OCLN Company Profile

OriginClear is a leading provider of water treatment solutions and the developer of a breakthrough water cleanup technology. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, OriginClear provides systems and services to treat water in a wide range of industries, such as municipal, pharmaceutical, semiconductors, industrial, and oil & gas. To rapidly grow this segment of the business, we strategically acquire profitable and well-managed water treatment companies, which allow us to expand our global market presence and technical expertise. To enable a new era of clean and socially responsible water treatment solutions, we invented Electro Water Separation™, a breakthrough high-speed water cleanup technology using multi-stage electrochemistry, that we license worldwide to water treatment equipment manufacturers. Water is our most valuable resource, and the mission of The OriginClear Group™ (the “Group”) is to improve the quality of water and help return it to its original and clear condition.

OriginClear, Inc. was incorporated on June 1, 2007 under the laws of the State of Nevada. We have been engaged in business operations since June 2007. We recently moved into the commercialization phase of our business plan having previously been primarily involved in research, development and licensing activities. Our principal offices are located at 525 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, California 90013. Our main telephone number is (323) 939-6645. Our website address is www.OriginClear.com.

Outsourcing is a fast-growing reality in water treatment. Tougher regulations, water scarcities and general outsourcing trends are driving industrial and agricultural water treatment users to delegate their water problem to service providers. As Global Water Intelligence pointed out in their report on October 30, 2015, “Water is often perceived as a secondary importance, with end-users increasingly wanting to focus solely on their own core business. This is driving a move away from internal water personnel towards external service experts to take control of water aspects.” External service experts are typically small–privately owned and locally operated. Consolidating these companies could lead to enormous economies of scale through sharing of best practices, technologies, and customers.

Decentralization is an even greater trend in water, similar to what has been seen in energy decentralization through solar and wind off-grid generation.

Water is becoming increasingly scarcer. McKinsey’s Transforming Water Economies forecasts that “without action, global water demand could outstrip supply by up to 40 percent by 2030.” Furthermore, existing water infrastructure in the United States is aging and water loss is increasing.

According to Lux Research, updating our national water infrastructure will require an investment of $270 billion – money that will be hard to pull together for projects that could take decades to complete. In the meantime, centralized water systems are forcing water users to treat their own water with small, modular water treatment systems.

OriginClear is acquiring companies to help industrial water users treat their water themselves, and often reuse it. We believe those companies are going to grow tremendously because of this “local water” growth trend. We believe that assembling a group of water treatment companies is an opportunity for significant growth and increased Company value for the stockholders.

Since 1995, PWT has been designing and manufacturing a complete line of water treatment systems for municipal, industrial and pure water applications. Known as an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), PWT utilizes a wide range of technologies, including chemical injection, media filters, membrane, ion exchange and SCADA technology, in turnkey systems that it designs and builds. PWT also offers a broad range of services including maintenance contracts, retrofits and replacement assistance. In addition, PWT rents equipment through contracts of varying duration. Customers are primarily served in the United States and Canada, with PWT’s reach extending worldwide from Japan to Argentina to the Middle East.

On January 12, 2016, we announced that Minnesota-based public utility, Xcel Energy (NYSE:XEL), awarded PWT a large-scale contract for a boiler feedwater treatment system. The contract totaled nearly two million dollars and uniquely utilizes all Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) products, including Ultrafiltration (UF), Reverse Osmosis (RO) and Electrodeionization (EDI) processes. On January 17, 2017, we announced that PWT had recently completed the installation and startup of this project. This was the third large power plant project that PWT designed, built, installed and successfully started up, bringing the total such orders to approximately $3.5 million for 2016.

On November 21, 2016, OriginClear designated PWT as its first complete systems manufacturer, and plans to make PWT its first complete systems manufacturer for both licensees and end-users. We believe that acquired companies in the Group can become captive distribution points for its technology.

OriginClear is currently in discussions for additional, accretive acquisitions of companies specializing in complementary markets and applications.