Loop Industries Inc (LOOP) 2026 Q2 法說會逐字稿

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Loop Industries second quarter fiscal 2026 corporate update call.

(Operator Instructions)

This conference is being recorded today, Thursday, October 16, 2025.

The earnings release accompanying this call was issued.

The earnings release accompanying this call was issued after the market closed yesterday, Wednesday, October 15, 2025. On our call today are Luke Industries, Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Solomita and Kevin O'Dowd, head of investor relations. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kevin O'Dowd to read a disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements.

Thank you, operator. Before we begin, please note that this morning's discussion will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of US security laws.

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With that, I'll turn the call over to Daniel Solomita, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Loop Industries.

Thank you very much.

Thank you everyone for joining the call this morning.

Q2 is an extremely busy quarter for loop as we move towards the construction phase of the Infinite Loop India manufacturing facility. I'm pleased to report several positive developments.

We have executed a supply contract with a leading sports apparel company in the world to be our anchor customer for the Infinite Loop India manufacturing facility. The contract is for Loop to supply our customer with a fixed amount of twist.

Our Textile to textile polyester resin on an annual basis at a fixed price for multiple years. There is a guaranteed take or pay element to the contract as well. This means if the customer does not take delivery of the material, they still pay us a percentage of the sales price.

So it's a very strong contract, very bankable contract. We also executed a supply contract with Taroplast, an Italian specialty po polymer manufacturer, to buy DNT produced from the infinite loop India.

We are finalizing a detailed engineering contract with a, with an engineering firm to begin the detailed engineering. So the project is trending on time. Our goal is to have the project up and running by the end of 2027. And that's the goal that we're maintaining.

Customer contracts will be, one of the dating items to get the debt financing completed. So we're on schedule with the project to have the project built by the end of 2027.

Awesome, thank you. And then one more for me, the Tarolala offtake is a key milestone. Can you talk about the commercial pipeline for DMT and Polymers beyond automotive? And then on the sportswear brand, should we expect their twist products in the market in 2026 or beyond that?

So for the sports brand, this contract is for the Indian facility. So the facility will be up by the end of 2027, so you can expect that to be starting in 2028.

The customer is an existing customer of our facility in Montreal, Canada today, so we do supply them with material today, so there could be small amounts of material that are used in 2026 and 2027 prior to the larger commercial facility in India being up and running.

DMT is an interesting monomer. Today it's made from fossil fuels. It starts off from crude oil. There's only a handful of companies in the world, Eastman and SK Chemical, that produce DMT today and ship it around the world.

It's mainly used for specialty polymers in computer chips, some specialty chemicals, the automotive industry, the textile industry, so there's a lot of uses for DMT. We're the only, we're one of the only ones, maybe the only one. I'm not sure if there's any competition out there for Virgin quality DMT made from 100% recycled content.

And so, we've been working with certain chemical companies on, qualifying our material and seeing and looking and engaging that market. It's just interesting for us to be able to diversify our portfolio to have the FDA approved bottle grade resin.

The textile to textile resin for the apparel brands, DMT for specialty polymers, and MEG, which is widely used by many different companies. So, we can play in many different segments because of the flexibility that our technology has. So bringing on DMT customers is really interesting for us.

We have access to DMT at our facility and that selling that off to the chemical companies is is fantastic.

So it's something we look forward to doing more of. The chemical market is more of a spot market, so we'll be mainly using that on the spot market, but some companies do want to to get access to the material and lock in some supplies. So, that was, the reasoning for the Tarolas contract.

Awesome, thank you, Daniel. I appreciate it. I'm going to jump back in line.

Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Varyk Kutnick with Divyde Capital Partners. Please go ahead, your line is now open.

Good Morning, Daniel. Morning Kevin. How are you guys?

Fantastic.

Thank you, Ver.

Well, let's get into.

It so. The Sheen Kong and the higher Sun contract, could you maybe unpack what the commercial roles actually look like? Are we talking?

Co-branded yarn, integrated fabric production, just trying to get a sense of how the economics will work with them.

So the economics, it's a great question. So the, so, the big thing with the textile and the apparel industry is the brands are not used to buying resin because that resin has to get spun into a fiber, then the fiber needs to get put into a fabric, then the fabric gets, dyed and treated.

So some companies just buy garments ready-made, some people buy spun fiber or the fabric rolls. So certain customers are more more used or would prefer to buy spun fiber rather than buying the resin and having to figure out the supply chain of who to send the resin to.

And so what we've done is we've partnered with the two biggest and most respected. A spinning companies in the world, Yung and Shengkong, which work with all of the different players in the marketplace.

So now that there's two ways this relationship works is we can bring our customers and say if you prefer to have a spun fiber, we can work with Yung or we can work with Shinkong, and they can spin the fiber for you and we can sell you the fiber directly.

On the other side, for some, there's a lot of different smaller players out there that don't buy huge volumes, and those are usually the ones that that have trouble buying resin.

Yun and Shing Kong can now offer loops material to their customers and say, we can offer you this material spun into a fiber or made into a fabric, and this is the underlying technology.

So for larger customers, loopu will always have the relationship with the customers, so we'll be selling the material to them. For smaller players, that's where Sinkong can come in and aggregate maybe 10 different small suppliers together to make enough volume to purchase directly from us.

So it's really on a customer-specific kind of scenario, but, we're working really well. We just did a trade show in Paris for the apparel company with Yong.

It was very well received by a bunch of smaller, a lot of these different smaller fashion brands that are looking for sustainability, and they already have the relationship with Yong or Shengkong, and so this brings our material into those mixes.

Awesome.

Thank you for the call on that. And then So I'm reading between the lines here and what you said and others, demand outweighs supply by multiple orders of magnitude.

You've got the luxury of being selective with customers here. How are you thinking about diversification one, and then you know India is 70 metric tons at nameplate capacity. Is there room for expansion there or would you rather allocate incremental demand to other sites?

Great question again. So for us it's about having a more diversified portfolio. So that's why we have the textile to textile for the apparel industry.

We have the packaging side for, mainly on the bottles. So we're working with some of the beverage companies, especially for the European market, where there's significant regulation in Europe where they have to use a percentage of recycled content in their packaging.

And so those brands are looking for really high-quality PET resin. So all of our packaging customers so far that we're discussing with would be taking the material from India, shipping it into Europe, and using it within their European packaging.

So that diversifies the portfolio there and then the DMT and DMEG are really interesting markets depending on, pricing and what the market is looking like. Sometimes you get these squeezes in the market when people are really need DMT or MEG we'll be able to, supply them with that material.

So really having a diversified portfolio is really important for us, so we want to do some packaging, some textile, and some on the chemical side, which I think covers us no matter, what the market comes in 322 years from now, we'll be ready to play in each one of those markets and we'll always allocate a certain amount of material for the stock markets.

The second part of your question, yes, 70,000 tons is the first facility. Now the land we bought the 93 acres of land, that's enough for two facilities.

So we are planning an expansion quite rapidly after the first facility is up and constructed. The second facility that's being planned is 100,000 tons, so we would have approximately a 50% increase in capacity for the second facility on the on the same existing site, which again will bring down CapEx because we'll be able to reuse part of the utilities that are on the site.

So we are planning to have a second expansion in India. India right now for me, from everything I've seen, I don't think there's a better place in the world right now to be putting up one of these facilities as it's the lowest cost structure.

That we can see and that goes a long way with being able to offer our customers with a very high-quality product without the need for significant green premiums, and that's the key to having a long-term successful project here.

But we are working with Social, the French bank in Europe. There are certain regulations in Europe that are driving brands to buy European sourced material.

So there's significant incentives right now in France to be able to to source material from within the European Union, which is really making the accelerated timeline on the front on the project in Europe.

That's really important for us, like I said.

We anticipate as soon as these, I think we're down to 4 different sites.

In Europe that the teams are looking at, all of the sites come with full utilities, or almost all of the utilities which will drive down CapEx. They're all close to a port which allows us to bring in modules, which again brings down CapEx, and for us it brings in meaningful engineering revenue.

And it brings in meaningful those two other milestone payments of $5 million each. So the sooner that we can start getting that engineering revenue and tapping into those two milestone payments, I mean, that covers all of our back office expenses for several years out. So that would be a fantastic achievement.

Okay, thanks for that. And then I'm going to sneak one more in right here. I saw it in the do you guys just put out that the cash covenant, or I don't know if it's a cash covenant, but on your line of line of credit was removed in October. That's a good vote of confidence right there. Was there anything that triggered that?

Well, we asked for the government to be removed. I.

Think it's about.

Confidence.

It's a vote of confidence in the sense that now I think we can have more predictable revenue streams and profitability coming from the engineering services, and that gives banks the confidence to be able to give us more leeway on and flexibility on those type of instruments.

Cool. I'll.

Jump back in the queue. Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question today, please do so now by pressing start, followed by the number one on your telephone keypad.

Our next question is a follow-up from Verek Kutnik with Divy Capital Partners. Please go ahead, Verre.

Back on so quickly, so.

This was probably listening to your comments in the beginning, the update on the debt financing for India, this indication it's probably the most confident I've ever heard you guys sound.

So you have no worries about the equity contribution for the India JV even though it's somewhat unfunded right now. You're confident you guys will be able to reach that and liquidity will be strong moving into 2026.

Yeah, we have several different options, as we've said in the past, we have the government funding in place for a portion of the equity. We have other options for the remaining equity that's needed for loop's positions, so very confident on that side, and the debt syndication is going.

Really well, they started the process, I believe, in August, end of August, so within the, within maybe 1 month and a half, two months, we've seen a lot of interest for this project.

A lot of sovereign wealth funds and these multilateral development banks are looking for projects in India, sustainabilitylied. So really happy with the work stream with KPMG so far.

They're bringing top quality players to the table and the terms that we've seen proposed so far are in line with our expectations. So, that's, that financing workstream is working really well.

Okay. And then one more, the 1.5 million engineering services agreement. Remind me, is that recognized upfront or is that spread across a couple of quarters.

Yeah.

Something on that.

Yeah, that's going to start, I would assume in the beginning of November once we kick off the detail engineering phase, so there's a detailed engineering firm that's going to be contracted by the joint venture, so an external firm, and then who who works side by side with that firm. So that revenue will be starting next next month.

Seems like things are finally working out for you guys. I'm excited. So, good luck with everything. Look forward to hearing about next quarter.

Yeah, it's definitely the most progress we've ever had on a project so far.

Again, testament to low cost manufacturing, the shift and the transition to becoming a low cost producer, in the world we live in today, it was really the right decision for us, being able to offer our product to our customers at prices that they're used to paying things at and there's no need for significant green premiums. I think that's a key.

Decision decision factor, and we have a fantastic partner in India who's really hit all of the marks, the construction, the, cost estimates, the whole India factor, the feedstocks, we've locked in. Feedstock.

We have two independent studies on the feedstock confirming the amount of feedstock available, the pricing of the feedstock.

So we've really done a great job in preparing this project and it's, it shows the confidence that KPMG and the lenders have for the project to be sending us term sheets shows how solid of a project this is.

I can give you some runway here because you mentioned something I've always thought about, the green premium, people have always prioritized sustainability but have always forgot about the second piece about profitability.

It seems from our conversations you've always talked about without sustainability you can't have, a product here or you can't have profitability. So talk about that equation right there, sustainability with profitability, and you think every project you guys go into, you're set to keep that equation in balance.

I mean, sustainability is still very important and we see a shift maybe in which brands are more or less committed to sustainability.

So I think that, there's a, that's a cyclical type of a market where sustainability could become more important or less important. The underlying factor is all companies right now are looking for bringing down costs and being, cost competitive and having a a good product on the market at a good price.

So for us, the ability to offer our customers the highest quality material with the sustainability angle is fantastic. And then being able to bring that in in a cost that they're, very comfortable with or the same that they're buying other lesser quality material for really allows for them to make an easier decision on signing a contract with us.

It's not super easy to sign contracts, but what you, you're You're able to really have, really in-depth discussions with these companies because they can see the quality, they know the quality, they know the sustainability angle, and now they have it at a price that makes a lot of sense for them.

So that's really, refreshing and a testament to the low cost nature in India. On the textile side, there's a lot of interest in getting more and more textile to textile material into the marketplace. And for us being able to offer that at a really competitive price, is great for the apparel companies.

On the flip side, at that competitive pricing, we're still making, really strong returns for our investors and for our project. And so, if I compare this to things that I've seen in the past, this is by far the most, profitable project we've ever seen and being able to offer it at a good price to the customers.

Awesome. Thanks for all the color on, Daniel, and good luck.

With the rest of the year here.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. At this time, we do not have any further questions registered, and so as a final reminder, if you would like to ask a question today, please do so now by pressing start, followed by the number one on your telephone keypad.

We have not received any further questions so I'll turn the call back over to the management team for any closing remarks.

Well, thank you all very much for attending the conference call. It's been a really exciting quarter for us as we move down the path towards construction. So, looking forward to updating you, at our next call.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you everyone for joining us today. This concludes our call and you may now disconnect your lines.