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I don't want to put a jinx on it, but it looks like a bit of a turnaround story in the making for this one. I really hope for holders that this deal with the mysterious third party in a foreign country comes through and that it is as big as anticipated.
Any views on the fact that they need to pay back their 5 million dollar debt to Macquarie bank by 31st Dec this year?
Where will they get the money from in such a short period of time - I estimate that they have only half of this amount in their coffers at the moment. Macquarie bank is unlikley to extend the loan period.
Aside from this immediate problem, today's announcement at least demonstrates a future for the company.
Intec has engaged Royal Bank of Canada to initiate the orderly sale by tender of the Hellyer Mill, tailings dam and associated infrastructure over coming months. Proceeds of sale will be used to retire debt and as working capital in furthering the Intec Metals Recycling Project.
The news this morning is a positive move for the IMRP.
"Intec Acquires Right to Purchase Major Hydrometallurgical Plant"
Another left field ann but a big question remains over funding.
You would imagine a cap raising would be out of the question considering the last debacle.
If they don't get funding for the plant :goodnight
Risk/Reward at 1.2c?
Up 128% today on new contract news.
Seems a large increase considering it doesn't seem to be an earth shattering deal.
spooly will be happy after tipping this in the monthly competition. lol..
26mil buyers and 1mil sellers
It is expected that this intellectual property will have quite broad application for mine tailings water, industrial waste water and waste sludge treatment, nationally and internationally.
Up 128% today on new contract news.
Seems a large increase considering it doesn't seem to be an earth shattering deal.
spooly will be happy after tipping this in the monthly competition. lol..
26mil buyers and 1mil sellers
Response from Dave Sammut, Intec Ltd
Hi Bill,
As our shareholders are aware, we have been working for some time on applications of the Intec Process or related technologies to waste waters, mine tailings waters and waste sludges. We have discussed some of these efforts and their implications in formal publications, including the recent December 2008 Quarterly Report, and on this Intec Investor Q&A Forum.
The key to today's announcement was not that we have been successful in this area, as we had already announced success in the Quarterly Report, but that we have signed the first commercial contract for the treatment of such wastes at our high-quality facility in Burnie.
The commercial waste operations at the Burnie Research Facility occupy only a portion of the plant, leaving additional capacity for other trials as envisaged in its original design. Over the coming months, the wastewater operations are expected to profitably recycle the heavy metals while leaving a clear water stream for discharge under licence into sewer. We are also working to secure additional contracts, both with ACL and other providers, to continue this profitable operation.
The Intec Process was originally designed for mineral extraction and recovery. It is only in recent years that we have observed the important opportunities for waste processing, a combination of the wider application of the Intec Process than originally envisaged, the extension of related knowledge beyond the main Intec Process, and the developing legislation that gives impetus for better environmental technologies.
We are now trying to develop an opportunity with industry for the zero-waste recycling of heavy metals and acid from a much larger industry source � several million litres per annum. We hope to secure government support through the state EPAs and with this funding optimise the technology for the particular application over coming months, then to prove the commercial application at the Burnie Research Facility, and finally to work with industry to roll out the technology at dedicated facilities across Australia. There are, however, a lot of assumptions in that sentence, and we put it forward strictly as an indicator of what we are trying to achieve. It is not a statement of expected outcomes.
More generally, we see the Intec Process and Intec-related recycling options as having much wider application in the future. The technologies offer a cheaper alternative to common practice for many industrial wastes, and by recycling the heavy metals into product (either leaving no waste at all or clear water for discharge) they achieve a markedly better environmental outcome relative to the landfill-based competing technologies.
Indeed, today's announcement has resulted in an immediate enquiry regarding the possibility of treating mine tailings water at an Australian mine site.
These things will take time, however. Our team is working to advance opportunities on a number of fronts: the Intec Metals Recycling Project at Newcastle (at which we have already indicated wastewater and waste sludge process would be an early opportunity), minerals processing projects such as the Browns Sulphide project, and waste processing opportunities such as that announced today. In the meantime, any shareholder looking for a back to pat should offer their congratulations to Brian Banister, whose tireless enthusiasm, optimism and diligence was largely responsible for the ACL contract.
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