During the 2016 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders for Thermal Energy International Inc., William Crossland, CEO, provided a corporate update. The update included a review of recent achievements and financial results, as well as the Company’s outlook and growth strategies.
2. Forward-looking statements
This presentation includes “forward-looking information”. For example,
statements about the opportunities for repeat business, additional orders,
entry into new markets and growth of recurring revenue streams; order
backlog; introduction of new products and services and growth opportunities
and strategies are all forward looking information. Such forward looking
information reflects Thermal Energy International’s (“TEI”) current
expectations with respect to future events and are based on information
currently available to management. Forward-looking information involves
significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should
one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions
underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual results,
performance or achievements could vary materially from those expressed or
implied by the forward-looking information contained in this presentation.
Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The
forward-looking information is made as of the date of this presentation and
TEI does not assume any obligation to update or revise it to reflect new
events or circumstances, except as required by law.
8. FY 2016 summary
Strong year for both our heat recovery and GEM
businesses
Net income improved to $259K
Adjusted cash flow of $710K
Cash balance of $1.1 million ($428K increase)
No debt
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($ millions)
Q1 gross profit
Q1 17 gross profit up 32% - Our
highest Q1 gross profit ever!
60.9% 43.0%60.0%63.7%
Percentages figures are gross profit as a percentage of total revenue.
68.2%
11. Q1 2017 summary
GEM revenue up 55%
Heat recovery supported by strong order backlog
Gross profit up 32% - Our highestQ1 gross profit ever!
Positive EBITDAS of $3K vs. loss of $401K last year
Cash balance of $836K
No debt
13. Order backlog: The value of
projects in respect of which
purchase orders have been
received but have not yet
been reflected as revenue in
the Company’s published
quarterly financial
statements.
7.8
9.5
Growing order backlog
($ millions)
Last Year Today
14. Recently announced orders included in order backlog:
4 orders totaling ~$3,700,000 from hospitals
$1,700,000 heat recovery order from an ethanol producer
$750,000 heat recovery order from a global brewing company
$1,015,000 heat recovery order from leading food products
business
Other orders from textiles, mining, performance materials,
pharmaceutical, biotech, tire manufacturing, and
food ingredients businesses
Orders from many industries
16. Improved marketing capabilities
Began using MailChimp for email marketing and
investor news alerts
Branded appearance
Provides analytics
Created a global repository for marketing assets
Ensures uniformity and access to latest versions
Used by our sales team + agents and distributors
Brochures, data sheets, over 50 case studies, and other
materials
10 different languages
17. Improved online presence
Continued to make improvements to our website
Added additional content; keeping it current
Increased our social media following:
Continued to build our presence on LinkedIn and YouTube
5,920 followers
(4,885 a year ago)
1,613 page likes
(1,551 a year ago)
33,492 views
(last 12 months)
18. Enhanced marketing materials
New case studies, data sheets and white papers
New CoGeneration marketing materials
New brochures, including foreign language brochures
19. Continued to build awareness
We now have a better story to tell
Recent media coverage includes
Ottawa Business Journal
Canadian Manufacturing
Investment Pitch Media
Meetings with investor audiences
We will continue to get the story out
CleanTechies
Canadian Greentech
Decentralized Energy
21. Increasing penetration in key markets
2014: Hired 7 sales & marketingstaff (net increase of 3)
Quebec
Mid-West US
North East UK
2016: Hired 3 sales staff
Ontario
Puerto Rico
Germany
22. Support agents & distributors in
in secondary markets
Increase penetration in existing
and new key strategic markets
Corporate / Sales Office Agent / Distributor
Increasing penetration in key markets
23. Support agents & distributors in
in secondary markets
Increase penetration in existing
and new key strategic markets
Corporate / Sales Office Agent / Distributor
Increasing penetration in key markets
24. Corporate accounts update
Director of Corporate Accounts appointed (January 2016)
Fortune 500 Food &
Beverage Leader
Major Hospital
Group
Leading Performance
Materials Company
Global Pricing
Agreement (June
2015)
FY 16: $1,579K in
revenue at 7 sites
FY17:$135Korderstodate
Additional projects
under development
Master Contractor
Agreement (July 2015)
1st order received
Nov. 2015
2nd order received
Nov. 2016
Additional projects
under development
Master Purchase
Agreement (July 2015)
FY 16: $404K in
revenue from 4 sites
FY 17: $560K orders to
date
In development: leading tire manufacturer, premium beer co., food ingredients
co., multinational pharmaceutical co., and leading food products business
25. Corporate development initiatives
Reinvent the Toilet
ISTP / indirect contact / dirty streams HX
Direct fired gas heater
Dry-Rex®
Cogeneration
All while maintaining primary focus on
continued growth of core business
26. Reinvent the Toilet
2012 Demonstration at Reinvent the Toilet Fair in India
2014 grant to deploy in Alaska, but alternative
approach taken (TEI / Climate Change Foundation not
included)
Now looking to creating biochar with crop residues
Likely no Dry-Rex required, FLU-ACE® possible
Progress is in infancy stage, ultimate incorporation of
our technologies not a certainty
Cooperation continuing
28. ISTP / indirect heat exchanger
Currently buy and implement indirect contact condensing heat
exchangers in heat recovery projects around the world
Look to brand / develop / acquire product
Look to develop unit for application to dirty streams (biomass)
Agreement in place with Canmet MATERIALS, Natural
Resources Canada for exclusive use of patented metal-
impregnated fluoropolymer coating
ISTP tests in China cut short due to limited production at test
site
Looking to demonstrate locally
30. Direct fired gas heater
FLU-ACE® with a burner
Allows more sales into “new build” rather than into
retrofit space, also allows entry into smaller applications
Sells into a growing trend of hot water heating systems in
the institutional / commercial market
Design complete, next steps - proto-type testing and
permitting (TSSA) , or gain through acquisition
32. Dry-Rex
Market study completed (FY2016) revealing ideal market
space (food & beverage, alternative pulp & paper applications)
Seeking partner for demonstration
Moved test lab to Ottawa in 2016
Completing paid study for relocation of decommissioned Dry-
Rex in British Columbia to customer site in Ontario (still years
away)
Promising product given move to renewables and match with
FLU-ACE®
34. Cogeneration
Also known as CHP (Combined Heat & Power)
CHP is an integrated energy system that:
Generates electrical power
Recovers waste heat for space
heating, water heating, process
heating
Can utilize a variety of technologies
and fuels
36. Why cogeneration?
1) Price difference between natural gas and electricity
expected to remain favorable
2) Provides clean power and protection from grid failure
3) Conservation programs – designed to reduce demand
on the grid
4) Financial incentives (i.e. in Ontario, up to 40% of the
project capital can be funded)
5) Distributed generation – more efficient to produce
power locally.
37. Why cogeneration for TEI?
Proven track record
Completed heat recovery from numerous Cogen
systems to drive overall efficiencies to the mid-90s
Our specialty
Heat recovery / waste heat use is the primary driver in
determining CHP efficiency
Established relationships
We now have a great reputation with large established
corporate clients executing CHP projects, allowing for
ready market access
38. Why cogeneration for TEI?
Experienced team
We’ve grown and added experience related to Cogen on
the sales and engineering sides
Leverage funding programs
Some locations (Ontario) have funding available for
Cogen but not heat recovery. By bundling heat recovery
with Cogen, the heat recovery also receives incentive
funding
39. Governments and industries
around the world taking
unprecedented action on
climate change
Increasing energy efficiency is the cheapest
& easiest way to reduce GHG emissions
Strong market fundamentals
40. 1 2015 International Energy Agency. 32% of the $68 trillion world energy sector investment.
2 P&S Market Research Report on Global Waste Heat Recovery Market
$21.8trillion
Expected investment
in end-use energy
efficiency from 2015
to 20401
20% to 50%
Amount of
industrial energy
consumption lost as
waste heat2
6.8% CAGR
Projected for the
global waste heat
recovery market from
2016 to 20222
Strong market fundamentals
41. Strong market fundamentals
Compared to North America and most of Europe,
energy prices in Germany are high and rising
Desire for energy security: Germany currently imports
more than 70% of its primary energy consumption
Generous incentives: federal funding reached €320
million in 2015 and is expected to grow
German energy efficiency market is expected to
grow to $250 billion by 2025
Source: Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) - economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany.
42. Strong market fundamentals
Nov. 17 – U.K. became 111th country to ratify Paris
Agreement
China poised to take a leadership role
Most clean energy initiatives in the U.S. are state and
city level, not federal
Bloomberg-chaired Global Covenant of Mayors,
which includes 128 U.S. mayors, plans to join Paris
Agreement if U.S. federal government withdraws
43. Strategy and outlook summary
Increase penetration in
existing key & secondary
markets
Corporate accounts
Introduce new products
& services
Strong market
fundamentals
Grow organically
and/or through
accretive
acquisitions