Hybrid Coating Technologies Inc (fka HCTI)

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According to this HotStocked article from this past August: https://www.hotstocked.com/article/90919/hybrid-coating-technologies-inc-otcmkts-hcti.html , there were "unsubstantiated rumors that HCTI is on the verge of announcing a deal with Sherwin-Williams Co."

Does anyone know how those rumors emerged back then, and/or what led people to point to the specific company of Sherwin-Williams in August? (Of note, remember, August 13th SW did their anti-grafitii spraying demonstration, which at the time, no one knew of HCTI's involvement in anti-grafitii coatings.)

I know we've established multiple "coincidental" occurrences leading us to point to Sherwin Williams within the past week, but what evidence back then caused people to point to SW back then as well? Was it just a random guess and pump? Or something more? Or was it the close vicinity of HCTI's August PR release with SW's spraying demo drawing interest? My thinking is two rumors don't arise for no good reason.