8/29/2023

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

Please stand by. Your program is about to begin. If you should need any audio assistance today, please press star zero. Good day, everyone, and welcome to today's annual results call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, you will have an opportunity to ask questions during the question and answer session. You may register to ask a question at any time by pressing the star and one on your telephone keypad. I will be standing by should you need any assistance. It is now my pleasure to turn today's program over to Brendan Hopkins.

speaker
Brendan Hopkins
Director of Investor Relations

Thank you, Anthony, and thank you all for joining us today. We have a brief safe harbor, and then we'll get started. Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this conference call are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecasted results. With that said, I would like to turn the call over to Warren Kruger, CEO of Greystone Logistics.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Thank you, Brendan, so much. I just want to welcome everyone to the call. We want to talk about last year. It already seemed so far in the past that May 31 was our year end. But we will go over, Bill Rahal will be going over the financial results very shortly. I just want to kind of give you a global view of where I see the company going and, and I'm very proud. We've got our press release. Yes. Very proud of the, the margin. We really strive to work on the margins. We had a horrible period, you know, 2021 to 22. I'm sure everybody on the call has their own stories about the, those, that time period, but 2020 was so surreal. And, and then the 21 week, the freeze down in Texas, the, polyethylene market was turned on its ear. And from about January of 2021 until about, oh, August of 2022, we'd never experienced a price increase in the recycled polyethylene market like we did during that period. It was a very, very strange thing. And it forced Greystone to adjust its prices up dramatically. And when you have a 50-pound part or a 40-pound part and and all of a sudden you're saying to your customer, well, it's 30 cents more a pound. They say, okay, we'll put off ordering. So we had a lot of that during our last year. And then in about August of 22, things turned around, and it's been great since then. Prices have come down, and we've actually lowered some of our pricing to get people to order. We have things. I've been in Walmart. Walmart continues to be a very viable customer. A great deal of product to them. And we are working on a grocery store pallet for a large U.S. grocery customer. We have a mirror pallet we're bringing on that is the same on the top as it is on the bottom, basically. And that product is for The quick-create type industry is something that the nut industry, where you have to have exactly the same on the top and bottom. We're excited about that. We have a brand-new can palette that would work for aluminum can manufacturers that need large platform size. So we've been working on that. We also, during last year, we bought an extrusion company that had a robotic extrusion line. made hollow plastic boards and we're very excited about their they had a few issues that the company has been really about 20 years worth of research and development and they they had toyota and honda that were testing for about a year and a half and they were approved and pick off in 2020 and of course everyone knows that covid affected everything and pricing went crazy and They just ran out of gas, and so we were fortunate enough to pick up that business. And we have a very, very capable gentleman that we also put on board that has over 20 years' worth of knowledge in the pallet industry, and we're very excited about having him on board. We're making some adjustments to the dyes on that particular product. We want to flatten it out. They had some quality things that I wanted to straighten out before we really went to market. We're also working on a different base for it. So I won't get complicated getting the weeds here, but we're very excited about it. And why? Our molds on the injection side weigh about 40,000 pounds, and they cost somewhere between $200,000 and $400,000 apiece. So if someone says, I need a special size pallet, it's not for the faint of heart. You need to write about it because it's expensive. Yet on the extrusion side, if someone says, hey, I need 3,043 inch by 32 inch, that's something that we just cut the boards to that size. So we're very excited about that. We believe that there's a, in the neighborhood on that equipment, five to $10 million worth of revenue just on the existing line. I'm not promising it aid, but I do think in the, by year end or corporate year end, we will have, we will have a lot of orders in hand and be producing. And it's a very, very cool process and it's robotically driven. And of course for the future with employee issues, We believe that robotics are really going to help all industries. As a matter of fact, in many, many of our customers, because they're going to robotic warehousing, they're turning to plastic. They need something that is exactly the same every single time. It doesn't have nails poking up. It doesn't have lead boards falling off. And that's why plastic just continues to be a very, very, very exciting product. And, of course, everyone on the call has to remember, most of our product is recycled. And so we are a very great business. We just don't talk the talk. We walk the walk. We grind and granulate probably 100,000 to 150,000 pounds a day of plastic, of polyethylene. So this is a real industry. It's fun to watch. That all being said, again, I'm very, very excited about where we are in the future. Let me talk about our biggest customer, IGPS. If you go into a Costco in America and you see a plastic pallet in the rack there instead of a blue or a red pallet, we probably, chances are, we made that product. And IGPS is a wonderful customer. They buy products from us, and then they rent. They go out to people like Procter & Gamble. or Niagara Water, and they would rent their pallet on a per-trip basis. We probably provided them well, well in excess of 5 million pallets over time, and they continue to grow, and they continue to be a great customer for us. We also take all their broken pallets in, we grind them, we granulate them, we make new BBs to inject into a new product for them. So it's a win-win for both of our companies and I invite anyone who ever wants to view the facilities in Bentendorf, Iowa. It's about two and a half hours west of Chicago. I welcome you. I also want to point out that in Palmyra, Missouri, we've got a couple new machines that we're filling, and I'm very excited about that because we're out of space in Bentendorf, Iowa, so we're extending our reach. The extrusion line, that particular product is manufactured in Jasper, Indiana. So with that being said, I want to go over the numbers, and I'm going to turn the call over to Bill Rahal.

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Bill Rahal
CFO

Thank you, Warren, and greetings to all of our investors who have an interest in Greystone. You know, as Warren mentioned, you know, the sales in fiscal year 23, which ended May 31st, 2013, You know, they were down from fiscal year 22 for all the reasons that Warren discussed. But the bright news is that our gross margins rose about 5% from fiscal year 22 to fiscal year 23. And that's a significant factor. And if you look at our fourth quarter, our fourth quarter of 2023, we're about 27% of our annual sales, or $16 million. But the gross margin in that fourth quarter was 6%. So you see the trend is that we're coming back to where we're getting our margins where they need to be, being able to provide quality pricing for our quality value for our investors. You know, our EBITDA in fiscal year 23 was about $15 million. And the fourth quarter of 23, our EBITDA was $5.1 million dollars. but it also had the benefit of some tax credits. And if you back out those crab tax credits, our fourth quarter EBITDA was about $4 million. Looking forward to the first quarter of 2024, we believe that our sales are going to be up about 10% over the fourth quarter of 23. We believe that our gross margins are going to be comparable to the fourth quarter of 2023, somewhere around that 20% range. And we anticipate that our EBITDA for the first quarter of 2024 will be about $4 million. So you can see that the trend is moving back in a positive direction. And this is before all of the proposed new business that Warren's aggressively seeking. So it paints kind of a pretty good picture as far as a gray zone going forward. So I'm going to go ahead and turn it back to Warren.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Super. Thank you so much, Bill. Well, with that being said, we might as well dive right into questions and answers because we're delighted to answer anything that any of our valued investors want to know.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

At this time, if you would like to ask a question, please press the star and one on your telephone keypad. You may remove yourself from the queue at any time by pressing star two. Once again, that is star and one to ask a question. You will now take our first question from Anthony Terrella. Anthony, your line is now open.

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Anthony Terrella
Investor/Analyst

Hi guys, thanks for taking my question here. Nice to see new equipment delivered and CapEx flowing through on that. I'm curious if you have any guidance for fiscal 2024, just what you expect capital expenditures to be now that we've gotten that growth spending behind us.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Thank you, Anthony, for that question. Yeah, it's going to be more maintenance CapEx for this year. We did a lot of, as you know, as you've read, We spent over $7 million on equipment last year, and that's all for the future. We anticipate that we can generate over $100 million in revenue with the equipment on hand now. Now, there are, I might mention, we have been buying different molds for different types of products. I mentioned the mirror pallet earlier. We had a 4456 earlier that was a A partnership that we did in structural foam. We've just gotten a new injection, 4456. We're very excited about that. It's a great product. It's much better than our last can pallet that we did have. We're excited. We have an automobile pallet that we brought out some time ago. It had limited success. And we had General Motors, frankly, who made some comments about what we needed to do to make that product better. So we're actually making some adjustments to that tool now. So those are the types of things. We just had a new 4848 injection pallet, too. That was another one that we did with a partner in the structural foam business. And we made a decision to make an injection tool. And the 4848 business for us has been quite robust. So we will not spend a lot of money to answer your question on CapEx this year, except for maintenance CapEx and for moles. And again, our moles are about 250 to 400, most of them are 250 to 300.

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Anthony Terrella
Investor/Analyst

That's great to hear. Also, it's pretty exciting. Then on just kind of following on that thread, If you back out the ERC credit, you had close to $2 million of cash from operations, some maintenance capex next year, probably some debt repayment. How should we think about priorities for cash after some of those other priorities? Just what do you expect to use it on? I'm looking at this time next year, probably have a decent amount of cash on the balance sheet.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

I'll leave that up to Bill right now to answer.

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Bill Rahal
CFO

You know, we've got several. We are actually generating some cash. It's a real positive thing for Greystone right now to be able to be in that position. We've never seen that in the past. But the board is looking at different alternatives about how to best utilize that cash for the benefit of our investors as well as for the benefit of growing the company. I don't know that there's any There's nothing that we're really ready to talk about at this point in time. But as these programs start developing, we will obviously make that aware to the investor public.

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Anthony Terrella
Investor/Analyst

Excellent. I appreciate it. I'll jump back in the queue. Thanks.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

We will now take our next question from Aaron Weinstein. Eric, your line is now open.

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Aaron Weinstein
Investor/Analyst

Thanks. I was surprised that you didn't mention your large beverage customer in your prepared comments, given some of the large shifts in the light beer market over the last quarter or so. Can you talk about whether or not you expect to benefit from that and how something like that – how long does that take to generally make its way through the supply chain to get to you?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Thank you for the question. And it's because of our focus on beer and whiskey and wine and so forth in the past, it may seem – I probably should have made it clear. These are water and just regular – the soft drink customers. And so it's a little bit of a change. We have not done much with Coca-Colas or Pepsis or any of that. And – Two of the, I mean, huge prospects that we're working on now are in the non-alcoholic beverage sector. And so we, and why, one of them would utilize a size that we have, but another one we're working on would, it actually requires an odd size. And so that, of course, requires a tool. And to answer your question about timing, So we're doing the design work on that particular tool now. We will – here's how it works. We do the design work. It comes back. We approve it. Then – and we send it to the customers and say, okay, here's the size. Is this good? Yes. And then we do a three-dimensional prototype of that product. It's not exactly – you know, we can't put the grommets and so forth. We do a 3D prototype. so that the customer actually has the exact what it's going to look like in theory. And so that takes about – it'll take us probably about four to five months to – we have to get it approved, and then we start cutting steel, and it's about four months once we start steel. And so, again, one of the other customers is someone who will be using 4840s, and we're – since we have those products available, we're actually – pretty excited about having something going in the next quarter.

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Aaron Weinstein
Investor/Analyst

Got it. All right, so I'll take it that Miller Coors isn't as large of a customer as it may have used to have been. On new business, you mentioned $10 million in new business around year-end. I don't know if that was exclusion or all of it, but what's the strategy there in terms of sales and distribution? Is that something you've got direct salespeople doing and you hire more or is that a GPS or some other strategy on the distribution side?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Thank you for asking. As I mentioned, when we picked up this exclusion line, the gentleman who I understand when you have an idea and you take it through, and this gentleman has worked for about 20 years in the industry. He was doing other things, but one of his passions was getting product to market. and it was just a, he was a victim of bad timing, but when you run out of cash, you're out of the game. Okay. That's, it's just have to have access to cash. And he just ran out of cash. And we were fortunate enough that I said, Hey, would you stay on with us and, and work with us on it? So he's with Honda and Toyota and some very, very large customers. And so, uh, he's the one that will be driving that, uh, And I'll tell you kind of exactly what we're doing. The product, when you do this robotically, it's on a robotic welder, and it gets very, very – when the parts come together, the steel is so hot, it's warping the product at the point of weld. And so we're working on – we've got some solutions to that. It requires taking the die – and doing some reformatting of the dies so that when they come out, you're heating not the entire piece, you're just heating the bottom portion of it. That doesn't make any sense. I'm not articulating it very well, but that's the basic. And I'm not going to have a product out in the marketplace that someone says, well, that doesn't look right. Even though it might be functional, it doesn't look right. Let's make it functional and make it look right as well. And so that's kind of where we are. And it's taking, of course, more time and more money to get it done than we originally scheduled. But we do have, as a matter of fact, we're redoing the dye in Austria. And so it's just, you know, it's one of those things that's now in Austria and out of our hands. So but I'm I am excited about that product because it takes minimal amount of people to run the equipment. and you can set the size that you want, and you can just run. And so it's pretty exciting, but it's going to be a small segment of our business. It's not something that's going to overwhelm our injection size.

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Aaron Weinstein
Investor/Analyst

Okay, and then the last one for me is it sounds like sales are going to inflect. Your margins are as strong as they've been in a while, if not stronger. EBITDA looks good and your CapEx seems like that's going to decline a little bit. What are the thoughts on your cash flow and capital allocation? Are you just continuing to deliver, or are there more small M&A opportunities, or are there more new product concepts that may be out there in the future for you?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Well, I think that earlier, before we did this kind of expansion on the CapEx side, We were really pounding down debt, and I like that. You know, we've always been over-levered, always. I mean, I've been in this business 20 years, and it's just crazy the amount of leverage we had early on. But that's how we had to structure to just get to where we are today. But we de-levered dramatically over the years, and I anticipate that we're going to continue to pay down debt. But I also think that there are some other things that our board has discussed. on, okay, what's the best way to allocate cash for our investors? We are always looking for opportunities, but I will tell you right now, I'm a little bit concerned about just overall the economy. I'm going to be cautious about that. There's a lot of demand, but there's also, it's just with employee issues and making sure you have enough employees and You know, we're going to be cautious. We're going to be aggressive yet cautious. How's that? If that makes sense.

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Aaron Weinstein
Investor/Analyst

Perfect. Great. Thanks. And looking forward to the next quarter, given the insight you provided. Thanks again. Thank you so much, Eric.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

You'll take our next question from Robert Littlehale. Robert, your line is now open.

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Robert Littlehale
Investor

Has your board changed at all recently?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Bob, I'm so glad to hear from you.

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Robert Littlehale
Investor

How are you? I'm good. How are you, Warren?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

I'm great. We have a guy named Drew Lockard. He's a young Turk, and he's a smart young Turk. We felt in our organization that we needed a little bit more. I'm pretty active he wanted to, uh, new ideas. And, and Drew is a very bright guy. He's worked in large companies and workout situations. And, and he has, uh, he's an investor of his own cash as well out there. And he has a storage that's, and he's just a good businessman lives in Dallas, Texas, really good guy. And on that, uh, along that line, we've also added, uh, A new CFO, Bill's on the phone with us today, and I think that this is fair, if that's okay, Bill. Bill and I have been business associates and friends for over 20 years. And Bill, although you'd never know it, he's not a spring chicken. Neither am I. So, Bill, we've hired a new CFO who Bill's working with, and Bill's working with us. Bill, are you going to work over the next quarter, or do you want to share that?

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Bill Rahal
CFO

Yeah, I kind of think by the end of this calendar year, I think that the new person, his name is Curtis Crozier. I think Curtis will be pretty well set to just take off the reins. He's learning the business right now, learning the company, learning the people. So as you can imagine, it's coming into a new situation. No matter how much your experience is, you have to learn the organization. And I sort of see me continually kind of phasing down.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Great. Thank you, Bill. That's the only one we've added as of late to our board. But As we grow, we like independent-minded people, and so we may very well add another board member. But we wouldn't do that probably during this calendar year.

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Robert Littlehale
Investor

Is your headcount up, or is it constant, sort of year over year?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

It's actually off a little bit. We are probably we're doing a lot of leasing of employees and we're doing that because it is you can. We just don't have people showing up in the Quad Cities area in Iowa. You've got a lot of competition for employees. So we've been working with some some firms that actually draw nationwide and they'll come in and get housing lined up, transportation lined up. for the employees, and seems to be working very, very well for us. And these are the type of people who say, hey, we want to work at least one overtime shift a week. Well, that's really helpful. I know we pay more, but when you have someone who's saying, hey, give me 48 hours or give me 60 hours, those are the kind of employees you really like to have. So we don't mind paying a little bit more because we feel with more throughput out of those type of employees.

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Robert Littlehale
Investor

That's great, Warren. Thank you so much. Thanks, Bob. Good to hear from you.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

We will now take our next question from Joe Russo. Joe, your line is now open.

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Joe Russo
Investor

Hey, Warren and Bill, congrats on the retirement. Appreciate the question. Um, I just wanted to ask, I think, you know, like last quarter we had talked about, um, maybe seeing some additional volumes with IGPS, um, and, you know, impacting the May quarter. It looks like based on the 10 K, like some of that stuff got delayed, um, either delayed out of the August quarter, um, and pushed into, sorry, delayed out of May and pushed into August or potentially, you know, I'm looking at your guide for the August quarter. I think, uh, My cell is freezing out, but I think it's something like 18 million of revs. Is the majority of that increase quarter over quarter coming from the IGPS delayed resins, or how should we think about that?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Well, Bill, I can go ahead and answer. We did get some additional revenue towards the end of our corporate year, but we are in a situation now where we are producing extra for them. And so we will see that. We will have that effect in the first quarter. We'll see the effect of that extra production.

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Joe Russo
Investor

Got it. Okay. So is that like the majority of the sequential increase, or are there other customers sort of increasing as well?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

I can't off the top of my head remember. But we've got – Simplot, we've been doing some things for Simplot, the big potato company. I can't remember how that revenue is falling right now. And Walmart, we had some anticipated revenue from Walmart. They pulled back a little bit on that. So we didn't get as much revenue from Walmart as we thought during the latter part of the year. And we anticipated some time here in the fall. or after the first year. We've been in to see them. Everyone is scrambling around because of automation and robotics. And it really is how much demand we have. So it's pretty exciting. And I really appreciate you coming in, by the way, Joe.

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Bill Rahal
CFO

Yeah, for sure. And this is Bill. And of those you mentioned, Warren, You know, they're starting off with some smaller type orders, but they've got some other projects on the line, which we think should start showing up in the third and fourth quarters.

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Joe Russo
Investor

That's great. Just one last one for me. You know, in the past, I think, We've talked potentially about, you know, uplisting. And I know you're making some moves, bringing another independent board member, as well as making CFO transition. Could you just talk about, you know, are these moves at all related to that? And then any updated thoughts on that front?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Well, we realize, and we've had this discussion for 20 years, you know, why in the world we were public early on and so forth. Because we've never raised money in the public sector. And it was just a legacy thing, inherited. And in the beginning, it was just like, oh, my gosh, why are we doing this? Well, it was a way for those who had put money in who could get out if they wanted. So I recognize that there are a lot of people who will not invest in OTC companies. And that affects who eyes that are upon our stock. And so we recognize that. So we also recognize that we're still – I mean, I'm proud of the size we are, but we need to be heading towards the $100 million range, and we need to be that way. And so we want to do what's best for the shareholders, and so we're going to continue to work. I would say in an anticipatory way, we have talked about how best to – help our existing shareholders. And we will be talking about that. Our next board meeting is September 11th. And there'll be, I know there's multiple things on the agenda at that. And some of that is about exactly how do we best enhance our shareholder value.

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Joe Russo
Investor

Okay, awesome. I appreciate it. Look forward to hearing what the result of that is. Appreciate all the answers, guys.

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you, Joe.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

We will now take our next question from Robert Edwards. Robert, your line is now open.

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Robert Edwards
Investor

Hey, guys. I've been in the stock since 2015, and I got a question about the plastics that you can recycle and not recycle. There's talk of, like, plastic bags and certain plastic bottles that cannot be recycled. Can you guys recycle those things or not?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

I will tell you, we don't focus on that type of plastic at all. And I will say one thing about the plastics world, there are so many different types of plastics, it's crazy. Like PET, all the water bottles out there in the world, we don't do one thing in the PET world, not one thing. The bottle caps for most PET, like water bottles or Coke bottles, those are polypropylene. So we don't do a lot in the polypropylene world. We really focus on polyethylene. And I'll tell you, I'm going to tell you a little history lesson here to explain this. 20 years ago, we were doing everything under the sun. You talk buckets, 55-gallon drums, Tide bottles. We did it under the sun recycling. And then we bought wash lines and we grind and wash plastic and so forth. Well, after 20 years of making plastic pallets and other people making plastic pallets, most of our, I will say the majority of our stream now is plastic pallets. So it's just shocking how many plastic pallets. I would say, and this is off the top of my head, I would guess we probably grind or granulate 700,000 plus plastic pallets a year. It's just amazing. So that's the source of our, it's just the, we are now keeping that alive by taking those plastic pouches and grinding them up, making BBs and making new ones.

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Robert Edwards
Investor

Great. Thank you. Thank you so much.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

Once again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star N1 on your telephone keypad. You may remove yourself from the queue at any time by pressing star 2. You'll pause for a moment to allow more questions to queue. We'll take our next question from Joe Russo. Joe, your line is now open.

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Joe Russo
Investor

Hey, thanks for giving me another question. I'll make it brief. But I was just curious, like, you know, we've had price increases on the plastic side and then price decreases. How does – what is, like, pricing for a plastic pallet now versus – You know, a wooden pallet. What's sort of like the multiple that customers would need to pay?

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Thanks, Joe. And I'm not going to be shifty on this. I'm just going to say that there is a wide range of different types of products on both the wood side and on the plastic side. Go to what we do really like IGPS or Walmart. Those are heavy-duty products. 4840 plastic pallets. Those would be, if you go into a Costco and you see the, they're called in the wood industry, they call them block pallets because they have blocks in the corners. And those block pallets, and they're blue or red, a lot of those are rented pallets by a company called CHAP or called PECO. And they rent those block pallets. Well, those block pallets are about $30 a piece. And so ours is not quite twice that. And so if you get 100 times life, you can see the value proposition. It would statistically across the United States of America, when it goes out on a trip, it touched seven times. Okay, so in other words, it's offloaded off a truck. It's put on the factory floor. It's touched seven times before you retrieve it again. And that, after three turns, and one turn is seven touches, they need repair or replacement. So that's the wood pallet side. And ours, if we're a $60 product there and it's damaged, we'll take it back in and buy the plastic at the commodity about that time. So it's really, it's economically, it's extremely more beneficial for people to use plastic. It's always been that initial cap at the front side. The other thing that's always an impediment in the plastics world is the wood pallet industry. They have a very, very, very strong lobby. And so for years, they've lobbied that plastic pallets are dangerous in a fire situation and that they should have They should have fire-retardant additives. And it's made it very difficult for us in the plastic industry because there are people like Costco who said, hey, our management personnel tell us we have a fire-retardant plastic plastic. Even though they've got wood all over the place and plastic on every pallet in the entire store, they focus on that. And that's just a result of the lobbying of the wood pallet. That's in my opinion. So we're working on fire retardant solution. We had one 20 years ago that unfortunately had a product called decabromine in it, which is no longer allowed. So we're working on some fire retardant solutions to add to our plastic pallet, which will drive up the cost, but it'll allow us the ability to get in Costco in a big way.

speaker
Joe Russo
Investor

That's super helpful. I really appreciate it. Thanks again for all the questions. You bet, Joe.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

Next up is Russell Valentine. Russell, your line is now open.

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Russell

Yes. Got two questions. I called last time. Just want to reiterate again. No plans of reverse split, right?

speaker
Warren Kruger
CEO

Let me say, I anticipate there are certain rules and requirements if we want to move up to a different level on shareholder pricing. And I'm not an expert in that. We are hiring experts in that arena. Because if we want the maximum exposure we can, we want people to know about our company. And we believe that if we continue to add revenue and make good margins on revenue and grow, then we can go to another level.

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Russell

I understand that, but you know that there's very rarely a time when you reverse split that it comes out positive for the investor.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

I agree with that. I'm not going to preclude, I'm not going to preclude anything. I just, I know that we have, that is not, I'll tell you honestly, that has not been one of the discussions in our board meetings. Okay. Okay. But I'm, I'm all reluctant to say, you know, once you say never, never is a long time.

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Russell

Okay. One more question. I hardly ever see any news coming out on new business. Do you guys, when you do new business, do you put press releases out or not?

speaker
Warren Kruger
CEO

Smaller stuff. Periodically. I will say I've been, I have been advised by some very competent people that I don't put enough information out. And so we have, that's, Brendan is, who started this call. We hired Brendan to help us. He's helped us, and we're doing more in that arena now to get exposure out there and to communicate our story and what we're doing. So Brendan is very easy to work with and good work with, and we will continue to see good results from that association.

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Russell

Very good. Guys, keep up the good work. Appreciate it. Thank you.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

It appears we have no further questions. I will now turn the call back over to your presenters for any additional or closing remarks.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

Bill, I'm going to see if you have anything to close with.

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Bill Rahal
CFO

No, I think we've covered a large gamut of things, especially from the Q&A from many of the interested persons. So I truly believe that we're well-positioned. both financially and to be able to move forward. We've got a lot of machine time to fill. So we've got all the capacity that we need to be able to grow. And so we're aggressively, as you said, on a conservative basis, trying to move forward and drive up the value of this company.

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Warren Kruger
CEO

I want to just tell everyone that took the time today to call in that I really appreciate you, whether you're a current investor or not. I appreciate it. If you are a current investor, thank you so much. We work hard every day for our shareholder base. It's not been a easy road, but it's a company you should be proud of because it's a long way. And for those... investors yet. I encourage you to continue to watch us. And if you want to be a part of this, we welcome you to invest in our company. Brendan, you want to finish things out?

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Brendan Hopkins
Director of Investor Relations

No, I just want to reiterate, thank you, everybody. I encourage the investor who wanted to talk about the potential for a to look into what it takes to be on the NASDAQ and maybe decide, do you want to be on the NASDAQ this year or in two years? And I'm happy to have that conversation and talk about why strategic, very small reverses are not detrimental, especially to a positive earnings company. Say we did a two-for-one reverse last week, we would be announcing 42 cents in earnings today. And I don't think any stock pulls back when it's at a PE of five on 42 cents of earnings. But that's a conversation for a private conversation for another day. And for everyone else, thank you so much for joining us. I look forward to helping you increase shareholder value.

speaker
Warren Kruger
CEO

Thanks, everyone.

speaker
Anthony
Conference Operator

Thank you. Have a good day. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.

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