JBI, Inc. Executes JV LOI With Rick Heddle, Signs LOI for 45 Florida P2O Sites, and Will Apply for ASE Listing
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Dec. 22, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JBI, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCBB:JBII) is pleased to announce that December, 2009, has been a month of intense activity and very positive productive progress. The Company and Rick Heddle have agreed to a Joint Venture whereby Heddle Marine Service, Inc. will retrofit ships with P2O processors. The Company is now finalizing a JV Agreement for production of its first P2O ship with Heddle. JBI anticipates contracting with various countries to convert their plastic waste into oil.
The launch of P2O in early 2010 will be an exciting and important harbinger for job creation, environmental clean-up, and oil production. Plastic waste is a huge global problem, contributing heavily to landfill expansion and ocean pollution. The Company has a goal of initially establishing 2500 P2O sites with municipalities/interested parties and launching P2O ships for various countries' plastic waste retrieval and energy production.
Converting plastic to oil has previously been attempted unsuccessfully by other companies as it was not economically feasible. However, the Company's research discovered a unique catalyst that is now proprietary to P2O, as it greatly enhances the efficient and economical conversion of plastic waste to oil, allowing for a 99% recovery rate compared to 45% +/- for competing systems. In essence, the catalyst greatly expedites the cracking of the plastic and allows the Company to select on a tight curve the particular hydrocarbon to produce. Competing methods require much higher heat, considerable energy cost, prohibitively expensive residue disposal, and result in poorer conversion. There is a negative energy cost to operate a P2O processor, since 15% of feedstock weight is converted to gas to run the system. The P2O processor is not a "perpetual machine", 15% of its feedstock is consumed to provide gas to power the processor.
Heddle Marine Service Inc., established in 1987, is the only marine repair firm that operates floating dry-docks on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes. Located on land leased from the Hamilton Port Authority, the site has 160,000 square feet of land, 1,000 feet of wharfage and dock frontage, 30,500 square feet of fabrication shop and 5,000 square feet of machine shop.
This continually expanding, successful company, with 20+ years of expertise in rebuilding ships, converting tanks to cargo and cargo to tankers, will be a valuable and important partner in helping JBI to achieve its eventual goal of attaining a fleet of P2O ships to address global demand for their service. For further information, visit http://www.heddlemarine.com/ [...] http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=180793
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