes a longer time for them to be able to execute contracts that are five years out. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:14:41Got it. All right, thanks. Is the debt financing contingent on a certain amount of offtake being spoken for? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:14:51Yeah, the debt financing is contingent on 50% of the offtakes signed in minimum three-year contracts. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:14:58Okay. Thanks for clarifying that. I'm curious on the CapEx cost reduction from, I think it was $190 million to in the $165 million-$170 million range. Obviously, FX has something to do with that, but was there any other meaningful cost savings, or how do you drive that cost reduction? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:15:17Yeah, I would say approximately 50% came from FX because the Indian rupee lost against the US dollar. When I talk about $165 million of CapEx, that's including all of the financing costs, land acquisition costs, engineering costs, and the construction costs. The FX portion would only be on the construction cost. Land acquisition, we saved $5 million from the land acquisition. Then there was other material savings from optimizing the process. We're working with suppliers in India or in other parts of the world that are lower cost than what we had in the initial estimates. It's a combination of purchasing optimization, land cost reduction, FX, and engineering. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:16:04Okay. You announced maybe a week ago that you signed an MOU with the government of Gujarat. Help us understand what that means. Is it symbolic, or is there some sort of tangible benefit in terms of permitting, access, utilities, et cetera? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:16:23Yeah, it's really validation. The project is important for the Gujarat government. The Gujarat government has this yearly review of projects and selects projects that they are getting behind. Our project was something that was important for them. Textile recycling, textile waste is a pretty big issue in India. India right now has some of the strictest, actually, the strictest rules on recycled content in packaging in the world. Today they have to have 40% recycled content, and they're going to go to 60% recycled content in packaging, which dwarfs Europe's 25% recycled content in packaging. India is very focused on helping pollution in the country and finding solutions. Our technology being able to recycle the textiles and the textile hub being in Dahej and the Gujarat province, it's an important project for them to be able to recycle the textile waste. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:17:23Today that textile waste is either burnt, sent to landfill, or just discarded basically on the side of the roads. This is where having our project is going to help alleviate some of the pollution in the Gujarat province because of this textile waste, which has no other value today except for a technology like ours. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:17:44Okay. Finally, at the risk of putting the cart in front of the horse, you've got visibility into some of the regulatory mandates coming down the pike, and obviously pretty good input from your customers right now. Have you started to think about what comes after the plant that you own in India and then the technology license in Europe in terms of additional plants and whether that's a build or license model and the timeline for starting to really make meaningful progress on those? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:18:20The plan in India is to build a second facility, much larger facility, once this one is up and operating. We've bought enough land to be able to sustain two facilities on that same site. There's enough feedstock in Gujarat to be able to support a second site as well. The joint venture's plan is definitely, once we have six months, a year of stable operations at the plant, to begin the construction on the second plant right away. The engineering was conceived with the view on having that second plant at the site. That's going to be really important for us. I wouldn't be looking to invest our dollars, our shareholders' dollars in high-cost manufacturing countries once we've seen what India can deliver. It's very rare to see projects go through engineering and go through detailed engineering and have CapEx reductions. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:19:15Usually, you're over budget. These are the first projects I've ever seen that are actually under budget. The cost structure in India allows us to be able to compete anywhere worldwide. Our customers, like Nike, they don't really care if the facility is in the U.S., in Canada, in Germany, or in India. What they care about is getting the best quality material at the best price, and that's what India can offer us. For us, investing our dollars, low cost manufacturing, India has huge potential. Potentially other parts, India is definitely somewhere we think we can build a very big base. As far as licensing, SocGen is building the first plant in Germany. Through the site, through the exercises, they see an opportunity to potentially build more facilities. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:20:03European regulation is coming in where, trying to protect the recycling industry in Europe. More material coming from Europe. There's incentives if you're buying your recycled plastic from Europe rather than bringing it in from other parts of the world. Luckily for us, India and Europe have a free trade agreement. We're not affected by any of those type of tariffs or protectionisms. Licensing in other parts of the world is something that we'll definitely explore in other parts of the world. Yeah, for us, low cost manufacturing is our key. Licensing and higher cost manufacturing. JP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment Corporation00:20:42Great. All right. That's all for me. Thank you. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:20:45The last thing I'll add there is probably the way we bring low-cost manufacturing into higher cost countries. Like in Germany, what we're doing is we're taking the experience of India and the low-cost manufacturing of India and building our technology in modules. The modules will be built in India with low-cost labor, low-cost materials, and then shipped on-site to Germany and assembled on-site. You're limiting the amount of high-cost labor that goes into some of these other countries, like in the European countries. That's the way we see significant savings for this project in Germany, where we could see potentially a 50% CapEx reduction rather than if you would build it as a stick-built project in Germany. Operator00:21:31Your next question comes from the line of Varyk Kutnick from Divide Capital Partners. Your line is now live. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:21:41Hey, Daniel. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:21:42Hi, Varyk. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:21:44Remind me again on the current offtake agreement with Nike. The terms, is it take or pay? Are there committed minimum volumes? Is everyone else going to follow that same framework for underwriting over in India? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:21:58The Nike contract is a three-year term, renewable after three years. It is a fixed price contract, fixed volume contract, and it's a 40% take or pay. If they don't take the material, they pay us 40% of the value of the contract. Nike has pretty ambitious goals to eliminate fossil fuel-based polyester in their supply chain, textiles, and footwear. We see that volume growing bigger over time as our plants become up and running and Nike's commitment to sustainability just increases. Other customers, there are a lot of the fixed price contracts, fixed term contracts are coming from the textile industry. On the beverage side, with the pathogen companies, it's more of an index pricing. We use a, let's say in Europe, you use the ICIS index pricing, which is published monthly on what recycled PET is sold for. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:23:08We use a cap and a collar. We have a floor pricing that it can never go lower than a certain price, and a cap, and it can never go higher. It hedges us on the downside, hedges them on the high side, and we trade within a band. It's about EUR 275 per ton band that we trade within. That's typically the way the beverage companies like to price the contracts. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:23:29All right. As far as Nike here, do they have any type of right of first refusal on capacity in the future in India and Europe, et cetera? Is that built into their contract? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:23:41First right of refusal, no. We don't give first right of refusals to anybody. They do have an option to purchase more material in their contract, so they can exercise an option to purchase more material. We have some customers that, like I said earlier, they just cannot sign long-term. Their corporate governance doesn't allow them to sign these long-term material contracts, but they're willing to sign LOIs with us. Even the LOIs have a price. They have committed volumes. There are those cases where some brands are just not able to sign these long-term contracts. Now, they're willing to support us with an LOI, firm LOIs, and they're willing to help us in talking to the banks and things of that nature. Being very supportive. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:24:30Help me with some of these numbers here. Obviously construction costs have gone down, which is excellent. If I think of the 70 million tons, metric tons annually at $170 million to build, we get about $0.44 of CapEx per pound. Does that include polymerization? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:24:48Yes. So that's depolymerization and polymerization and all utilities. This site is greenfield, complete greenfield. There is no infrastructure whatsoever. That includes depoly, repolymerization, land, engineering, and all the financing costs through startup and commissioning until the plant is operational. The construction piece, just the construction piece is approximately $115 million out of the $165 million, let's say. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:25:21Got you. Okay. That would put what, if I'm doing rough math in my head here, if you guys are going to do, you've said in the past, your EBITDA margin or EBITDA would be roughly around CAD 50 million, CAD 60 million. Does that still sound right on this plant? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:25:35It's an interesting dynamic right now. Some of the dynamic pricing that we see with the ICIS, that index pricing. Index pricing is up about 30%-40% right now, since the beginning of the year, mainly because of the conflict in Iran. That price floats up and down. If you're taking the floor price, that's probably where we would be somewhere at the floor price today. It's a little bit higher than that. We're looking at about 45% EBITDA margin, somewhere roughly around there. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:26:11Right. Either way, though, your payback period on this build all in is about a year and a half to two and a half, depending on where pricing falls. Is that number still reasonable? Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:26:22Yes. I mean, the numbers just got better by reducing CapEx by $20 million-$25 million. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:26:29Gotcha. We should see some real progress with a serious timeline, second half of this year. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:26:36Yeah. I mean, now the debt piece has fallen into place. We have great international banks behind the project with their term sheets. Now completing the technical due diligence over the next four to six weeks, is something that Loop is very used to doing. We've done it many times for either customers or other partners. Like I said, most recently for SocGen before they licensed the technology and they made the investment into Loop. That's really what's ongoing there. That's going to be completed, and then we're going to wrap all of the different terms and get everything completed for the debt. Varyk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital Partners00:27:16Cool. Well, good luck with everything. Look forward to following along. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:27:20Thank you very much. Operator00:27:24There are no further questions. I'd like to turn the call back to Daniel Solomita for closing remarks. Daniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Loop Industries00:27:32Yep. Just again, thank you very much for everyone's support. Thank you to the team, and thank you to our international partners. Have a nice day. Operator00:27:41This concludes today's meeting. You may disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesDaniel SolomitaPresident, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of DirectorsKevin O'DowdVP of Communications and Investor RelationsAnalystsBrandon RogersEquity Research Associate at ROTH Capital PartnersJP GeyganInterim CEO and President at Global Value Investment CorporationVaryk KutnickGeneral Partner and Portfolio Manager at DIVYDE Capital PartnersPowered by