Ricebran Technologies Company Profile

Using our rice bran bio-refining business model, we apply our proprietary and patented technologies and intellectual properties to convert raw rice bran into numerous high value products including stabilized rice bran (SRB), rice bran oil (RBO), defatted rice bran (DRB) and derivative products including: RiBalance, a complete rice bran nutritional package derived from further processing of SRB; RiSolubles, a highly nutritious, carbohydrate and lipid rich fraction of RiBalance; RiFiber, a protein and fiber rich insoluble derivative of RiBalance; and our family of ProRyza products, which include derivatives including protein and protein/fiber blends.

We entered into a strategic supply partnership with the Thailand-based Narula Group of companies to add organic jasmine rice bran and organic red rice bran, as well as other organic products, to our portfolio of products.

Our target markets are organic and natural food, functional food, nutria-cosmetic and animal nutrition manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, both domestically and internationally.

We have two reportable operating segments in 2015: (i) USA segment, which manufactures and distributes SRB (for human food ingredient and animal nutrition customers) and derivative products as well as contract manufacturing of functional food products with an emphasis on utilization of our proprietary and patented functional food ingredients; and (ii) Brazil segment, which extracts crude RBO from raw rice bran and produces DRB as a co-product. RBO is then further processed into degummed, neutralized and/or fully refined rice bran oil for sale internationally and in Brazil. DRB is sold as feed for horses, cows, swine, sheep and poultry and a number of human food and animal nutrition products. We incur corporate and other expenses not directly attributable to operating segments. These include costs related to our corporate staff, general and administrative expenses including public company expenses, intellectual property, professional fees, and other expenses. No Corporate allocations, including interest, are made to the operating segments.

The combined operations of our USA and Brazil segments encompass our bio-refining approach to processing raw rice bran into various high quality, value-added constituents and finished products. Over the past decade, we have developed and optimized our proprietary bio-refining processes to support the production of healthy, natural, hypoallergenic, gluten/soy free, and non-genetically modified ingredients for use in meats, baked goods, cereals, coatings, health foods, nutritional supplements, nutraceuticals and high-end animal nutrition and animal health products.

On January 2, 2014, we acquired H&N Distribution Inc., an Irving, Texas based company now operating as Healthy Natural, Inc. (HN) which has a formulating, blending and co-packaging facility in Irving, Texas. At that location we manufacture blended and/or packaged functional food products for the human nutrition and functional food markets.

In February 2008, through our Delaware subsidiary Nutra S.A. LLC (Nutra SA), we acquired 100% ownership of Industria Riograndens De Oleos Vegetais Ltda. (Irgovel), our rice bran oil bio-refining plant in Pelotas, Brazil. During 2011, we sold a minority interest in Nutra SA, to AF Bran Holdings-NL LLC and AF Bran Holding LLC.

We have two reportable operating segments in 2015: (i) USA segment, which manufactures and distributes SRB (for human food ingredient and animal nutrition customers) and derivative products as well as contract manufacturing of functional food products with an emphasis on utilization of our proprietary and patented functional food ingredients; and (ii) Brazil segment, which extracts crude RBO from raw rice bran and produces DRB as a co-product. RBO is then further processed into degummed, neutralized and/or fully refined rice bran oil for sale internationally and in Brazil. DRB is sold as feed for horses, cows, swine, sheep and poultry and a number of human food and animal nutrition products. We incur corporate and other expenses not directly attributable to operating segments. These include costs related to our corporate staff, general and administrative expenses including public company expenses, intellectual property, professional fees, and other expenses. No Corporate allocations, including interest, are made to the operating segments.

The combined operations of our USA and Brazil segments encompass our bio-refining approach to processing raw rice bran into various high quality, value-added constituents and finished products. Over the past decade, we have developed and optimized our proprietary bio-refining processes to support the production of healthy, natural, hypoallergenic, gluten/soy free, and non-genetically modified ingredients for use in meats, baked goods, cereals, coatings, health foods, nutritional supplements, nutraceuticals and high-end animal nutrition and animal health products.

On January 2, 2014, we acquired H&N Distribution Inc., an Irving, Texas based company now operating as Healthy Natural, Inc. (HN) which has a formulating, blending and co-packaging facility in Irving, Texas. At that location we manufacture blended and/or packaged functional food products for the human nutrition and functional food markets

In February 2008, through our Delaware subsidiary Nutra S.A. LLC (Nutra SA), we acquired 100% ownership of Industria Riograndens De Oleos Vegetais Ltda. (Irgovel), our rice bran oil bio-refining plant in Pelotas, Brazil. During 2011, we sold a minority interest in Nutra SA, to AF Bran Holdings-NL LLC and AF Bran Holding LLC.

The USA segment produces SRB inside three locations: two leased raw rice bran stabilization facilities located within supplier-owned rice mills in Arbuckle and West Sacramento, California; and one owned rice bran stabilization facility in Mermentau, Louisiana. At Dillon, Montana, the USA segment produces our process patented Stage II products including: RiSolubles, a highly nutritious, carbohydrate and lipid rich fraction of SRB; RiFiber, a fiber rich derivative of SRB; RiBalance, a complete rice bran nutritional package derived from further processing RiBalance, and our ProRyza family of products including, protein- and protein/fiber-based products. “Stage II” refers to the process patented processes run at our Dillon, Montana facility and describes products produced at that facility. The manufacturing facilities included in our USA segment have proprietary processing equipment and process patented technology for the stabilization and further processing of rice bran into finished products.

With the acquisition of HN, we formulate, blend and package finished products on a business-to-business basis for our customers at a leased facility in Irving Texas. We also lease a facility in West Sacramento, California that houses a laboratory, warehouse and facility for assembling RBT proprietary extruders for stabilizing raw rice bran. We use an owned facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana as a temporary warehouse. In 2015, approximately 84% of USA segment revenue is from sales of human nutrition products and the remainder was from sales of animal nutrition products.